University of Georgia
Don Potter

Don Potter


Office

Artificial Intelligence Institute
Suite 111 (my office is in 113)
Boyd Graduate Studies Building
(706) 542-0361
Email: potter@uga.edu


*** Computational Intelligence ***

*** (Welcome To The Next Level) ***

Class Presentation Chapters 0, 1, and 2 (pdf)

Class Presentation Chapter 3 (pdf)

Class Presentation Chapter 5 (pdf)

MFD-GA and Experiments (pdf)

Deep Learning Presentation (slides by Kyle Krafka, 12/2014)

IEA/AIE 2011 Presentation

Welcome (pdf)
Slides (pdf)
Welcome (pptx)
Slides (pptx)

SPRING 2013 ANN BLAIRSVILLE WEATHER DATA

Blairsville (raw & scaled) data file

NN PROJECT WEATHER DATA (solar radiation)

Raw Data File Schema
Griffin 2010 data file
Griffin 2011 data file
Griffin 2012 data file
Griffin 2013 data file
Don's Test Observations File
Don's Scaled Observations File

NN PROJECT WEATHER DATA (temperature)

Blairsville data file
Griffin data file
Tifton data file
Fuzzy Seasons data file

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

W.D. Potter, E. Drucker, P. Bettinger, F. Maier, M. Martin, D. Luper, M. Watkinson, G. Handy, and C. Hayes, "Diagnosis Configuration, Planning and PathFinding: Experiments in Nature-Inspried Optimization," in Natural Intelligence for Scheduling, Planning, and Packing Problems, edited by R. Chiong, Springer-Verlag, Studies in Computational Intelligence (SCI) series, 2009. Nature Inspired Optimization paper
Nadig, K., W.D. Potter, G. Hoogenboom, and R.W. McClendon, "Comparison of Individual and Combined ANN Models for Prediction of Air and Dew Point Temperature," in Applied Intelligence, Vol 39, No 2, 2013. Applied Intell'13 paper
S.V. Fogelson and W.D. Potter, "A Formulation for the Relative Permittivity of Water and Steam to High Temperatures and Pressures Evolved Using Genetic Programming," to appear in GECCO 2008, July, 2008. GECCO'08 paper
M. Martin, E. Drucker, and W.D. Potter, "GA, EO, and PSO Applied to the Discrete Network Configuration Problem," to appear in GEM'08, Las Vegas, Nevada, July, 14-17, 2008. GEM'08 paper
Chris Taylor's MSAI Thesis, "A Comprehensive Framework for the Snake-In-The-Box Problem," defended November 30, 2007. SIB Framework thesis
S.V. Fogelson and W.D. Potter, "A Formulation for the Relative Permittivity of Water and Steam to High Temperatures and Pressures Evolved Using Genetic Programming", submitted to the Journal of Physical Chemistry, August, 2007. Full Relative Permittivity paper
S.V. Fogelson and W.D. Potter, "A New GP-evolved Formulation for the Relative Permittivity of Water and Steam", to appear in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition, AIPR'07, Orlando, Florida, July, 2007. New Equation paper
S.V. Fogelson and W.D. Potter, "A GP-evolved Formulation for the Relative Permittivity of Water and Steam', to appear in the Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Methods, GEM'07, Las Vegas, Nevada, June, 2007. Double Equation paper
D.R. Tuohy, W.D. Potter and D.A. Casella, "Searching for Snake-in-the-Box Codes with Evolved Pruning Methods", to appear in the Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Methods, GEM'07, Las Vegas, Nevada, June, 2007. Evolved Pruning SIB paper
D.R. Tuohy and W.D. Potter, "An Evolved Neural Network/HC Hybrid for Tablature Creation in GA-based Guitar Arranging," to appear in the Proceeding of the International Computer Music Conference ICMC'06, New Orleans, Louisiana, November, 2006. NN/HC Hybrid for Guitar Arranging
D.R. Tuohy and W.D. Potter, "GA-based Music Arranging for Guitar," in the Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC'06, TueMM-11-2, CEC7192, pp. 3810-3815, July 16-21, 2006, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Guitar Arranging Paper
D.R. Tuohy and W.D. Potter, "Guitar Tablature Creation with Neural Networks and Distributed Genetic Search," in the Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on IEA/AIE'06, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence-4031, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 244-253, Best Session Presentation Award June 27-30, 2006, Annecy, France. Tab Creation Paper
Daniel Tuohy's Thesis (.pdf), "Creating Tablature and Arranging Music for Guitar with Genetic Algorithms and Artificial Neural Networks," 2006. Daniel's MSAI Thesis
Darren Casella's Thesis (.pdf), "New Lower Bounds for the Snake-in-the-Box and the Coil-in-the-Box Problems: Using Evolutionary Techniques to Hunt for Snakes and Coils," 2005. Darren's MSAI Thesis
Josh Brown's Thesis (.pdf), "An Iterated Local Search With Adaptive Memory Applied to the Snake in the Box Problem," 2005. Josh's MSCS Thesis
N. Roy, W.D. Potter, D. Landau, "Polymer Property Prediction and Optimization Using Neural Networks", in IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 1001-1014, July, 2006. Polymer Property Prediction
D. Tuohy and W.D. Potter, "A Genetic Algorithm For The Automatic Generation of Playable Guitar Tablature," submitted to the International Computer Music Conference ICMC'05, Barcelona, Spain, September, 2005. GA Guitar Tab Generator
N. Roy, W.D. Potter, D. Landau, "Designing Polymer Blends Using Neural Networks, Genetic Algorithms, and Markov Chains", in Applied Intelligence: The International Journal of Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks, and Complex Problem Solving Technologies, Vol. 20, pp. 215-229, 2004. Polymer Blends via Neural Networks
D.A. Casella and W.D. Potter, "New Lower Bounds for the Snake-In-The-Box Problem: Using Evolutionary Techniques to Hunt for Snakes," in The 18th International FLAIRS Conference, Clearwater Beach, Florida, May, 2005. SnakePaper94.pdf
D.A. Casella and W.D. Potter, "Using Evolutionary Techniques to Hunt for Snakes and Coils," to appear in the 2005 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computing, Edinburgh, Scotland, September, 2005. CEC2005_ETHSC.pdf
D.A. Casella and W.D. Potter, "New Lower Bounds for the Coil-In-The-Box Problem: Using Evolutionary Techniques to Hunt for Coils," in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Man-Machine Systems, and Cybernetics (CIMMACS'05), Miami, Florida, November, 2005. wseas-coil.rtf
N. Suo, K. Rasheed, W.D. Potter, and D.N. Aron, "Machine Learning Techniques for the Evaluation of External Skeletal Fixation Structures," to appear in the Proceedings of The 2004 International Conference on Mathematics and Engineering Techniques in Medicine and Biological Sciences (METMBS'04), June 21-24, 2004, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, 2004. METMBS_paper.pdf

COOL STUFF

2016 Syllabus: 8940 GA-Syllabus (pdf)
GA Tutorial (.pdf): Genetic Algorithm Tutorial (Whitley)
NO Tutorial (.pdf): Numerical Optimization Tutorial (Charbonneau)
Schema Theorem: Schema Theorem
Class Glossary: GA Glossary

COOL MIDTERM EXAM Due March 8th, 2016. Be sure you do your own work.

COOL SNAKE-IN-THE-BOX PROBLEM

The Dim8 Table: Dimension8Table.txt
A Cool 4D Hypercube: 4D-hypercube.pdf
New Lower Bounds for the Snake-In-The-Box Problem: A Prolog Genetic Algorithm and Heuristic Search Approach: Scott's Thesis (finally)
K.J. Kochut, "Snake-In-The-Box Codes for Dimension 7," Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing, Vol. 20, pp. 175-185, 1996. kochut.pdf
Potter, W.D., R.W. Robinson, J.A. Miller, K.J. Kochut, and D.Z. Redys, "Using the Genetic Algorithm to Find Snake In The Box Codes," Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Industrial & Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems, pp. 421-426, Austin, Texas, June, 1994. using-the-genetic-algorithm.pdf and figures from the paper (fig1 & fig2): fig1-fig2.pdf
Potter, W.D., R.W. Robinson, J.A. Miller, K.J. Kochut, and D.Z. Redys, "Hunting for Snakes Using the Genetic Algorithm," Proc. Third International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics, p. 26, held at Fort Lauderdale, Florida, January, 1994.
Juric, M., W.D. Potter, and M. Plaksin, "Using PVM for Hunting Snake In The Box Codes," Proceedings of the 1994 Transputer Research and Applications Conference (NATUG-7), pp. 97-102, Athens, GA, October, 1994. PVM-Paper.pdf

COOL MOBILE SUBSCRIBER EQUIPMENT PROBLEM

The MSE paper: MSE-paper.pdf
The MSE Objective Function: MSE-Objfunc.pdf

COOL MULTIPLE FAULT DIAGNOSIS PROBLEM

Bob's Lab Report: MFD Lab Report
The Tendency Matrix: TendencyMatrix10x25.txt

The NEW & IMPROVED Exhaustive Search Results: ExhaustiveResults10x25.txt

Class Glossary: GA Glossary
Dr. Robert Smith's Intro: Smith Intro (.ps)


date last modified: 12/5/11

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