Garnett Wilson
Ph.D., Computer Science
Awards
- Best Paper Nominee, European Workshop on Evolutionary
Computation in Finance and Economics (EvoFIN 2009)
- Membership in American Association for the Advancement of
Science (AAAS) / Science Program for Excellence in Science,
2008-2010
- Doctoral Izaak Walton Killam Scholarship, Sept. 2003-Aug. 2006
- Doctoral NSERC Post-graduate Scholarship (PGS-B),
May 2003-May 2005
- Best Student Paper in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Hardware Engineering, IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical
and Computer Engineering, May 2002
- Master's NSERC Post-graduate Scholarship (PGS-A),
May 2001-April 2003
- Master's Izaak Walton Killam Scholarship, Sept. 2000-May 2001
- NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA), Summer 2000
- Andrew MacKay Alumni Scholarship (community/university work
& leadership), 1998
- Dalhousie University Renewable Entrance Scholarship,
Sept. 1996-April 2000
Publications
Journal Papers
- Wilson, G. C., Banzhaf, W., “Deployment of Parallel GPU-Based Linear Genetic Programming on PC and Video Game Console Platforms,”
Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, upcoming.
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Wilson, Garnett, and Heywood, Malcolm, "Foundations for an Intelligent Business Logic Engine using Genetic Programming and RuleML-Based Services," International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management,
2(4), 2007, Inderscience Publishers, ISSN: 1741-8763, pp. 282 - 291.
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(Shorter conference paper version also published, see below.)
- Wilson, Garnett,
and Heywood, Malcolm, "Introducing Probabilistic Adaptive Mapping Developmental Genetic Programming with Redundant Mappings," Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines,
8(2), 2007, Springer, ISSN 1389-2576, pp. 187-220.
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- Maitzen, Stephen, and Wilson, Garnett, "Newcomb’s Hidden Regress," Theory and Decision, 54(2), 2003, Kluwer Academic, ISSN 0040-5833, pp. 151-162.
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- Wilson, Garnett, and Heywood, Malcolm, "Crossover Context in Page-based Linear Genetic Programming," Canadian Journal on Electrical and Computer Engineering, July 2002, IEEE Canada, ISSN 0840-8688, pp. 113-116.
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(Shorter conference paper version also published, see below.)
Book Chapters
- Wilson, G. C., Banzhaf, W. "Interday and Intraday Stock Trading using Probabilistic Adaptive Mapping Developmental Genetic Programming and Linear Genetic Programming,"
Natural Computing in Computational Finance, Vol. 3, 2010, Springer, upcoming.
- Wilson, G. C., Banzhaf, W. "Algorithmic Trading with Developmental and Linear Genetic Programming,"
Genetic Programming Theory and Practice (GPTP) VII, 2009, Springer, upcoming.
- Banzhaf, Wolfgang, Harding, Simon, Langdon, W.B.,
and Wilson, Garnett, "Accelerating Genetic Programming Through
Graphics Processing Units," Genetic
Programming Theory and Practice (GPTP) VI, 2008, Springer, pp.
229-249.
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Journal Reviews
- Wilson, Garnett, McIntyre, Andrew,
and Heywood, Malcolm, "Three open source systems for evolving programs—Lilgp, ECJ and Grammatical Evolution," Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, 5(1), 2004, Kluwer Academic, ISSN 1389-2576, pp. 103-105 (Invited Review).
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Conference and Workshop Papers
- Wilson, G. C., Banzhaf, W., “Soft Memory for Stock Market Analysis using Linear and Developmental Genetic Programming,” Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2009), July 8-12, 2009, Montréal, Canada, ACM Press, ISBN 978-1-60558-325-9, pp. 1633-1640.
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- Wilson, G. C., Banzhaf, W., “Deployment of CPU and GPU –based Genetic Programming on Heterogeneous Devices,” Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2009), July 8-12, 2009, Montréal, Canada, ACM Press, ISBN 978-1-60558-325-9, pp. 2531-2538.
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- Wilson, G. C., and Banzhaf W., "Discovery of Email Communication
Networks from the Enron Corpus with a Genetic Algorithm using Social
Network Analysis," Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2009), May 18-21, 2009, Trondheim, Norway, IEEE Press, ISBN: 978-1-4244-2958-5, pp. 3256-3263.
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- Wilson, G. C., Banzhaf, W., “Prediction of Interday Stock Prices using Developmental and Linear Genetic Programming,” Applications of Evolutionary Computing: EvoWorkshops 2009, April 15-17, 2009, Tübingen, Germany, Springer, ISSN 0302-9743, pp. 172-181.
(Nominee: Best Paper Award)
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- Wilson, Garnett, and Banzhaf, Wolfgang, "Linear Genetic Programming GPGPU on Microsoft’s Xbox 360," Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2008), June 1-6, 2008,
Hong Kong, China, IEEE Press, ISBN 378-385.
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- Wilson, Garnett, and Banzhaf, Wolfgang, "A Comparison of
Cartesian Genetic Programming and Linear Genetic Programming,"
Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP 2008), March
26-28, 2008, Naples, Italy, Springer, ISBN 978-3-540-78670-2, pp.
182-193.
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- Wilson, Garnett, and Heywood, Malcolm, "Learning Recursive Programs with Cooperative Coevolution
of Genetic Code Mapping and Genotype," Genetic and Evolutionary
Computation Conference (GECCO 2007), July 7-11, 2007, London,
England, ACM Press, ISBN 978-1-59593-697-4, pp. 1053-1060.
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- Wilson, Garnett, and Heywood, Malcolm, "Probabilistic Adaptive Mapping Developmental Genetic Programming (PAM DGP): A New Developmental Approach," Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN IX), Sept. 9-13, 2006, Reykjavik, Iceland, Springer,
ISSN 0302-9743, pp. 751-760.
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- Wilson, G. C., Heywood, M. I., “Foundations for an Intelligent Business Logic Engine using Genetic Programming and RuleML-based Services,” Proceedings of the 2006 International Workshop on Service Oriented Techniques (SOT06), August 14-16, 2006, Fredericton, Canada, NRC Research Press, pp. 63-70.
- Wilson, Garnett, and Heywood, Malcolm, "Probabilistic (Genotype) Adaptive Mapping Combinations for Developmental Genetic Programming," Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2006), July 16-21, 2006, Vancouver, Canada, IEEE Press, ISBN 0-7803-9487-9, pp. 8667-8674.
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- Wilson, Garnett, and Heywood, Malcolm, "Use of a Genetic Algorithm in Brill’s Transformation-Based Part-of-Speech Tagger," Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2005), June 25-29, 2005, Washington, DC, USA, ACM Press, ISBN 1-59593-010-8, pp. 2067-2073.
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- Wilson, Garnett Carl,
and Heywood, Malcolm, "Context-Based Repeated Sequences in Linear Genetic Programming," Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP
2005), March 30-April 1, 2005, Lausanne, Switzerland, Springer, ISSN 0302-9783, pp. 240-249.
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- Wilson, Garnett C., and Heywood, Malcolm, "Search Operator Bias in Linearly Structured Genetic Programming," GECCO (Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference) 2004 Late Breaking Papers CD-ROM, June 26-30, 2004, Seattle, USA.
- Wilson, G. C., Heywood, M. I., “Crossover Context in Page-based Linear Genetic Programming,” Proceedings of the IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE 2002), May 12-15 2002, Winnipeg, Canada, IEEE Canada, ISBN 0-7803-7515-7, pp. 809-814.
(Winner: Best Student Paper Award in AI and Computer Hardware Engineering)
Theses
- Ph.D. Thesis:
Probabilistic Adaptive Mapping Developmental Genetic Programming,
Dalhousie University, 2007.
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- MCS Thesis:
Strategy Learning Through Page-based Linear Genetic Programming Applied to The San Mateo Trail,
Dalhousie University, 2002.
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Other Articles
- Wilson, Garnett, and Harding, Simon, "WCCI 2008 Special Session:
Computational Intelligence on Consumer Games and Graphics Hardware (CIGPU-2008),"
SIGEVOlution: newsletter of the ACM Special Interest Group on
Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, 2008.
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