Mark Land

Interests

combinatorial optimization, game theory, evolutionary algorithms, cellular automata, artificial life, natural evolution, neural networks, machine learning, backgammon, interesting games

Current Research

Investigation of the interaction between global and local search methods in hybrid algorithms, particularly evolutionary algorithms with local search. Focus is on combinatorial optimization problems. Click here for a copy of my dissertation (1.7MB compressed).

Papers and Reports

• Mark Land, John J. SIDorowich, Richard K. Belew: "Using Genetic Algorithms with Local Search for Thin Film Metrology", in Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Genetic Algorithms, Thomas Bäck, editor, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., 1997.
  
  
• Jordan B. Pollack, Alan D. Blair, Mark Land: "Coevolution of a Backgammon Player", in Artificial Life V, C. Langton and K. Shimohara, editors, MIT Press, 1997.
  
  
• Mark Land, Richard K. Belew: "No Perfect Two-State Cellular Automata for Density Classification Exists", in Physical Review Letters, Vol. 74, Number 25 (June 19, 1995), p. 1548-50. A technical report version of this appears here.
  
  
• Abstract of Mark Land, Richard K. Belew: "Evolution of Cellular Automata to Perform Nonlocal Computation", in Proceedings of The Fourth Annual Conference on Evolutionary Programming, McDonnell, Reynolds, and Fogel, editors, MIT Press, 1995.

Curriculum Vita

Resume

Point(er)s of Interest

• UCSD Computer Science Department
• Cognitive Computer Science Research Group
• U.S. Government: White House, Congress, Senate, House of Representatives
• Backgammon Club of San Diego The WWW Backgammon Page