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Eric Bonabeau with Icosystem Corporation |
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Date: October 26, 2004
Time: 10:30am
Location: NASA LaRC, Bldg 1192C, Rm 102
Speaker: Eric Bonabeau with Icosystem Corporation
Subject: “Complexity and Loopholes”
Additional Information: Presentation (PDF)
We live surrounded by more and more complex software and control systems. How can we make sure (1) they work and (2) they are secure? Drawing from several real-world case studies, I will show how evolutionary computation (a form of computational search inspired by biological evolution) can help evolve functional and security challenges to a range of complex systems to detect and correct defects and loopholes. One example will be a fluid control system on a navy warship; another is network intrusion. In both cases, evolutionary computation is used to find weaknesses that could not be predicted by the human designers because the number of possible configurations or situations was enormous. I will also show how the same approach can apply to finding defects in economic models and loopholes in the tax code.
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