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Dirk V. Arnold
Faculty of Computer Science
Dalhousie University
6050 University Avenue
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canada B3H 1W5

Phone : 902.494.2691
Fax : 902.492.1517
Email : dirk@cs.dal.ca

Curriculum Vitae

Research

My research interests are in evolutionary computation, optimisation, and computer graphics and animation. Click here for a complete listing of publications.

Some Recent and Ongoing Projects

Multi-Band Fourier Synthesis of Ocean Waves
Tone Mapping by Interactive Evolution

Teaching

CSCI 3161: Computer Animation (Winter 08/09)
CSCI 4113: Design and Analysis of Algorithms II (Winter 08/09)
CSCI 4167/6608: Advanced Computer Animation (Fall 08/09)

Recent publications

D. V. Arnold and A. S. Castellarin
A novel approach to adaptive isolation in evolution strategies
Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. Montreal, 2009.

S. B. Chisholm, D. V. Arnold, and S. Brooks
Tone mapping by interactive evolution
Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. Montreal, 2009.

D. V. Arnold, H.-G. Beyer, and A. Melkozerov
On the behaviour of weighted multi-recombination evolution strategies optimising noisy cigar functions
Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. Montreal, 2009.