(a.k.a Jeff Bassett) Welcome to my academic homepage. I am currently enrolled as a PhD student at the George Mason University Computer Science Department, where I am studying Evolutionary Computation, and am a member of the EClab. My advisor is Kenneth A. De Jong.

Masters Degree

Qualifying Exams
PhD Course work
Comprehensive Exams
Dissertation Proposal
Dissertation Hours
Dissertation Defense

The goal of my research is to help bridge the gap between evolutionary algorithm (EA) theory and practice. I plan to create a set of tools - based on quantitative genetics theory - which practitioners can use to instrument an existing EA. The data collected during a run will allow one to identify and diagnose problems by observing how the algorithm searches the problem landscape.

Jeffrey K. Bassett, Mitchell A. Potter, and Kenneth A. De Jong (2005)

Applying Price's Equation to Survival Selection.
In Proceedings of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference -- GECCO-2005.  Pages 1371–1378.  ACM Press.
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Jeffrey K. Bassett and Mitchell A. Potter and Kenneth A. De Jong (2004)

Looking Under the EA Hood with Price's Equation.
In Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference – GECCO-2004,  Springer-Verlag.
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Mitchell A. Potter and Jeffrey K. Bassett and Kenneth A. De Jong (2003)

Visualizing evolvability with Price's equation.
In Proceedings of the 2003 Congress on Evolutionary Computation,  IEEE Press.
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Jeffrey K. Bassett (2002)

A Study of Generalization Techniques in Evolutionary Rule Learning.
Masters thesis, George Mason University,  Fairfax VA, USA.
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Jeffrey K. Bassett, R. Paul Wiegand and Kenneth A. De Jong (2001)

Evolving Multi–Agent Behaviors Using a Tunable Problem Landscape.
In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2001,  pages 1133 (Poster),  Morgan Kaufmann Publishers.

Jeffrey K. Bassett and Kenneth A. De Jong (2000)

Evolving Behaviors for Cooperating Agents.
In Proceedings of the Twelfth International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems,  Z. Ras and S. Ohsuga editor(s),  pages 157–165,  Springer-Verlag.
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Jeff Bassett
George Mason University
4400 University Dr.
Krasnow Institute, MS 2A1
Fairfax, VA 22030

Located here
office: Room 212
e-mail: jbassett@cs.gmu.edu
phone:  (703) 993-4380