Vincent William (Bill) Porto, President. Mr. Porto has two
decades of experience in the areas of signal processing, pattern
recognition, and more recently agent-based combat simulations. He received the B.A. in mathematics and has completed requirements for the M.A. in applied mathematics at the University of California at San Diego. He previously worked in the areas of ocean surveillance and ground motion modeling at ORINCON Corporation (1981-1995) and Del Mar Technical Associates (1980-1981), respectively. He joined Natural Selection, Inc. in 1995.
Mr. Porto's research interests include evolutionary programming, signal processing, neural networks, and optimization theory. His most recent research has involved applying evolutionary programming to materials process automation and strategic resource allocation problems wherein conventional methods have provided inadequate solutions.
Mr. Porto has served on the Office of Naval Research advisory panel for neural networks, and is a charter officer of the Evolutionary Programming Society. He served as general chairman for EP98, the seventh annual conference on evolutionary programming. He was on the organizing committees for the 1988 and 1989 IJCNN conferences, and served as tutorials co-chair for OCEANS' 95. Mr. Porto is a member of the editorial board for the IOP/Oxford Press Handbooks for Neural Computation and Evolutionary Computation and is an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation.
Mr. Porto's responsibilities as President are to provide leadership towards maintaining Natural Selection, Inc.'s preeminence in real-world applications of computational intelligence methods. As President he assists in developing and promoting a strategic plan to advance the company's mission and objectives and to promote revenue, profitability, and growth as an organization. Mr. Porto also oversees business operations to ensure production efficiency, quality, service, and cost-effective management and also assists in developing and approving company operational procedures, policies, and standards. He coordinates these activities with the company CEO, Dr. Gary Fogel.
Selected Publications
Porto VW, Fogel DB, and Fogel LJ (1995) "Alternative Neural Network Training Methods," IEEE Expert, Vol. 10:3, June, pp. 16-22.
Porto, VW (1995) "Non-Acoustic Sensor Array Localization using Evolutionary Programming," Proc. of the 4th Annual Conference on Evolutionary Programming , J.R. McDonnell, R.G. Reynolds and D.B. Fogel (eds.), MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp. 19-32.
For more information please see the NSI Publications Library or email Mr. Porto at: bporto [at] natural-selection.com