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From: David.Beasley@cs.cf.ac.uk (David Beasley)
Subject: What's new in the FAQ?
Summary: Summary of changes made to the FAQ since its last edition.
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Last-Modified:  December 20, 1996
Issue:          4.4

Hello, and welcome to the new edition of the comp.ai.genetic FAQ, 
"The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to Evolutionary Computation". 

As usual, here's a description of the differences in content between this
and the previous version. There are no major changes. Details of minor
changes are given below.

The next edition is due out on March 20th, 1997. Every second monday,
a reminder is posted telling people how to pick up copies on the WWW,
etc.

As always, if you have information which could usefully go into the
guide, send it to me at the address below. Please include in the Subject 
line: HHGTEC. If you find any information is inaccurate, please
let me know (if possible, with the _accurate_ information). All
contributions/help welcome.

If you have any questions which you'd like to be answered in the FAQ,
post them to the newsgroup first. If any sensible answers are
forthcoming, let me know, and I'll include the information in the FAQ.

The ASCII version of the FAQ comes in 6 parts, with the following broad
categories:

	1. Intro to the FAQ and the newsgroup		23k
	2. Descriptions of different types of EAs	56k
	3. Practice and theory				51k
	4. References and information sources		74k
	5. EA software packages				88k
	6. Other topics and glossary			73k

MAIN CHANGES

Q2	Added information on applications in biology (thanks to Cedric
	Notredame)
Q3	Added information on relevance of EAs to chemistry/biochemistry
	(thanks to Fabio Pichierri).
Q12	Added info on the GP97 conference, and unpdated some other
	conference info.
Q15.2	Removed mention of the GA-molecule mailing list (now defunct)
Q20.1	Added new software package: REGAL
Q20.2	Updated information about Flextool
Q20.2   Updated information about Evolver
Q20.2	Updated info for Computer Ants, and moved it from Q20.2 to Q20.1


The HTML version is available from the following URLs:

Germany: EUnet Deutschland GmbH:
	http://research.Germany.EU.net:8080/encore/www/

Spain: The University of Granada:
	http://krypton.ugr.es/~encore/www/

       The University of Oviedo:
	http://www.etsimo.uniovi.es/ftp/pub/EC/FAQ/www/

USA: The Santa Fe Institute:
	http://alife.santafe.edu/~joke/encore/www/

     Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN:
	http://www.cs.purdue.edu/coast/archive/clife/FAQ/www/

Canada: University of Alberta:
	http://cassandra.biochem.ualberta.ca/~encore/www/

Hong Kong: The Chinese University of Hong Kong:
	http://www.cs.cuhk.hk/pub/EC/FAQ/www/top.htm



David Beasley, Praxis plc, Bath, UK                               __o
dabley@praxis.co.uk                                               \<,  
-comp.ai.genetic FAQ Editor-                 ___________________()/ ()___ 
