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From: David.Beasley@cf.cm.ac.uk (David Beasley)
Subject: What's new in the FAQ? (A Guide to "the Guide")
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Summary: Summary of changes made to the FAQ since its last edition.
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Organization: University of Wales College of Cardiff, Cardiff, WALES, UK.
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 94 14:49:17 GMT
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Last-Modified:  December 20, 1994
Issue:          2.4

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

There are quite a few differences between 2.4 and the previous version.
Most are or a minor nature: a few existing entries have been tidied up,
and a number of small additions have been made, including five new
software packages.  Details of this and other changes are given below.

The next edition is due out on March 20th, 1995. Every second monday,
a reminder is posted telling people how to pick up copies by FTP,
etc.

As always, if you have information which could usefully go into the
guide, send it to me. 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, I'll include the information in the FAQ.

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

	1. Intro to the FAQ and the newsgroup		22k
	2. Descriptions of different types of EAs	51k
	3. Practice and theory				40k
	4. References and information sources		65k
	5. EA software packages				74k
	6. Other topics and glossary			61k

CHANGES

Q1.1  Slight changes to description of GAs
Q1.2  Revised entry on EP
Q10.4 Goldberg (94) - volume number corrected
Q10.6 Updated Morgan Kaufman's address
Q11   Updated Hiroaki Kitano's email address
Q12   Entry for EP95 added
      Updated Morgan Kaufman's address
Q14   Added FTP address for TCGA
Q15.2 Entry for timetabling mailing list updated
      WWW address for GP FAQ added
Q15.3 MSU GARAGe WWW site added
      Added info on new ENCORE sites at Wayne State Uni. and Uni. of Cape Town
      Added info on COGS repository
      Updated Sante Fe Institute entry
Q15.4 WWW address for sci.bio.evolution repository added
Q20.1 Genocop - FTP address updated
      Art Corcoran - email address updated
      Added new software packages: matlab-GA, GAMusic, Imogene, GPEIST
Q20.2 Evolver - updated contact info
      ComputerAnts - added new package
Q22   Added WWW address for OR-lib
      Added mention of ENCORE test data
Q98   Added patent info for BBA
Q99   Updated definition of evolutionarily stable strategy


David Beasley     (david.beasley@cm.cf.ac.uk)
Department of Computing Mathematics                               __o 
University of Wales College of Cardiff                            \<, 
PO Box 916, CARDIFF   CF2 4YN, UK            ___________________()/ ()___ 
