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In article <42oeq2$leh@cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu>, baluja@CS.CMU.EDU (Shumeet Baluja) says:
>
Please send me a copy of your paper.

kind regards

Wander Jager
Groningen, The Netherlands
>
>Title:
>An Empirical Comparison of Seven Iterative and 
>Evolutionary Function Optimization Heuristics
>
>By:
>Shumeet Baluja
>
>
>Abstract:
>This report is a repository for the results obtained from a large scale
>empirical comparison of seven iterative and evolution-based optimization
>heuristics. Twenty-seven static optimization problems, spanning six sets
>of problem classes which are commonly explored in genetic algorithm
>literature, are examined.  The problem sets include job-shop scheduling,
>traveling salesman, knapsack, binpacking, neural network weight
>optimization, and standard numerical optimization. The search spaces in
>these problems range from 2^368 to 2^2040. The results indicate that using
>genetic algorithms for the optimization of static functions does not yield
>a benefit, in terms of the final answer obtained, over simpler
>optimization heuristics.  Descriptions of the algorithms tested and the
>encodings of the problems are described in detail for reproducibility.
>
>
>This work may be of interest to the Artificial Neural Network community as
>two of the algorithms compared are based upon simple Hebbian Learning and
>supervised competitive learning algorithms.
>
>
>
>
>instructions (CMU-CS-95-193)
>---------------------------------------
>anonymous ftp:
>  ftp reports.adm.cs.cmu.edu
>  binary
>  cd 1995
>  get CMU-CS-95-193.ps
>
>
>from www:
>  from my home page:  http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~baluja
>  more directly:  http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/baluja/www/techreps.html
>
>
>if you do not have www or ftp access, send me email, 
>and I will send a copy (.ps) through email.
>
