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From: David.Beasley@cs.cf.ac.uk (David Beasley)
Subject: What's new in the FAQ? : HTML version now available
Summary: Summary of changes made to the FAQ since its last edition.
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Last-Modified:  December 11, 1995
Issue:          3.4

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

And this edition really is new, as it is the first to be released in HTML
format! Now the Guide is really easy to access, using your favourite WWW
browser. It will soon be available at an ENCORE site near you (note that
it may take a day or two for the new version of the guide to propogate to
all the mirror sites listed below)

Europe:
  Germany: EUnet Deutschland GmbH:
      ftp://ftp.Germany.EU.net:/pub/research/softcomp/EC/FAQ/www/
  Germany: Technical University of Berlin:
      ftp://ftp-bionik.fb10.tu-berlin.de:/pub/EC/FAQ/www/
  France: Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau:
      ftp://blanche.polytechnique.fr:/pub/eark/EC/FAQ/www/
  UK: The University of Warwick:
      ftp://ftp.dcs.warwick.ac.uk:/pub/mirrors/EC/FAQ/www/
  Spain: The University of Oviedo:
      ftp://zeus.etsimo.uniovi.es:/pub/EC/FAQ/www/

USA:
  The Santa Fe Institute:
      ftp://alife.santafe.edu:/pub/USER-AREA/EC/FAQ/www/
  The California Institute of Technology:
      ftp://ftp.krl.caltech.edu:/pub/EC/FAQ/www/
  Wayne State University, Detroit:
      ftp://ftp.cs.wayne.edu:/pub/EC/FAQ/www/
  The Michigan State University, East Lansing:
      ftp://ftp.egr.msu.edu:/pub/EC/FAQ/www/
  Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN:
      ftp://coast.cs.purdue.edu:/pub/EC/FAQ/www/

Elsewhere:
  Hong Kong: The Chinese University of Hong Kong:
      ftp://ftp.cs.cuhk.hk:/pub/EC/FAQ/www/
  South Africa: University of Cape Town:
      ftp://ftp.uct.ac.za:/pub/mirrors/EC/FAQ/www/
  Brazil: CEFET-PR, Curitiba:
    ftp://ftp.cefetpr.br/pub/EC/FAQ/www/


As usual, here's a description of the differences in content between this
and the previous version. There are a number of relatively minor
differences. Q1.6, on the differences between EAs and biology, which was
newly added in the last edition, has now been removed following an
objection that it gave a rather distorted view. Details of changes are
given below.

The next edition is due out on March 20th, 1996. 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 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, 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	56k
	3. Practice and theory				43k
	4. References and information sources		70k
	5. EA software packages				82k
	6. Other topics and glossary			71k

MAIN CHANGES

Preface:   Added brief section on the Origin of the guide (incorporating
	   the Contributions section).
Q0.1,Q0.2: Now merged together to be all part of Q0.
Q1.4:	   Updated following comments from M. Dorigo.
Q1.6:      Removed.
Q2         Added information on timetabling work of Colorni, Dorigo & Maniezzo
Q4         Added references to work of Dorigo on ALECSYS
Q10.8:     Removed entry for the Florida Atlantic Bibliography, since its no
           longer available (apparently)
Q12:       Added details for PPSN 1996 conference
           Updated ftp address for ep-list
Q15.3:     Added new ENCORE site in Brazil.
Q20:       Updated email address for Generator 
           Minor revisions to entries for Generator & Evolver
Q22:       Minor update to OR library information
           Added reference to Bill Spears' test data Web page
Q99:       Updated glossary entry for Darwinism and Gene.
backpage:  "About the Authors" section reinstated after a long absence.

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