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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:  September 20, 1996
Issue:          4.3

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

This is the fourth edition of the FAQ to be available in HTML format,
from the addresses given below. 

As usual, here's a description of the differences in content between this
and the previous version. The only major change is a re-organisation of
the information in the Software Survey (Q20.1 and Q20.2). In the HTML
version, each software package now appears in a separate file, so
downloading will be much quicker. Details of changes in the content are
given below.

The next edition is due out on December 20th, 1996. 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, 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		22k
	2. Descriptions of different types of EAs	56k
	3. Practice and theory				44k
	4. References and information sources		74k
	5. EA software packages				85k
	6. Other topics and glossary			73k

MAIN CHANGES

Q4:	Added sentence on differential evolution
Q12:	Updated info on various conferences.
Q15.3:	Updated URL for Granada Encore site
Q20.1:  Updated info on GALOPPS
Q20.1:  Updated info on Matlab-GA
Q20.1:  Added info on JAG, a java based simple GA
Q20.2:	Updated info on GeneHunter


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                                               \<,  
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