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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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Date: Tue, 20 Sep 94 09:04:56 GMT
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Last-Modified:  September 20, 1994
Issue:          2.3

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 2.3 and the previous
version.  Most notably, the survey of software packages available in
part 5 has been thoroughly revised. All authors of software packages
were consulted to ensure that the information contained in the guide is
still up to date.  Furthermore, five new software packages were added.
Details of this and other changes are given below.

The next edition is due out on December 20th. 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	50k
	3. Practice and theory				40k
	4. References and information sources		63k
	5. EA software packages				68k
	6. Other topics and glossary			60k

CHANGES

cover  Updated Joerg's address.

Q0.3:  Question deleted, information moved to Q15.5.

Q10:   Added ":" to end of book references, to aid automatic searching.

Q10.2: Mention of 2nd edn. of "Genetic Algorithms + Data Structures = 
       Evolution Programs" added

Q10.3: Added FTP details for paper by G.Rudolph

Q10.8: Updated N.Saravan's email address.

       Added Andreas Uhl's parallel GA bibliography.

       Added GAPHD bibliography collections.

Q12:   Added ":" to end of book references, to aid automatic searching.

       Added info on ICGA95 and ICEC 94 & 95

Q15.2: Added Timetabling mailing list

       Added crossref to "Evolutionary Models in the Social Sciences" Q10.8

Q15.3: Changed wording of question - now refers to "online information 
       repositories" in general, not just "research institutes". 
       Content of Q15.3 remains much the same.

       Added information about new ENCORE mirror nodes at Warwick (UK), 
       EUnet (Germany) and CalTec (USA). (Also updated in Q99).

       Added CMU AI repository.

Q15.4: Added mention of talk.origins newsgroup

Q15.5: Updated info on "Big Dummys Guide to the Internet" to the two
       new publications which have replaced it (egtti and eegtti).

Q20.0, Q20.1, Q20.2, Q20.3:
       All sofware survey entries checked to ensure information is
       up to date. 
       New entries added for: Dougal, LICE, TOLKIEN, GENlib, GALOPPS.


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            ___________________()/ ()___ 
