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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: Sun, 19 Mar 95 18:17:17 GMT
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Last-Modified:  March 20, 1995
Issue:          3.1

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

There are a few differences between v3.1 and the previous version.  Most
are of a minor nature: a few existing entries have been tidied up, and a
number of small additions have been made.  Details of changes are given
below.

The next edition is due out on June 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		21k
	2. Descriptions of different types of EAs	52k
	3. Practice and theory				41k
	4. References and information sources		69k
	5. EA software packages				73k
	6. Other topics and glossary			61k

CHANGES

Q1	Clarified definition of EAs
Q2	Added mention of Bill Langdon's work on maintenance scheduling
Q10.8	Updated WWW address for Martyn Amos
	Added Bill Langdon's GP bibliography
Q10.4	Added Fogel's paper: "An Introduction to Simulated Evolutionary
		Optimization"
Q10.6	Added Fogel's new book "Evolutionary Computation: Toward a New
		Philosophy of Machine Intelligence"
	Added Schwefel's new book "Evolution and Optimum Seeking"
Q12	Added www address for icga95
Q14	Added University College London
Q15.1	Added WWW address for GA-Digest archive	
Q15.2	Updated entry for gattbl: Timetabling mailing list
	Added entry for Genetic Algorithms in Production Scheduling
	Added the Autopoiesis Email List
Q15.3	Added entry for "The Navy Center for Applied Research in 
		Artificial Intelligence"
	Added Eclair for Michigan State University
	Added entry for Case Western Reserve University
Q15.4	Added comp.ai.digest


David Beasley     (david.beasley@cm.cf.ac.uk)
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University of Wales College of Cardiff                            \<, 
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