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From: kslee@srgcentre (Lee Kwok Shing (***) (~))
Subject: Re: About Hollands book 'Adaptation in ...'
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"Albert van Breemen" (s9101799@mail.student.utwente.nl) wrote:
:Q> Introducing me: Albert van Breemen, student with the Department of Electrical 
:Q>                 Engineerinf, University of Twente, the Netherlands
:Q> Interest:       AI, at the moment specially GA

:Q> Problem:

:Q> I've read the most of Hollands book 'Adaptation in natural and 
:Q> artificial systems'. While reading the book the following question 
:Q> did arise: GA works only good if their is some correlation between f(c) and
:Q> c, with c a structure of A. If their is no correlation then the search is
:Q> just random (This is just mine opinion which I have not proved or neither 
:Q> I've read any prove, but I want this to prove mathematicaly soon). If their 
:Q> is some correlation then I mean:
	
	I think your observation is correct. To think in another way,
if f(c) is not related to c, it's just an random function. Any other methods
can tackle the problem ? (I'm still thinking about it, but I believe no
method can solve them as well.)
	Please comment !
	
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