From David.Beasley@cf.cm.ac.uk Sat Dec 24 20:02:59 EST 1994 Article: 4589 of comp.ai.genetic Newsgroups: comp.ai.genetic Path: cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!das-news2.harvard.edu!news2.near.net!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk!warwick!uknet!cf-cm!cf.cm.ac.uk!David.Beasley From: David.Beasley@cf.cm.ac.uk (David Beasley) Subject: What's new in the FAQ? (A Guide to "the Guide") Message-ID: Followup-To: comp.ai.genetic Summary: Summary of changes made to the FAQ since its last edition. Originator: David.Beasley@cf.cm.ac.uk (David Beasley) Sender: David.Beasley@cf.cm.ac.uk (David Beasley) Supersedes: Organization: University of Wales College of Cardiff, Cardiff, WALES, UK. Date: Tue, 20 Dec 94 14:49:17 GMT Expires: 24 Mar 1995 14:49:14 GMT Lines: 65 Last-Modified: December 20, 1994 Issue: 2.4 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 2.4 and the previous version. Most are or a minor nature: a few existing entries have been tidied up, and a number of small additions have been made, including five new software packages. Details of this and other changes are given below. The next edition is due out on March 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 22k 2. Descriptions of different types of EAs 51k 3. Practice and theory 40k 4. References and information sources 65k 5. EA software packages 74k 6. Other topics and glossary 61k CHANGES Q1.1 Slight changes to description of GAs Q1.2 Revised entry on EP Q10.4 Goldberg (94) - volume number corrected Q10.6 Updated Morgan Kaufman's address Q11 Updated Hiroaki Kitano's email address Q12 Entry for EP95 added Updated Morgan Kaufman's address Q14 Added FTP address for TCGA Q15.2 Entry for timetabling mailing list updated WWW address for GP FAQ added Q15.3 MSU GARAGe WWW site added Added info on new ENCORE sites at Wayne State Uni. and Uni. of Cape Town Added info on COGS repository Updated Sante Fe Institute entry Q15.4 WWW address for sci.bio.evolution repository added Q20.1 Genocop - FTP address updated Art Corcoran - email address updated Added new software packages: matlab-GA, GAMusic, Imogene, GPEIST Q20.2 Evolver - updated contact info ComputerAnts - added new package Q22 Added WWW address for OR-lib Added mention of ENCORE test data Q98 Added patent info for BBA Q99 Updated definition of evolutionarily stable strategy 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 ___________________()/ ()___ Article 5336 of comp.ai.genetic: Newsgroups: comp.ai.genetic Path: cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!das-news2.harvard.edu!news2.near.net!news.mathworks.com!udel!news.sprintlink.net!pipex!sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk!yama.mcc.ac.uk!cf-cm!cf.cm.ac.uk!David.Beasley From: David.Beasley@cf.cm.ac.uk (David Beasley) Subject: What's new in the FAQ? (A Guide to "the Guide") Message-ID: Followup-To: comp.ai.genetic Summary: Summary of changes made to the FAQ since its last edition. Originator: David.Beasley@cf.cm.ac.uk (David Beasley) Sender: David.Beasley@cf.cm.ac.uk (David Beasley) Supersedes: Organization: University of Wales College of Cardiff, Cardiff, WALES, UK. Date: Sun, 19 Mar 95 18:17:17 GMT Expires: 21 Jun 1995 18:17:06 GMT Lines: 61 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) Department of Computing Mathematics __o University of Wales College of Cardiff \<, PO Box 916, CARDIFF CF2 4YN, UK ___________________()/ ()___