From: joke@ls11.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Joerg Heitkoetter) Originator: joke@ls11.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Joerg Heitkoetter) Newsgroups: comp.ai.genetic Subject: What's new in the FAQ? (A Guide to "the Guide") Followup-To: comp.ai.genetic Date: Summary: This monthly addendum summarizes the changes made to the FAQ of the previous month; and also gives some pointers to future topics. Last-Modified: October 20, 1993 Issue: 1.08 `Who's the bigger fool? The fool, or the fool that follows the fool?' -- The Jester's Credo Dear folks, the FAQ now comes with this little appendix, listing all the changes made to the previous month's posting. The PostScript version on "lumpi.informatik.uni-dortmund.de" is available as "/pub/EA/docs/hhgtec-1.08.ps.gz", ie. it has been compressed using gzip(1), the GNU compression utility, which allows for (a) better compression than compress/.Z, as used before, and (b) uses an unpatentable algorithm, as opposed to compress. Gzip is available for all currently available platforms (even for VMS) via the GNU server prep.ai.mit.edu; oder from it's mirror sites, that are listed below. CORRECTIONS * the glosarization of the FAQ has been standartized uing 2 perl scripts courtesy written and contributed by David Beasley of the University of Cardiff, UK. * FOGA94 entry (cf A12) ADDITIONS * What's Evolutionary Programming? (cf A1.2) [by Mark Davis] * GenET added to Software Survey (cf A20) * How do I efficiently implement Gray coding? C Code please? [by Dan Abell] (cf A21) UPDATES * More news on "Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet" (cf A0.3) * SCS-C 0.99j, and CFS-C 1.01j mentioned (cf A20) * GA Workbench: SIMTEL20.Army.Mil was closed down (cf A20) * many more items in "Glossary" (cf A99) DELETIONS * none (this time) MISCELLANEOUS * credits have been updated, as usual (cf ACKS) FUTURE ISSUES (more volunteers?) * What's a Classifier System? [being written by -joke] * Where do I get test problems for my EA? (NETLIB, SoftLib, ORlib) [..] * What about the mathematical background of EA paradigms? [..] * What about PhD programs in EC? [..] * Do we need mutation AND crossover? (cf Spears in FOGA2, 221-237) [..] * An easy way to understand the schema theorem? (cf A99: ZEN NAVIGATION) [..] * The following terms yet need a definition for the Glossary: 1/5 SUCCESS RULE, ADAPTATION, ADAPTIVE SEARCH, AGENTS, BENCHMARK PROGRAMS, BLACK MAGIC, CELL CYCLE, CHANCE, CHARLES DARWIN, COMMA STRATEGY, CONVERGENCE VELOCITY, DECEPTION, EVOLUTION STRATEGY, EXPECTANCY VALUE, FORGETTING, GAMETE, GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION (GD), GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION, HARD SELECTION, INTERNAL MODEL, INTUITION, LEARNING, LOG-NORMALLY, MACHINE LEARNING, MEIOSIS, MITOSIS, NORMALLY DISTRIBUTED, OBJECT VARIABLES, PHENOTYPE, PLUS STRATEGY, PROBABILITY THEORY, PROBLEM DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE, REQUISITE VARIETY, SELF-ADAPTATION, SIMULATION, SOFT SELECTION, STANDARD DEVIATION, STATISTICS, STEPSIZES, STRATEGY VARIABLES, UNCERTAIN, UNIX, VECTOR OPTIMIZATION SPECIAL THANKS To Mark Davis, for a just-in-time production of an EP draft. Dan Abell for the Gray Coding contribution. Last not least, David Beasley for his extraordinary workload with the glossary! And again, some new Glossary items, heated discussions, on the design of "string processing tools," the GNU project, and everything... This is to YOU, (and to all those opposed ;-) Enjoy! -joke -- Joerg Heitkoetter Systems Analysis Group "Just Do it!" University of Dortmund, Germany -- Nike Air commercial --- GNU mirror sites ---------------------------------------------------- ASIA: ftp.cs.titech.ac.jp, utsun.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp:/ftpsync/prep, cair.kaist.ac.kr:/pub/gnu AUSTRALIA: archie.au:/gnu (archie.oz or archie.oz.au for ACSnet) AFRICA: ftp.sun.ac.za:/pub/gnu MIDDLE-EAST: ftp.technion.ac.il:/pub/unsupported/gnu EUROPE: irisa.irisa.fr:/pub/gnu, ftp.univ-lyon1.fr:pub/gnu, ftp.mcc.ac.uk, unix.hensa.ac.uk:/pub/uunet/systems/gnu, src.doc.ic.ac.uk:/gnu, ftp.win.tue.nl, ugle.unit.no, ftp.denet.dk, ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de:/pub/gnu, ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de, ftp.eunet.ch, nic.switch.ch:/mirror/gnu, nic.funet.fi:/pub/gnu, isy.liu.se, ftp.stacken.kth.se, ftp.luth.se:/pub/unix/gnu, archive.eu.net CANADA: ftp.cs.ubc.ca:/mirror2/gnu USA: wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/gnu, labrea.stanford.edu, ftp.kpc.com:/pub/mirror/gnu, ftp.cs.widener.edu, uxc.cso.uiuc.edu, col.hp.com:/mirrors/gnu, ftp.cs.columbia.edu:/archives/gnu/prep, gatekeeper.dec.com:/pub/GNU, ftp.uu.net:/systems/gnu