Genetic Algorithms Digest    Friday, May 30, 1986    Volume 1 : Issue 3

 - Send submissions to GA-List@NRL-AIC.ARPA
 - Send administrative requests to GA-List-Request@NRL-AIC.ARPA

Today's Topics:

	GA-List status
	Request for an errata sheet for Holland's book
	Request for information on AI groups
	Re: Request for information on AI groups
	Genetic learning in other spheres
	Call for papers

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Date:	 Fri May 30 1986
From:	 GA-List Moderator
To:	 GA-List Members
Subject: GA-List status

After a lengthy silence, we are on the air again.  I'll take partial
responsibility for the interruption of service.  There are three primary
reasons:
   1. We have had and continue to have some mailer problems with the new
      domain-style addresses.  I've been hoping 4.3 BSD Unix would arrive
      and fix this, but so far manual intervention is required.

   2. This past semester has been particularly hectic, with little spare
      time for moderator duties.

   3. There has been almost no input from you.  One message a month doesn't
      provide much for a moderator to work with!

So, I'm going to make some changes in my approach to moderating this
list in an attempt to breathe some life into it:

   1. Submissions to the list will be sent out within a week of when they
      arrive (rather than attempting to batch them).  This involves more
      overhead on my part and may lead to lots of little digests, but should
      make things more timely.

   2. I'm going to be more provocative as moderator and do some public
      arm twisting to generate specific submissions.

I'm also open to suggestions on your part.  However, the most important
thing is your willingness to contribute.  So here's your chance:

   1. Lashon is close to completing the GA bibliography.  Have you sent
      him your entries?

   2. Dave Goldberg hosted an informal S.E. GA workshop in March at the
      U. of Alabama.  Won't someone who was there volunteer to tell the
      rest of us about it?

   3. I know that many of you are involved in interesting GA/machine
      learning/adaptive system projects.  How about describing them?

   4. It's time to start thinking about and planning the 2nd GA conference.
      Now is the time to make suggestions, volunteer to host it, etc.


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From philabs!ds1@seismo.CSS.GOV  Wed Dec 11 11:12:36 1985
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 85 10:38:59 est
From: Dave Schaffer <philabs!ds1@seismo.CSS.GOV>
Return-Path: <philabs!ds1>
To: GA-List-Request@NRL-AIC.ARPA
Subject: errata for ANAAS

Has Holland or anyone else compiled an errata for Adaptation in Natural
and Artificial Systems? I'm giving it a careful rereading and occasionally
run into what look like typos. Sometimes it's my misunderstanding. It
would be nice to have more confidence that the typos had been eliminated.
Thanks. 
Dave Schaffer (ds1@philabs.UUCP -- That's d-s-one)


[ I think we have all made corrections in our own copies, but I'm unaware of
  an attempt to compile them into a single source.  Perhaps the author (who
  is on this list) will respond.  If not, are you volunteering, Dave?]

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From walker@mouton.ARPA  Mon Feb 17 10:14:49 1986
Return-Path: <walker@mouton.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 86 10:17:54 est
From: walker@mouton.ARPA (Don Walker at mouton.ARPA)
To: ga-list@nrl-aic
Subject: AI groups

I am preparing a short article on associations, societies, and related
organizations in artificial intelligence.  For each, I would appreciate
receiving the following kind of information: name; purpose; date of
establishment; principal people involved in getting it started;
important events in its history; publications, conferences, and other
activities; current membership (if relevant); and any other items of
special interest.  I would like to put the set of organizations in some
historical perspective, if possible.  Pointers to other places where
something like this has already been done would be particularly
helpful, and copies of same would be even more so.  Needless to say, net
transmission is most efficient, as the deadline is uncomfortably
close.  And I would particularly value finding someone who would be
interested in helping put all this information together!

I would expect to include SIGART, ACL, ICCL, AISB, IJCAII, AAAI, CSS,
CSCSI, ECCAI, and as many other national and regional groups as
possible.  Please help if you can; share with me what you have
available, even if you think you may not be the most appropriate person
to do so; and help get this message out to the people who should know.

Net messages to walker@mouton.arpa, walker%mouton@csnet-relay,
or ucbvax(or ihnp4, etc.)!bellcore!walker; mail to
	Don Walker (EAI)
	Bell Communications Research
	445 South Street, MRE 2A379
	Morristown, NJ 07960, USA

I am sending this notice to publications as well as bboards, newsletters,
and people, but note that the time is too short to justify actually
printing it in most of them.  Instead, the editors should respond
themselves or route it to those most likely to have the information.

		Don Walker

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From philabs!ds1@briar.ARPA Mon Feb 17 09:21:41 1986
Return-Path: <ds1@briar>
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 86 08:57:54 est
From: Dave Schaffer <philabs!ds1@briar.ARPA>
To: walker@mouton.ARPA
Subject: AI Groups

Dear Dr. Walker,

Perhaps others have already told you about the genetic algorithms group,
but, as you requested, I'll submit my two-cents-worth anyway.
There is a group of researchers (approx 5 dozen) interested in, and
conducting research on, a class of procedures commonly called genetic
algorithms. We think they have great promise in AI. Best source is
no doubt, Ken DeJong at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA. or
at the Navy Research Lab, AI Dept.
Mail to GA-List@NRL-AIC.ARPA would probably be the best bet.
Dave Schaffer
Philips Labs, 345 Scarborough Road, Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510
ds1@briar.uucp

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From jpo%computer-science.nottingham.ac.uk@Cs.Ucl.AC.UK  Fri Mar 21 01:53:25 1986
Return-Path: <jpo%computer-science.nottingham.ac.uk@Cs.Ucl.AC.UK>
To: GA-List@nrl-aic.arpa
Subject: Genetic learning in other spheres
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 86 20:01:49 +0000
From: Julian Onions <jpo%computer-science.nottingham.ac.uk@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
Sender: jpo%computer-science.nottingham.ac.uk@cs.ucl.ac.uk

There was a program on TV the other night which showed an interesting
use of the genetic learning process.
It was a German (I believe) researcher trying to determine the best
wing edge for an aeroplane. To solve this he built a small section
of the wing and got a robot to make random alterations to the structure
by bending it by lesser or greater degrees using random data.
The wings were then tested in a wind tunnel, the bad designs rejected
and the good designs passed back through the process until an acceptable
design was reached.
The robot was programmed to make large adjustments on the first few passes
and smaller adjustments later on.
The results seemed quite good.

Has anyone else heard of a similar non-computer based application of
this sort of thing (besides life itself:-)).

Julian.

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From DDAVIS@G.BBN.COM Thu May  1 15:56:03 1986
Date: Thu 1 May 86 15:58:07-EDT
From: DDAVIS@G.BBN.COM
Subject: Call for Papers
To: dejong@NRL-AIC.ARPA



           GENETIC ALGORITHMS AND SIMULATED ANNEALING,

                        Call For Papers


The Pitman Series of Research Notes in Artificial Intelligence
(Derek Sleeman and N.S. Sridharan, Senior Editors) will publish a
volume of papers entitled "Genetic Algorithms and Simulated
Annealing" early in 1987.  The volume will be edited by David
Davis of Bolt Beranek and Newman and will be refereed by experts
in the fields of genetic algorithms and simulated annealing.

Submissions to the volume are invited.  Papers should be no more
than 20 pages in length, should be primarily concerned with one
or both of the two fields of research, and should conform to
accepted editorial standards.  In order to submit a paper,
mail four copies to

	(Lawrence) David Davis
	BBN Laboratories Incorporated
	10 Moulton Street
	Cambridge, MA 02238.


In order to prepare and publish the volume on time, we will not
be able to consider papers postmarked after September 30, 1986.

For further information, contact David Davis at (617) 497-3120,
or send electronic mail to ddavis@bbng.


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