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From: breese@imada.ou.dk (Bjorn Reese)
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Will Dwinnell (76743.1740@CompuServe.COM) wrote:
> This is true only in a very broad, qualitative sense.  GAs 

Yes, I was trying to make a conceptual explaination rather
than a technical one. With "neighbourhood" I was thinking in
terms of phenotypes. Sorry for not making that clear.

> attention on locales which perform better.  Also, GAs do not 
> require that you encode your solutions as bit-strings.

True. It can be base-2 as bit-strings, base-4 as DNA, or any other
base that you may prefer. My point was that GAs require some kind
of encoding into building-block. The driving force of GAs are
recombinations (like crossover) which require some kind of encoding
of the data. This may be just fine for some problems, but not for
others. What I was trying to emphasis is, that people shouldn't
automatically assume that GAs are the best/only method in the field
of Evolutionary Computation for a given problem. Unfortunately,
many do.

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Bjorn Reese                      Email: breese@imada.ou.dk
Odense University, Denmark       URL:   http://www.imada.ou.dk/~breese

"It's getting late in the game to show any pride or shame" - Marillion
