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From: stevem@comtch.iea.com (Steve McGrew)
Subject: Re: Real Number Encodings
Organization: New Light Industries, Ltd.
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Hi--
        Please check the home page www.iea.com/~nli.  There you can download a 
demo of Generator, a GA that works under Windows and uses Excel to do its 
evaluations.  The page also has a lot of information about GA's.  Generator 
uses real numbers, integers and permutations.  If you decide to get Generator, 
you can also expect plenty of help with your application.

Regards,



In article <552grn$6eo@morgan.morganco.com>, dipietro@morganco.com (Joseph 
DiPietro) wrote:
>Greetings,
>
>   I am a newbie to this GA-thing and I trying to get enough background to
>write my first application.  To the advice of this news group, I have read
>Davis's "Handbook of GA's" and have discovered a couple things:
>
>   1. It was writen quite along time ago (1991)
>   2. It focuses mostly on binary encoding schemes.
>
>I would prefer to use real number encoding for my application and
>I was wondering if any of you GA gurus could direct me to some 
>recent literature discussing real number encoding tech. and the
>latest accepted ideas in mutation and crossover.  Also how valid is
>Davis's 1991 book?  Has current GA tech. left it in the dust?  Any
>input would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Joe DiPietro
>GA Novice
>dipietro@morganco.com

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