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- From: volker@ecrc.de (Volker Kuechenhoff)
- Subject: Re: genetic algorithm
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.082243.674@ecrc.de>
- Summary: 10-line introduction to GA
- Keywords: GA, Lit, Software, GA-Digest
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- Organization: European Computer industry Research Centre GmbH.
- References: <36869@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 08:22:43 GMT
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- In article 36869@sdcc12.ucsd.edu, arao@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Andy Rao ) writes:
- >Can anybody shed some light on genetic algorithims? These are
- >algorithims that alters themselves to suit a particular problem,
- >much like how an organism evolves to adapt to a particular
- >environment. the subject fascinates me but i am starting at the
- >bottom......(also, know of any good books on the subject?)
-
- The genetic algorithm is a so called 'novel search technique'.
- The idea for the genetic algorithm is derived from the concept of evolution as
- (supposedly) happening in nature. A set of individuals is faced with an
- environment. In a survival of the fittest scheme only the best individuals survive.
- They are allowed to mate and recombine their (genetic) knowledge. The idea is that
- they will eventually adapt to the environment in a sense that they represent
- good individuals in that environment.
-
- The algorithm has been introduced by Holland \cite{Holland75}. During the last
- years the algorithm has received considerable interest.
- A wide variety of applications have been suggested. Most interesting are those
- applications which could not be solved well with
- traditional calculus-based or other enumerative techniques. Examples range
- from function optimization \cite{Muehlbein92par} and program synthesis
- problems \cite{Kue} to the optimization of robot trajectories \cite{Davidor90weiz}.
- Routing and scheduling applications in the context of a rail freight
- transportation network have been considered by \cite{Gabbert91ga}.
-
- A standard introductory book has been written by Goldberg \cite{Goldberg89}.
-
- I recommend to subscribe to the GA-Digest:
- >>
- Genetic Algorithms Digest Friday, July 31 1992 Volume 6 : Issue 28
-
- - Send submissions to GA-List@AIC.NRL.NAVY.MIL
- - Send administrative requests to GA-List-Request@AIC.NRL.NAVY.MIL
- - anonymous ftp archive: FTP.AIC.NRL.NAVY.MIL (see v6n5 for details)
-
- Today's Topics:
- - Re: The Evolution Machine; authors' addresses
- - Need info on fitting parameters to set of data
- - GA testing tool request
- - TCGA and ICGA publicity chair change of address
- - AISB'93: Revised Submission Date
- <<
-
- There is also quite a number of software packages available (for free). See the
- overview compiled by Nici Schraudolph.
- >>
- >>From: schraudo@cs.UCSD.EDU (Nici Schraudolph)
- >>To: GA-List@aic.nrl.navy.mil
- >>Subject: updated GA software survey
-
-
- Have fun,
-
- Volker
-
-
- PS: Personally I am working on how this search mechanism can be combined with
- constraint reasoning.
-
- REFERENCES:
-
- @book{Holland87,
- Author={J. Holland and K. Holyoak and R. Nisbett and P. Thagard},
- title={Induction},
- publisher={MIT-Press},
- year=1987}
-
- @book{Holland75,
- author={J.H. Holland},
- title={Adaption in natural and artificial systems},
- publisher ={Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press},
- year=1975}
-
-
- @techreport{Davidor90weiz,
- author={Y. Davidor},
- title={An intuitive introduction to Genetic Algorithms as Adaptive
- Optimizing Procedures},
- institution={Weizman Institute of Science},
- type={Technical Report {CS} 90-07},
- month=apr,
- year=1990}
-
-
- @inproceedings{Gabbert91ga,
- Author={P. Gabbert and D. Brown and C. Huntley and B. Markowicz and D. Sapptington},
- Title={A System for Learning Routes and Schedules with Genetic Algorithms},
- booktitle=ga91p,
- address=ga91l,
- publisher=ga91pub,
- editor=ga91edi,
- month=jul,
- year=1991}
-
-
- @book{Goldberg89,
- Author="David E. Goldberg",
- Title={Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization, and Machine Learning},
- Publisher="Addison-Wesley",
- address="Reading, Ma",
- year=1989}
-
-
- @mastersthesis{Kue,
- author="Volker K{\"{u}}chenhoff",
- Title={Synthesis of Prolog Programs by Knowledge Guided
- Genetical Learning},
- school="Technische Universitaet",
- address="Munich, Germany",
- year=1986}
-
- @article{Muehlbein92par,
- author={Heinz M{\"{u}}hlenbein and M. Schomisch and J. Born},
- title={The parallel genetic algorithm as Funciton optimizer},
- journal={Parallel Computing},
- year=1992}
-
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