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- Subject: FAQ: comp.ai.genetic part 4/6 (A Guide to Frequently Asked Questions)
- Newsgroups: comp.ai.genetic,comp.answers,news.answers
- From: David.Beasley@cm.cf.ac.uk (David Beasley)
- Date: Tue, 20 Sep 94 09:06:10 GMT
-
- Archive-name: ai-faq/genetic/part4
- Last-Modified: 9/20/94
- Issue: 2.3
-
- TABLE OF CONTENTS OF PART 4
- Q10: What introductory material on EAs is there?
- Q10.1: Suitable background reading for beginners?
- Q10.2: Textbooks on EC?
- Q10.3: The Classics?
- Q10.4: Introductory Journal Articles?
- Q10.5: Introductory Technical Reports?
- Q10.6: Not-quite-so-introductory Literature?
- Q10.7: Biological Background Readings?
- Q10.8: On-line bibliography collections?
- Q10.9: Videos?
- Q10.10: CD-ROMs?
- Q10.11: How do I get a copy of a dissertation?
-
- Q11: What EC related journals and magazines are there?
-
- Q12: What are the important conferences/proceedings on EC?
-
- Q13: What Evolutionary Computation Associations exist?
-
- Q14: What Technical Reports are available?
-
- Q15: What information is available over the net?
- Q15.1: What digests are there?
- Q15.2: What mailing lists are there?
- Q15.3: What online information repositories are there?
- Q15.4: What relevant newsgroups and FAQs are there?
- Q15.5: What about all these Internet Services?
-
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-
- Subject: Q10: What introductory material on EAs is there?
-
- There are many sources of introductory material on evolutionary
- algorithms: background books (see Q10.1), textbooks (see Q10.2),
- classical works (see Q10.3), journal articles (see Q10.4), technical
- reports (see Q10.5), more advanced literature (see Q10.6), biological
- background reading (see Q10.7), bibliography collections (see Q10.8),
- videos (see Q10.9) and CD-ROMs (Q10.10). Information on how to get
- dissertations is also given below (see Q10.11).
-
- Conference proceedings (see Q12) are also a good source of up-to-date
- (and sometimes introductory) material.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Q10.1: Suitable background reading for beginners?
-
- These books give a "flavor" of what the subject is about.
-
- Dawkins, R. (1976, 1989 2nd ed) "The Selfish Gene", Oxford: Oxford
- University Press. [The 2nd edition includes two new chapters]
-
- Dawkins, R. (1982) "The Extended Phenotype: The Gene as a Unit of
- Selection", Oxford: Oxford University Press.
-
- Dawkins, R. (1986) "The Blind Watchmaker", New York: W.W. Norton.
-
- Gonick, L. (1983) "The Cartoon Guide to Computer Science", New York:
- Barnes & Nobel. [eds note: features an interesting chapter on Charles
- Babbage in conjunction with "horse racing forecasting", if you want
- to use EAs to fullfill this task, better read this section first]
-
- Gonick, L. (1983) "The Cartoon Guide to Genetics", New York: Barnes &
- Nobel.
-
- Regis, E. (1987) "Who got Einstein's Office? Eccentricity and Genius
- at the Institute for Advanced Study", Reading, MA: Addison Wesley
- [eds note: chapters 5, 10 and 12]
-
- Levy, S. (1992) "Artificial Life: The Quest for a new Creation", New
- York, NY: Pantheon. [LEVY92]: [eds note: read this and you will have
- the urge to work in this field]
-
- Sigmund, K. (1993) "Games of Life: Explorations in Ecology, Evolution
- and Behaviour", Oxford: Univ. Press. 252 pp. Hard/Softcover avail.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Q10.2: Textbooks on EC?
-
- These books go into the "nuts and bolts" of EC.
-
- Goldberg, D.E. (1989) "Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization,
- and Machine Learning",Addison-Wesley. [GOLD89]: (Probably the most
- widely referenced book in the field!)
-
- Davis, L. (ed) (1991) "Handbook of Genetic Algorithms", Van Nostrand
- Reinhold, New York, NY. [DAVIS91]:
-
- Michalewicz, Z. (1992) Genetic algorithms + Data Structures =
- Evolution Programs", Springer-Verlag, New York, NY. Also second,
- extended edition (1994) with index.
-
- Koza, J.R. (1992), Genetic Programming: On the Programming of
- Computers by means of Natural Selection", Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
- [KOZA92]:
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Q10.3: The Classics?
-
- Mostly older works which have helped to shape the field.
-
- Charles Darwin (1859), "The Origin of Species", London: John Murray.
- (Penguin Classics, London, 1985; New American Library, Mentor
- Paperback)
-
- Box, G.E.P. (1957) "Evolutionary operation: a method of increasing
- industrial productivity", Applied Statistics, 6, 81-101.
-
- Fraser, A.S. (1957) "Simulation of genetic systems by automatic
- digital computers", Australian Journal of Biological Sciences, 10,
- 484-491.
-
- Friedman, G.J. (1959) "Digital simulation of an evolutionary
- process", General Systems Yearbook, 4:171-184.
-
- Bremermann, H.J. (1962) "Optimization through evolution and
- recombination". In M.C. Yovits, et al, (eds) Self-Organizing Systems.
- Washington, DC: Spartan Books.
-
- Holland, J.H. (1962) "Outline for a logical theory of adaptive
- systems", JACM, 3, 297-314.
-
- Samuel, A.L. (1963) "Some Studies in Machine Learning using the Game
- of Checkers", in Computers and Thought, E.A. Feigenbaum and J.
- Feldman (eds), New York: McGraw-Hill.
-
- Walter, W.G. (1963) "The Living Brain", New York: W.W. Norton.
-
- Fogel, L.J., Owens, A.J. & Walsh, M.J. (1966) "Artificial
- Intelligence through Simulated Evolution", New York: Wiley.
-
- Rosen, R. (1967) "Optimality Principles in Biology", London:
- Butterworths.
-
- Rechenberg, I. (1973, 1993 2nd edn) "Evolutionsstrategie: Optimierung
- technischer Systeme nach Prinzipien der biologischen Evolution",
- Stuttgart: Fromman-Holzboog. (Evolution Strategy: Optimization of
- technical systems by means of biological evolution)
-
- Holland, J.H. (1975) "Adaptation in natural and artificial systems",
- Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press.
-
- De Jong, K.A. (1975) "An analysis of the behavior of a class of
- genetic adaptive systems", Doctoral thesis, Dept. of Computer and
- Communication Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
-
- Schwefel, H.-P. (1977) "Numerische Optimierung von Computer-Modellen
- mittels der Evolutionsstrategie", Basel: Birkhaeuser.
-
- Schwefel, H.-P. (1981) "Numerical Optimization of Computer Models",
- Chichester: Wiley. [eds note: English translation of the previous
- entry; a reworked edition is currently in preparation for 1994]
-
- Axelrod, R. (1984) "The evolution of cooperation", NY: Basic Books.
-
- Cramer, N.L. (1985) "A Representation for the Adaptive Generation of
- Simple Sequential Programs" [ICGA85]:, 183-187.
-
- Baeck, T., Hoffmeister, F. & Schwefel, H.-P. (1991) "A Survey of
- Evolution Strategies" [ICGA91]:, 2-9.
-
- Rudolph, G. (1994) "Convergence Analysis of Canonical Genetic
- Algorithms", IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks, Special issue on EP.
- Available by ftp from ENCORE (See Q15.3) in file:
- GA/papers/canon94.ps.gz
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Q10.4: Introductory Journal Articles?
-
- Goldberg, D.E. (1986) "The Genetic Algorithm: Who, How, and What
- Next?". In Kumpati S. Narenda, ed., Adaptive and Learning Systems,
- Plenum, New York, NY.
-
- Dawkins, R. (1987) "The Evolution of Evolvability", [ALIFEI]:,
- 201-220.
-
- Hillis, W.D. (1987) "The Connection Machine", Scientific American,
- 255(6).
-
- Holland, J.H. (1989) "Using Classifier Systems to Study Adaptive
- Nonlinear Networks". In: Lectures in the Science of Complexity, SFI
- Studies in the Science of Complexity, D. Stein, (ed), Addison Wesley.
-
- Brooks, R.A. (1991) "Intelligence without Reason", MIT AI Memo No.
- 1293. Appeared in "Computer's and Thought", IJCAI-91.
-
- Hillis, W.D. (1992) "Massively Parallel Computing" Daedalus, winter,
- 121(1), 1-29. [HILLIS92]:
-
- Holland, J.H. (1992) "Genetic Algorithms", Scientific American,
- 267(1), 66-72. [HOLLAND92]:
-
- Holland, J.H. (1992) "Complex Adaptive Systems" Daedalus, winter,
- 121(1), 17-30.
- Sims, K. (1991) "Artificial Evolution for Computer Graphics",
- Computer Graphics, 25(4), 319-328
-
- Spears, W.M., DeJong, K.A., Baeck, T., Fogel, D. & de Garis, H.
- (1993) "An Overview of Evolutionary Computation", [ECML93]:, 442-459.
-
- Baeck, T. & Schwefel, H.-P. (1993) "An Overview of Evolutionary
- Algorithms for Parameter Optimization", Evolutionary Computation,
- 1(1), 1-23.
-
- Baeck, T., Rudolph, G. & Schwefel, H.-P. (1993) "Evolutionary
- Programming and Evolution Strategies: Similarities and Differences",
- [EP93]:, 11-22.
-
- Mitchell, M. & Forrest S. (1993) "Genetic Algorithms and Artificial
- Life", Artificial Life, 1(1). Also avail. as SFI Working Paper
- 31-11-072.
-
- Beasley, D., Bull, D.R., & Martin, R.R. (1993) "An Overview of
- Genetic Algortihms: Part 1, Fundamentals", University Computing,
- 15(2) 58-69. Available by ftp from ENCORE (See Q15.3) in file:
- GA/papers/over93.ps.gz or from
- ralph.cm.cf.ac.uk:/pub/GAs/ga_overview1.ps
-
- Beasley, D., Bull, D.R., & Martin, R.R. (1993) "An Overview of
- Genetic Algortihms: Part 2, Research Topics", University Computing,
- 15(4) 170-181. Available by ftp from ENCORE (See Q15.3) in file:
- GA/papers/over93-2.ps.gz or from
- ralph.cm.cf.ac.uk:/pub/GAs/ga_overview2.ps
-
- Peter Wayner (1991), "Genetic Algorithms: Programming takes a
- valuable tip from nature", BYTE, January, 361--368.
-
- Goldberg, D. (1994), "Genetic and Evolutionary Algorithms Come of
- Age", Communications of the ACM, 47(3), 113--119.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Q10.5: Introductory Technical Reports?
-
- Hoffmeister, F. & Baeck, T. (1990, 1992) "Genetic Algorithms and
- Evolution Strategies: Similarities and Differences", University of
- Dortmund, Dept. of CS, SyS-1/92. Available by ftp from
- lumpi.informatik.uni-dortmund.de:
-
- Whitley, D. (1993) "A Genetic Algorithm Tutorial", Colorado State
- University, Dept. of CS, TR CS-93-103. Available by ftp from
- beethoven.cs.colostate.edu:
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Q10.6: Not-quite-so-introductory Literature?
-
- Bock, P. (1993) "The Emergence of Artificial Cognition: An
- Introduction to Collective Learning", Singapore: World Scientific.
-
- Davis, L. (ed) (1987) "Genetic Algorithms and Simulated Annealing",
- available from Morgan Kaufmann Publishers (address and phone number
- below).
- Davidor, Y. (1991) "Genetic Algorithms and Robotics", Singapore:
- World Scientific. ISBN 9-810202172.
-
- Forrest, S. (ed) (1990) "Emergent Computation. Self-Organizing,
- Collective, and Cooperative Phenomena in Natural and Artificial
- Computing Networks", [FORREST90]:, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (Special
- issue of Physica D.)
- Hillis, W.D. (1990) "Co-Evolving Parasites Improve Simulated
- Evolution as an Optimization procedure", [ALIFEII]:, 313-324.
-
- Holland, J.H., Holyoak, K.J., Nisbett, R.E. & Thagard, P.R. (1986)
- "Induction: Processes of Inference, Learning, and Discovery",
- Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
-
- Holland, J.H. (1992) "Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems:
- An Introductory Analysis with Applications to Biology, Control, and
- Artificial Intelligence, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press/Bradford Books,
- (2nd edn). Hard: ISBN 0-262-08213-6. Soft: ISBN 0-262-58111-6.
-
- Serra, R. & Zanarini, G. (1990) "Complex Systems and Cognitive
- Processes", New York, NY: Springer-Verlag.
-
- Stender, J. (ed.). (1993) "Parallel Genetic Algorithms", IOS
- Publishing. [Cites just about everything in the parallel GA field.
- -- John Koza]
-
- Rujan, P. (1988) "Searching for optimal configurations by simulated
- tunneling", Zeitschrift der Physik B", Vol.73, 391-416.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Q10.7: Biological Background Readings?
-
- Adams, D. with Carwardine M. (1990) "Last Chance to see...", London:
- Heinemann. [David Corne: I strongly suggest you read this. Its a
- report on visits to various parts of the world to see endangered
- species. It is remarkably and wonderfully funny and illuminating. It
- would actually be a good reference to have in any bit of the FAQ to
- do with genetic diversity and/or the lack of it, or the remarkable
- kinds of adaptations that can occur for the strangest reasons.]
-
- Cairns-Smith, A.G. (1985) "Seven Clues to the Origin of Life",
- Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press.
-
- Fisher, R.A. (1958) "The Genetic Theory of Natural Selection", New
- York: Dover.
-
- Futuyma, D.J. (1986) "Evolutionary Biology", Sunderland, MA: Sinauer
- Assoc. [eds note: the bibliography of this book is truly a treasure
- chest]
-
- Lewin, B. (1993) "Genes IV".
-
- Lewontin, R.C. (1974) "The Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change", New
- York: Columbia Univ. Press.
-
- Maynard Smith, J. (1972) "On Evolution", Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ.
- Press.
-
- Maynard Smith, J. (1978) "Optimization Theory in Evolution", Annual
- Review of Ecology and Systematics 9:31-56.
-
- Maynard Smith, J. (1982) "Evolution and the Theory of Games",
- Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press.
-
- Maynard Smith, J. (1989) "The Problems of Biology", Oxford: Oxford
- Univ. Press.
-
- Maynard Smith, J. (1989) "Evolutionary Genetics", Oxford: Oxford
- Univ. Press.
-
- Mayr, E. (1963) "Animal Species and Evolution", Cambridge, MA:
- Harvard Univ. Press.
- Mayr, E. (1982) "The Groth of Biological Thought", Cambridge, MA: The
- Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press.
-
- Ridley, M. (1985) "The Problems of Evolution", Oxford: Oxford Univ.
- Press.
-
- Watson, J.D. (1966) "Molecular Biology of the Gene", Menlo Park:
- Benjamin.
-
- Watson, J.D., Hopkins, N.H., Roberts, J.W., Steitz, J.A. & Weiner,
- A.M. (1987) "Molecular Biology of the Gene (4th edn)", Menlo Park:
- Benjamin.
-
- Williams, G.C. (1966) "Adaptation and Natural Selection", Princeton,
- NJ: Princeton Univ. Press.
-
- Wright, S. (1932) "The roles of mutation, inbreeding, crossbreeding
- and selection in evolution", in: Proc. of the 6th Int'l Congress on
- Genetics I, 356.
-
- There is a *lot* of interesting material on biology and evolution in
- the talk.origins newsgroup repository, available by FTP. The index of
- files, available from ics.uci.edu:/pub/origins/Index , lists what's
- there, and includes files on Darwinism, definition of evolution,
- introduction to evolutionary biology, a list of important FAQ files,
- speciation, and genetic drift.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Q10.8: On-line bibliography collections?
-
- The Big One
- Jarmo Alander has compiled probably the biggest EC bibliography
- around. It has 2500 entries, and is available in postscript form by
- ftp from: garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/research/2500GArefs.ps.gz and also from
- ENCORE (see Q15.3) in file refs/2500GArefs.ps.gz Please send any
- additions or corrections to <ja@cs.hut.fi>
-
- The same directory on ENCORE also contains some other bibliography
- collections.
-
- Bibliography at Florida Atlantic University
- A bibliography of over 400 entries in the area of Evolutionary
- Computation (GA/ES/EP/GP) is available (in BibTeX and PostScript
- formats, compressed) by anonymous FTP from:
- magenta.me.fau.edu:/pub/ep-list/bib/EC-ref.bib.Z and EC-ref.ps.Z
-
- Please send any additions and corrections to
- <nsaravan@cehps01.ce.ford.com> or <EP-List@magenta.me.fau.edu>.
-
- Combinations of GAs and NNs
- Dave Schaffer <ds1@philabs.Philips.Com> has compiled a bibliograpy on
- combinations of GAs and neural networks. About 150 entries, available
- in Bib format from ENCORE (See Q15.3) in file refs/cogann.bib.gz
-
- Jochen Ruhland <jochenr@neuro.informatik.uni-kassel.de> has also
- compiled a bibliography on this topic. Some papers deal only with
- neural networks, some only with genetic algorithms. About 300
- references altogether. Some include an abstract. Available from:
- ftp.neuro.informatik.uni-kassel.de:/pub/NeuralNets/ in
- We_and_our_work/papers/diplom.1.bib.gz There are plans to expand this
- bibliography from time to time; the sequels will have names
- diplom.2.bib.gz, etc.
-
- Bibliography at IlliGAL
- A bibliography on Genetic Algorithms compiled by David E. Goldberg,
- Kelsey Milman, and Christina Tidd is available as IlliGAL Report No
- 92008 (see Q14), via ftp from:
- gal4.ge.uiuc.edu:/pub/papers/IlliGALs/92008part1.ps.Z and
- 92008part2.ps.Z
-
- GAPHD Bibliography Collection
- Martyn Amos <Martyn.Amos@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> has assembled a
- collection of bibliographies from various sources, tidied up the
- entries and removed duplicates. The collections are as follows:
-
- Alife.bib.gz - General Artificial Life
- ICGA-93.bib.gz - Proc. International Conference on GAs (1993)
- chaos.bib.gz - Chaos theory
- ga+nn.bib.gz - GAs and neural networks
- ga.bib.gz - General GA references
- ga2.bib.gz - General GA references
- parallelGA.bib.gz - Parallel GAs
- theory.bib.gz - Theoretical computer science (bias towards graph
- theory, stochasic modelling and pobability theory)
- misc.bib.gz - Miscellaneous topics (eg. Internet)
-
- There are about 6200 references in total, although the biggest file
- by far is theory.bib, which is not directly related to EC. The
- references are in BibTeX format. The files are available by FTP from
- ftp.dcs.warwick.ac.uk:/pub/gaphd/Bibliographies/ or by WWW from
- http://www.csv.warwick.ac.uk/~csras/ga.html
-
- Evolutionary Models in the Social Sciences
- Edmund Chattoe <econec@vax.ox.ac.uk> has set up a
- bibliorgraphy/mailing list on Evolutionary Models In Economics and
- the Social Sciences. You can subscribe to the list by sending a
- message with the string "subs-list" in the subject line to
- <econec@black.ox.ac.uk>. The latest copy of the EMSS bibliography and
- some accompanying notes can be retrieved from this site
- automatically.
-
- GAs and Economics
- Bernard Manderick <manderic@cs.few.eur.nl> has compiled a
- bibliography on the use of GAs in economics, and this was published
- in GA-Digest, v7n4 (with some followup comments in v7n5 & v7n7).
- This can be retrieved by FTP from
- ftp.aic.nrl.navy.mil:/pub/galist/digests/v7n4 (see Q15.1).
-
- GAs in Control
- Carlos Fonseca <fonseca@acse.sheffield.ac.uk> has compiled a
- bibliography of about 50 references on GAs in Control, and it was
- published in GA-Digest, v7n18. This can be retrieved by FTP from
- ftp.aic.nrl.navy.mil:/pub/galist/digests/v7n18 (see Q15.1).
-
- Parallel GAs
- A parallel GA bibliography is available via ftp from:
- unix.hensa.ac.uk:/pub/parallel/faqs/parallel-genetic-algorithms
-
- Andreas Uhl <uhl@wst.wst.edvz.sbg.ac.at> has also compiled a parallel
- GA bibliography with about 80 entries. It is available by WWW in:
- http://www.mat.sbg.ac.at/~uhl/GA.html
-
- Genetic Programming
- John Koza <koza@CS.Stanford.EDU> has compiled an annotated
- bibliography on GP, and about 60 references were published in GA-
- Digest, v7n30. This can be retrieved by FTP from
- ftp.aic.nrl.navy.mil:/pub/galist/digests/v7n30 or from ENCORE (See
- Q15.3) in file refs/gp-ref.gz
-
- GAs and protein folding
- Melanie Mitchell <mm@santafe.edu > has compiled a bibliography of
- about 40 references on this topic, and it was published in GA-Digest,
- v7n33. This can be retrieved by FTP from
- ftp.aic.nrl.navy.mil:/pub/galist/digests/v7n33 (see Q15.1).
-
- GAs in Image Processing and Computer
- Kyeongmo Park <kpark@cs.gmu.edu> has compiled a bibliography of about
- 20 references on this topic, and it was published in GA-Digest,
- v8n10. This can be retrieved by FTP from
- ftp.aic.nrl.navy.mil:/pub/galist/digests/v8n10 (see Q15.1).
-
- Masters and PhD theses
- Richard K. Belew has collected information on approximately 2600
- Masters and Ph.D. theses, nominally in the area of AI. The entire
- list (about 170KB) is available for anonymous FTP at:
- cs.ucsd.edu:/pub/rik/aigen.rpt Questions, suggestions, additions etc.
- to <rik@cs.ucsd.edu>.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Q10.9: Videos?
-
- Sims, K. (1990) "Panspermia", ACM Sigraph Review. Order form
- available by FTP from
- siggraph.org:/publications/video_review/order_blank Look in that
- directory for other useful information. Note that "Panspermia" is
- Item 23 of Issue 62 of the "SIGGRAPH Video Review".
-
- Langton, C.G. (ed) (1992) "Artificial Life II Video Proceedings" The
- Advanced Book Program of the Santa Fe Institute: Studies in the
- Sciences of Complexity, Addison Wesley, ISBN 0-201-55492-5. [ALIFEII-
- V]:
-
- Koza, J.R. & Rice, J.P. (1992) "Genetic Programming: The Movie",
- Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. See GP-faq for an order form. (see Q15)
-
- The Santa Fe Institute has produced a thirteen minute promotional
- video, which includes a five minute segment discussing the Tierra
- research project, illustrated with a very high quality animation
- produced by the Anti Gravity Workshop in Santa Monica, CA. To obtain
- the video, contact the Santa Fe Institute at: 1660 Old Pecos Trail,
- Suite A, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 (Tel: 505-984-8800, Fax:
- 505-982-0565, Net: <email@santafe.edu>) or contact Linda Feferman:
- <fef@santafe.edu> or <0005851689@mcimail.com>
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Q10.10: CD-ROMs?
-
- PTF for AI by CMU
- Carnegie Mellon University is establishing an Artificial Intelligence
- Repository to contain public domain and freely distributable
- software, publications, and other materials of interest to AI
- researchers, educators, and students. The AI Repository will be
- accessible by anonymous FTP and Andrew File System (AFS) without
- charge (See Q15.3). The contents of the repository will also be
- published by Prime Time Freeware as an inexpensive mixed-media
- (Book/CD-ROM) publication.
-
- For your information, here is a precis of the CD-ROM:
- PTF for AI is a periodic collection of AI-related source code and
- documentation. PTF for AI in no way modifies the legal restrictions
- on any package it includes. The first issue (1-1; Summer, 1993)
- consisted of an ISO-9660 CD-ROM bound into a ~100 page book. It
- contained ~600 MB of gzipped archives (2+ GB uncompressed and
- unpacked). Cost: $60 US.
-
- For more information contact: Mark Kantrowitz, Archivist, CMU AI
- Repository, Editor, PTF for AI. Net: <mkant+repository@cs.cmu.edu>,
- Tel: +1 412-268-2582, Fax: +1 412-681-5739.
-
- AI CD-ROM by NCC
- Network Cybernetics Corporation is now shipping the second annual
- revision of their popular AI CD-ROM, an ISO-9660 format CD-ROM
- containing a wide assortment of information on AI, Robotics, and
- other advanced machine technologies. The AI CD-ROM contains thousands
- of programs, source code collections, tutorials, research papers,
- Internet journals, and other resources. The topics covered include
- artificial intelligence, artificial life, robotics, virtual reality,
- and many related fields. Programs for OS/2, DOS, Macintosh, UNIX,
- Amiga, and other platforms can be found on the disc. The files have
- been collected from civilian and government research centers,
- universities, Internet archive sites, BBS systems and other sources.
- The CD-ROM is updated annually to keep it current with the latest
- trends and developments in advanced machine technologies such as AI.
- The AI CD-ROM Rev. 1 was a "CD-ROM professional consumer disk product
- of the year award" finalist and has received good reviews in many
- magazines including Byte (Jerry Pournelle, March '93) and IEEE
- Computer (J. Zalewski, July '93), CD-ROM Professional and others.
-
- For people wanting to see a complete listing of the CD's contents,
- look for the file AICDROM2.ZIP at an ftp site near you. The file is
- also available from the Compuserve AI forum, and the NCC dial-up BBS
- at 214-258-1832. It contains the file listing, this press release, a
- couple of magazine reviews of the disc, and other assorted
- information.
-
- Inquiries to: Network Cybernetics Corporation, 4201 Wingren Road,
- Suite 202, Irving, TX 75062-2763, USA (Fax: 214-650-1929, Net:
- <orders@ncc.com>)
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Q10.11: How do I get a copy of a dissertation?
-
- All US American dissertations are available from: UMI Dissertation
- Information Service, University Microfilms International, A Bell &
- Howell Information Company, 300 N. Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, Michigan
- 48106, USA. Tel.: 800-521-0600, or +1 (313) 761-4700
-
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Q11: What EC related journals and magazines are there?
-
- [eds note: comments on speed of reviewing and publishing, whether
- they accept LaTeX/TeX format or ASCII by e-mail, etc. are welcome]
-
- 1. Dedicated EC Journals:
- Evolutionary Computation
- Published quarterly by: MIT Press Journals, 55 Hayward Street,
- Cambridge, MA 02142-1399, USA. Tel: (617) 253-2889, Fax: (617)
- 258-6779, <journals-orders@mit.edu>
-
- Along with the explosive growth of the computing industry has come
- the need to design systems capable of functioning in complex,
- changing ENVIRONMENTs. Considerable effort is underway to explore
- alternative approaches to designing more robust computer systems
- capable of learning from and adapting to the environment in which
- they operate.
-
- One broad class of such techniques takes its inspiration from natural
- systems with particular emphasis on evolutionary models of
- computation such as GAs, ESs. CFS, and EP. Until now, information
- on these techniques has been widely spread over numerous disciplines,
- conferences, and journals. [eds note: The editorial board reads like
- a who-is-who in EC.] For paper e-mail submission, use one of the
- following addresses:
-
- o America: John Grefenstette <gref@aic.nrl.navy.mil>
-
- o Europe: Heinz Muehlenbein <heinz.muehlenbein@gmd.de>
-
- o Asia: Hiroaki Kitano <kitano@spls26.ccs.mt.nec.co.jp>
-
- o Ed-in-chief: Ken De Jong <kdejong@aic.gmu.edu>
-
- Please note, that submissions should be sent to one of the sub-
- editors. Grefenstette and Kitano accept LaTeX or PostScript
- submissions.
-
- BioSystems
- Journal of Biological and Information Processing Sciences, Elsevier
- Science Publishers, P.O. Box 1527, 1000 BM Amsterdam, The
- Netherlands.
-
- BioSystems encourages experimental, computational, and theoretical
- articles that link biology, evolutionary thinking, and the
- information processing sciences. The link areas form a circle that
- encompasses the fundamental nature of biological information
- processing, computational modeling of complex biological systems,
- evolutionary models of computation, the application of biological
- principles to the design of novel computing systems, and the use of
- biomolecular materials to synthesize artificial systems that capture
- essential principles of natural biological information processing.
-
- Topics: Molecular EVOLUTION: Self-organizing and self-replicating
- systems, Origin and evolution of the genetic mechanism; Biological
- Information Processing: Molecular recognition, Cellular control,
- Neuromuscular computing, Biological adaptability, Molecular computing
- technologies; EVOLUTIONARY SYSTEMS: Stochastic evolutionary
- algorithms, Evolutionary OPTIMIZATION, SIMULATION of genetic and
- ecological systems, Applications (neural nets, machine learning,
- robotics))
-
- 2. Related Journals:
- Complex Systems
- Published by: Complex Systems Publications, Inc., P.O. Box 6149,
- Champaign, IL 61821-8149, USA.
-
- Complex Systems devotes to the rapid publication of research on the
- science, mathematics, and engineering of systems with simple
- components but complex overall behavior. Try finger(1) on
- <jcs@wri.com> for additional info.
-
- Machine Learning
- Published by: Kluwer Academic Publishers, P.O. Box 358, Accord
- Station, Hingham, MA 02018-0358 USA.
-
- Machine Learning is an international forum for research on
- computational approaches to learning. The journal publishes articles
- reporting substantive research results on a wide range of learning
- methods applied to a variety of task domains. The ideal paper will
- make a theoretical contribution supported by a computer
- implementation.
-
- The journal has published many key papers in learning theory,
- reinforcement learning, and decision tree methods. The journal
- regularly publishes special issues devoted to GAs and CFS as well.
-
- Adaptive Behavior
- Published quarterly by: MIT Press Journals, details above.
-
- Broadly, behavior is adaptive if it deals successfully with changes
- circumstances. For example, when surprised, a hungry --but
- environmentally informed-- mouse may dart for cover rather than
- another piece of cheese. Similarly, a tripped-up ROBOT [eds note: not
- necessarily built by Sirius Cybernetics Corp.] could get back on its
- feet and accomplish a moonrock-finding mission if it had learned to
- cope with unanticipated lunar potholes.
-
- Adaptive Behavior thus takes an approach complementary to traditional
- AI. Now basic abilities that allow animals to survive, or ROBOTs to
- perform their mission in unpredictable ENVIRONMENTs, will be studied
- in preference to more elaborate and human-specific abilities.
-
- The journal also aims to investigate which new insights into
- intelligence and cognition can be achieved by explicitly taking into
- account the ENVIRONMENT feedback --mediated by behavior-- that an
- animal or a ROBOT receives, instead of studying components of
- intelligence in isolation.
-
- Topics: INDIVIDUAL and Collective Behavior. Neural Correlates of
- Behavior. Perception and Motor Control. Motivation and Emotion.
- Action SELECTION and Behavioral Sequences. Internal World Models.
- Ontogeny, Learning, and EVOLUTION. Characterization of ENVIRONMENTs.
-
- Artificial Life
- Published quarterly by: MIT Press Journals, details above.
-
- Artificial Life is intended to be the primary forum for the
- dissemination of scientific and engineering research in the field of
- ARTIFICIAL LIFE. It will report on synthetic biological work being
- carried out in any and all media, from the familiar "wetware" of
- organic chemistry, through the inorganic "hardware" of mobile ROBOTs,
- all the way to the virtual "software" residing inside computers.
-
- Research topics ranging from the fabrication of self-replicating
- molecules to the study of evolving POPULATIONs of computer programs
- will be included.
-
- There will also be occasional issues devoted to special topics, such
- as L-Systems, GENETIC ALGORITHMs, in-vitro EVOLUTION of molecules,
- artificial cells, computer viruses, and many social and philosophical
- issues arising from the attempt to synthesize life artificially.
-
- [eds note: The editorial board reads like a who-is-who in ALIFE]
-
- Evolutionary Economics
- Published quarterly by: Springer-Verlag New York, Inc., Service
- Center Secaucus, 44 Hartz Way, Secaucus, NJ 07094, USA. Tel: (201)
- 348-4033, Fax: (201) 348-4505.
-
- Evolutionary Economics aims to provide an international forum for a
- new approach to economics. Following the tradition of Joseph A.
- Schlumpeter, it is designed to focus on original research with an
- evolutionary conception of the economy. The journal will publish
- articles with strong emphasis on dynamics, changing structures
- (including technologies, institutions, beliefs, imitation, etc.). It
- favors interdisciplinary analysis and is devoted to theoretical,
- methodological and applied work.
-
- Research areas include: industrial dynamics; multi-sectoral and
- cross-country studies of productivity; innovations and new
- technologies; dynamic competition and structural change in a national
- and international context; causes and effects of technological,
- political and social changes; cyclic processes in economic EVOLUTION;
- the role of governments in a dynamic world; modeling complex dynamic
- economic systems; application of concepts, such as self-organization,
- bifurcation, and chaos theory to economics; evolutionary games.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Q12: What are the important conferences/proceedings on EC?
-
- 1. Dedicated EC Conferences:
- ICGA: International Conference on Genetic Algorithms
- Major international conference held in North America in odd-numbered
- years. Covers all aspects of EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION. The 1995
- conference will be held at the University of Pittsburgh on July
- 15--20. Details are in GA-Digest v8n32,
- ftp.aic.nrl.navy.mil:/pub/galist/digests/v8n32
- . Further details from Larry Eshelman <lje@philabs.philips.com> .
-
- Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Genetic Algorithms
- (1985) J.J. Grefenstette (ed) [ICGA85]: and Proc. of the 2nd Int'l
- Conf. on Genetic Algorithms (1987) J.J. Grefenstette (ed) [ICGA87]:
- available from Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., 365 Broadway,
- Hillsdale, New Jersey, 07642, (800) 926-6579.
-
- Proc. of the 3rd Int'l Conf. on Genetic Algorithms (1989) J.D.
- Schaffer (ed) [ICGA89]: and Proc. of the 4th Int'l Conf. on Genetic
- Algorithms (1991) R.K. Belew and L.B. Booker (eds) [ICGA91]: and
- Proc. of the 5th Int'l Conf. on Genetic Algorithms (1993) S. Forrest
- (ed) [ICGA93]: available from Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., P.O.
- Box 50490, Palo Alto, CA, 94303-9953, (415) 578-9911. Net:
- <morgan@unix.sri.com>
-
- FOGA: Foundations of Genetic Algorithms
- Major international workshop focusing on theoretical aspects of EC,
- that's usually limited to some 50 participants and is held somewhere
- in North America.
-
- FOGA 3 took place from July 30 to August 3 in 1994. Enquires to:
- Darrell Whitley, Dept. of CS, Colorado State University, Fort
- Collins, CO 80523. <whitley@cs.colostate.edu>
-
- Foundations of Genetic Algorithms (1991) G.J.E. Rawlins (ed)
- [FOGA91]: and Foundations of Genetic Algorithms 2 (1993) L.D. Whitley
- [FOGA93]: available from Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., P.O. Box
- 50490, Palo Alto, CA, 94303-9953, (415) 578-9911.
- <morgan@unix.sri.com>
-
- PPSN: Parallel Problem Solving from Nature
- Major international conference held in Europe in even-numbered years.
- Covers all aspects of problem solving inspired by natural processes.
- The 1994 conference will be held in Israel in a Kibbutz close to
- Jerusalem, October 9-14. For details contact Yuval Davidor
- <yuval@weizmann.ac.il>.
-
- Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, (1990) H.-P. Schwefel and R.
- Maenner (eds) [PPSN90]: published by Springer-Verlag, 175 5th Avenue,
- New York, NY, 10010, (212) 460-1500. Parallel Problem Solving from
- Nature 2, (1992) R. Maenner and B. Manderick (eds) [PPSN92]:
- published by North-Holland, Elsevier Science Publishers, Sara
- Burgerhartstraat 25, P.O. Box 211, 1000 AE Amsterdam, The
- Netherlands. Parallel Problem Solving from Nature 3, (1994) Y.
- Davidor, [PPSN94]: (to be published)
-
-
- EP: Annual Conference on Evolutionary Programming
- Major international annual conference held in San Diego, CA, USA.
- Covers all aspects of EC with emphasis on EP related research. The
- 1994 conference was held in San Diego, February 24-25. For details
- contact David Fogel <fogel@sunshine.ucsd.edu>.
-
- Proceedings of the 1st Annual Conference on Evolutionary Programming,
- (1992) D.B. Fogel and W. Atmar (eds), [EP92]:, and Proc. of the 2nd
- Annual Conf. on EVOLUTIONARY PROGRAMMING, (1993) D.B. Fogel and W.
- Atmar (eds), [EP93]: published by the Evolutionary Programming
- Society, 9363 Towne Centre Dr., San Diego, CA 92121, Attn: Bill
- Porto, Treasurer. (cf Q13)
-
- ICEC: IEEE Conference on Evolutionary Computation
- Major international conference covering all aspects of EC. The first
- took place in June 1994 at the World Congress on Computational
- Intelligence, Florida. The second is on 29 Nov.--1 Dec. 1995 in
- Perth, Australia. Details from <ec95@ee.uwa.edu.au> .
-
- Proceedings of the 1st IEEE Conference on Evolutionary Computation,
- (1994) D.B. Fogel (ed.) (2 Volumes). Published by IEEE, 445 Hoes
- Lane, PO Box 1331, Piscataway, NJ 08855-1331. Also, talks from
- invited speakers are published in "Computational Intelligence
- Imitating Life" (1994) J.M. Zurada, R.J. Marks, C.J. Robinson (eds),
- IEEE.
-
- 2. Related Conferences:
- Alife: International Conference on Artificial Life
- Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on ARTIFICIAL LIFE,
- (1989) C.G. Langton (ed), Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences
- of Complexity, Proc. Vol. VI, [ALIFEI]: and Proc. of the 2nd Int'l
- Conf. on Artificial Life II, (1992) C.G. Langton, C. Taylor, J. Doyne
- Farmer and S. Rasmussen (eds), Santa Fe Institute Studies in the
- Sciences of Complexity, Proc. Vol. X, [ALIFEII]: and Proc. of the 3rd
- Int'l Conf. on Artificial Life III, (1993) C.G. Langton (ed),
- [ALIFEIII]: published by Addison Wesley, Redwood City, CA, USA.
-
- ARTIFICIAL LIFE IV, was organized by Rodney Brooks, MIT AI Lab,
- <alife@ai.mit.edu> and held on July 6-8, 1994. Proceedings edited by
- R. Brooks and P. Maes. [ALIFEIV]:
-
- ECAL: European Conference on Artificial Life
- Proceedings of the 1st European Conference on ARTIFICIAL LIFE, (1991)
- F.J. Varela and P. Bourgine (eds), [ECAL91]: and Proc. of the 2nd
- European Conf. on ALIFE: Self-organization and life, from simple
- rules to global complexity, (1993), (? eds) (? pub) [ECAL93]:
- published by MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA.
-
- ECML: European Conference on Machine Learning
- Machine Learning: ECML-93, Proc. European Conf. on Machine Learning,
- (1993) P.B. Brazil (ed), [ECML93]: published by Springer, New York,
- NY, USA.
-
- SAB: International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior
- From Animals to Animats. Proceedings of the 1st International
- Conference on SIMULATION of Adaptive Behavior, (1991) [SAB90]: J.-A.
- Meyer and S.W. Wilson, ISBN 0-262-63138-5, and Proc. of the 2nd Int'l
- Conf. on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, (1993) [SAB92]:, J.-A.
- Meyer, H. Roitblat and S.W. Wilson (eds) and Proc. of the 3rd Int'l
- Conf. on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, [SAB94]:, P. Husbands,
- J.-A. Meyer and S.W. Wilson (eds) published by MIT Press, Cambridge,
- MA, USA.
-
- SAB94 took place on August 8-12, 1994 in Brighton, UK.
-
-
- 3. Pointers to upcoming Conferences:
- The Genetic Algorithm Digest
- Aka "GA-Digest" always starts with a "Calendar of GA-related Events,"
- i.e. a list of upcoming conferences, covering the complete field of
- EAs. (cf Q15)
-
- The Artificial Life Digest
- Aka "Alife digest" always starts with a "Calendar of Alife-related
- Events," that lists conferences, workshops, etc. (cf Q15)
-
- The Evolutionary Programming Digest
- Aka "EP-digest" doesn't list conferences explicitly, like the
- previously mentioned ones, but carries most CFP's; that can be looked
- at in the backissues folder as: magenta.me.fau.edu:/pub/ep-
- list/digest/vX.YYY.Z (cf Q15)
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Q13: What Evolutionary Computation Associations exist?
-
- ISGA: International Society on Genetic Algorithms
- The ISGA is a mostly fascinating society: it neither has a
- membership fee (which makes it even more fascinating), nor an
- address. However, ISGA meetings usually take place during ICGA
- conferences, in so-called business meetings (BMs). [eds note: So
- during a conference, ask for BMs, if you want to join; or be ready to
- dart out of the room if you don't...]
-
- EPS: Evolutionary Programming Society
- Membership is $40/year ($10/year for students with id) and also gives
- you a discounted registration at the annual conference. You can also
- order EP proceedings ($30/members, $45/other) from EPS.
-
- Address: EVOLUTIONARY PROGRAMMING Society, 9363 Towne Centre Dr., San
- Diego, CA 92121, Attn: Bill Porto, Treasurer.
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Q14: What Technical Reports are available?
-
- Technical reports are informally published, unrefereed papers giving
- up-to-date information on what is going on at research institutes.
- Many later go on to be formally published in journals or at
- conferences.
-
- TCGA Reports
- The Clearing House for Genetic Algorithms (TCGA) distributes TCGA
- technical reports.
-
- Contact: Robert Elliott Smith, Department of Engineering of
- Mechanics, Room 210 Hardaway Hall, The University of Alabama, P.O.
- Box 870278, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487, USA. Tel: (205) 348-1618, Fax:
- (205) 348-6419, Net: <rob@comec4.mh.ua.edu>.
-
- IlliGAL Reports
- The Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory distributes IlliGAL
- technical reports, as well as reprints of other publications; they
- are available in hardcopy and can be ordered from: IlliGAL Librarian,
- Department of General Engineering, 117 Transportation Building, 104
- South Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801-2996, USA.
- <library@gal1.ge.uiuc.edu>
-
- NOTE: When ordering, please include your surface mail address!
-
- IlliGAL also have an anonymous-FTP server, holding most of the
- existing IlliGAL reports, at: gal4.ge.uiuc.edu:/pub/papers/IlliGALs/
- There is also a WWW home page with a complete list, order form, and
- other ibnformation at: ftp://gal4.ge.uiuc.edu:/illigal.home.html
-
- SyS Reports
- The Systems Analysis Research Group (SyS) at the University of
- Dortmund, maintains an experimental anonymous FTP server:
- lumpi.informatik.uni-dortmund.de:/pub/
- . On lumpi you can find SyS-Reports from 1992 on. (Get "/pub/ls-
- Ral.Z" and look for "papers" folders, the server is sorted by EA
- paradigms, i.e. "/pub/GA/papers" contains papers related to GAs,
- etc.). A strongly recommended, and quarterly updated, report is a
- list of current applications of GAs, EP and ESs; get
- "/pub/EA/papers/ea-app.ps.gz" (SyS-2/92).
-
- Bionics Reports
- The Bionics and EVOLUTION Techniques Laboratory at the Technical
- University of Berlin maintains an anonymous FTP server: ftp-
- bionik.fb10.tu-berlin.de:/pub/
- . On ftp-bionik you find reports and software, related to
- Evolutionary Algorithms and Artificial Neural Networks.
-
- Other Sources of Reports
- Reports are also available from some of the sources listed in Q15.1,
- Q15.2 and Q15.3.
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Q15: What information is available over the net?
-
- A whole lot of information is available "electronically" via the
- internet, accessible using e-mail or (more easily) FTP. There are
- electronic digests (see Q15.1), electronic mailing lists (see Q15.2),
- online FTP repositories (see Q15.3), and various USENET news groups
- (see Q15.4).
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Q15.1: What digests are there?
-
- Digests are regulated, moderated, information sources in which many
- contributions are combined together before being posted out to
- subscribers, usually on a regular basis (eg. weekly). Mailing lists
- are listed in Q15.2.
-
- Genetic Algorithm Digest
- The GA research community exchanges news, CFP's, etc. through this
- (approximately weekly) digest, currently moderated by Bill Spears
- (formerly by Connie Ramsey and by Alan C. Schultz, Naval Research
- Laboratory, Washington, DC).
-
- A statistic published in v7,i3 stated that GA-digest is sent out
- world-wide to 1800 addresses in 28 countries.
-
- o Send administrative requests to <ga-list-REQUEST@aic.nrl.navy.mil>
-
- o The anonymous FTP archive: ftp.aic.nrl.navy.mil:/pub/galist/
- contains back issues, GA-code, conference announcements (in
- "/pub/galist/information/conferences") and many other things.
- Info in "/pub/galist/FTP".
-
- Artificial Life Digest
- The ALIFE research community exchanges news, CFP's, etc. through this
- digest, edited by Liane Gabora and Rob Collins of the ARTIFICIAL LIFE
- Research Group at UCLA.
-
- o Send administrative requests to <alife-REQUEST@cognet.ucla.edu>
-
- o Anonymous FTP archive: ftp.cognet.ucla.edu:/pub/alife/
-
- Evolutionary Programming Digest
- The digest is intended to promote discussions on a wide range of
- technical issues in evolutionary OPTIMIZATION, as well as provide
- information on upcoming conferences, events, journals, special
- issues, and other items of interest to the EP community. Discussions
- on all areas of EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION are welcomed, including
- ARTIFICIAL LIFE, EVOLUTION STRATEGIEs, and GENETIC ALGORITHMs. The
- digest is meant to encourage interdisciplinary communications. Your
- suggestions and comments regarding the digest are always welcome.
-
- To subscribe to the digest, send mail to <ep-list-
- REQUEST@magenta.me.fau.edu> and include the line "subscribe ep-list"
- in the body of the text. Further instructions will follow your
- subscription. The digest is moderated by N. Saravan of Florida
- Atlantic University.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Q15.2: What mailing lists are there?
-
- Mailing lists are unregulated, unmoderated, information sources in
- which messages sent in by subscribers are posted out immediately and
- individually to all other subscribers. Digests are listed in Q15.1.
-
- Genetic Programming Mailing List
- The GP community uses this list as a discussion forum, news exchange
- and FAQ distribution channel, overseen by John Koza and James Rice at
- Stanford.
-
- o Admin requests: <genetic-programming-REQUEST@cs.stanford.edu>
-
- o The anonymous FTP archive: ftp.cc.utexas.edu:/pub/genetic-
- programming/ includes a lengthy, but "mostly interesting" FAQ by
- James Rice on GP related subjects.
-
- Tierra Mailing List
- Thomas Ray's Tierra is discussed elsewhere (see Q4.1); here's how to
- obtain Tierra electronically and get in contact with other users.
-
- o Admin requests: <tierra-REQUEST@life.slhs.udel.edu>
-
- o Anonymous FTP archive: tierra.slhs.udel.edu:/pub/ (tierra, almond,
- beagle, etc.)
-
- GA-Molecule mailing list
- o Admin details: <ga-molecule-request@tammy.harvard.edu>
-
- UK's Evolutionary-Computation mailing list
- o Admin details: <evolutionary-computing-request@mailbase.ac.uk>
-
- GEnetic Algorithm Research Student mailing list
- Provides a forum for research students interested in GENETIC
- ALGORITHMs.
- o Admin requests: <gaphd-list-request@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
-
- GANN: Genetic Algorithms and Neural Networks
- The neuro-evolution e-mail list has been restarted under the new name
- `gann'. This list will focus on the use of evolutionary algorithms
- (GENETIC ALGORITHMs, GENETIC PROGRAMMING and their variants) in the
- EXPLORATION of the design space of (artificial) neural network
- architectures and algorithms. The list will be semi-moderated to
- keep the signal to noise ratio as high as possible.
-
- o Admin requests/enquiries: gann-request@cs.iastate.edu
-
- o Subscription requests to the admin address with Subject:
- subscribe
-
- Timetabling
- This group is for people using GAs for exam or course scheduling for
- academic institutions, rather than manufacturing/job-shop scheduling.
- To be added to the group, send email to Kirk Jackson
- <ksj@tawny.cs.nott.ac.uk>.
-
-
- Evolutionary Models in the Social Sciences
- See Q10.8 for details.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Q15.3: What online information repositories are there?
-
- Many research institutes have online repositories of information
- which my be retrieved using FTP or (increasingly), World Wide Web.
-
- NOTE: See also Q14 above.
-
- ENCORE
- ENCORE (The EvolutioNary COmputation REpository network) is a
- collection of anonymous FTP servers providing a wealth of information
- in the area of EC, from technical reports, copies of journal
- articles, down to source code for various EAs. ENCORE acts as a
- distributor of much material generated at research institutes (and
- other places) which don't necessarily have their own FTP servers.
-
- Each node of ENCORE is referred to as an "EClair". The default
- EClair node of ENCORE is at the Santa Fe Institute (USA):
-
- o alife.santafe.edu:/pub/USER-AREA/EC/
-
- Other sites mirror the contents of the default node, and include: The
- Chinese University of Hong Kong:
-
- o ftp.cs.cuhk.hk:/pub/EC/
-
- The University of Warwick (United Kingdom):
-
- o ftp.dcs.warwick.ac.uk:/pub/mirrors/EC/
-
- EUnet Deutschland GmbH (Germany):
-
- o ftp.Germany.EU.net:/pub/research/softcomp/EC/
-
- and The California Institute of Technology:
-
- o ftp.krl.caltech.edu:/pub/EC/
-
- Other nodes are planned. Well worth getting is "The Navigator's Guide
- to ENCORE", a handbook to this service, in file:
- o handbook/encore.ps.gz (A4 paper) or
-
- o handbook/encore-US.ps.gz (US letter size paper).
-
- ENCORE is administered by Joerg Heitkoetter <joke@Germany.EU.net>.
-
-
- The Santa Fe Institute
- The Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity (SFI)
- issues a recommended series: SFI Studies in the Science of
- Complexity, published by Addison Wesley and maintains a well-sorted
- FTP server with EC related material.
-
- o Admin requests: <ftp@santafe.edu>
-
- o Anonymous FTP archive: ftp.santafe.edu:/pub/
-
- Additionally, you can telnet bbs.santafe.edu and login as "bbs" to
- get access to the Santa Fe Institute's bulletin board system. It's
- administrator Scott D. Yelich <scott@santafe.edu> is actively seeking
- information on any complex system information for the BBS. This
- includes CAs, GAs, ALIFE or almost anything else related to this
- field. You will also find infos on SUMMERSCHOOLs held by the SFI.
-
- The Australian National University (ANU)
- The Bioinformatics facility at Australian National University has set
- up an anonymous FTP server, that contains EC related material,
- maintained by David G. Green.
-
- o Admin requests: <david.green@anu.edu.au>
-
- o Anonymous FTP archive: life.anu.edu.au:/pub/complex_systems/alife/
-
- o Gopher protocol: Besides direct access to all FTP information, the
- gopher server offers online access to relevant newsgroups, online
- databases and direct links to relevant international services.
-
- Name=Complex systems, Host=life.anu.edu.au, Type=1, Port=70,
- Path=1/complex_systems.
-
- o World Wide Web protocol: Besides access to all of the above, the
- hypermedia server offers introductory tutorials, preprints and
- papers online. The URL for this service is
- http://life.anu.edu.au/complex_systems/complex.html or link via
- the servers home page http://life.anu.edu.au/
-
- LGI laboratory, Grenoble, France
- Research into Parallel GENETIC ALGORITHMs: papers (technical reports,
- conference and journal articles, theses, monographies, etc...)
- written by members of the SYMPA team are available by FTP from
-
- o imag.fr:/pub/SYMPA/
-
- Their adress is: SYMPA/LGI - Institut IMAG, BP 53 38041 Grenoble
- Cedex, FRANCE <muntean@imag.fr>
-
- The University of Alabama, Department of Computer Science
- A number of papers and preprints are available in compressed
- Postscript form by FTP from the Univ. of Alabama (Tuscaloosa) from
- aramis.cs.ua.edu:/pub/tech-reports/ The naming convention for files
- is: (author's last name).(journal name).ps . Maintained by Dr. Ron
- Sun <rsun@athos.cs.ua.edu>
-
- CMU Artificial Intelligence Repository
- Holds more than a gigabyte of software, publications, and other
- materials of interest to AI researchers, educators, students, and
- practitioners. The AI Programming Languages and the AI Software
- Packages sections of the repository can be accessed in the lang/ and
- areas/ subdirectories. Other directories, which are in varying states
- of completion, are events/ and pubs/ (Publications, including
- technical reports, books, mail/news archives).
-
- The AI Programming Languages section includes directories for Common
- Lisp, Prolog, Scheme, Smalltalk, and other AI-related programming
- languages. The AI Software Packages section includes subdirectories
- for: alife/ (ARTIFICIAL LIFE), anneal/ (Simulated Annealing),
- genetic/ (GENETIC ALGORITHMs etc., including benchmarks and test
- problems) and many more.
-
- The AI Repository is accessible by FTP at: ftp.cs.cmu.edu:/user/ai/
- (Be sure to read the files 0.doc and readme.txt in this directory)
- and by WWW at the URL:
- http://www.cs.cmu.edu:8001/Web/Groups/AI/html/repository.html It is
- also available on CD-ROM (See Q10.10).
-
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-
- Subject: Q15.4: What relevant newsgroups and FAQs are there?
-
- Besides the obvious comp.ai.genetic, there exist some other
- newsgroups that sometimes carry EC related topics:
-
- o comp.ai (FAQ in news.answers, comp.answers)
-
- o comp.ai.fuzzy (FAQ in news.answers, comp.answers)
-
- o comp.ai.jair.announce (FAQ in news.answers, comp.answers)
-
- o comp.ai.jair.papers (PostScript papers of the Journal of AI
- Research, published by Morgan Kaufmann <morgan@unix.sri.com>) [eds
- note: this is the first journal that's completely published on
- USENET first, and later in paper form; read the jair-faq, that's
- posted to the announcement group to find out how to submit your
- papers, get JAIR papers by FTP, Gopher or e-mail, etc.]
-
- o comp.ai.neural-nets (FAQ in news.answers, comp.answers)
-
- o comp.robotics (FAQ in news.answers, comp.answers)
-
- o comp.theory.cell-automata (no FAQ)
-
- o comp.theory.dynamic-sys (no FAQ)
-
- o comp.theory.self-org-sys (no FAQ)
-
- o sci.bio.evolution (no FAQ)
-
- o sci.math.num-analysis (some FAQs in news.answers, sci.answers)
-
- o sci.op-research (some FAQs in news.answers, sci.answers)
-
- o talk.origins (discusses origins of life, EVOLUTION, etc. FTP
- repository index at ics.uci.edu:/pub/origins/Index -- see Q10.7
- for more details.)
-
-
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-
- Subject: Q15.5: What about all these Internet Services?
-
- The Internet supports a variety of on-line services, and a number of
- tools are available to enable people to make good use of these,
- including: telnet, FTP, gopher, veronica, archie, Wide Area
- Information Servers (WAIS), and the World-Wide Web (WWW).
-
- Information about using Internet is available from a number of
- sources, many accesible on-line, via email or FTP. For example, the
- EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) publishes two guides for novices
- on all the Internet has to offer, by Adam Gaffin and Joerg
- Heitkoetter (see below). These are avaiable over the net.
-
- To receive a short guide to using anonymous FTP, send e-mail with the
- text "help" to <info@sunsite.unc.edu>.
-
- If you dont have FTP access, you can retrieve documents using the
- FTP-by-email service. The "ftpmail" service is installed on several
- sites to allow transmission of FTPable files from almost anywhere. To
- get the PostScript version of this FAQ from ENCORE, (See Q15.3) for
- example, send a message to (for example) <ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com>
- containing the lines:
- reply <your-own-e-mail-address-here>
- connect alife.santafe.edu
- get pub/USER-AREA/EC/FAQ/hhgtec-2.3.ps.gz
- quit
- where <your-e-mail-address> is e.g. foo@bar.edu
-
- FTPmail sites available are listed below. Use one that is near you
- for best performance.
-
- (USA) <ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com>
- <ftpmail@sunsite.unc.edu>
- <bitftp@pucc.princeton.edu>
-
- (Europe) <bitftp@dearn> or to <bitftp@vm.gmd.de>
- <ftpmail@ftp.uni-stuttgart.de>
- <ftpmail@ftp.inf.tu-dresden.de>
- <ftpmail@grasp.insa-lyon.fr>
- <bitftp@plearn.edu.pl> or <bitftp@plearn>
- <ftpmail@ftp.inf.tu-dresden.de>
- <ftpmail@ftp.uni-stuttgart.de>
- <ftpmail@doc.ic.ak.uk>
-
- Documents from the archive at <rtfm.mit.edu> can be retrieved
- similarly by sending email to <mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu>, containing
- a message such as:
-
- send usenet/news.answers/index
- send usenet/news.answers/ai-faq/genetic/part1
- quit
-
- References
-
- Kehoe, B.P. (1992) "Zen and the Art of the Internet: A Beginner's
- Guide to the Internet", 2nd Edition (July). Prentice Hall, Englewood
- Cliffs, NJ. 112 pages. The 1st Edition, (February) is available in
- PostScript format via anonymous FTP from ftp.cs.widener.edu: and many
- other Internet archives.
-
- Krol, E. (1992) "The Whole Internet: Catalog & User's Guide".
- O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., Sebastopol, CA. 376 pages.
-
- LaQuey, T. and J.C. Ryer (1992) "The Internet Companion: A Beginner's
- Guide to Global Networking". Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., Reading,
- MA. 208 pages.
-
- Smith, Una R. (1993) "A Biologist's Guide to Internet Resources."
- USENET sci.answers. ~45 pages. Available via gopher, anonymous FTP
- and e-mail from many archives, eg.
- rtfm.mit.edu:/pub/usenet/sci.answers/biology/guide/part?
-
- Gaffin, A. (1994) "Everybody's Guide to the Internet." Published by
- the EFF and MIT Press. $14.95. ISBN 9-780262-67105-7. This book is
- available in ASCII by sending e-mail to <netguide@eff.org>; you'll
- receive the book split into several pieces; for a more elaborate
- version of the guide see the following entry.
-
-
- Gaffin, A. with Heitkoetter, J. (1994) "EFF's (Extended) Guide to the
- Internet: A round trip through Global Networks, Life in Cyberspace,
- and Everything...", aka `eegtti.texi'. This is available from
- ftp.eff.org:/pub/Net_info/Net_Guide/Other_versions/ (Texinfo, ASCII,
- HTML, DVI and PostScript). The European edition is kept on
- ftp.germany.eu.net:/pub/books/eff-guide/ ~300 pages. A README file
- gives more information. The hypertext (HTML) version can be browsed
- by using a WWW reader, such as mosaic, and opening a URL with the
- address: http://www.germany.eu.net:/books/eegtti/eegtti.html
-
- The EARN Association (May 1993) "A Guide to Network Resource Tools",
- available via e-mail from <listserv@EARNCC.bitnet>, by sending the
- message "get nettools ps" (PostScript) or "get nettools memo" (plain
- text).
-
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