dg1v+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (David Greene) (04/21/88)
Obviously, it will depend on the technique and domain you are involved with, but Holland and Smith both offer some interesting insights into some of the issues... especially with regard to genetic algorithms and classifier systems. Holland,J.H. "Escaping Brittleness: the Possibilities of General Purpose Learning Algorithms Applied to Parallel Rule-Based Systems" in Machine Learning: An Artificial Intelligence Approach, volume II, R. Michalski, J. Carbonell, and T. Mitchell (Eds.), Morgan Kaufmann, 1986. Smith, S.F. "Adaptive Learning Systems" in Expert Systems, Principles and Case Studies, R. Forsyth (Ed.), Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1984, chpt. 11. Hope these are useful. -David dg1v@andrew.cmu.edu