schmid@spica.cbmvax (Bob Schmid) (10/03/89)
I see in David Goldberg's book, _Genetic Algorithms_, mention of public
domain GA programs (page 71) with some "bells & whistles". Code by
Booker and DeJong (1985), and Grefenstette (1984) is specifically
mentioned.
Since neural-nets seem to be prime targets of such algorithms, I was
wondering, does anyone out there know of sources (by ftp, uucp or
email) for these or any other GA public domain source code?
Any leads will be most appreciated!
-Bob
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<uunet!cbmvax!schmid> thearlin@vdsvax.crd.ge.com (Thearling Kurt H) (10/03/89)
In article <8054@cbmvax.UUCP> schmid@spica.cbmvax (Bob Schmid) writes: >I see in David Goldberg's book, _Genetic Algorithms_, mention of public >domain GA programs (page 71) with some "bells & whistles". Code by >Booker and DeJong (1985), and Grefenstette (1984) is specifically >mentioned. > >[ ... ] does anyone out there know of sources (by ftp, uucp or >email) for these or any other GA public domain source code? > Here are a couple sources. The Grefenstette code (GENESIS) is availabe from him via email (gref@aic.nrl.navy.mil). Rick Riolo also has a subroutine package available (CFS-C) and his email address is Rick_Riolo@um.cc.umich.edu. He prefers to have you send him a tape and he will return it to you with the code. Contact him for the details. There is also a system that I just came accross called "whales and plankton," which, according to its author, "is a program which models a small ecology and is a study of genetic algorithms." It was posted to comp.sources.misc and is available via anonymous ftp from xanth.cs.odu.edu [128.82.8.1]. It is located in Volume7 and is named whpl. I don't know what the Booker and DeJong code is but I would be interested in finding more about it. If anybody knows where to get it, please let me know. Also, is the code included in Goldberg's book available from somewhere? I don't really want to type it in if I can get it over the net. If someone has already typed it it, could you send it to me? kurt ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Kurt Thearling General Electric CRD thearlin@vdsvax.crd.ge.com Bldg. KW, Room C301 uunet!vdsvax.crd.ge.com!thearlin P.O. Box 8 kurt@bach.csg.uiuc.edu Schenectady, NY 12301 -----------------------------------------------------------------------