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Subject: Genetic Learning Algorithms
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From: jan cornish 
Subject: Genetic Learning Algorithms
To: thefool@athena.mit.edu
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In-Reply-To: The message of 18 Sep 88 06:49 PDT from Michael A. de la Maza 
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    Date: 18 Sep 88 13:49:01 GMT
    From: thefool@athena.mit.edu  (Michael A. de la Maza)


       I am currently working on a genetic learning algorithm(gla) engine that
    draws inferences from a horse racing database (the results could be
    enRICHening).  Has anyone compiled a bibliography of gla articles/books?
       If I'm inundated with responses I'll post a summary here.

What makes you think a GA will work?

You probably would want to use a GA based "classifier system" (see a
book by John Holland et. al. called Induction) in which a random
population inductive rules are evolved. You might want to take a look at
an article "Pinpointing Good Hypothesies with Heuristics" by Steven
Salzberg in the book "Artifical Intelligenece & Statistics". He
developed a weighted feature vector approach where the weights were
updated by heuristics. It worked well.  The feature vector was about 70
dimensional.

Where are you getting your data?

    Michael A. de la Maza                 thefool@athena.mit.edu
    Query: What is the answer to this question?

Answer: what question is this the answer to?

    [There is a separate list covering genetic algorithms called GA-LIST.
    Send subscription requests to gref@NRL-AIC.ARPA.  However, AIList will
    continue to carry occasional information ...

A good list ...

	    In addition, offutt@caen.engin.umich.edu (Daniel M. Offutt) is
    offering a GA function optimization package.  Contact him for details.

			    - nick]