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From: thearlin@vdsvax.crd.ge.com (Thearling Kurt H)
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Subject: Re: genetic algorithm simulators
Keywords: genetic algorithms
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Date: 2 Oct 89 19:15:43 GMT
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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

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