There's also this theorem by Holland, but I've never read much about it to know how sound it is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holland%27s_schema_theorem
Paulo On Jan 24, 2008 8:30 PM, Paulo Tanimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have you seen Koza's Genetic Programming as well? > > His original implementation was in Lisp, but I think it can be done > elegantly in Haskell as well, perhaps with the advantage of static > typing. > > Hmm, I just found this: > http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/GPLib > > I also found a paper on something called PolyGP: > http://www.cs.mun.ca/~tinayu/index_files/addr/public_html/pgp.new.pdf > > Whether mathematically reasonable or not, I think EC works well in > practice but within some limits. A few "inventions" and "discoveries" > have been done through it, and there are certainly lots of interesting > uses out there in optimization. But after a few years it seems that > EC is not the panacea that enthusiasts promised in the past. It often > involves quite a lot of work setting up, takes long time to converge > to something, whereas other simpler methods can give similar/better > results, just because you can apply your knowledge more directly. > > But I must say I don't have much practical experience with them > myself. Mostly reading other people's work. > > Paulo > > PS: Check this out too, mentioning Sean Luke's work: > http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds4-3/robocup.html > > > > > > On Jan 24, 2008 4:55 PM, PR Stanley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi > > What does the list think of EC? Genetic algorithm is apparently the > > latest thing. > > Is EC mathematically reasonable? > > Paul > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > > > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
