Re: [Haskell-cafe] Evolutionary Computing

2008-01-25 Thread Alex Young
Dusan Kolar wrote: Hello, I don't know about math, but a practical usage seems to be in the reconfigurable hardware (FPGA). See web-page of my colleague, where is list of his papers on the topic. http://www.fit.vutbr.cz/~sekanina/pubs.php These people use GAs for optimising water networks (a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Evolutionary Computing

2008-01-25 Thread Dusan Kolar
Hello, I don't know about math, but a practical usage seems to be in the reconfigurable hardware (FPGA). See web-page of my colleague, where is list of his papers on the topic. http://www.fit.vutbr.cz/~sekanina/pubs.php Dusan PR Stanley wrote: Hi What does the list think of EC? Genetic alg

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Evolutionary Computing

2008-01-24 Thread Clifford Beshers
On Jan 24, 2008 3:55 PM, PR Stanley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > What does the list think of EC? Genetic algorithm is apparently the > latest thing. They've been around for a while, actually. See below for some work from the early 1990's. > Is EC mathematically reasonable? I'm not sure

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Evolutionary Computing

2008-01-24 Thread Jon Harrop
On Friday 25 January 2008 03:30:03 Paulo Tanimoto wrote: > But I must say I don't have much practical experience with them > myself. Mostly reading other people's work. Me too. I have read that EC is competitive when the fitness function is riddled with discontinuities though, so it may still be

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Evolutionary Computing

2008-01-24 Thread Paulo Tanimoto
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 i

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Evolutionary Computing

2008-01-24 Thread Paulo Tanimoto
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 call

[Haskell-cafe] Evolutionary Computing

2008-01-24 Thread PR Stanley
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