Talking from personal experience - and I've been using intelligent 
Optimizers for quite a number of years optimizing combinations of 
continuous and "discrete" control parameters. Fred's IO has worked 
extremely well - in that I'm able to find optiminiums successfully, 
it may be a little more tricky, but not impossible. There are things 
that would help to IO work better. Nevertheless, I do have more 
problems with cmae with a lot of discrete parameters. But I suspect 
that's more to do with configuration of cmae rather than the ability 
of cmae itself. 

--- In [email protected], "Tomasz Janeczko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
>
> No, CMAE, PSO and most other non-exhaustive methods
> are best for continuous parameter spaces. Discrete spaces 
> where adjacent param values result in wild changes in fitness 
> tend to be very difficult to optimize in "intelligent" manner.
> 
> Best regards,
> Tomasz Janeczko
> amibroker.com
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Steve Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 1:19 AM
> Subject: [amibroker] CMAE behavior when optimizing control 
parameters?
> 
> 
> > Does anyone know if the CMAE algorithm can be used effectively to
> > optimize a system containing control parameters? By this I mean
> > optimizable parameters that do not measure a quantity, but are 
instead
> > used to control the flow of execution of the program. In this 
sort of
> > system, adjacent parameter values could result in wildly 
different
> > system fitness.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Steve
> > 
> > 
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