Re: Perl Genetic Algorithm Module

2002-01-09 Thread John Douglas Porter
Juan J. Merelo wrote: > It's usually bounded, right? Not theoretically, but most experiments > limit tree depth. Yes, sure. Unbounded Growth, Bad. :-) > nowadays, size-changing genomes are used (for instance, > evolving neural nets). Sure. > Which one would you vote for? Evolutionary com

Re: Perl Genetic Algorithm Module

2002-01-09 Thread Juan J. Merelo
John Douglas Porter wrote: > Juan J. Merelo wrote: > >>The ideal is supposed to be ~ 20/80, but some >>purists say it should be ~ 1/99. >> > > There is no theoretical ideal. > Anyone who says there is is either wrong, or is speaking in the > context of some very specific experimental protoc

Re: Perl Genetic Algorithm Module

2002-01-07 Thread John Douglas Porter
Juan J. Merelo wrote: > The ideal is supposed to be ~ 20/80, but some > purists say it should be ~ 1/99. There is no theoretical ideal. Anyone who says there is is either wrong, or is speaking in the context of some very specific experimental protocol. > Genetic programming, actually, uses >

Re: Perl Genetic Algorithm Module

2002-01-05 Thread Juan J. Merelo
Hi, > > It's ok, I'm not disappointed :) > My main reason for coding the module is for learning. I think I will > learn more by coding and trying to figure out why my module behaves the > way it is, than by simply reading about the subject or running some one > else's code. In fact, I did le

RE: Perl Genetic Algorithm Module

2002-01-05 Thread Ala Qumsieh
Juan J. Merelo writes: > Sorry to disappoint you, but it's been done already: it's > provisionally > called OPEAL, it's at opeal.sourceforge.net, and, yes, it > will be called > AI::Genetic or Algorithm::Genetic in the future, when it's finally > CPANified and uploaded. It's ok, I'm not di

Re: Perl Genetic Algorithm Module

2002-01-05 Thread Michael Fragassi
And personally, I can't imagine anything more appropriate for GA programming than a slew of competing GA modules. Although this could be taken too far, giving a real meaning to the phrase "code or die". -- Mike F. On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Pete Sergeant wrote: > Possibly you missed the part where

Re: Perl Genetic Algorithm Module

2002-01-05 Thread Pete Sergeant
: Saturday, January 05, 2002 6:56 PM Subject: Re: Perl Genetic Algorithm Module > Sorry to disappoint you, but it's been done already: it's provisionally > called OPEAL, it's at opeal.sourceforge.net, and, yes, it will be called > AI::Genetic or Algorithm::Genetic in the fut

Re: Perl Genetic Algorithm Module

2002-01-05 Thread Juan J. Merelo
Sorry to disappoint you, but it's been done already: it's provisionally called OPEAL, it's at opeal.sourceforge.net, and, yes, it will be called AI::Genetic or Algorithm::Genetic in the future, when it's finally CPANified and uploaded. It's been done also some more times: just do a search on P

Re: Perl Genetic Algorithm Module

2002-01-04 Thread 'John Douglas Porter'
Ala Qumsieh wrote: > John Porter writes: > > The class is hard-wired to only handle individuals which are > > bitvectors. That is unnecessarily restrictive. > > Is it really restrictive? ... if the user wants more than a single bit to > represent a given feature, then he/she can still use th

RE: Perl Genetic Algorithm Module

2002-01-04 Thread Ala Qumsieh
John Porter writes: > The class is hard-wired to only handle individuals which are > bitvectors. > That is unnecessarily restrictive. In fact, the GA algorithm Is it really restrictive? As I said, I'm not really an expert in this field, but the way I see it is that if the user wants more tha

Re: Perl Genetic Algorithm Module

2002-01-04 Thread John Douglas Porter
Ala Qumsieh wrote: > Recently, I started reading about GAs, and thought that the best way to > learn is to actually write a Perl module, and play around with it. Absolutely! > For lack of a better name, I called it AI::Genetic, but I'm open to > change if someone has a better suggestion. Of c