On Wednesday, Oct 9, 2002, at 08:30 Australia/Sydney, Alex Rice wrote:
> > On Tuesday, October 8, 2002, at 04:18 PM, David Vaughan wrote: > >> Can you reduce those formulae ultimately to a single score (which may >> be a weighted combination of sub-scores)? If so, it sounds to me that >> a GA could do what you want and it is not difficult to implement in >> Rev. GAs are especially good at munging multiple issues, just so long >> as, eventually, you can single-score a solution. Mixing score >> weightings to achieve that is something you can do with user controls >> rather than embedding, if you are unsure of what the weightings >> should be. > > Genetic algorithms are mainly useful for function optimization > problems, I think. Yep > > This problem is really perfect for an expert system because it's, > well, an expert system. :-) A bunch of heuristics, rules-of-thumb, > which when you apply them to set of data set it outputs some > recommendations recommendations. Stuff like "If you employ spatula > repair persons, then you get a spatula repair bay. If the facility is > in a snowy clime, you get an indoor spatula repair bay with > kitchenette. If not in a snowy clime, you get an outdoor spatula > repair bay. You get a small, medium or large spatula repair bay if > .... etc." Uh-huh. Multiple outputs on a rules basis. Not GA, which would attempt to organise the assembly. I will be very interested if you find anything but fear you or we might have to invent it. Now, where did I put Winston... :-) cheers David > > Alex Rice, Software Developer > Architectural Research Consultants, Inc. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
