From: David.Beasley@cs.cf.ac.uk (David Beasley)
Originator: David.Beasley@cs.cf.ac.uk (David Beasley)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.genetic
Subject: What's new in the FAQ?
Followup-To: comp.ai.genetic
Date:
Summary: Summary of changes made to the FAQ since its last edition.

Last-Modified:  April 12, 2000
Issue:          9.1

Hello, and welcome to the new edition of the comp.ai.genetic FAQ, 
"The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to Evolutionary Computation". 

As usual, here's a description of the differences in content between
this and the previous version. There are no major changes. Details of
minor changes are given below.

The last edition was posted on September 20 2000. There was no December 
edition. The next edition is due out on June 20th, 2001. Every second
monday, a reminder is posted to comp.ai.genetic and telling people how
to pick up copies on the net.

As always, if you have information which could usefully go into the
guide, send it to me at the address below. (NOTE: Do NOT send any
email to the cs.cf.ac.uk address: it will be ignored.) Please include
in the Subject line: HHGTEC. If you find any information is
inaccurate, please let me know (if possible, with the _accurate_
information). All contributions/help welcome.

If you have any questions which you'd like to be answered in the FAQ,
post them to the newsgroup first. If any sensible answers are
forthcoming, let me know, and I'll include the information in the FAQ.

The ASCII version of the FAQ comes in 6 parts, with the following broad
categories:

	1. Intro to the FAQ and the newsgroup		24k
	2. Descriptions of different types of EAs	56k
	3. Practice and theory				55k
	4. References and information sources		81k
	5. EA software packages				93k
	6. Other topics and glossary			74k

CHANGES

Q1.4  Added link to Alwyn Barry's site on Learning Classifier Systems (thanks 
      to Tim Kovacs)
Q2    Added the Framsticks Alife project (thanks to Maciej Komosinski)
Q4    Added link to page on Memetic Algorithms (thanks to Pablo Moscato)
Q4.1  Updated FTP address for Larry Yaegers Polyworld (thanks to 
      Tim Tyler)
Q5    Updated reference to the Linear-Programming-FAQ (thanks to John Gregory)
Q10.2 Added book: "Intelligence through Simulated Evolution: Forty Years of 
      Evolutionary Programming"
Q10.8 Added details of the Learning Classifier System Bibliography (thanks to 
      Tim Kovacs)
Q15.2 Added details of a Classifier Systems mailing list. (thanks to Tim Kovacs)
Q20   Ease - updated URL (thanks to Joe Sprave)
Q20.2 Added new Commercial GA package: optiGA
Q22   Fixed typo in heading (thanks to Albert Rogers).


AVAILABILITY

The HTML version is available from various places, including:

Germany: EUnet Deutschland GmbH:
	http://surf.de.uu.net/encore/www/

Spain:  The University of Oviedo:
	http://www.etsimo.uniovi.es/ftp/pub/EC/FAQ/www/

UK:     The University of Birmingham 
	http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/Mirrors/ftp.de.uu.net/EC/clife/www/

USA:    The Santa Fe Institute:
	http://alife.santafe.edu/~joke/encore/www/

Hong Kong: The Chinese University of Hong Kong:
	http://www.cs.cuhk.hk/pub/EC/FAQ/www/top.htm


David Beasley, Bath, UK                                       __o
david.beasley@iee.org                                         \<,  
-comp.ai.genetic FAQ Editor-             ___________________()/ ()___