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From: kern@arecibo.aero.org
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Discover Patterns in GAs
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Date: 26 Jun 89 22:59:47 GMT
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In article <7388@cs.Buffalo.EDU>, dmark@cs.Buffalo.EDU (David Mark) writes...
> 
>Come on!  PLEASE give the full version at least once, and not just the
>acronym!  To me, GA is "Graduate Assistant" or "Geographical Analysis".
>And I have read this group for over a year, and sat in on some courses, so
>I am (fairly) sure that this is not a dumb question.  Remember, usenet is
>a quite diverse community, with new users joining all the time, and many
>cross-disciplinary readers and posters.
> 

GAs are *relatively* new things refering to Genetic Algorithms, 
algorithms which try to make new combinations out of previously
successful patterns or rules in order to discover new rules.

JC Kern
Kern@arecibo.aero.org
(213) 336-3573