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From: maurits@Neon.Stanford.EDU (A. Maurits van der Veen)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: Re: Genetic Algorithms
Message-ID: <1990Dec9.184729.21949@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 9 Dec 90 18:47:29 GMT
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In article <1990Dec9.012258.11003@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> simonof@aplcen (Simonoff Robert  301 540 1864) writes:
>I am interested in any references you all might have seen
>concerning genetic algorithms used in conjunction with
>neural networks.  Please send to me via e-mail and I
>will post a summary.
>
>Thanks
>Bob Simonoff
>
(Sorry,  I tried e-mail, but was told your host was unknown).

Try the following:
Dodd, N. (1990). Optimisation of Network Structure using Genetic Techniques.
IEEE: Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 
vol. 3, pp. 965-968. San Diego, CA.

Harp, S., T. Samad, and A. Guha (1989). Towards the Genetic Synthesis of Neural
Networks. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Genetic Al
gorithms.(pp. 360-369). San Mateo, CA: Morgan Kaufmann.

Miller, G., P. Todd, and S. Hegde (1989). Designing Neural Networks using
Genetic Algorithms. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on
Genetic Algorithms (pp. 379-384).

That proceedings volume has a whole section on combining GAs and NNs.
Besides these three papers, I am aware of a number of papers that deal
with using GAs to set the weights in NNs (the three above use them to decide
on the topology). A review of some of them, and some more source listings,
may be found in:

Neural Network, vol. 4, nr. 1, pp. 47-53, which contains 3 reviews or recent
work in the area, with responses by the others of the work. 

Hope this is useful.

Maurits van der Veen
maurits@cs.stanford.edu