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From: sonia@bastille.berkeley.edu (Sonia Marx)
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Subject: Re: TSP Data, me too!
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Date: 12 Feb 91 19:58:36 GMT
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-In article <8435@castle.ed.ac.uk>, aighb@castle.ed.ac.uk (Geoffrey
Ballinger) writes:
% In article <11010@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> sonia@bastille.berkeley.edu
(Sonia Marx) writes:
% -What are GA's?  I'm sorry for wasting net bandwidth, but I've seen the term
% -in several postings, and there has never been a translation.
% 
% 	GA = Genetic Algorithm. A Genetic Algorithm is a
% search/optimisation technique based on an abstraction of evolution. For
% an introduction to the area see "The Genetic Algorithm Handbook" by
% Lawrence Davis (Van Nostrand Reinhold), or "Genetic Algorithms in
% Search, Optimisation and Machine Learning" by David Goldberg
% (Addison-Wesley). I hope this helps,
% 
% 				Geoff.
% -- 
%  Geoff Ballinger,                           EMAIL: Geoff@Ed.Ac.Uk
%  Department of Artificial Intelligence,
%  University of Edinburgh, 80 South Bridge,
%  Edinburgh, Scotland.

Thanks everybody!  I should have known better than to post a question like
that to the net -- my mailbox is overflowing!  I hope that this benefitted
other people out there at least.

Sonia Marx