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From: alan@tivoli.UUCP (Alan R. Weiss)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Brand New Optimization Methods
Message-ID: <802@tivoli.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jun 91 16:11:33 GMT
References: <91153.161332EC13@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK>
Reply-To: alan@tivoli.UUCP (Alan R. Weiss)
Organization: Tivoli Systems Inc., Austin, TX
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In article <91153.161332EC13@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK> EC13@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK writes:
>Some of the recommendations for future work which I havn't mentioned in my
>thesis and which I hope to work on in the near future are:
>
>1)Using Shannon's informational entropy for developing a new algorithm for
>  solving linear programming problems (LP).
>
>2)Using Shannon's informational entropy for developing new simulated annealing
>  algorithms, Entropic Simulated Annealing, for solving large size optimization
>  problems.
>
>3)Investigating the possibility of using Shannon's entropy for developing
>  'Entropy Logic' which might be used to improve the performance of some
>  industrial products.
>
>4)In areas where: -results of all previous experimentation and data-collection
>                   must be processed statistically, and
>                  -expert professional opinions must be sought and considered.
>  more research on what could be called 'Fuzzy Entropy' is urgently needed.
>
>A. Sultan

You forgot one tiny, teeny, little thing, Sultan:  where the hell is
your bibliography?  How do we check your research?  If the guy from
Cray can't parse this crap, :-) how can my little bitty SPARCstation2
hope to?  Still, for bullshit/lines of text I would definately award
you a PhD.  I would *ALSO* never hire you, and neither would anyone
else I know.

Besides, dude, that Indian fellow came up with a breakthrough
linear programming algorithm that replaces the Simplex.  Why do you
wish to waste your life on this?

Wasn't Entropic Logic a science-fiction concept from Isaac Asimov's
story "Absolom?"  As I recall, it was fictional.

Ah, never mind.  I've blown off enough packets on this one ...



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