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Subject: Re: Cognitive System using Genetic Algorithms.
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About a month or so ago I complained of the engineering focus of disserta-
tions done by Holland's students.  I got a very nice reply from a former
student, Lashon Booker, who cited a number of more abstract projects 
(including his own).  All these theses are available through U. Microfilms
(which happens to be based in Michigan), at about $25 each.  

Lashon is still quite active; he's at booker@nrl-aic.ARPA.  There is a BBS
for genetic algorithms; to subscribe, send mail to GA-List-Request@nrl-aic.ARPA.
(I did some time ago but have no reply yet... hmmm)

And a standard set of C subroutines for classifier systems is available for 
media cost from Rick Riolo at U.Mich.  Contact him at 
Rick_Riolo@ub.cc.umich.edu for details - I got mine on a 1.2 meg AT disc (just
fits).  Other formats available (Sun, Mac, ... ).  This is ver 0.98, so it's
not totally stable yet.  I'm slowly getting acquainted with it all...

Oh yes: the books INDUCTION, 1986, by Holland et al; GENETIC ALGORITHMS AND
SIMULATED ANNEALING, 1987, L. Davis; and GENETIC ALGORITHMS AND THEIR 
APPLICATION, Proceed. 2nd Intl. Conf. Gen. Alg. (L. Erlbaum Assoc, Pub),
are all of interest.  

I, for one, would be curious what else you learn, although my interests are
more in the theoretical arena (population genetics, et al).  


Ron Goldthwaite / UC Davis, Psychology and Animal Behavior
'Economics is a branch of ethics, pretending to be a science; 
 ethology is a science, pretending relevance to ethics.'