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From: brian@caen.engin.umich.edu (Brian Holtz)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: GENETIC LEARNING ALGORITHMS
Summary: polyvalued digits in classifier messages?
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Date: 2 Nov 88 23:48:00 GMT
References: <7104@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Organization: U of M Engineering, Ann Arbor, Mich.
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Does anyone know of any references that describe classifier systems whose
messages are composed of digits that may take more than two values?
For instance, I want to use a genetic algorithm to train a classifier
system to induce lexical gender rules in Latin.  Has any work been done
on managing the complexity of going beyond binary-coded messages, or 
(better yet) encoding characters in messages in a useful, non-ASCIIish way?
I will summarize and post any responses.


In article <7104@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>, thefool@athena.mit.edu (Michael A. de la Maza) writes:
> 
> Has anyone compiled a bibliography of gla articles/books?  


In "Classifier Systems and Genetic Algorithms" (Cognitive Science and
Machine Intelligence Laboratory Technical Report No. 8) Holland 
lists some 80 or so applications of GAs, and offers a complete
bibliography to interested parties.  He can be reached at the EECS Dept.,
Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI 48109 (he doesn't seem to have an obvious
email address here...).  You can get a copy of the technical report from
Sharon_Doyle@ub.cc.umich.edu.