Re: GAs for modifying algorithms

>I'd love (as would we all) to be able to let the computer do my coding for me!

After a little looking around (and reading the FAQ), I think what I should look into 
is "genetic programming" or "automatic programming". It seems to focus on creating 
cellular automata and finite-state machines that change their encoding rules with the 
use of a fixed-lengthgenome. It's a little tricky to do Google searches on this topic, 
since "genetic", "algorithms", "automatic", and "programming" all show up in the 
*oddest* places. Why couldn't they have come up with a better name?

I found a few good books:
"Foundations of Genetic Programming" Riccardo Poli
John Koza's "Genetic Programming" series
"Genetic Programming: An Introduction" Wolfgang Banzhaf
"Evolutionary Algorithms... Recent Advances" K. Miettinen
and best of all "Grammatical Evolution" Michael O'Neill

Patrick Kellogg
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