Re: Anyone can introduce GA resource?

Quaternion wrote:
> Paul Victor Birke wrote:
>
>
> > Because of the sophistication of this method, the authors of books
> > really need to hand out practical codes in Fortran, C or whatever.
> > Otherwise in my humble estimation they remain virtually worthless (to me).
> >
> > Paul Birke (Electrical Engineer)
> > and numerical experimentalist
>
>
> The coding of GA's is actually amazingly simple

Quoting my wife ==> >>easy for you to say !!<<

 and often the theories speak
> directly into the code (mainly because they revolve around the manipulation
> of bitvectors instead of abstract data). In fact I don't think your
> criticism is justified since what you say is true for any scientific field,

but don't you think in particular the optimization methods of today.

there are so  many now and GA proports to be one of the best and I think 
each author has their own twists and tunings



> whether it is maths or physics; the implementation itself is a different
> job entirely and is considered the manufactural process which is, in
> essence, easy. That said there are many books on GA that focus on, for
> instanc,e game programming (be it entertaining or economic games), or
> simulation, that carry source code directly into C or Java.
> There are also free GA and GP API's in Java that basically teach you the
> whole process by using them.

the problem I have is that there seems to be only about one fortran 
interpretation on the web and it appears somewhat out of date and looks 
anyways not so easy to use.

additionally and importantly I am look for code that can easily do 100 
to 1000 variables.  I don't think I can find same in Fortran.

If you have any suggestions I would be grateful

Paul
(hey I see you are from no  I am 1/4 no and 3/4 se.  Seems some no tells 
me in the past that 1/4 more than makes up for the 3/4 !!!!!