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mGA: C and Common Lisp implementations of a messy GA

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This directory contains mGA1.0. mGA is a C implementation of a messy GA as described in TCGA report No. 91008. Messy GAs overcome the linkage problem of simple genetic algorithms by combining variable-length strings, GENE expression, messy operators, and a nonhomogeneous phasing of evolutionary processing. Results on a number of difficult deceptive test functions have been encouraging with the messy GA always finding global optima in a polynomial number of function evaluations. A Common Lisp version, as documented in TCGA report No. 90004, is also included.
See Also: 

   http://GAL4.GE.UIUC.EDU/illigal.home.html
Origin:   

   gal4.ge.uiuc.edu:/pub/src/messyGA/{C,Lisp}
   gal4.ge.uiuc.edu:/pub/papers/IlliGALs/91008.ps.Z

Version: 1.1 (23-JUN-94) Requires: C, Common Lisp Ports: Lisp version runs under KCL. Updated: Tue Nov 8 17:18:31 1994 CD-ROM: Prime Time Freeware for AI, Issue 1-1 Author(s): Kalyanmoy Deb David E. Goldberg, T. Kerzic Contact: For hardcopies of the technical reports Eric Thompson, IlliGAL Librarian Department of General Engineering 117 Transportation Building 104 South Mathews Avenue Urbana, IL 61801-2996 USA Tel: 217-333-2346 Keywords: Authors!Deb, Authors!Goldberg, Authors!Kerzic, C!Code, Genetic Algorithms, Lisp!Code, Messy GA, Univ. of Alabama, mGA References: See TCGA reports 89003, 90004, 90005, 90006, and 91004 for more information on messy GAs. Kalyanmoy Deb and David E. Goldberg, "mGA in C: A Messy Genetic Algorithm in C", IlliGAL Technical Report 91008, September 1991. David E. Goldberg and T. Kerzic, "mGA 1.0: A Common Lisp Implementation of a Messy Genetic Algorithm" TCGA Report No. 90004, 1990.
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