Re: Need to talk with somebody who has dug through Breeder libraryand/or GW library

[Pietro Terna]

At 18.03 29/03/00 -0600, you wrote:
> Pietro Terna wrote:
> >
> >          Dear Paul,
> >
> >          try to have a look also to
> > ftp://ftp.swarm.org/pub/swarm/src/users-contrib/anarchy/GM-0.1.tar.gz
> >
> >          Yours, Pietro
>
> Yes, I have looked at that code. It is very nicely written and clear.  I
> guess I don't understand why the author proposes it, instead of building
> on Breeder.  Is there something about Breeder that makes it a less
> capable structure for working on this?  I also wonder if the GM package
> might still be currently under development?
>
> --
> Paul E. Johnson                       email: address@hidden

        The author, Gialuigi Ferraris, was a student of mine. To prepare 
his master degree dissertation, he had to develop a Swarm package on 
Classifier Systems (the CW program that you can find in the Swarm anarchy 
directory).

        As a by-product of his work, he obtained also the GM package.

        Why to re-writer GA? Mainly to adopt a unified style of 
programming, currently used in my group: both CW and GM adopt the ERA 
scheme that I've introduced in Chapter 3 of the Luna&Stefansson book about 
simulation and Swarm.

        Finally, those packages are still under development, to introduce 
more options and to unify them.

        Pietro



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