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Announcing the rGenetic project (http://rubyforge.org/projects/rgenetic/) at
RubyForge.

Desc:

rGenetic is a genetic algorithm package for Ruby. The idea is to develop a
package which is easily customizable, allowing simple integration into a
problem require genetic algorithms or evolutionary programming. The suite
will be developed and tested against traditional GA problems as a proof of
concept. I am aware of Ruby/GA in SourceForge, which, from my understanding
has similar goals. However, last I checked, it's documentation and support
are in japanese. Beyond that, I feel that having more than one package with
similar goals only strengthens the library support for Ruby. I will
specifically develop rGenetic without examination of Ruby/GA, in order to
develop a unique solution which will hopefully compliment the Ruby/GA
project.

Anyone who is interested, hop on over. The project just entered pre-Alpha.
I've got some documentation up if you want to take a gander.

cheers!

Matt

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In article <BAY2->,
Orion Hunter <> wrote:
>Announcing the rGenetic project (http://rubyforge.org/projects/rgenetic/) at
>RubyForge.
>
>Desc:
>
>rGenetic is a genetic algorithm package for Ruby. The idea is to develop a
>package which is easily customizable, allowing simple integration into a
>problem require genetic algorithms or evolutionary programming. The suite
>will be developed and tested against traditional GA problems as a proof of
>concept. I am aware of Ruby/GA in SourceForge, which, from my understanding
>has similar goals. However, last I checked, it's documentation and support
>are in japanese. Beyond that, I feel that having more than one package with
>similar goals only strengthens the library support for Ruby. I will
>specifically develop rGenetic without examination of Ruby/GA, in order to
>develop a unique solution which will hopefully compliment the Ruby/GA
>project.
>
>Anyone who is interested, hop on over. The project just entered pre-Alpha.
>I've got some documentation up if you want to take a gander.
>
>cheers!
>
>Matt
>


Interesting. I've got some GA and ES (Evolution Strategy) code that I
developed for a class I took a while back. Some of it might be usable.

One thing: I read your informal framework doc and the use of the word
'Agent' is a bit confusing. I guess, from the way you're describing it I
would tend to use the word 'Individual' or maybe 'genotype'. Agent seems
to be an overloaded term in this context (as in 'intelligent agents').

Phil

----- Original Message -----
From: "Orion Hunter" <>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby->
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 3:37 PM
Subject: [ANN] rGenetic


> Announcing the rGenetic project (http://rubyforge.org/projects/rgenetic/)
at

[snip]

> Anyone who is interested, hop on over. The project just entered
pre-Alpha.
> I've got some documentation up if you want to take a gander.

This is interesting to me, but life is so short...

I'd like to think I'll play with it someday, but I have
so many items higher on my to-do list.

One comment I'd make is this: If I were going to do
GA in Ruby, I'd consider supporting druby so that the
work could be distributed... seems to me that this
sort of thing should distribute very well.

Hal

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Hal Fulton