Try Simon Lucas at Essex Computer Science dept. I believe he worked on
something like this, but has now moved on to other things.
Jim
On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Alan Penn wrote:
> You know how annoying the web is? A few years back I came across a paper
> from a group in France or Swizerland (I think) I cant remember their names.
> Anyway, I have had no luck in finding it or anything similar and wondered if
> anyone else has a clue to who or where I should look.
>
> The idea was to evolve NN's using GA's. The key part was that these guys had
> developed a language which created the NN itself, but the GA operated on the
> language string. The language, they could show, could encode any valid NN,
> and only valid NN's would result from transformations of the string. The
> langauage was also a significant compression of the NN description and so
> provided for a very efficient GA search. Neat idea (well I thought so).
>
> Alan Penn
> UCL
>
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