Genetic Algorithms are very specific instances of Evolutionary Algorithms inspired by genes...Evolutionary Computation encompasses the much broader class of algorithms including Evolutionary Algorithms(which include Quantum-Inspired Evolutionary Algos on which I work, and will hopefully port from Mathematica to Java/Mahout one day), Swarm Intelligence, Learner Classifier Systems(Pittsburgh, Michigan), and so on...Evolutionary Algorithms seems generic enough yet legitimate enough(no empty shouts) for our case, doesn't it?
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 11:51 PM, Sean Owen <[email protected]> wrote: > Nah I think it's fine to mention. The old "three Cs" meme (CF, > Clustering, Classification) is outdated now so might as well fully > update. If it were something that people just would like someone to > support someday, I'd say let's not yet claim Mahout encompasses those > topics. But yeah watchmaker is legitimate enough. > > Shall we label this notion "genetic algorithms" or "evolutionary > algorithms" in general? > > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 7:09 PM, Sisir Koppaka <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Ok...cool. It's just that if it's going on the website by any chance, > > mentioning evolutionary algorithms(org.apache.mahout.ga.watchmaker) might > > attract contributors from the area. There are quite interesting > algorithms > > like NSGA-II <http://www.iitk.ac.in/kangal/codes.shtml>, and several > memetic > > algos that could be ported with widely available sources in other > > languages(usually C and C++). > > > > I guess you're right, this isn't in the scope of the board report. It > should > > much rather be on the upcoming site on things-to-do or something of that > > nature. > > > > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 11:17 PM, Sean Owen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Sure, that's in scope. There's not much you could call evolutionary in > >> the code base yet, compared to what you see for CF, clustering, > >> classification, and maybe frequent item set mining, in terms of > >> quantity and maturity. So I'm just trying to usefully express the > >> reality of the project's current state, rather than say "it's just > >> machine learning stuff in general" without precluding things like > >> this. > >> > >> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Sisir Koppaka <[email protected] > > > >> wrote: > >> > Hi, > >> > Please correct me if I am wrong - but isn't Mahout also into > Evolutionary > >> > Algorithms and Programming? Is it missing in the report by mistake? > >> > > >> > Sisir > >> > > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > SK > > > -- SK
