Talk:Genetic algorithm/Archive 2

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Messy Genetic Algorithms

What about Messy Genetic Algorithms ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.73.63.95 (talk) 20:50, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

true - I will have a go over the next cpl days but editing on my mobile at the moment which is pretty slow --Chaosdruid (talk) 11:56, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

Cluster structure optimization

In the "Variants" section, the sentences starting with "The GEGA program is an ab initio gradient embedded GA, a program for finding the global minima of clusters..." and ending with "based on the so called kick technique" look somewhat strange to me, for at least two reasons: (1) The remainder of the "variants" section is about algorithmic variations on GAs, whereas this provides an application, so this text is out of place. As far as I can tell from the original research papers (the one cited, and others by the same authors), there are no new algorithmic aspects in this GEGA program. (2) Even as an application, this contribution is neither new nor in other ways outstanding; many similar papers of this kind have been published in this area, since almost 20 years. I should add that I know rather well what I am talking about, because this is one of the areas I am working in professionally. I suggest deleting these sentences (in the present form, they are rather misleading) or supplying different contents and citations. Bxh (talk) 16:05, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

Merging Genetic algorithms in economics

I recently noticed that there is an article Genetic algorithms in economics with about a paragraph of information. Rather than have it sit alone in a stub, why not just merge it into this article considering it the article is basically a subtopic of this article. It seems like it would be more appropriate to have it as a section in this article than in its own article. — Parent5446 ☯ ^{(msg email)} 01:24, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

Why on earth Genetic Algorithm will be merged with this? GA is purely CS which has applications in real life. Almost everything in CS has applications in real life, that doesn't mean that it has to be merged with some economics related articles.- [[1]] — Preceding unsigned comment added by Riyad parvez (talk • contribs) 18:38, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

The Genetic Algorithm is certainly a standalone topic. No question, no debate. It is a screwdriver, hammer, pick your favorite tool, for solving problems. It does not work in all cases, but where it does work, it is a wonderful tool. And tying it to some specific implementation, such as economics, doesn't seem proper.

However, if you want to create a section on implementations, and include the economics page on that, then I would have no objection. But this section would need to be huge to include all sorts of other implementations. But perhaps that would be ok. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 166.147.67.218 (talk) 05:09, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

• Oppose The economics field is big enough to support a stand-alone article. Besides which, if we merge every possible application area into GA or List of genetic algorithm applications, they'd be badly bloated. Andy Dingley (talk) 16:48, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

There are so many advanced mathematical and CS applications evolving in economics that this is not a matter of concern. If someone is employing a GA in economics, then they would very likely be using fitness-based objective functions, crossover, selection, mutation, preventing elitism, etc. There should be no real reason to have application-specific articles on GA in e.g. economics, bioinformatics, etc. - thus, it would be better to merge the two. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mydataengine (talk • contribs) 20:22, 19 August 2012 (UTC)

Applications of GAs, as in economics, should be linked to from the GA topic, but certainly not merged. If they were merged readers, especially those not familiar with Genetic Algorithms, might become confused as to how GAs are useful. That is, they might erroneously think GAs are applied in only the noted special fields, like economics. Spinlock55 (talk) 01:51, 8 February 2013 (UTC)