Re: genetic algorithms

"Cima" wrote:
> i read something about genetic algorithms in the postgres manual and
im wondering if it can be used it in some way for data mining purposes.
> any relevant info will be highly appreciated.

Genetic algorithms are optimizers- given an objective function, they
search for (near-) optimal sets of parameters. See, for instance:

http://web.njit.edu/~cct3/B601/genetic%20algorithm.pdf
http://cs.felk.cvut.cz/~xobitko/ga/
http://www.shef.ac.uk/acse/people/p.j.fleming/ifac/ga.pdf
http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~genitor/MiscPubs/tutorial.pdf

Genetic algorithms can be and are used in data mining. See, for
example:

http://www.lcc.uma.es/~eva/WASWBE/romero.pdf
http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/aaf/pub_papers.dir/Info-Sci-J-2003.pdf
http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/aaf/pub_papers.dir/Applied-Soft-Comp.pdf
http://cse.unl.edu/~chwang/Home%20Page%20of%20Chang%20Wang_files/master.pdf
.
-Will Dwinnell
http://will.dwinnell.com