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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=330421011-16012003>Dear sir, I'm a PhD
student in robotics. </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=330421011-16012003></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=330421011-16012003>I'm using GA to
evolve a population of designs for surgical tools. It works pretty well up to
now.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=330421011-16012003>However I have 2
problems:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=330421011-16012003></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=330421011-16012003>As many "families"
of designs can have high scores but will be very expensive to build, I would
like to implement niching algorithms so that i can get the best design of each
possible "family" and its score to decide which one to
build.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=330421011-16012003></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=330421011-16012003>Is there a function
or example in GAlib to help me implementing it?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=330421011-16012003></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=330421011-16012003>my genome is the
following:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=330421011-16012003><FONT face=Arial
size=2><EM>GARealAlleleSetArray
alleles;<BR>alleles.add(3.0,15.0,GAAllele::INCLUSIVE,GAAllele::INCLUSIVE); //
longueurs<BR>alleles.add(1,3,1,GAAllele::INCLUSIVE,GAAllele::INCLUSIVE); //
topologie<BR>GARealGenome genome(alleles,
Fitness);<BR>genome.resizeBehaviour(2,50);</EM></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=330421011-16012003></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=330421011-16012003>Could you help on
that?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=330421011-16012003></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=330421011-16012003></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=330421011-16012003><STRONG>The Second
point </STRONG>is that my evaluation function is a simulation developped under
MSVC++6 (and the toolbox works only on this compiler!).</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=330421011-16012003>I'm now running
GAlib on BC5. But I would like to transfer it under MSVC++6. When I use the
workspace available on your ftp (msvcpp5.zip), the examples work ok put when I
try my code (using GARealAlleleSetArray ), I have the following
error:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=330421011-16012003></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=330421011-16012003><EM>GAAlleleSet::allele(unsigned int):<BR> this
method has not been defined.<BR> d:\dev\galibvc\ga\gaallele.c :
215</EM></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=330421011-16012003>And I don't have a
clue on what to do to fix it!!</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=330421011-16012003></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=330421011-16012003>Please
help...</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=330421011-16012003></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=330421011-16012003>Thank you very
much</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Damien
SALLE<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Laboratoire de
Robotique de Paris<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">www.robot.jussieu.fr</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">18 Route du
Panorama _ BP61<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">92265 Fontenay Aux
Roses Cedex<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Tel:
01.46.54.91.31<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Mail:salle@robot.jussieu.fr</SPAN></P></DIV>
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