Q15.4: What relevant newsgroups and FAQs are there?

Besides the obvious comp.ai.genetic there exist some other newsgroups that sometimes carry EC related topics:

• comp.ai (FAQ in news.answers , comp.answers )

• comp.ai.digest

• comp.ai.fuzzy (FAQ in news.answers , comp.answers )

• comp.ai.jair.announce (FAQ in news.answers , comp.answers )

• comp.ai.jair.papers (PostScript papers of the Journal of AI Research, published by Morgan Kaufmann <morgan@unix.sri.com>) [eds note: this is the first journal that's completely published on USENET first, and later in paper form; read the jair-faq, that's posted to the announcement group to find out how to submit your papers, get JAIR papers by FTP, Gopher or e-mail, etc.]

• comp.ai.neural-nets (FAQ in news.answers , comp.answers )

• comp.robotics (FAQ in news.answers , comp.answers )

• comp.theory.cell-automata (FAQ in http://alife.santafe.edu/alife/topics/cas/ca-faq/ca-faq.html )

• comp.theory.dynamic-sys (no FAQ)

• comp.theory.self-org-sys (no FAQ)

• sci.bio.evolution (no FAQ as such, but there is an archive of interesting material, accessible via WWW at http://www.cqs.washington.edu/~evolution )

• sci.math.num-analysis (some FAQs in news.answers , comp.answers )

• sci.op-research (some FAQs in news.answers , comp.answers )

• talk.origins (discusses origins of life, EVOLUTION, etc. FTP repository index at ftp://ics.uci.edu/pub/origins/Index -- see Q10.7 for more details.)