A Research idea

Wodin,

My slant is towards AI -- so my suggestion is genetic programming. That is, a program that creates programs to solve problems. I'm not sure if this is the kind of thing you are looking for, or allowed to do, but it's very interesting (at least to me :) ).

Good luck :)

Ciao,
Gryn

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Re: A Research idea by t'mo (Pilgrim) on Feb 20, 2001 at 16:51 UTC
If "originality" is your goal, lots of experiments with GP have already been done. There should be some room for more, however. Some resources to examine first (that don't necessarily stay within the bounds of Perl) are: the garage geneticprogramming.com look under 'evolutionary computation'; if you can get hold of one of his papers, they're quite interesting CS bibliography; a useful resource; you'll probably also have to go to a library to do further research As an interesting and strange coincidence, I just started reading a book titled The Monk in the Garden by Robin Marantz Henig. If you didn't guess from the title, it's about Gregor Mendel.	[reply]
Re: A Research idea by ryan (Pilgrim) on Feb 20, 2001 at 14:23 UTC
I also find AI very interesting. During an expert systems uni course a while ago we looked at several very 'budget' expert system generation utilities such as 'First Class', 'Level 5' and probably a better one 'Prolog' etc.. they each cost tens of thousands of dollars in most cases, but are very primitive for tackling REAL issues. Perhaps expert system development could be an option. There are several AI modules around but I doubt any from what I have seen can provide full expert system generation or perhaps trained and untrained neural network creation, jNeural looks like it might one day - but not yet.	[reply]