Talk:Memetic algorithm

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I have extended the previous stub to a fully-fledged article. I acknowledge my debt with my English teacher, Ellen, for a very encouraging review process. I have used some ‹div› tags to make internal links to some bulleted list items, but the layout of those items has been somewhat altered. Josedavid (talk) 08:44, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

The intro could be a little more accesible to the non-expert. A few more links to some of the basic info needed in order to even begin to understand would be helpful right at the beginning. I have removed the wikify tag after some basic fixes.Nihola (talk) 04:26, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

Portions of this article lifted?
Some portions of this article seem to have been pasted in (based on their strange appearance in edit mode). Because of the appearance I decided to do a quick text search. I found that some of this article seems to be pasted from other articles. For instance, this section of the article - 1st generation The first generation of MA refers to hybrid algorithms, a marriage between a population-based global search (often in the form of an evolutionary algorithm) coupled with a cultural evolutionary stage. This first generation of MA although encompasses characteristics of cultural evolution (in the form of local refinement) in the search cycle, it may not qualify as a true evolving system according to Universal Darwinism, since all the core principles of inheritance/ memetic transmission, variation and selection are missing. This suggests why the term MA stirred up criticisms and controversies among researchers when first introduced...

Is very similiar to:  http://www.springerlink.com/content/93888m4873651g16/

A proposition on memes and meta-memes in computing for higher ... by R Meuth - 2009 -

of MA refers to hybrid algorithms, a marriage between a population-based global search (often in the form of an evolutionary algorithm) coupled with a cultural evolution- ary stage. The first generation of MA though it encompasses characteristics of cultural evolution (in the form of local refinement) in the search ...

This needs to be looked into, and I'm going tag the article. Nihola (talk) 04:30, 10 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Well, here's a weird one. :) Yes, they do look to be pasted in and I have verified duplication of content, but they were entered in May 2008. The paper above was submitted in September 2008 and not published until 2009. I also found content match to this December 2009 paper. I think the answer here lies at User:SeineRiver, where the contributor of that content claims to work under Dr. Ong Yew Soon, who is cited as author in all content matches I've found. Ordinarily, we would write for verification in this case, but the content seems to have been published here first. If it was, there's no copyright concern here; Depending on the relationship between Dr. Ong Yew Soon and his PhD student, the use in subsequent publications is also likely to be perfectly fine, since our contributors do not relinquish copyright to what they place here.


 * I'm going to remove the tag, as I have failed to find any text matches to publications that predate the May 2008 publication of the content here. If a source is found that predates that use, we'll have to treat as we do any other copyright suspect material, by requesting an official donation of the content. Please retag in that case. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 13:50, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

Sections or pages for Lamarckian and Baldwinian learning?
I don't see any Lamarckian learning on wiki at all and all I can find is the Baldwin effect, which I think should be expanded to discuss it as a learning process. Maybe these should be listed briefly on this page which could some day migrate to their own pages? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 150.135.223.100 (talk) 23:54, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

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Remarks on revisions and additions from February 2023
Since most implementations of the memetic approach are done with the help of EAs, an appropriately adapted pseudocode has been added. A section on the theoretical rationale for MAs has also been added.

The template on Wikipedia's quality standards that section headings should not be phrased as questions has been removed because the headings have been changed. I don't think it looks any better now, though. The recommendation may be appropriate in many cases, but what better wording for questions to be decided than questions? Studi90 (talk) 11:27, 7 February 2023 (UTC)