?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Using+Localised+%E2%80%98Gossip%E2%80%99+to+Structure+Distributed+Learning&rft.creator=Edmonds%2C+Bruce&rft.subject=Machine+Learning&rft.subject=Ecology&rft.subject=Social+simulation&rft.description=The+idea+of+a+%E2%80%9Cmemetic%E2%80%9D+spread+of+solutions+through+a+human+culture+in+parallel+to+their+development+is+applied+as+a+distributed+approach+to+learning.++Local+parts+of+a+problem+are+associated+with+a+set+of+overlappingt+localities+in+a+space+and+solutions+are+then+evolved+in+those+localites.++Good+solutions+are+not+only+crossed+with+others+to+search+for+better+solutions+but+also+they+propogate+across+the+areas+of+the+problem+space+where+they+are+relatively+successful.++Thus+the+whole+population+co-evolves+solutions+with+the+domains+in+which+they+are+found+to+work.++This+approach+is+compared+to+the+equivalent+global+evolutionary+computation+approach+with+respect+to+predicting+the+occcurence+of+heart+disease+in+the+Cleveland+data+set.++It+greatly+outperforms+the+global+approach%2C+but+the+space+of+attributes+within+which+this+evolutionary+process+occurs+can+effect+its+efficiency.&rft.publisher=AISB&rft.date=2005&rft.type=Conference+Paper&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F4265%2F1%2Fulgtsdl.pdf&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F4265%2F2%2Fulgtsdl.html&rft.identifier=++Edmonds%2C+Bruce++(2005)+Using+Localised+%E2%80%98Gossip%E2%80%99+to+Structure+Distributed+Learning.++%5BConference+Paper%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F4265%2F