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In article <1iscvrINNcp2@life.ai.mit.edu> mdlm@great-grain.ai.mit.edu (Michael De-la-Maza) writes:
>Lots of books (e.g., Goldberg's textbook and Koza's Genetic Programming)
>refer to tournament selection.  However, I have been unable to find the
>original source of the method.  Does anyone know what the original
>citation is?

According to Goldberg & Deb [1] "A form of tournament selection
attributed to unpublished work by Wetzel was studied in Brindle's
(1981) [2] dissertation..."

So it looks like the original source was: (a) before 1981, and 
(b) unpublished.


[1] Goldberg & Deb (1990) "A Comparative analysis of selection schemes
used in genetic algorithms" TCGA report No. 90007, also published in
FOGA-91, ed. G.J. Rawlins.

[2] Brindle, A (1981) "Genetic algorithms for function optimisation"
(Doctoral dissertation, Univ. of Michigan). Dissertation abstracts
international, 36(10), 5140B (University Microfilms No. 76-9381)

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