Perspectives on Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems

by Lashon Booker, Stephanie Forrest, Melanie Mitchell, Rick Riolo

Overview

This book is a collection of essays exploring adaptive systems from many perspectives, ranging from computational applications to models of adaptation in living and social systems. The essays on computation discuss history, theory, applications, and possible threats of adaptive and evolving computations systems. The modeling chapters cover topics such as evolution in microbial populations, the evolution of cooperation, and how ideas about evolution relate to economics.
The title Perspectives on Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems honors John Holland, whose 1975 Book, Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems has become a classic text for many disciplines in which adaptation play a central role. The essays brought together here were originally written to honor John Holland, and span most of the different areas touched by his wide-ranging and influential research career. The authors include some of the most prominent scientists in the fields of artificial intelligence evolutionary computation, and complex adaptive systems. Taken together, these essays present a broad modern picture of current research on adaptation as it relates to computers, living systems, society, and their complex interactions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195162929
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	02/24/2005
Series:	Santa Fe Institute Studies on the Sciences of Complexity
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	324
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

MITRE Corp.

University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

Oregon Health and Science University

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Table of Contents

Introduction: Adaptation, Evolution, and Intelligence, Lashon Booker, Stephanie Forrest, Melanie Mitchell, and Rick RioloPART 1: GENETIC ALGOROTHMS AND BEYOND1. Genetic Algorithms: A 30 Year Perspective, Kenneth DeJong2. Human-Competitive Machine Intelligence by Means of Genetic Algorithms, John R. Koza3. John Holland, Facetwise models, and Economy of Thought, David E. GoldbergPART 2: COMPUTATION, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, AND BEYOND4. An Early Graduate Program in Computers and Communications, Arthur W. Burks5. Had We But World Enough and Time, Oliver G. Selfridge6. Discrete Event Abstraction: An Emerging Paradigm for Modeling Complex Adaptive Systems, Bernard P. Zeigler7. Good Old-Fashioned AI and Genetic Algorithms: An Exercise in Translation Scholarship, Herbert A. Simon8. Moore's Law, Artificial Evolutionm and the Fate of Humanity, Douglad R. HofstadterPART 3: THE NATURAL WORLD AND BEYOND9. Evolution of Complexity in Microbial Populations, Julian Adams10. Favored Places in the Selfish Herd: Trading Off Food and Security, Bobbi S. Low, Doug Finkbeiner, and Carl Simon11. Tags, Interaction Patterns and the Evolution of Cooperation, Rick Riolo, Robert Axelrod, and Michael D. Cohen12. The Impact of Environmental Dynamics on Cultural Emergence, Robert G. Reynolds and Salah Saleem13. John Holland and the Evolution of Economics, Kenneth J. Arrow14. Cognition: The Black Box of Economics, W. Brian ArthurIndex