Product Description: Meta-heuristics have developed dramatically since their inception in the early 1980s. They have had widespread success in attacking a variety of practical and difficult combinatorial optimization problems. These families of approaches include, but are not limited to greedy random adaptive search procedures, genetic algorithms, problem-space search, neural networks, simulated annealing, tabu search, threshold algorithms, and their hybrids...read more

Product Description: A pioneering exploration of the phenomenon of the composite state in Eighteenth-century Europe. Employing a comparative approach, it combines the findings of new research on Ireland with broader syntheses of major composite states in Europe – those of France, Austria and Poland-Lithuania...read more

Presents a collection of science fiction tales on the topic of slipstream by such authors as Michael Chabon, George Saunders, Karen Joy Fowler, and Carol Emschwiller.

The cat-like aliens of the planet Chan attempt to trade the secret to long life to the Messengers in exchange for much-needed wheat