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Argues that American industry has sacrificed the long-range benefits of productivity for short-term profits and discusses the United States economic future

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Thorough introductory textbook providing all the necessary mathematical tools along with many examples and worked problems. Paper.

This book discusses a class of algorithms which rely on analogies to natural processes - algorithms based on the principle of evolution, i.e., survival of the fittest. In these algorithms, called evolution programs, a population of individuals undergo a sequence of transformations. The individuals strive for survival: a selection scheme biased towards fitter individuals selects the next generation. After some generations, the program converges and the best individual hopefully represents the optimum solution. Hence evolution programming techniques are applicable to various hard optimization problems. The book discusses constrained optimization problems in the areas of optimal control, operations research, and engineering. The problems include optimization of functions with linear constraints, the traveling salesman problem, scheduling and partitioning problems, etc. All methods are illustrated by results obtained from various experimental systems. The book collects, in a unified and comprehensive manner, the results of evolution programming techniques previously available only in widely scattered research papers. The importance of these techniques has been growing in the last decade, since evolution programs are parallel in nature, and parallelism is one of the most promising directions in computer science. The book is self-contained and the only prerequisite is basic undergraduate mathematics. It is aimed at researchers, practitioners, and graduate students in the areas of computer science (especially artificial intelligence), operations research, and engineering.

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Describes the history, daily life, climate, sports, and points of interest of Washington, D.C.

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Four thousand years from now, the last remnants of humanity battle for survival beneath a hostile sun. Two thousand people remain suspended in endless slumber while others toil for the means to wake them. Carnal desires and the lexicon of physical pleasures have been forgotten in the long age that passed since the last humans made love. Barbaric dreams and strange fantasies are all that remain. Ehlana, historian and time traveler, becomes the unwitting bridge between her own time and ours as she travels in search of an answer. She discovers that her own primal memories provide the key which unlocks the door to another world and her own sexual awakening.

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