Product Description: Taking inspiration from self-awareness in humans, this book introduces the new notion of computational self-awareness as a fundamental concept for designing and operating computing systems. The basic ability of such self-aware computing systems is to collect information about their state and progress, learning and maintaining models containing knowledge that enables them to reason about their behaviour...read more

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Product Description: This book provides a compilation on the state-of-the-art and recent advances of evolutionary computation for dynamic optimization problems. The motivation for this book arises from the fact that many real-world optimization problems and engineering systems are subject to dynamic environments, where changes occur over time...read more

Product Description: Evolutionary Computing is a rapidly expanding area of computer science and its applications. This book covers a wide range of techniques aimed at explaining the subject to an audience ranging from advanced undergraduates and researchers to practitioners operating in the field...read more

Product Description: In 1984, Robert Axelrod published a book, relating the story of two competitions which he ran, where invited academics entered strategies for the Iterated Prisoners Dilemma. The book, almost 20 years on, is still widely read and cited by academics and the general public...read more

Product Description: Evolvable hardware (EHW) refers to hardware whose architecture/structure and functions change dynamically and autonomously in order to improve its performance in carrying out tasks. The only single resource presenting both the fundamentals, and the latest advances in the field, this book teaches the basics of reconfigurable devices, why they are necessary and how they are designed...read more

Product Description: Evolvable hardware (EHW) refers to hardware whose architecture/structure and functions change dynamically and autonomously in order to improve its performance in carrying out tasks. The only single resource presenting both the fundamentals, and the latest advances in the field, this book teaches the basics of reconfigurable devices, why they are necessary and how they are designed...read more

Product Description: Intelligent systems have attracted increasing attention in recent years for solving many complex problems. This study provides a discussion of the theory and applications of intelligent systems techniques in modelling control and automation. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: We are proud to introduce the proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, PPSN VI, held in Paris, Prance, on 18-20 September 2000. PPSN VI was organized in association with the Genetic and Evolutionary Computing Conference (GECCO'2000) and the Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC'2000), reflecting the beneficial interaction between the conference activities in Europe and in the USA in the field of natural computation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This proceedings contains more than 70 papers accepted by the Eighth Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. The theme of the conference is bridging the gap between symbolic and subsymbolic approaches to AI and the gap between theories and applications...read more

Product Description: This volume contains the best carefully revised full papers selected from the presentations accepted for the AI '93 and AI '94 Workshop on Evolutionary Computation held in Australia.The 21 papers included cover a wide range of topics in the field of evolutionary computation, from constrained function optimization to combinatorial optimization, from evolutionary programming to genetic programming, from robotic strategy learning to co-evolutionary game strategy learning...read more