Research Catalog

Title

Evolutionary computation : toward a new philosophy of machine intelligence / David B. Fogel.

Author

Fogel, David B.

Publication

New York : IEEE Press, 1995.

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Description

xv, 272 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subjects

• Computer simulation
• Artificial intelligence

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Ch. 1. Defining Artificial Intelligence. 1.2. The Turing Test. 1.3. Simulation of Human Expertise. 1.4. Neural Networks. 1.5. Definition of Intelligence. 1.6. Intelligence, the Scientific Method, and Evolution. 1.7. Evolving Artificial Intelligence -- Ch. 2. Natural Evolution. 2.1. The Neo-Darwinian Paradigm. 2.2. The Genotype and the Phenotype: The Optimization of Behavior. 2.3. Implications of Wright's Adaptive Topography: Optimization Is Extensive yet Incomplete. 2.4. The Evolution of Complexity: Minimizing Surprise. 2.5. Sexual Reproduction. 2.6. Sexual Selection. 2.7. Assessing the Beneficiary of Evolutionary Optimization. 2.8. Challenges to Neo-Darwinism -- Ch. 3. Computer Simulation of Natural Evolution. 3.1. Early Speculations and Specific Attempts. 3.2. Fogel: Evolutionary Programming. 3.3. Rechenberg and Schwefel: Evolution Strategies. 3.4. Holland: Genetic Algorithms. 3.5. Conrad, Galar, and Ray: Evolutionary Dynamics.
• 3.6. Philosophical Differences between Evolutionary and Genetic Algorithms -- Ch. 4. Theoretical and Empirical Properties of Evolutionary Computation. 4.1. The Difficulties. 4.2. Theoretical Analysis of Genetic Algorithms. 4.3. Theoretical Analysis of Evolutionary Algorithms. 4.4. Empirical Analysis -- Ch. 5. Intelligent Behavior. 5.1. Intelligence Requires Iterative Prediction and Control. 5.2. Evolutionary Identification and Control of a Nonlinear, Unstable Plant: The Cart-Pole System. 5.3. The Prisoner's Dilemma: Coevolutionary Adaptation. 5.4. General Problem Solving: Experiments with Tic-Tac-Toe -- Ch. 6. Perspective. 6.1. Evolution as a Unifying Principle of Intelligence. 6.2. Prediction and the Languagelike Nature of Intelligence. 6.3. The Misplaced Emphasis on Genetic Mechanisms. 6.4. Bottom-Up versus Top-Down. 6.5. Toward a New Philosophy of Machine Intelligence.

ISBN

0780310381 :

LCCN

94026693

OCLC

• 30810615
• ocm30810615

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Columbia University Libraries