Knowledge Incorporation in Evolutionary Computation
By: edited by Yaochu Jin
Contributors: SpringerLink (Online service)
Series: Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing -- 167
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg; Imprint: Springer
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 548
ISBN-13: 9783540445111
Subjects: Applications of Mathematics; Engineering; Engineering mathematics; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering; Mathematics; Artificial intelligence
Description: This carefully edited book puts together the state-of-the-art and recent advances in knowledge incorporation in evolutionary computation within a unified framework. The book provides a comprehensive self-contained view of knowledge incorporation in evolutionary computation including a concise introduction to evolutionary algorithms as well as knowledge representation methods.&nbsp;"Knowledge Incorporation in Evolutionary&nbsp;Computation" is a valuable reference for researchers, students and professionals from engineering and computer science, in particular in the areas of artificial intelligence, soft computing, natural computing, and evolutionary computation.
Table of contents: title: From the contents: Part I: Introduction; title: A Selected Introduction to Evolutionary Computation; title: Part II: Knowledge Incorporation in Initialization, Recombination and Mutation; title: The Use of Collective Memory in Genetic Programming; title: A Cultural Algorithm for Solving the Job Shop Scheduling Problem; title: Part III: Knowledge Incorporation in Selection and Reproduction; title: Learning Probabilistic Models for Enhanced Evolutionary Computation; title: Probabilistic Models for Linkage Learning in Forest Management; title: Part IV: Knowledge Incorporation in Fitness Evaluations; title: Neural Networks for Fitness Approximation in Evolutionary Optimization; title: Part V: Knowledge Incorporation Through Lifetime Learning and Human-Computer Interactions; title: Knowledge Incorporation Through Lifetime Learning; title: Part VI: Preference Incorporation in Multi-objective Evolutionary Computation; title: Integrating User Preferences into Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization.