Perspectives on Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems : Essays in Honor of John Holland

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This book is a collection of essays exploring adaptive systems from many perspectives, ranging from computational applications to models of adaptation in living and social systems. The essays on computation discuss history, theory, applications, and possible threats of adaptive and evolving computations systems. The modeling chapters cover topics such as evolution in microbial populations, the evolution of cooperation, and how ideas about evolution relate to economics. The title Perspectives on Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems honors John Holland, whose 1975 Book, Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems has become a classic text for many disciplines in which adaptation play a central role. The essays brought together here were originally written to honor John Holland, and span most of the different areas touched by his wide-ranging and influential research career. The authors include some of the most prominent scientists in the fields of artificial intelligence evolutionary computation, and complex adaptive systems. Taken together, these essays present a broad modern picture of current research on adaptation as it relates to computers, living systems, society, and their complex interactions. Content: Contents Introduction: Adaptation, Evolution, and Intelligence PART 1: GENETIC ALGORITHMS AND BEYOND Chapter 1: Genetic Algorithms: A 30-Year Perspective Chapter 2: Human-Competitive Machine Intelligence by Means of Genetic Algorithms Chapter 3: John H. Holland, Facetwise Models, and Economy of Thought PART 2: COMPUTATION, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, AND BEYOND Chapter 4: An Early Graduate Program in Computers and Communications Chapter 5: Had We But World Enough and Time ... Chapter 6: Discrete Event Abstraction: An Emerging Paradigm for Modeling Complex Adaptive Systems. Chapter 7: Good Old-Fashioned AI and Genetic Algorithms: An Exercise in Translation ScholarshipChapter 8: Moore's Law, Artificial Evolution, and the Fate of Humanity PART 3: THE NATURAL WORLD AND BEYOND Chapter 9: Evolution of Complexity in Microbial Populations Chapter 10: Favored Places in the Selfish Herd: Trading Off Food and Security Chapter 11: Tags, Interaction Patterns, and the Evolution of Cooperation Chapter 1.