Synopses & Reviews
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.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Adaptation, Evolution, and Intelligence,
Lashon Booker, Stephanie Forrest, Melanie Mitchell, and Rick RioloPART 1: GENETIC ALGOROTHMS AND BEYOND
1. Genetic Algorithms: A 30 Year Perspective, Kenneth DeJong
2. Human-Competitive Machine Intelligence by Means of Genetic Algorithms, John R. Koza
3. John Holland, Facetwise models, and Economy of Thought, David E. Goldberg
PART 2: COMPUTATION, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, AND BEYOND
4. An Early Graduate Program in Computers and Communications, Arthur W. Burks
5. Had We But World Enough and Time, Oliver G. Selfridge
6. Discrete Event Abstraction: An Emerging Paradigm for Modeling Complex Adaptive Systems, Bernard P. Zeigler
7. Good Old-Fashioned AI and Genetic Algorithms: An Exercise in Translation Scholarship, Herbert A. Simon
8. Moore's Law, Artificial Evolutionm and the Fate of Humanity, Douglad R. Hofstadter
PART 3: THE NATURAL WORLD AND BEYOND
9. Evolution of Complexity in Microbial Populations, Julian Adams
10. Favored Places in the Selfish Herd: Trading Off Food and Security, Bobbi S. Low, Doug Finkbeiner, and Carl Simon
11. Tags, Interaction Patterns and the Evolution of Cooperation, Rick Riolo, Robert Axelrod, and Michael D. Cohen
12. The Impact of Environmental Dynamics on Cultural Emergence, Robert G. Reynolds and Salah Saleem
13. John Holland and the Evolution of Economics, Kenneth J. Arrow
14. Cognition: The Black Box of Economics, W. Brian Arthur
Index