Genetic Programming: On the Programming of Computers by Means of Natural Selection (Complex Adaptive Systems)

Genetic programming may be more powerful than neural networks and other machine learning techniques, able to solve problems in a wider range of disciplines. In this ground-breaking book, John Koza shows how this remarkable paradigm works and provides substantial empirical evidence that solutions to a great variety of problems from many different fields can be found by genetically breeding populations of computer programs.
Genetic Programming
contains a great many worked examples and includes a sample computer code that will allow readers to run their own programs.
In getting computers to solve problems without being explicitly programmed, Koza stresses two points: that seemingly different problems from a variety of fields can be reformulated as problems of program induction, and that the recently developed genetic programming paradigm provides a way to search the space of possible computer programs for a highly fit individual computer program to solve the problems of program induction. Good programs are found by evolving them in a computer against a fitness measure instead of by sitting down and writing them.
John R. Koza is Consulting Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University.
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title: Genetic Programming: On the Programming of Computers by Means of Natural Selection (Complex Adaptive Systems)
purchase date: 14-12-2005
publisher: The MIT Press
published: 11-12-1992
price: $80.00
pages: 840
net Rating: 4.5
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genre: Programming
fullTitle: Genetic Programming: On the Programming of Computers by Means of Natural Selection (Complex Adaptive Systems)
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country: us
author: John R. Koza
aspect: Hardcover
asin: 0262111705