A Connectionist Machine for Genetic Hillclimbing

by David Ackley

Book Overview

In the "black box function optimization" problem, a search strategy is required to find an extremal point of a function without knowing the structure of the function or the range of possible function values. Solving such problems efficiently requires two abilities. On the one hand, a strategy must be capable of learning while searching: It must gather global information about the space and concentrate the search in the most promising regions. On the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1461291925
• ISBN13: 9781461291923
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"