Foundations of Generic Optimization: Volume 1: A Combinatorial Approach to Epistasis

by M. Iglesias, César Vidal, A. Verschoren, et al.

Book Overview

This book deals with combinatorial aspects of epistasis, a notion that existed for years in genetics and appeared in the ?eld of evolutionary algorithms in the early 1990s. Even thoughthe'rst chapterputsepistasisintheperspective ofevolutionary algorithms and arti'cial intelligence, and applications occasionally pop up in other chapters, thisbookisessentiallyaboutmathematics, aboutcombinatorialtechniques to compute in an e'cient and mathematically...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402036663
• ISBN13: 9781402036668
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 2.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"