Perspectives on Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems

Introduction: Adaptation, Evolution, and Intelligence, Lashon Booker, Stephanie Forrest, Melanie Mitchell, and Rick Riolo. PART 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