Advances in the Evolutionary Synthesis of Intelligent Agents (A Bradford Book) - Hardcover

Patel, Mukesh J

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0262162016 ISBN 13: 9780262162012

Publisher: MIT Press, 2001

Synopsis

This book explores a central issue in artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and artificial life: how to design information structures and processes that create and adapt intelligent agents through evolution and learning.

Among the first uses of the computer was the development of programs to model perception, reasoning, learning, and evolution. Further developments resulted in computers and programs that exhibit aspects of intelligent behavior. The field of artificial intelligence is based on the premise that thought processes can be computationally modeled. Computational molecular biology brought a similar approach to the study of living systems. In both cases, hypotheses concerning the structure, function, and evolution of cognitive systems (natural as well as synthetic) take the form of computer programs that store, organize, manipulate, and use information.

Systems whose information processing structures are fully programmed are difficult to design for all but the simplest applications. Real-world environments call for systems that are able to modify their behavior by changing their information processing structures. Cognitive and information structures and processes, embodied in living systems, display many effective designs for biological intelligent agents. They are also a source of ideas for designing artificial intelligent agents. This book explores a central issue in artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and artificial life: how to design information structures and processes that create and adapt intelligent agents through evolution and learning.

The book is organized around four topics: the power of evolution to determine effective solutions to complex tasks, mechanisms to make evolutionary design scalable, the use of evolutionary search in conjunction with local learning algorithms, and the extension of evolutionary search in novel directions.

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About the Authors

Mukesh Patel is Vice President, Applitech Solutions Ltd., and Visiting Lecturer at the Nirma Institute of Technology, Ahmedabad, India.

Vasant Honavar is Associate Professor of Computer Science, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, and Neuroscience and Director of the Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory at Iowa State University.

Karthik Balakrishnan leads the Decision Analytics Group at Obongo Inc., California.

Edition details

• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0262162016
• ISBN 13: 9780262162012
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 504