Genetic programming. IV: Routine human-competitive machine intelligence. With DVD.

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This book, the fourth in a series of volumes dedicated to genetic programming, gives an overview of the latest results in this field. It describes a wide class of optimisation problems where the relationships between performance and parameters are highly disjoint and self-optimisation is done by nature-inspired methods. The book is divided into nineteen chapters of which the first one is an introduction. Chapter 2 provides basic information on Genetic Programming (GP), describing preparatory steps, executional steps, an overview on previous books dealing with GP and additional information about this subject. Chapter 3 presents how GP is used to automatically synthesize the design of controllers. The use of GP to automatically create both the topology and sizing of electrical circuits is shown in chapter 4. The automated process shown in chapter 4 does not produce the physical placement of various electrical components on the printed circuit board; in chapter 5 the physical placement of the components on a printed circuit board or silicon wafer and the routing problem (assignment of a particular location to the wires connecting the components) are presented. Automatic synthesis of antennas is presented in chapter 6. Chapters 7 and 8 focus on the use of GP to solving problems in biology: automatic synthesis of genetic networks and metabolic pathways. Chapters 9, 10, 13 demonstrate the use of GP to automatically create parameterised topologies for controllers (9), circuits (10), improved controllers (13); chapter 11 investigates the automatic synthesis of parameterised topologies with conditional developmental operators for circuits. Chapter 12 deals with the automatic synthesis of improved tuning rules for PID controllers (containing a Propositional block, an Integrative block and a Derivative block). The problem of reducing distortion in amplifiers (negative feed-back) is solved by means of GP in chapter 14. Chapter 15 reports that GP is capable of creating inventions that duplicate the functionality of six patents for analogue electrical circuits issued after 1st January 2000. Chapter 16 discusses characteristics of problems for which genetic algorithms may be better suited than GP and vice-versa, and problems for which genetic methods may be better suited than hill climbing, gradient search, simulated annealing. Chapters 17 and 18 discuss how GP may take advantage of parallel computing and increasing computational power made available by iterations of Moore's law. The book ends with a conclusion part. The book, excellently written, is fundamental for anyone interested in genetic programming and its applications to solving practical complex problems.




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