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An Introduction to Metaheuristics for Optimization

By: Bastien Chopard,Marco Tomassini

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An Introduction to Metaheuristics for Optimization

By: Bastien Chopard,Marco Tomassini

The authors stress the relative simplicity, efficiency, flexibility of use, and suitability of various approaches used to solve difficult optimization problems. The authors are experienced, interdisciplinary lecturers and researchers and in their explanations they demonstrate many shared foundational concepts among the key methodologies. This textbook is a suitable introduction for undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, and professionals in computer science, engineering, and logistics.

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Springer

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3319930737

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9783319930732

Spatially Structured Evolutionary Algorithms

Artificial Evolution in Space and Time

By: Marco Tomassini

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Spatially Structured Evolutionary Algorithms

Artificial Evolution in Space and Time

By: Marco Tomassini

Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) is now a mature problem-solving family of heuristics that has found its way into many important real-life problems and into leading-edge scientific research. Spatially structured EAs have different properties than standard, mixing EAs. By virtue of the structured disposition of the population members they bring about new dynamical features that can be harnessed to solve difficult problems faster and more efficiently. This book describes the state of the art in spatially structured EAs by using graph concepts as a unifying theme. The models, their analysis, and their empirical behavior are presented in detail. Moreover, there is new material on non-standard networked population structures such as small-world networks. The book should be of interest to advanced undergraduate and graduate students working in evolutionary computation, machine learning, and optimization. It should also be useful to researchers and professionals working in fields where the topological structures of populations and their evolution plays a role.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540241930

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Spatially Structured Evolutionary Algorithms

Artificial Evolution in Space and Time

By: Marco Tomassini

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Spatially Structured Evolutionary Algorithms

Artificial Evolution in Space and Time

By: Marco Tomassini

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Towards Evolvable Hardware

The Evolutionary Engineering Approach

By: Eduardo Sanchez,Marco Tomassini

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Towards Evolvable Hardware

The Evolutionary Engineering Approach

By: Eduardo Sanchez,Marco Tomassini

Evolutionary computing, inspired by the biological world, is one of the emergent technologies of our time. Being essentially a software activity, it has been successfully applied, e.g. for optimization and machine learning in various areas. The tremendous increase in computational power and, more recently, the appearance of a new generation of programmable logic devices allow for a new approach to designing computing machines inspired by biological models: it is now possible to make the hardware itself evolve. This book is based on a workshop on evolvable hardware, held in Lausanne, Switzerland, in October 1995. It reports the state of the art of research in this field and presents two introductory chapters, written with the novice reader in mind.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540610936

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9783540610939

Soft Computing

Integrating Evolutionary, Neural, and Fuzzy Systems

By: Andrea Tettamanzi,Marco Tomassini

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Soft Computing

Integrating Evolutionary, Neural, and Fuzzy Systems

By: Andrea Tettamanzi,Marco Tomassini

Soft computing encompasses various computational methodologies, which, unlike conventional algorithms, are tolerant of imprecision, uncertainty, and partial truth. Soft computing technologies offer adaptability as a characteristic feature and thus permit the tracking of a problem through a changing environment. Besides some recent developments in areas like rough sets and probabilistic networks, fuzzy logic, evolutionary algorithms, and artificial neural networks are core ingredients of soft computing, which are all bio-inspired and can easily be combined synergetically. This book presents a well-balanced integration of fuzzy logic, evolutionary computing, and neural information processing. The three constituents are introduced to the reader systematically and brought together in differentiated combinations step by step. The text was developed from courses given by the authors and offers numerous illustrations as

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3662043351

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9783662043356

Evolutionary Electronics

Automatic Design of Electronic Circuits and Systems by Genetic Algorithms

By: Ricardo Salem Zebulum,Marco Aurelio Pacheco,Marley Maria Be Vellasco

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Evolutionary Electronics

Automatic Design of Electronic Circuits and Systems by Genetic Algorithms

By: Ricardo Salem Zebulum,Marco Aurelio Pacheco,Marley Maria Be Vellasco

From the explosion of interest, research, and applications of evolutionary computation a new field emerges-evolutionary electronics. Focused on applying evolutionary computation concepts and techniques to the domain of electronics, many researchers now see it as holding the greatest potential for overcoming the drawbacks of conventional design techniques. Evolutionary Electronics: Automatic Design of Electronic Circuits and Systems by Genetic Algorithms formally introduces and defines this area of research, presents its main challenges in electronic design, and explores emerging technologies. It describes the evolutionary computation paradigm and its primary algorithms, and explores topics of current interest, such as multi-objective optimization. The authors examine numerous evolutionary electronics applications, draw conclusions about those applications, and sketch the future of evolutionary computation and its applications in electronics. In coming years, the appearance of more and more advanced technologies will increase the complexity of optimization and synthesis problems, and evolutionary electronics will almost certainly become a key to solving those problems. Evolutionary Electronics is your key to discovering and unlocking the potential of this promising new field.

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CRC Press

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1420041592

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9781420041590

Non-Divergence Equations Structured on Hormander Vector Fields: Heat Kernels and Harnack Inequalities

Heat Kernels and Harnack Inequalities

By: Marco Bramanti

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Non-Divergence Equations Structured on Hormander Vector Fields: Heat Kernels and Harnack Inequalities

Heat Kernels and Harnack Inequalities

By: Marco Bramanti

March 2010, Volume 204, number 961 (end of volume).

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American Mathematical Soc.

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0821849034

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Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation

Proceedings of Wivace 2008, Venice, Italy, 8-10 September 2008

By: Roberto Serra,Marco Villani,Irene Poli

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Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation

Proceedings of Wivace 2008, Venice, Italy, 8-10 September 2008

By: Roberto Serra,Marco Villani,Irene Poli

The Italian community in Artificial Life and Evolutionary computation has grown remarkably in recent years, and this book is the first broad collection of its major interests and achievements (including contributions from foreign countries). The contributions in Artificial Life as well as in Evolutionary Computation allow one to see the deep connections between the two fields. The topics addressed are extremely relevant for present day research in Artificial Life and in Evolutionary Computation, which include important contributions from very well-known researchers. The volume provides a very broad picture of the Italian activities in this field.

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World Scientific

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981428744X

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9789814287449

Modelling Protocells

The Emergent Synchronization of Reproduction and Molecular Replication

By: Roberto Serra,Marco Villani

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Modelling Protocells

The Emergent Synchronization of Reproduction and Molecular Replication

By: Roberto Serra,Marco Villani

The monograph discusses models of synthetic protocells, which are cell-like structures obtained from non-living matter endowed with some rudimentary kind of metabolism and genetics, but much simpler than biological cells. They should grow and proliferate, generating offsprings that resemble in some way the parent protocells with some variation, so that selection may take place. Sustainable protocell populations have not yet been obtained experimentally and mathematical models are therefore extremely important to address key questions concerning their synthesis and behavior. Different protocell “architectures” have been proposed and high-level abstract models like those that are presented in this book are particularly relevant to gain a better understanding of the different properites. These models are able to treat all the major dynamical phenomena in a unified framework, so they can be seen as “virtual laboratories” for protocell research. Particular attention is paid to the problem of synchronization of the fission rate of the whole protocell and the duplication rate of its "protogenetic" material, which is shown to be an emergent property that spontaneously develops in successive generations. The book is of interest for a broad range of scientists working in soft matter physics, chemistry and biology, interested in the role protocells may play on the development of new technologies with medical, environmental and industrial applications as well as scientists interested in the origin of life.

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Springer

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9402411607

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9789402411607

Statistical Physics and Computational Methods for Evolutionary Game Theory

By: Marco Alberto Javarone

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Statistical Physics and Computational Methods for Evolutionary Game Theory

By: Marco Alberto Javarone

This book presents an introduction to Evolutionary Game Theory (EGT) which is an emerging field in the area of complex systems attracting the attention of researchers from disparate scientific communities. EGT allows one to represent and study several complex phenomena, such as the emergence of cooperation in social systems, the role of conformity in shaping the equilibrium of a population, and the dynamics in biological and ecological systems.Since EGT models belong to the area of complex systems, statistical physics constitutes a fundamental ingredient for investigating their behavior. At the same time, the complexity of some EGT models, such as those realized by means of agent-based methods, often require the implementation of numerical simulations. Therefore, beyond providing an introduction to EGT, this book gives a brief overview of the main statistical physics tools (such as phase transitions and the Ising model) and computational strategies for simulating evolutionary games (such as Monte Carlo algorithms on lattices). This book will appeal to students and researchers in this burgeoning field of complex systems.

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331970205X

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Surviving Theatre

The Living Archive of Spectatorship

By: Marco Pustianaz

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Surviving Theatre

The Living Archive of Spectatorship

By: Marco Pustianaz

Written soon before and in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic, when theatre ground to a halt and spectatorship was suspended, this book takes stock of spectatorship as theatre’s living archive and affirms its value in the midst of the present crisis. Drawing from a manifold affective archive of performances and installations (by Marina Abramović, Ron Athey, Forced Entertainment, Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio, Blast Theory, LIGNA, Doris Salcedo, Graeme Miller, Lenz Rifrazioni, Cristina Rizzo, etc.), and expanding on the work of many theorists and scholars, such as Roland Barthes and Jacques Rancière, Giorgio Agamben and Alain Badiou, Nicholas Ridout and Alan Read, among others, the book focuses on the spectator as the subject, rather than the object, of investigation. This is the right time to remember their secret power and theorise their collective time in the theatre. This book is an archive of their adventure and a manifesto rooted in their potentiality. It boldly posits the spectator as the inaugurator of theatre, the surplus that survives it. The book will be of great interest to spectators all and sundry, to scholars and students of theatre and performance studies, of spectatorship and politics.

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Routledge

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1000450546

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Cryogenic Systems

Advanced Monitoring, Fault Diagnostics, and Predictive Maintenance

By: Pasquale Arpaia,Mario Girone,Vitaliano Inglese,Marco Pezzetti

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Cryogenic Systems

Advanced Monitoring, Fault Diagnostics, and Predictive Maintenance

By: Pasquale Arpaia,Mario Girone,Vitaliano Inglese,Marco Pezzetti

In this book, advanced methods and techniques of monitoring, fault diagnostics, and predictive maintenance for cryogenics are illustrated. In Part I on Background, mainstreams in the related research are reviewed. In Part II of Methods, for monitoring helium distribution and consumption in cryogenic systems for particle accelerators, a virtual flowmeter is presented. Then, for fault diagnostics, two methods, for fault detection on a compressor, and for distributed diagnostics based on a micro-genetic algorithm, are described. Finally, for predictive maintenance, a metaheuristic optimization scheduling algorithm is illustrated. In Part III of Application examples, several practical case studies are described for highlighting the application of the previous methods to cryogenics of particle accelerators at CERN.

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Momentum Press

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1946646326

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9781946646323

Literature of the Somali Diaspora

Space, Language and Resistance in Somali Novels in English and Italian

By: Marco Medugno

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Literature of the Somali Diaspora

Space, Language and Resistance in Somali Novels in English and Italian

By: Marco Medugno

The first study of Anglophone and Italian novels by Somali diasporic authors, offering a new critical framework for multilingual and transnational analysis of Somali literature. Building on the latest scholarship about multilingual contexts, diaspora studies and the rapidly expanding field of Italian postcolonial studies, Marco Medugno examines Somali diasporic literature with a comparative perspective. Considering works written in English and Italian, he argues that Somali diasporic authors share similar themes and aesthetics, thus creating an interliterary community within the diaspora space. By using multilingualism as a starting point, Medugno provides significant insights into how Somali national and individual identities are constructed in diasporic, global contexts through geography, style, form, language and the re-writing of national histories emerging out of colonization and independence. Analysing acclaimed Somali novels such as Nuruddin Farah's Links and Crossbones, Igiaba Scego's Adua and Cristina Ali Farah's Little Mother, he questions any definition of 'local' as 'provincial', instead considering it a site for interrogating global concerns. Literature of the Somali Diaspora is organized around three themes: spatiality, language and resistance help to contextualize authors, forced by the decades-long Somali Civil War, to write outside Somalia and in different languages – including Somali, Italian, English, German, Dutch and Arabic – within global literary circuits. Their work thus creates a literature not confined within national borders but an interliterary global community, a transnational and multilingual space in which they share world aesthetic ideologies, challenge and engage with literary traditions in different languages and show an interplay between diverse cultures.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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ISBN 13

9798765107508

An Invitation to Hypoelliptic Operators and Hörmander's Vector Fields

By: Marco Bramanti

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An Invitation to Hypoelliptic Operators and Hörmander's Vector Fields

By: Marco Bramanti

Hörmander's operators are an important class of linear elliptic-parabolic degenerate partial differential operators with smooth coefficients, which have been intensively studied since the late 1960s and are still an active field of research. This text provides the reader with a general overview of the field, with its motivations and problems, some of its fundamental results, and some recent lines of development.

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