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Inhalt
Preface.- Introduction.- I. What Are the Ages of My Three Sons? 1. Why Are Some Problems Difficult to Solve?- II. How Important Is a Model? 2. Basic Concepts.- III. What Are the Prices in 7-11? 3. Traditional Methods - Part 1.- IV. What Are the Numbers? 4. Traditional Methods - Part 2.- V. What''s the Color of the Bear? 5. Escaping Local Optima.- VI. How Good Is Your Intuition? 6. An Evolutionary Approach.- VII. One of These Things Is Not Like the Others 7. Designing Evolutionary Algorithms.- VIII. What Is the Shortest Way? 8. The Traveling Salesman Problem.- IX. Who Owns the Zebra? 9. Constraint-Handling Techniques.- X. Can You Tune to the Problem? 10. Tuning the Algorithm to the Problem.- XI. Can You Mate in Two Moves? 11. Time-Varying Environments and Noise.- XII. Day of the Week of January 1st. 12. Neural Networks.- XIII. What Was the Length of the Rope? 13. Fuzzy Systems.- XIV. Everything Depends on Something Else. 14. Coevolutionary Systems.- XV. Who is Taller? 15. Multicriteria Decision-Making. XVI. Do You Like Simple Solutions? 16. Hybrid Systems.- 17. Summary.- Appendices.- References.- Index.
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2nd edition
