Concentrates on developing intuition about evolutionary computation and problem solving skills and tool sets. Lots of applications and test problems, including a biotechnology chapter.

Evolutionary Computation for Modeling and Optimization (Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics)

Computers & Technology

Ashlock, Daniel

Computer Science

Springer

Evolutionary Computation for Modeling and Optimization

Evolving agents to play games is a promising technology. It can provide entertaining opponents for games like Chess or Checkers, matched to a human opponent as an alternative to the perfect and unbeatable opponents embodied by current artifical intelligences. Evolved agents also permit us to explore the strategy space of mathematical games like Prisoner's Dilemma and Rock-Paper-Scissors. This book summarizes, explores, and extends recent work showing that there are many unsuspected factors that must be controlled in order to create a plausible or useful set of agents for modeling cooperation and conflict, deal making, or other social behaviors. The book also provides a proposal for an agent training protocol that is intended as a step toward being able to train humaniform agents-in other words, agents that plausibly model human behavior.

On the Design of Game-Playing Agents (Synthesis Lectures on Games and Computational Intelligence)

Kim, Eun-Youn

Morgan & Claypool Publishers

Exploring Representation in Evolutionary Level Design (Synthesis Lectures on Games and Computational Intelligence)

Automatic content generation is the production of content for games, web pages, or other purposes by procedural means. Search-based automatic content generation employs search-based algorithms to accomplish automatic content generation. This book presents a number of different techniques for search-based automatic content generation where the search algorithm is an evolutionary algorithm. The chapters treat puzzle design, the creation of small maps or mazes, the use of L-systems and a generalization of L-system to create terrain maps, the use of cellular automata to create maps, and, finally, the decomposition of the design problem for large, complex maps culminating in the creation of a map for a fantasy game module with designersupplied content and tactical features. The evolutionary algorithms used for the different types of content are generic and similar, with the exception of the novel sparse initialization technique are presented in Chapter 2. The points where the content generation systems vary are in the design of their fitness functions and in the way the space of objects being searched is represented. A large variety of different fitness functions are designed and explained, and similarly radically different representations are applied to the design of digital objects all of which are, essentially, maps for use in games.

Games & Strategy Guides

Fast Start Differential Calculus (Synthesis Lectures on Mathematics and Statistics)

This book reviews the algebraic prerequisites of calculus, including solving equations, lines, quadratics, functions, logarithms, and trig functions. It introduces the derivative using the limit-based definition and covers the standard function library and the product, quotient, and chain rules. It explores the applications of the derivative to curve sketching and optimization and concludes with the formal definition of the limit, the squeeze theorem, and the mean value theorem.

Science & Math

Mathematics

Morgan Claypool

This book introduces integrals, the fundamental theorem of calculus, initial value problems, and Riemann sums. It introduces properties of polynomials, including roots and multiplicity, and uses them as a framework for introducing additional calculus concepts including Newton's method, L'Hôpital's Rule, and Rolle's theorem. Both the differential and integral calculus of parametric, polar, and vector functions are introduced. The book concludes with a survey of methods of integration, including u-substitution, integration by parts, special trigonometric integrals, trigonometric substitution, and partial fractions.

Fast Start Integral Calculus (Synthesis Lectures on Mathematics and Statistics)

Fast Start Advanced Calculus (Synthesis Lectures on Mathematics and Statistics)

This book continues the material in two early Fast Start calculus volumes to include multivariate calculus, sequences and series, and a variety of additional applications. These include partial derivatives and the optimization techniques that arise from them, including Lagrange multipliers. Volumes of rotation, arc length, and surface area are included in the additional applications of integration. Using multiple integrals, including computing volume and center of mass, is covered. The book concludes with an initial treatment of sequences, series, power series, and Taylor's series, including techniques of function approximation.

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Evolutionary Computation for Modeling and Optimization (Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics)

Evolutionary Computation for Modeling and Optimization

On the Design of Game-Playing Agents (Synthesis Lectures on Games and Computational Intelligence)

Exploring Representation in Evolutionary Level Design (Synthesis Lectures on Games and Computational Intelligence)

Exploring Representation in Evolutionary Level Design (Synthesis Lectures on Games and Computational Intelligence)

Fast Start Differential Calculus (Synthesis Lectures on Mathematics and Statistics)

Fast Start Differential Calculus (Synthesis Lectures on Mathematics and Statistics)

Fast Start Integral Calculus (Synthesis Lectures on Mathematics and Statistics)

Fast Start Advanced Calculus (Synthesis Lectures on Mathematics and Statistics)

Fast Start Advanced Calculus (Synthesis Lectures on Mathematics and Statistics)