The Flocks of the Wamani: A Study of Llama Herders on the Punas of Ayacucho, Peru

In this volume, the authors present an original ethnographic study of five llama herding communities in Ayacucho, Peru. Data on herd dynamics are subjected to computer modeling in an effort to evaluate the roles of biology, symbolic and ritual behavior, ecological adaptation, and practical reason. The book contains the most detailed study of the waytakuy llama marking ceremony yet available. The role of this ceremony in preventing herds from going to extinction is evaluated against anthropological and sociobiological theory. This is an interdisciplinary book will appeal to professional archaeologists, prehistorians, cultural anthropologists, Andeanists, theoretical biologists, evolutionary biologists, and zoologists interested in animal domestication.

Politics & Social Sciences

Marcus, Joyce

Reynolds, Robert G.

FLANNERY, Kent V.

Anthropology

Academic Pr

In this volume, the authors present an original ethnographic study of five llama herding communities in Ayacucho, Peru. Data on herd dynamics are subjected to computer modeling in an effort to evaluate the roles of biology, symbolic and ritual behavior, ecological adaptation, and practical reason. The book contains the most detailed study of the waytakuy llama marking ceremony yet available. The role of this ceremony in preventing herds from going to extinction is evaluated against anthropological and sociobiological theory. This is an interdisciplinary book will appeal to professional archaeologists, prehistorians, cultural anthropologists, Andeanists, theoretical biologists, evolutionary biologists, and zoologists interested in animal domestication.

Reference

Emerald Group Pub Ltd

March 1-3, 1995, San Diego, California Evolutionary programming is one of the predominate algorithms withing the rapidly expanding field of evolutionary computation. These edited contributions to the Fourth Annual Conference on Evolutionary Programming are by leading scientists from academia, industry, and defense. The papers describe both the theory and practical application of evolutionary programming, as well as other methods of evolutionary computation including evolution strategies, genetic algorithms, genetic programming, and cultural algorithms.
Topics include :- Novel Areas of Evolutionary Programming and Evolution Strategies.- Evolutionary Computation with Medical Applications.- Issues in Evolutionary Optimization Pattern Discovery, Pattern Recognition, and System Identification.- Hierarchical Levels of Learning.- Self-Adaptation in Evolutionary Computation.- Morphogenic Evolutionary Computation.- Issues in Evolutionary Optimization.- Evolutionary Applications to VLSI and Part Placement.- Applications of Evolutionary Computation to Biology and Biochemistry Control.- Applications of Evolutionary Computation.- Genetic and Inductive Logic Programming.- Genetic Neural Networks.- The Future of Evolutionary Computation. A Bradford Book. Complex Adaptive Systems series

Evolutionary Programming IV: Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Conference on Evolutionary Programming (Complex Adaptive Systems)

Computers & Technology

Fogel, David B.

Conference on Evolutionary Programming (4th : 1995 : San Diego, Calif.)

McDonnell, John R.

Computer Science

Bradford Books

A thorough look at how societies can use cultural algorithms to understand human social evolution For those working in computational intelligence, developing an understanding of how cultural algorithms and social intelligence form the essential framework for the evolution of human social interaction is essential. This book, Cultural Algorithms: Tools to Model Complex Dynamic Social Systems, is the foundation of that study. It showcases how we can use cultural algorithms to organize social structures and develop socio-political systems that work. For such a vast topic, the text covers everything from the history of the development of cultural algorithms and the basic framework with which it was organized. Readers will also learn how other nature-inspired algorithms can be expressed and how to use social metrics to assess the performance of various algorithms. In addition to these topics, the book covers topics including: <ul> <li>The CAT system including the Repast Simphony System and CAT Sample Runs</li> <li>How to problem solve using social networks in cultural algorithms with auctions</li> <li>Understanding Common Value Action to enhance Social Knowledge Distribution Systems</li> <li>Case studies on team formations</li> <li>An exploration of virtual worlds using cultural algorithms</li> </ul> For industry professionals or new students, Cultural Algorithms provides an impactful and thorough look at both social intelligence and how human social evolution translates into the modern world.

Cultural Algorithms: Tools to Model Complex Dynamic Social Systems (IEEE Press Series on Computational Intelligence)

Wiley-IEEE Press

Routledge

The author first introduces the basic framework for cultural algorithms and he then explains the social structure of a cultural system as a mechanism for the distribution of problem-solving information throughout a population. Three different models for social organizations are presented: the homogeneous (nuclear family), heterogeneous (expanded family), and subculture (descent groups) social models. The chapters that follow compare the learning capabilities of these social organizations relative to problems of varying complexity. The book concludes with a discussion of how the results can impact our understanding of social evolution.

Culture on the Edge of Chaos: Cultural Algorithms and the Foundations of Social Intelligence (SpringerBriefs in Computer Science)

Springer

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