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1 Front matter
Introduction to adaptation
NSK Nikolaos S. Karastathis
27 January 2008
Version 0.1, Release A, Revision 3, Code 5.
Abstract: This is a short introduction to the theory of adaptation using John H. Holland's book.
Keywords: adaptation in biology, adaptive control systems, mathematical modelling.
Book: The set book to buy is John H. Holland's Adaptation in natural and artificial systems, MIT Press, 1992 (first published in 1975 by University of Michigan). ISBN 0-262-58111-6 (paperback) or ISBN 0-262-08213-6 (hardcover).
Declaration: The author, NSK Nikolaos S. Karastathis, derives no commercial benefit from the mathema's set book.
2 Prolegomenon
John H. Holland published his monograph book Adaptation in natural and artificial systems: an introductory analysis with applications to biology, control, and artificial intelligence in 1975, and MIT Press republished it in 1992. It is the book which introduced genetic algorithms [ref?] (or what was known at the time as genetic plan [1:x]). In the first 5 years it kept selling 100-200 copies a year [1:viv].
3 References
In the main text the references are given in the form of square brackets that contain a number and optionally the symbol : and another number. The first number corresponds to the references below. The second number corresponds to the page number within the book or other work referenced. When you see [ref?] in the main text it means that a sentence or claim should be referenced but it isn't.
- [1] John H. Holland (1992). Adaptation in natural and artificial systems, MIT Press, 1992 (first published in 1975 by University of Michigan). ISBN 0-262-58111-6 (paperback) or ISBN 0-262-08213-6 (hardcover).
4 LICENCE
The text of this page, except any short direct quotations clearly delimited, is available under the GNU Free Documentation License version 1.2 as published by the Free Software Foundation.
Copyright (C) 2008 by Nikolaos S. Karastathis. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 (no later versions) published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License" (The current version can be found online at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html ).