Simulated evolution and learning : Second Asia-Pacific Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning, SEAL '98, Canberra, Australia, November 24-27, 1998 : selected papers / Bob McKay [and others] (eds.).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This book constitutes the refereed post-workshop proceedings of the Second Asia-Pacific Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning, SEAL '98, held in Canberra, Australia in November 1998. The 59 revised papers presented were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing from a total of initially 92 submissions. The book covers a wide range of topics in simulated evolution and learning, from self-adaption to dynamic modelling, from reinforcement learning to agent systems, from evolutionary games to evolutionary economics, from theoretical results to successful applications, etc.

Natural Computation -- Multiple Lagrange Multiplier Method for Constrained Evolutionary Optimization -- Robust Evolution Strategies -- Hybrid Genetic Algorithm for Solving the p-Median Problem -- Correction of Reflection Lines Using Genetic Algorithms -- Adaptation under Changing Environments with Various Rates of Inheritance of Acquired Characters -- Dynamic Control of Adaptive Parameters in Evolutionary Programming -- Information Operator Scheduling by Genetic Algorithms -- Solving Radial Topology Constrained Problems with Evolutionary Algorithms -- Automating Space Allocation in Higher Education -- Application of Genetic Algorithm and k-Nearest Neighbour Method in Medical Fraud Detection -- Evolution of Reference Sets in Nearest Neighbor Classification -- Investigation of a Cellular Genetic Algorithm that Mimics Landscape Ecology -- Quantifying Neighborhood Preservation: Joint Properties of Evolutionary and Unsupervised Neural Learning -- Neural Networks and Evolutionary Algorithms for the Prediction of Thermodynamic Properties for Chemical Engineering -- Evolving FPGA Based Cellular Automata -- Asynchronous Island Parallel GA Using Multiform Subpopulations -- Multiple Sequence Alignment Using Parallel Genetic Algorithms -- Evolving Logic Programs to Classify Chess-Endgame Positions -- Genetic Programming with Active Data Selection -- Evolutionary Programming-Based Uni-vector Field Method for Fast Mobile Robot Navigation -- Evolution with Learning Adaptive Functions -- Modelling Plant Breeding Programs as Search Strategies on a Complex Response Surface -- Generating Equations with Genetic Programming for Control of a Movable Inverted Pendulum -- A Hybrid Tabu Search Algorithm for the Nurse Rostering Problem -- Reinforcement Learning: Past, Present and Future -- A Reinforcement Learning with Condition Reduced Fuzz Rules -- Generality and Conciseness of Submodels in Hierarchical Fuzzy Modeling -- Using Evolutionary Programming to Optimize the Allocation of Surveillance Assets -- Applying the Evolutionary Neural Networks with Genetic Algorithms to Control a Rolling Inverted Pendulum -- Evolving Cooperative Actions Among Heterogeneous Agents by an Evolutionary Programming Method -- Cooperative Works for Welfare Agent Robot and Human Using Chaotic Evolutionary Computation -- Evolutionary Computation for Intelligent Agents Based on Chaotic Retrieval and Soft DNA -- A Study of Bayesian Clustering of a Document Set Based on GA -- An Evolutionary Approach in Quantitative Spectroscopy -- Evolutionary Recognition of Features from CAD Data -- Modeling Strategies as Generous and Greedy in Prisoner's Dilemma Like Games -- Using Genetic Algorithms to Simulate the Evolution of an Oligopoly Game -- An Evolutionary Study on Cooperation in N-person Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma Game -- Simulating a N-person Multi-stage Game for Making a State -- Learning from Linguistic Rules and Rule Extraction for Function Approximation by Neural Networks -- Can a Niching Method Locate Multiple Attractors Embedded in the Hopfield Network? -- Time Series Prediction by Using Negatively Correlated Neural Networks -- Animating the Evolution Process of Genetic Algorithms -- Analysis on the Island Model Parallel Genetic Algorithms for the Genetic Drifts -- A Paradox of Neural Encoders and Decoders or Why Don't We Talk Backwards? -- Continuous Optimization Using Elite Genetic Algorithms With Adaptive Mutations -- Evolutionary Systems Applied to the Synthesis of a CPU Controller -- Novel Models in Evolutionary Designing -- Co-evolution, Determinism and Robustness -- Co-operative Evolution of a Neural Classifier and Feature Subset -- Optimal Power Flow Method Using Evolutionary Programming -- Grammatical Development of Evolutionary Modular Neural Networks -- Hybridized Neural Network and Genetic Algorithms for Solving Nonlinear Integer Programming Problem -- Evolution of Gene Coordination Networks -- Adaptive Simulation: An Implementation Framework -- A Model of Mutual Associative Memory for Simulations of Evolution and Learning -- The Application of Cellular Automata to the Consumer's Theory: Simulating a Duopolistic Market -- Object-Oriented Genetic Algorithm Based Artificial Neural Network for Load Forecasting.