Syndicate: Evolutionary Synthesis of Intelligent Agents

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Advances in the Evolutionary Synthesis of Intelligent Agents
edited by Mukesh Patel, Vasant Honavar, and Karthik Balakrishnan

Among the first uses of the computer was the development of programs to
model perception, reasoning, learning, and evolution. Further developments
resulted in computers and programs that exhibit aspects of intelligent
behavior. The field of artificial intelligence is based on the premise that
thought processes can be computationally modeled. Computational molecular
biology brought a similar approach to the study of living systems. In both
cases, hypotheses concerning the structure, function, and evolution of
cognitive systems (natural as well as synthetic) take the form of computer
programs that store, organize, manipulate, and use information.

Systems whose information processing structures are fully programmed are
difficult to design for all but the simplest applications. Real-world
environments call for systems that are able to modify their behavior by
changing their information processing structures. Cognitive and information
structures and processes, embodied in living systems, display many
effective designs for biological intelligent agents. They are also a source
of ideas for designing artificial intelligent agents. This book explores a
central issue in artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and artificial
life: how to design information structures and processes that create and
adapt intelligent agents through evolution and learning.

The book is organized around four topics: the power of evolution to
determine effective solutions to complex tasks, mechanisms to make
evolutionary design scalable, the use of evolutionary search in conjunction
with local learning algorithms, and the extension of evolutionary search in
novel directions.

Mukesh Patel is Vice President, Applied Solutions Ltd., and Visiting
Lecturer at the Nirma Institute of Technology, Ahmedabad, India. Vasant
Honavar is Associate Professor of Computer Science, Bioinformatics and
Computational Biology, and Neuroscience and Director of the Artificial
Intelligence Research Laboratory at Iowa State University. Karthik
Balakrishnan leads the Decision Analytics Group at Obongo Inc., California.













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