With his work on computer logic, John H Holland became one of the most important founders of modern computer science. People who knew John H Holland were all amazed and deeply influenced by his incredibly imaginative and creative mind. He produced many more ideas than he could follow up in his life time. This selection of his papers in the field of computer logic entails many of his explored and unexplored ideas. Revisiting the explored ideas and exploring the unexplored ones should be of great interest to scientists of all ages, and of great value to the current research not only in computer science but in many other fields as well.
Published in collaboration with Institute Para Limes.
Contents:
- Survey of Automata Theory
- Iterative Circuit Computers
- Concerning Efficient Adaptive Systems
- Universal Spaces: A Basis for Studies of Adaptation
- Iterative Circuit Computers: Characterization and Résumé of Advantages and Disadvantages
- Nonlinear Environments Permitting Efficient Adaptation
- Hierarchical Descriptions, Universal Spaces and Adaptive Systems
- Adaptive Plans Optimal for Payoff-Only Environments
- A New Kind of Turnpike Theorem
- Goal-Directed Pattern Recognition
- Robust Algorithms for Adaptive Set in a General Formal Framework
- Genetic Algorithms and the Optimal Allocation of Trials
- An Introduction to Intrinsic Parallelism in Genetic Code
- Studies of the Spontaneous Emergence of Self-Replicating Systems Using Cellular Automata and Formal Grammars
- New Perspectives in Nonlinearity or What to do When the Whole is More than the Sum of its Parts
Readership: Physicists, mathematicians, computer scientists, researchers and theorists interested in multi-disciplinary research.
