Emergence : from chaos to order / John H. Holland.
Emergence : from chaos to order / John H. Holland.
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Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, c1998.
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T0369515
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English
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Physical content
xiii, 258 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. Before We Proceed -- 2. Games and Numbers -- 3. Maps, Game Theory, and Computer-Based Modeling -- 4. Checkers -- 5. Neural Nets -- 6. Toward a General Setting -- 7. Constrained Generating Procedures -- 8. Samuel's Checkersplayer and Other Models as Cgp's -- 9. Variation -- 10. Levels of Descripti...
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Publisher
Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, c1998.
Place of Publication
Massachusetts
Date Published
c1998.
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Summary
In Emergence, Holland demonstrates that a small number of rules of laws can generate systems of surprising complexity. Board games provide an ancient and direct example: Chess is defined by fewer than two dozen rules, but the myriad patterns that result lead to perpetual novelty and emergence. It took centuries of study to recognize certain pattern...
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Emergence : from chaos to order / John H. Holland.
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Helix books.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-251) and index.
Transferred from N003.85/3.
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c1998.
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T0369515
Record Identifier
74VMj3XOEGLX
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ISBN
0201149435
9780201149432 (hbk.)
0201149435 (hbk.)
9780198504092
0198504098
9780738201429 (pbk.)
0738201421 (pbk.)
9780201149432
DDC
003.85
MMS ID
991001099989702626
