Clever Algorithms: Nature-Inspired Programming Recipes

Jason Brownlee

Jason Brownlee, 2011 - 436 pages

This book provides a handbook of algorithmic recipes from the fields of Metaheuristics, Biologically Inspired Computation and Computational Intelligence that have been described in a complete, consistent, and centralized manner. These standardized descriptions were carefully designed to be accessible, usable, and understandable. Most of the algorithms described in this book were originally inspired by biological and natural systems, such as the adaptive capabilities of genetic evolution and the acquired immune system, and the foraging behaviors of birds, bees, ants and bacteria. An encyclopedic algorithm reference, this book is intended for research scientists, engineers, students, and interested amateurs. Each algorithm description provides a working code example in the Ruby Programming Language.

Contents

• II Algorithms: 27
• III Extensions: 343
• IV Appendix: 411
• Index: 421

About the author

Jason Brownlee is Assistant Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to arriving at the University of Texas, he was a post-doctoral Fellow at Stanford University's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. Professor Brownlee's research addresses domestic and international processes of democratization. His work has appeared in Comparative Politics, Studies in Comparative International Development, and the Journal of Democracy.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Clever Algorithms: Nature-Inspired Programming Recipes
• Author: Jason Brownlee
• Publisher: Jason Brownlee, 2011
• ISBN: 1446785068, 9781446785065
• Length: 436 pages
• Subjects: Computers / General; Mathematics / Algebra / General