Contemporary evolution strategies
by Bäck, Thomas, Krause, Peter, Foussette, Christophe
by Bäck, Thomas, Krause, Peter, Foussette, Christophe
"This edited volume is about how unprejudiced approaches to real human cognition can improve the design of A.I. It covers many aspects of human cognition and across 12 chapters the reader can explore multiple approaches about the complexities of human cognitive skills and reason…
How do humans navigate uncertainty, continuously making near-effortless decisions and predictions even under conditions of imperfect knowledge, high complexity, and extreme time pressure? Taming Uncertainty argues that the human mind has developed tools to grapple with uncertain…
Kahneman takes us on a tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional, System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. Kahneman exposes the capabilities and also the faults and biases of fast thinkin…
Corruption is pervasive in all societies and in all walks of life. Governments, public and private companies, sports, education, religious and charitable organizations: none are untouched by corruption, which seems to be both timeless and universal. We propose that gaming, an un…
A complex system is a group or organization in which many components interact to perform functions that a single component cannot. The study of the evolution of complex systems can reveal the pattern of interactions, the dependencies between entities, the impacts on the system’s…
Purpose: While many scholars have traced how the Kim regimes merged the Korean War into North Korea’s national narrative, no one has conducted a systematic study of how the Kims subsequently wielded the civil war story to advance their policy objectives. The purpose of this pape…
This was a qualitative study looking at the experience of emotional connection in therapy from both clients’ and therapists’ perspectives. The aim was to see whether and how the experience of emotional connection was the same or different for each party; and whether and how it w…
This thesis aims to review and analyze the scheduling problem in general and Job Shop Scheduling Problem (JSSP) in particular and the solution techniques applied to these problems. The JSSP is the most general and popular hard combinational optimization problem in manufacturing …
Many real-world optimisation problems are discrete in nature. Although recent rapid developments in computer technologies are steadily increasing the speed of computations, the size of an instance of a hard discrete optimisation problem solvable in prescribed time does not incre…
Transportation plays a major role in the global economy since it underlies all economic and social activities. However, the transportation sector in developed countries differs considerably from that of developing countries. In this thesis, we focus on long-haul freight transpor…