Agriculturecentric Computation

“The field of evolutionary computation is expanding dramatically, fueled by vast investment reflecting the value of applications of its techniques.The number of courses offered in evolutionary computing is growing rapidly: reflecting demand for material published in Handbook of Evolutionary Computation to be published in units suitable for use by students and teachers as well as individual researchers, we are publishing two volumes on algorithms and operators. The books contain material which has been brought right up to date, as well as some new contributions.This volume discusses the basic ideas which underlie the main paradigms of evolutionary algorithms, evolution strategies, evolutionary programming, genetic programming. It is intended to be used by individual researchers and by teachers and students in the expanding field of evolutionary computation”.

This book presents written versions of the eight lectures given during the AMS Short Course held at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Washington, D.C. The objective of this course was to share with the scientific community the many exciting mathematical challenges arising from the new field of quantum computation and quantum information science. The course was geared toward demonstrating the great breadth and depth of this mathematically rich research field. Interrelationships with existing mathematical research areas were emphasized as much as possible…