Handbook of Neuroevolution Through Erlang

• Main Author: Sher, Gene I. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Software engineering.; Artificial intelligence.; Bioinformatics.; Computer Science.; Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Computational Biology/Bioinformatics.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4463-3

Handbook of Neuroevolution Through Erlang presents both the theory behind, and the methodology of, developing a neuroevolutionary-based computational intelligence system using Erlang.�With a foreword written by Joe Armstrong, this handbook offers�an extensive�tutorial for�creating a state of the art...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Applications & Motivations
• Introduction to Neural Networks
• Introduction to Evolutionary Computation
• Introduction to Neuroevolutionary Methods
• The Unintentional Neural Network Programming Language
• Developing a Feed Forward Neural Network
• Adding the Stochastic Hill-Climber Learning Algorithm
• Developing a Simple Neuroevolutionary Platform
• Testing the Neuroevolutionary System
• DXNN: A Case Study
• Decoupling & Modularizing Our Neuroevolutionary Platform
• Keeping Track of Important Population and Evolutionary Stats
• The Benchmarker
• Creating the Two Slightly More Complex Benchmarks
• Neural Plasticity
• Substrate Encoding
• Substrate Plasticity
• Artificial Life
• Evolving Currency Trading Agents
• Conclusion.