This book is a collection of essays exploring adaptive systems from many perspectives, ranging from computational applications to models of adaptation in living and social systems. The essays on computation discuss history, theory, applications, and possible threats of adaptive and evolving computations systems. The modeling chapters cover topics such as evolution in microbial populations, the evolution of cooperation, and how ideas about evolution relate to economics.
The title Perspectives on Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems honors John Holland, whose 1975 Book,...

Downton Abbey fans, rejoice This is the ultimate guide to becoming an expert in our favorite rich but dysfunctional, loving but quarrelsome, and small but growing family across the pond, the Crawleys Use this guide as a time machine to whisk you away to Downton, circa the 1920s. What makes Downton so endearing to us is that it gives us a peek into the fantasy life of titles, etiquette, estates, dinner parties, Butlers, maids, and everything in between? At the same time, it shows us real and normal family problems, a secret child, an unwanted bride, a secret love affair (actually two), a...