Irene Baroncelli: Genetic optimization.
Diplom thesis, Ferrara 1991.
Original title: Ottimizzazione genetica.
LINEAR OPTIMIZATION

Introduction
Transparent systems and isolating operations
The simplex method for transparent systems
Examples

MATROIDS AND COMBINATORIAL PROGRAMMING

The Steinitz exchange theorem
Matroids
Rank, submodular functions and circles
Example
Duality
The greedy algorithm
Applications
P and NP problems

GENETIC OPTIMIZATION

Principles of genetics
The method of tournaments
Quicksort
Preliminary experiments
The partition of the island
Steiner's problem
A nonlinear integer programming problem
DNA - program or data collection?

NEURAL NETS

The nervous cell
Memory and learning
Connectionism and neural nets
Main types of neural nets
Backpropagation of the error
Genetic optimization of neural nets


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