Parallelism, Learning, Evolution: Workshop on Evolutionary Models and Strategies Neubiberg, Germany, March 10–11, 1989 Workshop on Parallel Processing: Logic, Organization, and Technology — WOPPLOT 89 Wildbad Kreuth, Germany, July 24–28, 1989 Proceedings

✍ Scribed by Peter Molzberger (auth.), J. D. Becker, I. Eisele, F. W. Mündemann (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 533
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 565
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume presents the proceedings of a workshop on evolutionary models and strategies and another workshop on parallel processing, logic, organization, and technology, both held in Germany in 1989. In the search for new concepts relevant for parallel and distributed processing, the workshop on parallel processing included papers on aspects of space and time, representations of systems, non-Boolean logics, metrics, dynamics and structure, and superposition and uncertainties. The point was stressed that distributed representations of information may share features with quantum physics, such as the superposition principle and the uncertainty relations. Much of the volume contains material on general parallel processing machines, neural networks, and system-theoretic aspects. The material on evolutionary strategies is included because these strategies will yield important and powerful applications for parallel processing machines, and open the wayto new problem classes to be treated by computers.

✦ Table of Contents

On parallel consciousness....Pages 1-20
Complementarity and non-locality in complex systems....Pages 21-55
Systems and uncertainty....Pages 56-66
The construction of space and the logics of quantum mechanics....Pages 67-93
Cellular automata and the concept of space....Pages 94-102
Multipurpose and special purpose computers....Pages 103-120
Implementation of divide-and-conquer algorithms on multiprocessors....Pages 121-136
Some remarks on synchronization problems....Pages 137-147
Effective implementation of distributed arbitration in multiprocessor systems....Pages 148-156
Flowshop and TSP....Pages 157-182
Architectural considerations for NERV — a general purpose neural network simulation system....Pages 183-195
Associative neural networks in analog VLSI: Advantages of decrementing algorithms....Pages 196-218
Connectionist models of utterance production....Pages 219-230
Self-organization of informational systems....Pages 231-242
Distributed semantic representation of word meanings....Pages 243-273
Logic of cognitive representations and their evolution....Pages 274-303
A modal propositional calculus for quantum facts and dynamical theories....Pages 304-314
Self-organization in computational systems: Advance of a new computational paradigm?....Pages 315-325
Adaptation and extension: Learning in rigid systems....Pages 326-334
Chaotic dynamics of generating Markov partitions, and linguistic sequences mimicking Zipf's law....Pages 335-363
Optimization and complexity in molecular biology and physics....Pages 364-387
Understanding evolution as a collective strategy for groping in the dark....Pages 388-397
Parallel genetic algorithms, population genetics and combinatorial optimization....Pages 398-406
ASPARAGOS a parallel genetic algorithm and population genetics....Pages 407-418
Evolution: Travelling in an imaginary landscape....Pages 419-441
Finding the global minimum of a low-dimensional spin-glass model....Pages 442-456
Ten theses regarding the design of controlled evolutionary strategies....Pages 457-481
Incommensurability of liouvillean dynamics and information dynamics....Pages 482-499
Selforganization by evolution strategy in visual systems....Pages 500-508
On steiner trees and genetic algorithms....Pages 509-525

✦ Subjects

Processor Architectures; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages; Computation by Abstract Devices; Quantum Computing, Information and Physics; Quantum Physics