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Genetic Algorithms + Data Structures = Evolution Programs
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Author: Zbigniew Michalewicz
List Price: $54.95
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ISBN: 3540606769
Publisher: Springer Verlag (October, 1997)
Edition: Hardcover
Sales Rank: 77,571
Average Customer Rating: 3.38 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 5 out of 5
One of the best book on genetic algorithms
A very good vision of the evolutionary optimisation techniques not only GA. As well there is an excellent chapter on constraints handling. Maybe it is not one of the easiest book on GA but it is definitely the most useful.
Rating: 2 out of 5
pretty bad
I agree with the previous reviewer: books should be clear and get to the point. Forget about this one. Get Michalewicz and Fogel's "How to solve it" book. It is MUCH better than this one in all levels: it is better written and the content is more authorative and helpful to novices and experts.This book is supposed to be a textbook. Maybe that's why it sells so well. I guess I am lucky I didn't have to take a class with this thing.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Awful, unreadable book.
This man needs to invest in a good editor. Many times I'd read through half a page or so, stop to think about it and then rephrase it into one or two sentences. Blobs of math appear to be thrown in with little justification, and the book isn't improved by them.But this book is not only unreadable, it's also not useful. It's more an overview of the area than anything else; it doesn't give adequate information about genetic programming or neural networks. It skims many areas in a close to incomprehensible fashion without covering any in what I would consider to be good detail. Finally, I'm not dim. I have a PhD myself and am used to ploughing through gibberish. But save your money and don't buy this book (Unless you have a wobbly table that needs fixing).
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