Genetic Algorithms for Pattern Recognition

Sankar Kumar Pal is a Distinguished Scientist and former Director of the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India. He is a computer scientist with an international reputation on fuzzy neural network, soft computing, and machine intelligence. He founded the Machine Intelligence Unit in 1993, and the Center for Soft Computing Research: A National Facility in 2004, both at the ISI. He is the founder President of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, Kolkata Chapter

• 1.Fitness Evaluation in Genetic Algorithms with Ancestors' Influence 2. The Walsh Transform and the Theory of the Simple Genetic Algorithm 3. Adaptation in Genetic Algorithms 4. An Empirical Evaluation of Genetic Algorithms on Noisy Objective Functions 5. Generalization of Heuristics Learned in Genetics-Based Learning 6. Genetic Algorithm-Based Pattern Classification: Relationship with Bayes Classifier 7. Genetic Algorithms and Recognition Problems 8. Mesoscale Feature Labeling from Satellite Images 9. Learning to Learn with Evolutionary Growth Perceptrons 10. Genetic Programming of Logic-Based Neural Networks 11. Construction of Fuzzy Classification Systems with Linguistic If-Then Rules Using Genetic Algorithms 12. A Genetic Algorithm Method for Optimizing the Fuzzy Component of a Fuzzy Decision Tree 13. Genetic Design of Fuzzy Controllers. Index.