Reflecting emerging concepts and new paradigms in intelligent machines, this is the first book to integrate genetic programming and machine learning techniques for solving a wide range of real-world tasks - including financial data prediction, day-trading rule development, and bio-marker selection. [...]

This book delivers theoretical and practical knowledge of Genetic Algorithms (GA) for the purpose of practical applications. It provides a methodology for a GA-based search strategy with the integration of several Alife and AI techniques, such as memetic concepts, swarm intelligence and foraging str[...]