Author | Dawid, Herbert. author |
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Title | Adaptive Learning by Genetic Algorithms [electronic resource] : Analytical Results and Applications to Economic Models / by Herbert Dawid |
Imprint | Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1999 |
Edition | Second, Revised and Enlarged Edition |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18142-9 |
Descript | XIII, 200 p. online resource |
1. Introduction -- 2. Bounded Rationality and Artificial Intelligence -- 2.1 Bounded Rationality in Economics -- 2.2 Artificially Intelligent Agents in Economic Systems -- 2.3 Learning Techniques of Artificially Intelligent Agents -- 2.4 Some Applications of CI Methods in Economic Systems -- 2.5 Potentiality and Problems of CI Techniques in Economics -- 3. Genetic Algorithms -- 3.1 What are Genetic Algorithms? -- 3.2 The Structure of Genetic Algorithms -- 3.3 Genetic Operators -- 3.4 Genetic Algorithms with a Non-Standard Structure -- 3.5 Some Analytical Approaches to Model Genetic Algorithms -- 3.6 Do Genetic Algorithms Describe Adaptive Learning? -- 4. Genetic Algorithms with a State Dependent Fitness Function -- 4.1 State Dependency in Economic Systems -- 4.2 A Markov Model for Systems with a State Dependent Fitness Function -- 4.3 The Difference Equations Describing the GA -- 4.4 Deviation from the Markov Process -- 4.5 A Numerical Example -- 4.6 Stability of the Uniform States -- 4.7 Two-Population Models -- 5. Genetic Learning in Evolutionary Games -- 5.1 Equilibria and Evolutionary Stability -- 5.2 Learning in Evolutionary Games -- 5.3 Learning by a Simple Genetic Algorithm -- 5.4 Two-Population Contests -- 6. Simulations with Genetic Algorithms in Economic Systems -- 6.1 A Model of a Competitive Market -- 6.2 An Overlapping Generations Model with Fiat Money -- 6.3 A Sealed Bid Double Auction Market -- 7. Stability and Encoding -- 7.1 The Cobweb Example Revisited -- 7.2 Impact of a Change in Encoding and Scaling -- 7.3 A Method for Finding Economic Equilibria -- 8. Conclusions -- A. Basic Definitions and Results Used -- A.1 Time Homogeneous Markov Chains -- A.2 Nonlinear Difference Equations and Stability -- B. Calculation of the Equilibria of the Evolutionary Games in Chapter 5 -- B.1 Rock-Scissor-Paper Games -- B.2 The GA Deceptive Game GAD -- B.3 The Games G1 and G2 -- C. Proof of Proposition 6.3.1 -- References -- List of Figures -- List of Tables