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Title: How to Solve It: Modern Heuristics by Zbigniew Michalewicz, David B. Fogel ISBN: 3-540-66061-5 Publisher: Springer Verlag Pub. Date: December, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $54.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Fine-tuning to common sense
Comment: Beside the great ideas provided in this book for problem solving, it provides a deep wisdom of for piecing some of the puzzles of our life. I recommend it.
Rating: 5
Summary: Useful overview of methods
Comment: I first ordered this book thinking it was George Polya 's book "How to solve it", then I realized it wasn't and I bought it anyway since I thought it might turn out as a "must read" book, just like Polys'a book.
One one hand it was a dissapointment, because the books are not written in the same manner and don't attact similar problelsm.
But then, this book makes you look into problems, and realize that usually we people are usually good in solving problems of the sort we learned how to (well... duh!), but surprisingly, we have a hard time solving even trivial problems if they are not placed in the context we got used to seeing them.
This book comes and tries to make things better in this department, showing you some general methods for solving problems, and also showing problems and suggested solutions along with a long discussion.
You should be able, once you've read the book and put your mind to it, to be better in understanding problems, understanding which tool to use for solving them and finally, understanding the tools enough to be able to actually solve the problem.
I enjoyed the overview of methods, and there are many such methods throughout the book (perhaps a complementary book for learning which "machine learning" methods are available these days and what sorts of problems they are useful for solving would be Tom Mitchell's "Machine Learning" book).
I wasn't sorry for buying this book. I'm happy I was fortunate enough to bump into it.
Rating: 5
Summary: Makes spinach taste good
Comment: I am a computer scientist, but have gotten impatient over the years with the needless formalization that occurs in algorithmic texts. This is a delightful breath of fresh air in terms of balancing erudition with attempts to be "user friendly". If you want the latest and greatest twist to a well known technique, this book won't provide it. But it does a great job of competently and lucidly explaining the value proposition behind each optimization method and how to gradually upgrade from applying it naively to the more intricately optimized applications. Well done!
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Title: How to Solve It by G. Polya ISBN: 0691023565 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 November, 1971 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Combinatorial Optimization : Algorithms and Complexity by Christos H. Papadimitriou, Kenneth Steiglitz ISBN: 0486402584 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 07 July, 1998 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms (Complex Adaptive Systems) by Melanie Mitchell ISBN: 0262631857 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 06 February, 1998 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization, and Machine Learning by David E. Goldberg ISBN: 0201157675 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 01 January, 1989 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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Title: Combinatorial Optimization : Networks and Matroids by Eugene Lawler ISBN: 0486414531 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 02 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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