SHORT COURSES ON THE MATHEMATICS OF BIOLOGICAL COMPLEXITY - Course 2 Page

University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Supported by National Institutes of Health Award GM59924-01

INTRODUCTORY READING MATERIAL

  • Part 1. Evolutionary Computation (Lee Altenberg)

    Holland, J.H. (1992) "Genetic Algorithms", Scientific American, 267(1), 66-72.

    The "Hitchhiker's Guide to Evolutionary Computation"

    Melanie Mitchell and Charles E. Taylor 1999. "Evolutionary Computation: An Overview" Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 20 : 593-616 postscript (4.1MB) or gzip'ed postscript (2KB)

    "Putting a Darwinian Spin on the Diesel Engine" By BRUCE SCHECHTER (New York Times, Sep.19)

    Melanie Mitchell "Life and Evolution in Computers" to appear in "Darwinian Evolution Across the Disciplines" edited by M. McPeek et. al. postscript (2.8MB) or gzip'ed postscript (5KB)

    Melanie Mitchell and Stephanie Forrest "Genetic Algorithms and Artificial Life" Artificial Life 1 (3), 267-289, 1994 postscript or gzip'ed postscript

  • Part 2. Cellular Automata (Janko Gravner)

    G. Ermentrout, L. Edelstein-Keshet, "Cellular automata approaches to biological modeling" Journal of Theoretical Biology 160 (1993), 97-133.

    Tommaso Toffoli, Norman Margolus, "Cellular Automata Machines : A New Environment for Modeling," MIT Press, 1987.

    Gravner, Janko; Griffeath, David "Cellular automaton growth on Z2: theorems, examples, and problems." Advances in Applied Mathematics 21 (1998), no. 2, 241--304. zipped LaserJet form

    Durrett, Richard, Lecture notes on particle systems and percolation. Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole, Pacific Grove, CA, 1988.

    Chopard, Bastien; Droz, Michel, Cellular automata modeling of physical systems. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998.

    Gravner, Janko 1999. "Growth phenomena in cellular automata" postscript (20.4M) or gzip'ed postscript (0.7M)

  • Part 3. Adaptive Landscapes (Sergey Gavrilets)

    Wright, S. 1932. "The roles of mutation, inbreeding, crossbreeding and selection in evolution." Proceedings of the Sixth Interntional Congress of Genetics 1: 356-366.

    Provine, W.B. 1986. "Sewall Wright and Evolutionary Biology, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago. pp.307-317.

    Gavrilets, S. 1997. "Evolution and speciation on holey adaptive landscapes". Trends in Ecology and Evolution 12: 307-312.

    Hart, D. L. 1999. "A primer of population genetics". Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, Massachusetts.

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