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2011 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
1. Introduction
Authors : Prof. Roberto Baragona, Prof. Francesco Battaglia, Prof. Irene Poli
Published in: Evolutionary Statistical Procedures
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Abstract
A new line of research has started since the fifties originated by a new awareness in scientific community that natural and biological mechanisms could provide not only the traditional object of study but suggest new disciplines theories and methods by themselves. We may cite the Rosenblatt’s perceptron, one of the first examples of a learning machine, and the Box’s evolutionary approach to industrial productivity, an early attempt to modeling a process using the concepts of evolutionary behavior of living creatures. This short introduction aims at highlighting the basic ideas that led to an unprecedented enlargement of the guidelines for developing theoretical and applied research in a large body of scientific disciplines. An outline of the present book as far as the impact of the new research technologies on statistics and strictly related subjects is concerned is given with special emphasis on methods inspired by natural biological evolution.