The Handbook of Bioinspired Algorithms and Applications Book Edited by Stephan Olariu and Albert Y. Zomaya Chapman & Hall/CRC, 679 pages, $139,95

摘要

The Handbook of Bioinspired Algorithms and Applications [4] seeks to provide, with little success, a starting point for researchers wanting to apply biologically-motivated algorithms to their specific problems. Although impressive in breadth - it contains articles on everything from neural networks to cellular automata to distributed systems design - the book does not provide enough depth or rigor to be useful to practitioners in the field. Due to its organization as a handbook and the sheer number of contributors -85 authors from 17 different countries! - many sections of the book are redundant, and the quality of chapters varies widely from virtually unreadable to satisfyingly informative. All in all, with significant restructuring and editing, this book has the potential to be very useful to researchers in many disciplines. Until then, readers may find that an in-depth reading of freely available review articles and resources [1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7] is probably a better use of their time and money.