New Releases by Melanie Mitchell

Learn about school bus drivers and how they do their job.

An introduction to the many jobs and responsibilities of elementary school principals.

Introduces the many jobs and responsibilities of grade school teachers.

Provides a simple introduction to feet.

What uses do leaves have? Vibrant color photographs and simple sentences introduce students to this important plant part. This book meets both science and reading standards.

A very simple introduction to ears and some of the animals that have them.

A simple introduction to some different animals that have tails.

Provides a simple introduction to eyes.

An introduction to wood and its uses in everyday life.

Endearing images of fun in the snow, from building a snowman to skating, make this a special book for winter. Children will love to look at all the wintertime activities - ending cosily with a cup of cocoa and a snuggle in front of the fire.

A guide for integrating technology into instructional experiences for the physical education teacher education curriculum. This book shows the alignment between NASPE Beginning Teacher Standards and NETS-T technology standards. These standards are direcdted to minimum acceptable teaching competencies for beginning teachers. The book provides lesson plans for integrating technology and physical education curriculum. Also, the lesson plan examples can be modified to meet any number of lesson objectives.

Genetic algorithms have been used in science and engineering as adaptive algorithms for solving practical problems and as computational models of natural evolutionary systems. This brief, accessible introduction describes some of the most interesting research in the field and also enables readers to implement and experiment with genetic algorithms on their own. It focuses in depth on a small set of important and interesting topics—particularly in machine learning, scientific modeling, and artificial life—and reviews a broad span of research, including the work of Mitchell and her colleagues. The descriptions of applications and modeling projects stretch beyond the strict boundaries of computer science to include dynamical systems theory, game theory, molecular biology, ecology, evolutionary biology, and population genetics, underscoring the exciting "general purpose" nature of genetic algorithms as search methods that can be employed across disciplines. An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms is accessible to students and researchers in any scientific discipline. It includes many thought and computer exercises that build on and reinforce the reader''s understanding of the text. The first chapter introduces genetic algorithms and their terminology and describes two provocative applications in detail. The second and third chapters look at the use of genetic algorithms in machine learning (computer programs, data analysis and prediction, neural networks) and in scientific models (interactions among learning, evolution, and culture; sexual selection; ecosystems; evolutionary activity). Several approaches to the theory of genetic algorithms are discussed in depth in the fourth chapter. The fifth chapter takes up implementation, and the last chapter poses some currently unanswered questions and surveys prospects for the future of evolutionary computation.