- author = "Vladan Babovic",
- title = "Emergence, Evolution, Intelligence: Hydroinformatics",
- school = "International Institute for Infrastructural, Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering and Technical University Delft",
- year = "1996",
- address = "The Netherlands",
- month = "20 " # mar,
- note = "Published by A. A. Balkema Publishers",
- keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming",
- ISBN = "90-5410-404-X",
-
URL = "
http://repository.tudelft.nl/view/ir/uuid%3A58c50efe-4a6a-40b4-8c60-2b81d629b49c/",
-
URL = "
http://repository.tudelft.nl/assets/uuid:58c50efe-4a6a-40b4-8c60-2b81d629b49c/EMERGENCE__EVOLUTION__INTELLIGENCE_HYDROINFORMATICS.PDF",
- size = "348 pages",
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abstract = "The computer-controlled operating environments of such
facilities as automated factories, nuclear power
plants, telecommunication centres and space stations
are continually becoming more complex.The situation is
similar, if not even more apparent and urgent, in the
case of water. Water is not only mankind's most
valuable natural resource, but one which is in
increasingly limited supply. The fresh water is the
vita! natural resource which supports all environmental
activities, that is, natura! economy, and all human
socio-economic activities, that is, the artificial
economy. The pressure for a sustainable control and
exploration of water and thus for the peaceful
co-existence of human- and hydro-economies, is not only
a human, socio-economic pressure, but it is the
question of life and death!
Hydroinformatics - the nascent technology concerned with the flow of information related to the flow of fluids and all that they convey - is probably the best possible answer yet proposed to the problem of the control of the waters, the very arteries and veins of the biosphere. This work addresses some of the central issues within hydroinformatics paradigm. It focuses on ttie analysis of decentralised and distributed computation, as well as the issues of design of individual computatiorial agents using evolutionary algorithms.",
- notes = "Promotor: Abbott, M.B. See also \cite{babovic:book}",
