*** NEW! *** Fiction
The Imperfect Deception, by Ronald Morrison
Published by Whiston Press (2024).
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The Imperfect Deception melds some of the latest discoveries in physics with well-documented ancient magic to forge a gripping and memorable page-turner. When a physics graduate student gets involved in a crime investigation that hits too close to home, he and his friends are pulled into a death-defying international quest. Quantum mechanics, Nordic witchcraft, and global panic raise the stakes in this thrilling science fiction adventure.
Book Description
Graduate student Nick Price’s peaceful life is shattered by a sequence of inexplicable events that critically injure his wife, Erin. Frustrated by the lack of progress in the official investigation, Nick becomes determined to identify the cause of these incidents himself. He enlists help from Marty, a friend and talented mathematician, and Jason, a co-worker in the quantum physics laboratory, Molly, a mysterious woman seemingly tormented by the unusual events and claiming to be an old friend of Nick’s wife, and a retired university faculty member with expertise in unexplained phenomena. Experiments reproducing the conditions of Erin’s death lead to the creation of an apparent space-time anomaly and the discovery of puzzling links to both quantum mechanics and Nordic witchcraft. An excited search for additional clues about this discovery launches Nick and Molly on a whirlwind international quest, immediately attracting the attention of malevolent forces hell-bent on stopping them. When astronomers from around the world identify a seemingly unrelated threat that endangers the entire planet, global panic ensues. During the chaos, Nick’s group uncloaks an ancient secret that ties all the pieces together. To save humanity, the incongruous foursome will need to grow into a resolute team, face a seemingly impossible challenge, and overcome intense opposition from enemies with near godlike powers.
Non-Fiction
Morrison, R. W. Designing Evolutionary Algorithms for Dynamic Environments. Published by Springer-Verlag. (2004, 2013).
Available (here) in all formats.
Book Description
The robust capability of evolutionary algorithms (EAs) to find solutions to difficult problems has permitted them to become popular as optimization and search techniques for many industries. Despite the success of EAs, the resultant solutions are often fragile and prone to failure when the problem changes. Since many optimization problems in engineering, finance, and information technology require systems that can adapt to changes over time, it is desirable that EAs be able to respond to changes in the environment on their own. This book provides an analysis of what an EA needs to do to automatically and continuously solve dynamic problems, focusing on detecting changes in the problem environment and responding to those changes. In this book we identify and quantify a key attribute needed to improve the detection and response performance of EAs in dynamic environments. Along the way we identify some previously unknown relationships between performance and diversity that may lead to general methods for improving EAs in dynamic environments. Additionally, several other important design issues are addressed involving computational efficiency, performance measurement, and the testing of EAs in dynamic environments.