{"product_id":"9780792377382","title":"Operations Research\/Computer Science Interfaces Series: From Search to Construction","description":"\u003ch1\u003eOperations Research\/Computer Science Interfaces Series: From Search to Construction\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eStilman, Boris\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLinguistic Geometry: From Search to Construction\u003c\/em\u003e is the  first book of its kind. Linguistic Geometry (LG) is an approach to the  construction of mathematical models for large-scale multi-agent  systems. A number of such systems, including air\/space combat, robotic  manufacturing, software re-engineering and Internet cyberwar, can be  modeled as abstract board games. These are games with moves that can  be represented by the movement of abstract pieces over locations on an  abstract board. The purpose of LG is to provide strategies to guide  the games' participants to their goals. Traditionally, discovering  such strategies required searches in giant game trees. These searches  are often beyond the capacity of modern and even conceivable future  computers. \u003cbr\u003e  LG dramatically reduces the size of the search trees, making the  problems computationally tractable. LG provides a formalization and  abstraction of search heuristics used by advanced experts including  chess grandmasters. Essentially, these heuristics replace search with  the construction of strategies. To formalize the heuristics, LG  employs the theory of formal languages (i.e. formal linguistics), as  well as certain geometric structures over an abstract board. The new  formal strategies solve problems from different domains far beyond the  areas envisioned by the experts. For a number of these domains,  Linguistic Geometry yields optimal solutions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Springer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2000-04-30\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9780792377382\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-1-4615-4439-5\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 235cm x155cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 395\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer US","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47183202779276,"sku":"9780792377382","price":296.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9780792377382.jpg?v=1775005576","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9780792377382","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}