Bøger af Michael O'Neill

In Crash & Burn, Michael O'Neill describes his treatment for cancer of the oesophagus. Everywhere life and death are in close contact in a volume that is uncompromisingly unafraid to deal with the realities of illness while retaining humour, grace and eloquence.

First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor amp Francis, an informa company.

Striking photography of the classic rock band at the height of their popularity, in a hardcover special edition.

Natural Computing Algorithms

Dynamic environments encompass many real-world problems in fields as diverse as finance, engineering and biology. This book describes the state-of-the-art in applying grammar-based evolutionary computation to solve real-world problems in dynamic environments.

Predicting the future for financial gain is a difficult, sometimes profitable activity. This book focuses on the application of biologically inspired algorithms (BIAs) to financial modelling. It explains computer trading on financial markets and the difficulties faced in financial market modelling.

Presenting revolving perspectives, with wheels and circles everywhere - a tramp muses on the wheel of fortune, a boy's arm brushes his ear as he bowls, a merry-go-round melts into a hoop of light, the rings of a tree reveal its age, this collection of poems turn on an axis of opposites: self and others, here and there, present and past.

Provides the comprehensive introduction to Grammatical Evolution, a novel approach to Genetic Programming that adopts principles from molecular biology. This approach to Genetic Programming represents a powerful new weapon in the Machine Learning toolkit that can be applied to a diverse set of problem domains.

The outlines of contemporary critical theory are now often taught as a standard feature of a degree in literary studies. This text aims to explore the theoretical issues and conflicts embodied in selected poems of Percy Shelley and locate areas of disagreement between positions.

In 'Percy Bysshe Shelly: A Literary Life' , Michael O'Neill gives a knowledgeable and balanced account of Shelley's literary career from his earliest published work to his last unfinished masterpiece, The Triumph of Life . For Shelley, a poet was the 'combined product' of 'internal powers' and 'external influences' (Preface to Prometheus Unbound );