Adaptive Control of Ill-Defined Systems

Perspectives.- A Dialogue on Ill-Defined Control.- Hijmans and Their Relation to Ill-Defined Systems.- Some Themes and Primitives in Ill-Defined Systems.- The Use of Optimal Control in Economics.- Biological Views of Adaptation - Some Historical Accounts.- Control Theory Mb Non-Linear Analysis.- Adaptive Behavior in Manual Control and the Optimal Control Model.- Regulation, Feedback and Internal Models.- The Dynamics of Adaptation in Living Systems.- Artificial Intelligence.- Adaptive Control: From Feedback to Debugging.- The Role of the Critic in Learning Systems.- Examples and Learning Systems.- Conceptual Models of Ill-Defined Systems.- Motor Skills.- Creativity in Skilled Performance.- The Concepts of 'Adaptation' and 'Attunement' in Skill Learning.- Visuomotor Coordination: From Neural Nets to Schema Theory.- Language Acquisition and Adaptation.- Richly Specified Input to Language Learning.- The Sensible Brain: Adaptation as a Positive and as a Negative Factor in the Reorganization of Neuropsychological Systems After Brain Damage.- Development and Evolution.- Piaget and Education.- Implications and Applications of Piaget's Sensorimotor Concepts.- Failure is Not the Spur.- Genetic Algorithms and Adaptation.- Contributors.- Author Index.