The central topic of this book is the adaptation of cognitive processes to resource limitations, through evolutionary and developmental mechanisms in the case of humans and through artificial constructions in the case of computational systems. The construction and analysis of resource control in cognitive processes and an analysis of resource-adaptivity within the paradigm of concurrent computation are further topics.
The editors of this book integrated the results of a collaborative twelve-year research project that involved over fifty scientists. Following an introduction to resource-adaptive cognitive processes and self-adaptive systems, the editors organized fifteen chapters into three sections dealing with resource-bounded cognitive processes in human information processing, resource-adaptive processing in human-machine interaction, and resource-adaptive rationality in machines.
The book will benefit researchers in the fields of artificial intelligence, computer science, computational linguistics, connectionism and neural science, philosophy and psychology.