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October 26, 1998

NSI Team Gets Cover Article in SigArt Bulletin

La Jolla, CA -- The Fall 1998 issue of ACM Press' SigArt Bulletin, a quarterly publication for the special interest group on artificial intelligence, features a report on Natural Selection, Inc.'s innovative use of evolutionary computation for generating novel tactics in tank warfare. The paper shows how evolution can be used to adapt the behavior of opposing forces using a ModSAF simulation in light of the goals assigned to each side. This research has been led by Bill Porto, Vice President of Natural Selection, Inc.: "We're very pleased to have this work be recognized in the SigArt Bulletin and we hope more effort will be made within artificial intelligence to take advantage of evolutionary techniques." Natural Selection, Inc. continues to pursue advanced evolutionary techniques for modeling hierarchical control of combat forces in a variety of settings.

Natural Selection, Inc. was founded in 1993 to address complex problems in industry, medicine, and defense. The company possesses unique expertise in computational intelligence techniques, including evolutionary computation, neural networks, and fuzzy logic. The corporation's current research efforts support the discovery of new pharmaceuticals, the automated detection and diagnosis of breast cancer from film-screen mammograms, optical character recognition, and a variety of military projects.

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