1. Foreword

   • Vivek S Borkar

   Chance As Necessity Pages: 259 - 260

2. Learning automata algorithms for pattern classification

   • P S Sastry
   • M A L Thathachar

   Chance As Necessity Pages: 261 - 292

3. An introduction to genetic algorithms

   • Kalyanmoy Deb

   Chance As Necessity Pages: 293 - 315

4. Some results characterizing the finite time behaviour of the simulated annealing algorithm

   • Madhav P Desai

   Chance As Necessity Pages: 317 - 337

5. Algorithms for optimization and stabilization of controlled Markov chains

   • Sean Meyn

   Chance As Necessity Pages: 339 - 367

6. Structure theorems for partially asynchronous iterations of a nonnegative matrix with random delays

   • Reza Gharavi
   • Venkat Anantharam

   Chance As Necessity Pages: 369 - 423

7. Stochastic approximation algorithms: Overview and recent trends

   • B Bharath
   • V S Borkar

   Chance As Necessity Pages: 425 - 452