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. Language: English