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Generative Programming: Methods, Tools, and Applications
$64.99
This book has revolutionary concepts and practical solutions on how to capture the variability in software in an
orderly and predictable way and more important how to provide technology for true reuse in Software Engineering. Mandatory reading for practioners and researchers in the field.

A Generative Theory of Tonal Music
$39.00
I bought this book for a reading group organized by linguists, and think it's very interesting. It is not an easy read though, it takes time to decipher the proposed rules and sometimes it is not clear what the consequences of adopting those rules are. I don't know how comprehensible the book is for people with little formal or linguistic background, I do think that the authors aim to separate generative linguistic theory from the general idea that underlies it, and work from the latter perspective (not the first).

Machine Learning: Discriminative and Generative
$108.00
Machine Learning: Discriminative and Generative covers the main contemporary themes and tools in machine learning ranging from Bayesian probabilistic models to discriminative support-vector machines. However, unlike previous books that only discuss these rather different approaches in isolation, it bridges the two schools of thought together within a common framework, elegantly connecting their various theories and making one common big-picture. Also, this bridge brings forth new hybrid discriminative-generative tools that combine the strengths of both camps. This book serves multiple purposes as well. The framework acts as a scientific breakthrough, fusing the areas of generative and discriminative learning and will be of interest to many researchers. However, as a conceptual breakthrough, this common framework unifies many previously unrelated tools and techniques and makes them understandable to a larger portion of the public. This gives the more practical-minded engineer, student and the industrial public an easy-access and more sensible road map into the world of machine learning.

Generative Social Science: Studies in Agent-Based Computational Modeling (Princeton Studies in Complexity)
$60.00
Epstein pulls together great examples from the use of ABS to grow or identify rules associated with behaviors and their manifested group behaviors.

The first few chapters give a great summary of Epstein's Generative thinking. A good fountain for any scientist who is interested in using Agent Based Simulation.