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CORR
2011
Springer
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13 years 5 hour ago
Distribution-Independent Evolvability of Linear Threshold Functions
Valiant’s (2007) model of evolvability models the evolutionary process of acquiring useful functionality as a restricted form of learning from random examples. Linear threshold ...
Vitaly Feldman
GEM
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Degenerate Neutrality Creates Evolvable Fitness Landscapes
- Understanding how systems can be designed to be evolvable is fundamental to research in optimization, evolution, and complex systems science. Many researchers have thus recognize...
James M. Whitacre, Axel Bender
CORR
2002
Springer
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13 years 4 months ago
Increasing Evolvability Considered as a Large-Scale Trend in Evolution
Evolvability is the capacity to evolve. This paper introduces a simple computational model of evolvability and demonstrates that, under certain conditions, evolvability can increa...
Peter D. Turney
CORR
2007
Springer
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13 years 5 months ago
How to use the Scuba Diving metaphor to solve problem with neutrality ?
Abstract. We proposed a new search heuristic using the scuba diving metaphor. This approach is based on the concept of evolvability and tends to exploit neutrality which exists in ...
Philippe Collard, Sébastien Vérel, M...
CORR
2007
Springer
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13 years 5 months ago
Scuba Search : when selection meets innovation
— We proposed a new search heuristic using the scuba diving metaphor. This approach is based on the concept of evolvability and tends to exploit neutrality in fitness landscape....
Sébastien Vérel, Philippe Collard, M...
COMPSAC
2008
IEEE
13 years 5 months ago
Analyzing Software Evolvability
Software evolution is characterized by inevitable changes of software and increasing software complexities, which in turn may lead to huge costs unless rigorously taking into acco...
Hongyu Pei Breivold, Ivica Crnkovic, Peter J. Erik...
GECCO
2006
Springer
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13 years 8 months ago
Selecting for evolvable representations
Evolutionary algorithms tend to produce solutions that are not evolvable: Although current fitness may be high, further search is impeded as the effects of mutation and crossover ...
Joseph Reisinger, Risto Miikkulainen
GECCO
2009
Springer
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13 years 9 months ago
Neutrality and variability: two sides of evolvability in linear genetic programming
The notion of evolvability has been put forward to describe the“core mechanism”of natural and artificial evolution. Recently, studies have revealed the influence of the envi...
Ting Hu, Wolfgang Banzhaf
SAGA
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Self-replication, Evolvability and Asynchronicity in Stochastic Worlds
We consider temporal aspects of self-replication and evolvability – in particular, the massively asynchronous parallel and distributed nature of living systems. Formal views of s...
Chrystopher L. Nehaniv
ECAL
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Analysing the Evolvability of Neural Network Agents Through Structural Mutations
This paper investigates evolvability of artificial neural networks within an artificial life environment. Five different structural mutations are investigated, including adaptive e...
Ehud Schlessinger, Peter J. Bentley, R. Beau Lotto