TY - GEN
T1 - Self-protection maintains diversity of artificial self-replicators evolving in cellular automata
AU - Sayama, H.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2003 IEEE.
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - The concept of »self-protection», a capability of an organism to protect itself from exogenous attacks, is introduced to the design of artificial evolutionary systems as a possible method to create and maintain diversity in the population. Three different mechanisms of self-protection are considered and implemented on a cellular automata based evolutionary system, the evoloop. Simulation results imply a positive effect of those mechanisms on diversity maintenance, especially when the self-protection is moderate so that it conserves both the attacker and the attacked.
AB - The concept of »self-protection», a capability of an organism to protect itself from exogenous attacks, is introduced to the design of artificial evolutionary systems as a possible method to create and maintain diversity in the population. Three different mechanisms of self-protection are considered and implemented on a cellular automata based evolutionary system, the evoloop. Simulation results imply a positive effect of those mechanisms on diversity maintenance, especially when the self-protection is moderate so that it conserves both the attacker and the attacked.
KW - Biological system modeling
KW - Bonding
KW - Detectors
KW - Emergent phenomena
KW - Environmental factors
KW - Organisms
KW - Protection
KW - Robustness
KW - Shape
KW - Turning
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U2 - 10.1109/EH.2003.1217673
DO - 10.1109/EH.2003.1217673
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84942423173
T3 - Proceedings - NASA/DoD Conference on Evolvable Hardware, EH
SP - 242
EP - 245
BT - Proceedings - 2003 NASA/DoD Conference on Evolvable Hardware
A2 - Lohn, Jason
A2 - Zebulum, Ricardo
A2 - Steincamp, James
A2 - Keymeulen, Didier
A2 - Stoica, Adrian
A2 - Ferguson, Michael I.
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2003 NASA/DoD Conference on Evolvable Hardware, EH 2003
Y2 - 9 July 2003 through 11 July 2003
ER -