Seth, Anil (1998) The evolution of complexity and the value of variability. In: Adami, Christoph, Belew, Richard K, Kitano, Hiroaki and Taylor, Charles E (eds.) Artificial Life VI: Proceedings of the 6th international conference on artificial life. MIT Press, London. ISBN 9780262510998

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Abstract

The hypothesis that environmental variability promotes the evolution of organism complexity is explored and illustrated, in two contexts. A co-evolutionary `Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma' (IPD) ecology, populated by strategies determined by variable length genotypes, provides a quantitative demonstration, and an example from evolutionary robotics (ER) provides a more qualitative and naturalistic exploration. In the ER example, the above hypothesis is illustrated in real environments, and the organism complexity is seen in robots exhibiting relatively complex behaviours and neural dynamics. Implications are drawn for the emergence of complexity in general, and also for artificial evolution as a design methodology.

Item Type:	Book Section
Schools and Departments:	School of Engineering and Informatics > Informatics
Depositing User:	Anil Seth
Date Deposited:	06 Feb 2012 19:27
Last Modified:	07 Jun 2012 10:40
URI:	http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/20654

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