Evolving Digital Ecological Networks

Evolving Digital Ecological Networks

"It is hard to realize that the living world as we know it is just one among many possibilities" [1]. Evolving digital ecological networks are webs of interacting, self-replicating, and evolving computer programs (i.e., digital organisms) that experience the same major ecological interactions as biological organisms (e.g., competition, predation, parasitism, and mutualism). Despite being comput...

Cooperative Co-Evolving Neural Networks for Robosoccer Simulation

Evolving Robust Digital Designs

Robust electronics is a challenge that the evolvable hardware field is addressing. This paper focusses on tolerance of faults where faults may arise through defects in the technology or unforeseen events. By relaxing the digital abstraction we enable evolution to find robust circuit architectures, exploiting non digital signal variations where necessary. Using a flexible technology and environm...

Artificial Ecological System for Evolving Computational Procedures

This paper explores a model where computational procedures themselves are evolved for the development of the next generation of emergent computing. The proposed model is an artificial ecosystem consisting of Turing machines which are a mathematical model of computing or algorithm. These Turing machines interact with each other by reading the other machines' descriptions as an input tape. As the...

Evolving networks

Most real networks often evolve through time: changes of topology can occur if some nodes and/or edges appear and/or disappear, and the types or weights of nodes and edges can also change even if the topology stays static. Mobile devices with wireless capabilities (mobile phones, laptops, etc.) are a typical example of evolving networks where nodes or users are spread in the environment and con...