The Evolutionary and Creative Processesin Biological Systems

EVOLUTIONARY ACCOMPANIMENT SYSTEMS FOR CREATIVE MUSIC GENERATION by SHU

GENERATION by SHU ZHANG (Under the Direction of Khaled Rasheed) ABSTRACT In this thesis, two music accompaniment systems are presented. Evac (the evolutionary accompanist) is a system that engages in musical improvisation with the user. It uses a novel, implicitly interactive, genetic algorithm (GA), which allows the user’s actions to influence Evac’s musical performance without the need for ex...

Artificial Creative Systems: Completing the Creative Cycle

Human creativity is personally, socially and culturally situated: creative individuals work within environments rich in personal experiences, social relationships and cultural knowledge. Computational models of creative processes typically neglect some or all of these aspects of human creativity. How can we hope to capture this richness in computational models of creativity? This paper introduc...

Crypto Currencies and the Blockchain Technology: An Evolutionary Review of Money and the Payment Systems

In this paper we utilize the main findings from the recent literature to set the economic foundation for the existence of money, its modern interpretation as “memory” (Chokerlakota 1998) and how the Blockchain technology has empowered crypto currencies to perform this role in the information age.  To locate the issue in a historical perspective and in line with this strand of thought, we consid...

Evolving biological systems: Evolutionary Pressure to Inefficiency

The evolution of quantitative details (i.e. “parameter values”) of biological systems is highly under-researched. We use evolutionary algorithms to co-evolve parameters for a generic but biologically plausible topological differential equation model of nutrient uptake. In our model, evolving cells compete for a finite pool of nutrient resources. From our investigations it emerges that the choic...

Evolutionary computation in creative design