Why Are Evolved Developing Organisms Also Fault-Tolerant? Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:2960250, abstract = {It has been suggested that evolving developmental programs instead of direct genotype-phenotype mappings may increase the scalability of Genetic Algorithms. Many of these Artificial Embryogeny (AE) models have been proposed and their evolutionary properties are being investigated. One of these properties concerns the fault-tolerance of at least a particular class of AE, which models the development of artificial multicellular organisms. It has been shown that such AE evolves designs capable of recovering phenotypic faults during development, even if fault-tolerance is not selected for during evolution. This type of adaptivity is clearly very interesting both for theoretical reasons and possible robotic applications. In this paper we provide empirical evidence collected from a multicellular AE model showing a subtle relationship between evolution and development. These results explain why developmental fault-tolerance necessarily emerges during evolution.}, address = {Berlin}, author = {Federici, Diego and Ziemke, Tom}, booktitle = {From Animals to Animats 9: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behaviour}, citeulike-article-id = {2960250}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11840541_37}, doi = {10.1007/11840541_37}, journal = {From Animals to Animats 9}, keywords = {alife, cells, development, grn}, pages = {449--460}, posted-at = {2009-05-07 15:38:03}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Springer}, title = {Why Are Evolved Developing Organisms Also Fault-Tolerant?}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11840541_37}, year = {2006} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:2960250 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2960250 N2 - It has been suggested that evolving developmental programs instead of direct genotype-phenotype mappings may increase the scalability of Genetic Algorithms. Many of these Artificial Embryogeny (AE) models have been proposed and their evolutionary properties are being investigated. One of these properties concerns the fault-tolerance of at least a particular class of AE, which models the development of artificial multicellular organisms. It has been shown that such AE evolves designs capable of recovering phenotypic faults during development, even if fault-tolerance is not selected for during evolution. This type of adaptivity is clearly very interesting both for theoretical reasons and possible robotic applications. In this paper we provide empirical evidence collected from a multicellular AE model showing a subtle relationship between evolution and development. These results explain why developmental fault-tolerance necessarily emerges during evolution. JF - From Animals to Animats 9 AD - Berlin EP - 460 TI - Why Are Evolved Developing Organisms Also Fault-Tolerant? PB - Springer T2 - From Animals to Animats 9: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behaviour SP - 449 KW - alife KW - cells KW - development KW - grn AU - Federici, Diego AU - Ziemke, Tom PY - 2006/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11840541_37 ER -