Genetic programming (videotape): the movie
Genetic programming (videotape): the movie
Genetic programming II (videotape): the next generation
Genetic programming II (videotape): the next generation
Genetic programming: an introduction: on the automatic evolution of computer programs and its applications
Evolution of robustness in digital organisms
Artificial Life
A retrovirus inspired algorithm for virus detection & optimization
Proceedings of the 8th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation
Evolutionary Computation for Modeling and Optimization
Evolutionary Computation for Modeling and Optimization
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Retroviruses are RNA viruses whose RNA can be transformed into DNA and inserted in the genome of a host cell. This study prototypes a simulation environment in which a simple artificial organism with a variable-size genome evolves with and without retroviruses. The simulated organisms are called grid walkers. They are evolved to efficiently occupy space on a two-dimensional grid. Grid walkers develop a self-organized genome structure with analogs to biological introns and exons. The introduction of retroviruses is found to cause several significant changes: the rate of genome growth is increased, the number of exons is increased, mean exon size is decreased, and fitness is retarded. The grid walkers are found to evolve heritable fitness in preference to high fitness ("survival of the flattest"), a process that is enhanced when retroviruses are present.