PLAZZMID: an evolutionary agent-based architecture inspired by Bacteria and Bees

  • Authors:
  • Susan Stepney;Tim Clarke;Peter Young

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of York, UK;Department of Electronics, University of York, UK;Department of Biology, University of York, UK

  • Venue:
  • ECAL'07 Proceedings of the 9th European conference on Advances in artificial life
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Classical evolutionary algorithms have been extremely successful at solving certain problems. But they implement a very simple model of evolutionary biology that misses out several aspects that might be exploited by more sophisticated algorithms. We have previously critiqued the traditional naïve approach to bio-inspired algorithm design, that moves straight from a simplistic description of the biology into some algorithm. Here we present a process for developing richer evolutionary algorithms abstracted from various processes of biological evolution, with a corresponding richer analogical computational structure, and indicate how that might be further abstracted.