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Self-Organisation of Evolving Agent Populations in Digital Ecosystems

Neural and Evolutionary Computing 2012-01-25 v1

Abstract

We investigate the self-organising behaviour of Digital Ecosystems, because a primary motivation for our research is to exploit the self-organising properties of biological ecosystems. We extended a definition for the complexity, grounded in the biological sciences, providing a measure of the information in an organism's genome. Next, we extended a definition for the stability, originating from the computer sciences, based upon convergence to an equilibrium distribution. Finally, we investigated a definition for the diversity, relative to the selection pressures provided by the user requests. We conclude with a summary and discussion of the achievements, including the experimental results.

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@article{arxiv.1201.4908,
  title  = {Self-Organisation of Evolving Agent Populations in Digital Ecosystems},
  author = {Gerard Briscoe and Philippe De Wilde},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1201.4908},
  year   = {2012}
}

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50 pages, 25 figures, journal