- author = "David M. Bryson and Charles Ofria",
- title = "Digital Evolution Exhibits Surprising Robustness to Poor Design Decisions",
- booktitle = "ALIFE 2012: The Thirteenth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems",
- year = "2012",
- pages = "19--26",
- address = "East Lansing, Michigan, USA",
- month = jul # " 19-22",
- publisher = "MIT",
- keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming",
-
URL = "
https://doi.org/10.1162/978-0-262-31050-5-ch003",
-
URL = "
https://direct.mit.edu/isal/proceedings-pdf/alife2012/24/19/1901084/978-0-262-31050-5-ch003.pdf",
-
DOI = "
doi:10.1162/978-0-262-31050-5-ch003",
- size = "8 pages",
- abstract = "When designing an evolving software system, a researcher must set many aspects of the representation and inevitably make arbitrary decisions. Here we explore the consequences of poor design decisions in the development of a virtual instruction set in digital evolution systems. We evaluate the introduction of three different severities of poor choices. (1) functionally neutral instructions that water down mutational options, (2) actively deleterious instructions, and (3) a lethal die instruction. We further examine the impact of a high level of neutral bloat on the short term evolutionary potential of genotypes experiencing environmental change. We observed surprising robustness to these poor design decisions across all seven environments designed to analyse a wide range challenges. Analysis of the short term evolutionary potential of genotypes from the principal line of descent of case study populations demonstrated that the negative effects of neutral bloat in a static environment are compensated by retention of evolutionary potential during environmental change.",
-
notes = "Avida http://avida.devosoft.org is this GP?
Logic-9 Nine 1- and 2-input logic operations.
Logic-77 Seventy-seven 1-, 2-, and 3-input logic operations.
Match-12 Generate up to 12 specific numbers.
Fibonacci-32 Output up to 32 numbers of the Fibonacci sequence, in order.
Sort-10 Input 10 random numbers and output in correctly sorted order.
Limited-9 Logic-9 environment with a limited resource associated with each task.
Navigation Successfully traverse a labeled pathway",
