Session:

MOD - Modularity, regularity and hierarchy in open-ended evolutionary computation

Title:

Principles of Modularity, Regularity, and Hierarchy for Scalable Systems

Authors:

Hod Lipson

Abstract:

Scalability of open-ended evolutionary processes depends on their ability to exploit functional modularity, structural regularity and hierarchy. This paper offers a number of observations about properties, dependencies and tradeoffs among these principles and proposes a formal model where such elements can be examined.