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Some Techniques for the Measurement of Complexity in Tierra | Russell K. Standish
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10 Dec 1999 | Journal: | Advances in Artificial Life, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1674, 104 (Springer: Berlin) (1999) | Subject: | Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems; Populations and Evolution | nlin.AO q-bio.PE | Abstract: | Recently, Adami and coworkers have been able to measure the information content of digital organisms living in their {em Avida} artificial life system. They show that over time, the organisms behave like Maxwell’s demon, accreting information (or complexity) as they evolve. In {em Avida} the organisms don’t interact with each other, merely reproduce at a particular rate (their fitness), and attempt to evaluate an externally given arithmetic function in order win bonus fitness points. Measuring the information content of a digital organism is essentially a process of counting the number of genotypes that give rise to the same phenotype. Whilst Avidan organisms have a particularly simple phenotype, Tierran organisms interact with each other, giving rise to an ecology of phenotypes. In this paper, I discuss techniques for comparing pairs of Tierran organisms to determine if they are phenotypically equivalent. I then discuss a method for computing an estimate of the number of phenotypically equivalent genotypes that is more accurate than the ``hot site’’ estimate used by Adami’s group. Finally, I report on an experimental analysis of a Tierra run. | Source: | arXiv, nlin.AO/0001009 | Other source: | [GID 7940] nlin.AO/0001009 | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites |
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