Decentralized, distributed systems, evolutionary computation, and prisoner’s dilemma
Posted in Computing, Research, Science on February 8th, 2008
Chris posted some cool questions on my earlier post about decentralized behavior in social insects:
so what kinds of things do computer scientists do w/this idea? is sort of what evolutionary computing is about? i picked up the evolution of cooperation recently (tit for tat wins prisoner’s dilemma) you must be familiar w/this, yes?”
There’s really three different (but related) ideas in this question:
- Decentralized and emergent behavior
- Evolutionary computation
- Game theory and cooperation
I’ll take them one at a time, with more on the first of the three, at least for now.
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