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Decentralized, distributed systems, evolutionary computation, and prisoner’s dilemma

Farming up close and personal

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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Tags: Computing, cooperation, distributed systems, emergent behavior, evolution, evolutionary computation, insects, prisoner's dilemma, programming, Science

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N-grams and the evolution of programs

Which of the following was written by (a) me, (b) William Shakespeare, and (c) Charles Darwin?

“I would have sent to Rome that’s worthy death?”

“The naturalist looking at species as he might succeed from a fork low down in the separation of the species of any species in a more or less from their sap this is unimportant for the instincts already possessed by certain plants so that natural selection of mere piles of superimposed strata and watch the sea separating an island even if we believe that pure water can effect little or no offspring.”

“The troubling aspects of a building block semantics in a given tree in the context and false.”

The answer and (much) more is below the fold.

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Tags: Computing, Dagstuhl, estimation of distribution algorithm, evolutionary computation, genetic programming, N-gram, programming, Research

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