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Knoester, D. B., McKinley, P. K., Beckmann, B., and Ofria, C. (2007) Directed Evolution of Communication and Cooperation in Digital Organisms. In ECAL07, pages 384--394. Springer.
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Abstract

This paper describes a study in the use of digital evolution to produce cooperative communication behavior in a population of digital organisms. The results demonstrate that digital evolution can produce organisms capable of distributed problem solving through interactions between members of the population and their environment. Specifically, the organisms cooperate to distribute among the population the largest value sensed from the environment. These digital organisms have no 'built-in' ability to perform this task; each population begins with a single organism that has only the ability to self-replicate. Over thousands of generations, random mutations and natural selection produce an instruction sequence that realizes this behavior, despite continuous turnover in the population.

Keywords: digital evolution, communication, cooperative behavior, natural selection, mutation, autonomic computing, biologically-inspired computing

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@inproceedings{knoester07ECAL,
  author={David B. Knoester and Philip K. McKinley and Benjamin Beckmann and Charles Ofria},
  title={Directed Evolution of Communication and Cooperation in Digital Organisms},
  year={2007},
  pages={384-394},
  publisher={Springer},
  booktitle={ECAL07},
  doi={10.1007/978-3-540-74913-4_39},
  url={http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~amag/langev/paper/knoester07ECAL.html},
  keywords={digital evolution, communication, cooperative behavior, natural selection, mutation, autonomic computing, biologically-inspired computing}
}

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