Evolution and Biocomputation
This volume comprises ten thoroughly refereed and revised full papers originating from an interdisciplinary workshop on biocomputation entitled "Evolution as a Computational Process", held in Monterey, California in July 1992. This book is devoted to viewing biological evolution as a giant computational process being carried out over a vast spatial and temporal scale. Computer scientists, mathematicians and physicists may learn about optimization from looking at natural evolution and...
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This volume comprises ten thoroughly refereed and revised full papers originating from an interdisciplinary workshop on biocomputation entitled "Evolution as a Computational Process", held in Monterey, California in July 1992. This book is devoted to viewing biological evolution as a giant computational process being carried out over a vast spatial and temporal scale. Computer scientists, mathematicians and physicists may learn about optimization from looking at natural evolution and biologists may learn about evolution from studying artificial life, game theory, and mathematical optimization. In addition to the ten full papers addressing e.g. population genetics, emergence, artificial life, self-organization, evolutionary algorithms, and selection, there is an introductory survey and a subject index.
Editors' Introduction1Aspects of Optimality Behavior in Population Genetics Theory7Optimization as a Technique for Studying Population Genetics Equations18Emergence of Mutualism27Three Illustrations of Artificial Life's Working Hypothesis53Self-Organizing Algorithms Derived from RNA Interactions69Modeling the Connection Between Development and Evolution: Preliminary Report103Soft Genetic Operators in Evolutionary Algorithms123Analysis of Selection, Mutation and Recombination in Genetic Algorithms142The Role of Mate Choice in Biocomputation: Sexual Selection as a Process of Search, Optimization and Diversification169Genome Growth and the Evolution of the Genotype-Phenotype Map205About the Contributors261Index265
