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The Impact of Environmental Structure on the Evolutionary Trajectories of a Foraging Agent

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Artificial Evolution (EA 2001)

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A foraging agent using a sensorimotor controller is simulated in environments with varying ecological structure. The controller is evolved in the different environments to produce a range of emergent behaviours, which are analysed and compared using data reduction techniques: the behaviours are compared between environments and in their evolutionary trajectories. The relationship between the evolutionary trajectories, the affordances in the different environments, and the performance and onward evolution of controllers in their non-native environments is explored. The different environments have lead to agents following different evolutionary trajectories and arriving at similar but slightly different behaviours. These evolved controllers then evolve differently when challenged with a new environment.

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  1. School of Computing Information Systems and Mathematics, South Bank University, SE1 0AA, London, UK

    Ian R. Edmonds

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  1. Centre de Mathématiques Appliquées, Ecole Polytechnique, 91128, Palaiseau Cedex, France

    Pierre Collet

  2. LIL, Université du Littoral — Côte d’Opale, BP 719, 62228, Calais Cedex, France

    Cyril Fonlupt

  3. LERIA, Université d’Angers, 2 Boulevard Lavoisier, 49045, Angers Cedex 01, France

    Jin-Kao Hao

  4. Projet FRACTALES, INRIA Rocquencourt, Domaine de Voluceau, BP 105, 78153, Le Chesnay Cedex, France

    Evelyne Lutton  & Marc Schoenauer  & 

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Edmonds, I.R. (2002). The Impact of Environmental Structure on the Evolutionary Trajectories of a Foraging Agent. In: Collet, P., Fonlupt, C., Hao, JK., Lutton, E., Schoenauer, M. (eds) Artificial Evolution. EA 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2310. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46033-0_27

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