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An evolvability-enhanced artificial embryogeny for generating network structures

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Existing Artificial Embryogeny (AE) models are insufficient to generate a network structure because the possible links are limited to those connecting nodes with their predefined neighbors. We propose a novel network generating AE model capable of generating links connected to predefined neighbors as well those to non-neighbors. This mechanism provides additional flexibility in phenotypes than existing AE models. Our AE model also incorporates a heterogeneous mutation mechanism to accelerate the convergence to a high fitness value or enhance the evolvability. We conduct experiments to generate a typical 2D grid pattern as well as a robot with a network structure consisting of masses, springs and muscles. In both tasks, results show that our AE model has higher evolvability, sufficient to search a larger space than that of conventional AE models bounded by local neighborhood relationships.

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GECCO '08: Proceedings of the 10th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation
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ISBN:9781605581309
DOI:10.1145/1389095
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  1. artificial embryogeny
  2. evolutionary algorithm
  3. mutation
  4. network structure

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