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Necessary Conditions for Open-Ended Evolution
| Title: | Necessary Conditions for Open-Ended Evolution. |
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| Name(s): |
Soros, Lisa, Author Stanley, Kenneth, Committee Chair Gonzalez, Avelino, Committee Member Wiegand, Rudolf, Committee Member Cash, Mason, Committee Member University of Central Florida, Degree Grantor |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Date Issued: | 2018 | |
| Publisher: | University of Central Florida | |
| Language(s): | English | |
| Abstract/Description: | Evolution on Earth is widely considered to be an effectively endless process. Though this phenomenon of open-ended evolution (OEE) has been a topic of interest in the artificial life communitysince its beginnings, the field still lacks an empirically validated theory of what exactly is necessary to reproduce the phenomenon in general (including in domains quite unlike Earth). Thisdissertation (1) enumerates a set of conditions hypothesized to be necessary for OEE in addition to (2) introducing an artificial life world called Chromaria that incorporates each of the hypothesizednecessary conditions. It then (3) describes a set of experiments with Chromaria designed to empirically validate the hypothesized necessary conditions. Thus, this dissertation describes the firstscientific endeavor to systematically test an OEE framework in an alife world and thereby make progress towards solving an open question not just for evolutionary computation and artificial life,but for science in general. | |
| Identifier: | CFE0007247 (IID), ucf:52205 (fedora) | |
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2018-08-01 Ph.D. Engineering and Computer Science, Computer Science Doctoral This record was generated from author submitted information. |
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| Subject(s): | artificial life -- open-ended evolution -- neuroevolution -- quality diversity | |
| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0007247 | |
| Restrictions on Access: | public 2018-08-15 | |
| Host Institution: | UCF |
