life inspired

"[...]a brief history of the Evolving Cellular Automata (EvCA) project. In the EvCA project, a genetic algorithm was used to evolve cellular automata to perform certain (nontrivial) computational tasks, in an effort to gain more insight into the question: 'How does evolution produce sophisticated emergent computation in systems composed of simple components limited to local interactions?' Full article @ Complexity - Wiley Online Library

Labels: cellular automata, emergent computation, evolutionary algorithms

"Here we show that using stochastic evolutionary game theory, where agents make mistakes when judging the payoffs and strategies of others, natural selection favors fairness." Full article @ PNAS

Labels: Agent-based modeling, cooperation, evolutionary algorithms, social agents

"Combining transcriptomic and signaling data, we develop an evolutionary computational procedure that allows obtaining alternative genomic transcriptional regulatory network (GTRN) that still maintains its adaptability to dynamic environments. We apply our methodology to an E. coli GTRN and show that it could be rewired to simpler transcriptional regulatory structures." Full paper @
PNAA

Labels: evolutionary algorithms, gene regulation, synthetic biology, systems biology