title: The adaptationist stance and evolutionary computation
creator: Jelasity, Mark
subject: Evolution
subject: Artificial Intelligence
subject: Machine Learning
subject: Philosophy of Science
description: In this paper the connections between the evolutionary paradigm called adaptationism and the field of evolutionary computation (EC) will be outlined. After giving an introduction to adaptationism we will try to show that the so called adaptational stance can be applied in EC as well as in biology and this application may have significant benefits. It will also be shown that this approach has serious, inherent limitations in both cases especially in the case of EC, because we lack the language which could be used to form the theories, but these representational limitations can be handled by devoting efforts to construct this language.
publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
contributor: Banzhaf, Wolfgang
contributor: Daida, Jason
contributor: Eiben, Gusz
contributor: Garzon, Max
contributor: Honavar, Vasant
contributor: Jakiela, Mark
contributor: Smith, Rob
date: 1999
type: Conference Paper
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/postscript
identifier: http://cogprints.org/557/2/gecco99.ps
identifier:   Jelasity, Mark  (1999) The adaptationist stance and evolutionary computation.  [Conference Paper]     
relation: http://cogprints.org/557/