creators_name: Jelasity, Mark
editors_name: Banzhaf, Wolfgang
editors_name: Daida, Jason
editors_name: Eiben, Gusz
editors_name: Garzon, Max
editors_name: Honavar, Vasant
editors_name: Jakiela, Mark
editors_name: Smith, Rob
type: confpaper
datestamp: 2000-03-21
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:04
metadata_visibility: show
title: The adaptationist stance and evolutionary computation
ispublished: pub
subjects: bio-evo
subjects: comp-sci-art-intel
subjects: comp-sci-mach-learn
subjects: phil-sci
full_text_status: public
keywords: knowledge representation, evolutionary computation, adaptation, evolution
abstract: 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.
date: 1999
date_type: published
publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
pagerange: 1859-1864
refereed: FALSE
citation:   Jelasity, Mark  (1999) The adaptationist stance and evolutionary computation.  [Conference Paper]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/557/2/gecco99.ps