Symbionticism and Complex Adaptive Systems I: Implications of Having Symbiosis Occur in Nature (1996)
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| Venue: | Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Conference on Evolutionary Programming |
| Citations: | 5 - 2 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Daida96symbionticismand,
author = {Jason M. Daida and Catherine S. Grasso and Stephen A. Stanhope and Steven J. Ross},
title = {Symbionticism and Complex Adaptive Systems I: Implications of Having Symbiosis Occur in Nature},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Conference on Evolutionary Programming},
year = {1996},
pages = {177--186},
publisher = {The MIT Press}
}
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Over the past several years, there has been an increasing interest in the biological phenomena of symbiosis by those in complex adaptive systems and evolutionary computation. We describe in this paper some of the caveats involved in modeling or using biological symbiosis as a computational metaphor. We specifically consider some of the common philosophical viewpoints on symbiosis and comment on the appropriateness of these viewpoints for use in complex adaptive systems and evolutionary computation. 1. Introduction 1.1 Background Nature---as the saying goes---is red in tooth and claw, in part because of the natural selection. A key principle of evolutionary biology and Neo-Darwinism, natural selection has evoked themes of struggle, survival, competition, and warfare. Nature is not a benign place---it is a "jungle" out there---and given any of its recent metaphors, nature is not ordered according to the weak, but to the strong. In nature, symbiosis occurs. Symbiosis---as in...
