Jean-Marc Montanier
ABSTRACT
The work presented here is concerned with the evolution of altruistic behaviour in a population of agents subject to an open-ended evolutionary process. In this context, it is well known that genotypic relatedness plays a key role with respect to the level of altruism that can be observed. Such relatedness may be enforced through particular selection mechanism (e.g. kin-recognition) as well as particular dispersion strategies (e.g. low dispersion favours local interactions). This paper presents results on the importance of the evolution of particular dispersion strategies whenever consumption strategies are enforced. A key result from this paper is that whenever altruism is difficult to display when consuming food (i.e. being unable to share while eating), higher dispersion behaviour are evolved, which is a counterintuitive result at first sight.
- N. Bredeche and J.-M. Montanier. Environment-driven Embodied Evolution in a Population of Autonomous Agents. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving From Nature (PPSN 2010), pages 290--299, 2010. Google Scholar
Digital Library
- N. Bredeche, J.-M. Montanier, W. Liu, and A. F. Winfield. Environment-driven Distributed Evolutionary Adaptation in a Population of Autonomous Robotic Agents. Mathematical and Computer Modelling of Dynamical Systems, Special Issue: Modelling the swarm - analysing biological and engineered swarm systems, 18(1):101--129, 2012.Google Scholar
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Index Terms
- Evolution of altruism: spatial dispersion and consumption strategies
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