Tracking the Trajectories of Evolution

This paper proposes a method of visualizing and measuring evolution in Artificial Life simulations. The evolving population of agents is treated as a dynamical system. The proposed method is inspired by the notion of trajectory. This paper provides examples of tracking of trajectories of evolutionary system in the spaces of genotypes, strategies and some global characteristics. Visualization similar to bifurcation diagram is used to represent results of series of simulations.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2004
• Where: ALIFE
• Authors: Mikhail S. Burtsev
• Keywords: ALIFE 2004, ALIFE 2007, Artificial Life Simulations, Dynamical System, Paper