Hinton and Nowlan have demonstrated a model of how lifetime plasticity can guide evolution. They show how acquired traits change the shape of the reward landscape in which subseque...
Niche construction is the process whereby organisms, through their metabolism, activities, and choices, modify their own and/or each other’s niches. Our purpose is to clarify the...
In this paper we show how historical data, such as existing domain-specific databases or access logs, can be used to guide user interface design. We show how we employed such data...
We simulate the evolution of a domain vocabulary in small communities. Empirical data show that human communicators can evolve graphical languages quickly in a constrained task (P...
In evolutionary software development, knowing how design evolves with features can be valuable in guiding future projects. It helps answer questions like "How much upfront de...