TY - GEN
T1 - A coarse-coding framework for a gene-regulatory-based artificial neural tissue
AU - Thangavelautham, Jekanthan
AU - D'Eleuterio, Gabriele M.T.
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - A developmental Artificial Neural Tissue (ANT) architecture inspired by the mammalian visual cortex is presented. It is shown that with the effective use of gene regulation that large phenotypes in the form of Artificial Neural Tissues do not necessarily pose an impediment to evolution. ANT includes a Gene Regulatory Network that controls cell growth/death arid activation/inhibition of the tissue based on a coarse-coding framework. This scalable architecture can facilitate emergent (self-organized) task decomposition and require limited task specific information compared with fixed topologies. Only a global fitness function (without biasing a particular task decomposition strategy) is specified and self-organized task decomposition is achieved through a process of gene regulation, competitive coevolution, cooperation and specialization.
AB - A developmental Artificial Neural Tissue (ANT) architecture inspired by the mammalian visual cortex is presented. It is shown that with the effective use of gene regulation that large phenotypes in the form of Artificial Neural Tissues do not necessarily pose an impediment to evolution. ANT includes a Gene Regulatory Network that controls cell growth/death arid activation/inhibition of the tissue based on a coarse-coding framework. This scalable architecture can facilitate emergent (self-organized) task decomposition and require limited task specific information compared with fixed topologies. Only a global fitness function (without biasing a particular task decomposition strategy) is specified and self-organized task decomposition is achieved through a process of gene regulation, competitive coevolution, cooperation and specialization.
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U2 - 10.1007/11553090_8
DO - 10.1007/11553090_8
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:33645971288
SN - 3540288481
SN - 9783540288480
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 67
EP - 77
BT - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
T2 - 8th European Conference on Advances in Artificial Life, ECAL 2005
Y2 - 5 September 2005 through 9 September 2005
ER -