Evolvability and Acceleration in Evolutionary Computation
Ting Hu, Wolfgang Banzhaf · 2008
Biological and artificial evolutionary systems can possess varying degrees of evolvability and different rates of evolution. Such quantities can be affected by various factors. Here, we review some evolutionary mechanisms and discuss new developments in biology that may improve evolvability or accelerate evolution in artificial systems. Biological notions are discussed to the degree they correspond to notions in evolutionary computation. We hope the findings put forward here can be used to design computational models of evolution that exhibit significant gains in evolvability and evolutionary speed.