Dual Phase Evolution and Self-Organisation in Networks
Publication Type:
Conference ProceedingsSource:
Xiaodong Li; Michael Kirley; Mengjie Zhang; David G. Green; Vic Ciesielski; Hussein Abbass; Zbigniew Michalewicz; Tim Hendtlass; Kalyanmoy Deb; K.C. Tan; Jürgen Branke; Yuhui Shi (eds.), Proceedings of The Seventh International Conference on Simulated Evolution And Learning (SEAL'08), Melbourne, Australia. Springer, Volume 5361/2008, pp. 575-584.ISBN:
978-3-540-89693-7ISSN:
0302-9743URL:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/l71001w15707t867/Keywords:
Dual Phase Evolution; complexity; network; criticality; phase change; evolution; self-organisation; scale-free network; modularityAbstract:
Dual Phase Evolution (DPE) is a widespread natural process in which complex systems adapt and self-organise by switching alternately between two phases: a phase of global interactions and a phase of local interactions. We show that in evolving networks of agents, DPE can give rise to a wide variety of topologies. In particular, it can lead to the spontaneous emergence of stabilising modular structure.