31 Greg Paperin David G. Green Tania G. Leishman 2008 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 The Seventh International Conference on Simulated Evolution And Learning (SEAL'08) Melbourne, Australia Springer 5361/2008 575-584 Lecture Notes in Computer Science 978-3-540-89693-7 Dual Phase Evolution, complexity, network, criticality, phase change, evolution, self-organisation, scale-free network, modularity 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. http://www.springerlink.com/content/l71001w15707t867/