fitness landscape creation

[Daniel J Shapero]

Hi to all,
        I am doing some research on deriving fitness landscapes for
endogenous fitness functions using ABM techniques.  These simulations will
be run in swarm and I hope to be able to derive local gradients of the
characteristic space for the population by analyzing the dynamics of the
mutation pressure effects on the population.  Any material known on
figuring out fitness functions for endogenous situations using simulations
of agents?!?  

Also for the definition of an Autonomous Agent.
        to me an AA is any entity which has the power to adapt its
internal conditions(instance variables if you will)  to attempt to climb
its fitness landscape effectively.
The environment of this AA is any parameter which not internal to this AA.

Thanks lots,
Dan Shapero
Johns Hopkins and Brookings Institute


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