کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
10883596 1078466 2012 8 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Randomness + determinism = progresses: Why random processes could be favored by evolution
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری بیوشیمی، ژنتیک و زیست شناسی مولکولی بیوفیزیک
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Randomness + determinism = progresses: Why random processes could be favored by evolution
چکیده انگلیسی
Biologists are somehow pioneers on the idea that progress can be driven by randomness: randomness is one of the main engine of evolution; small variations induced by randomness coupled with natural selection allows the species to self-adapt to their moving environment. Studies from the last 40 years in computer science suggest that randomness is in fact able of doing much more and revealed unexpected possibilities which might appear impossible at first. Furthermore, it turns out that these discoveries are faster, cheaper and above all exponentially thriftier than their deterministic alternatives. This means that random explorations would almost surely generate a stochastic process way before any equivalent deterministic counterpart is found. It follows that most likely these processes are favored by evolution and should thus be known to anyone dealing with systems (alive or not) having access to random sources. This article presents some of these counter-intuitive results as a possible source of inspiration for studying systems fed with randomness.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology - Volume 110, Issue 1, September 2012, Pages 129-136
نویسندگان
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