کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
2076582 1544998 2007 14 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Complex adaptation and system structure
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه ریاضیات مدل‌سازی و شبیه سازی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Complex adaptation and system structure
چکیده انگلیسی

The structural organization of biological systems is one of nature’s most fascinating aspects, but its origin and functional role is not yet fully understood. For instance, basic adaptational mechanisms like genetic mutation and Hebbian adaptation seem to be generic and invariant across many species and are, on their own, fairly well investigated and understood. However, it is the organism’s structure – the representations these mechanisms act upon – that bears the complex functional effects of these mechanisms. While typical technical approaches to system design require detailed problem models and suffer from the need to explicitly take care of all possible cases, the organization of biological systems seems to induce inherent adaptability, flexibility and robustness. In this discussion paper we address the concept of structured variability, particularly the role of system structure as implementing a certain representation on which basic variational mechanisms act on. The functional adaptability (or search distribution) depends crucially on this representation.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Biosystems - Volume 90, Issue 3, November–December 2007, Pages 769–782
نویسندگان
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