

We present quantitative results using this complexity metricĪnd analyze the causes of varying rates of complexity growthĪcross different types of interactions. These automata, and study the coevolutionary dynamics ofĬomplexity growth in a variety of multi-species simulations. We propose a linguistic prediction game with competitive andĬooperative variants, and a model of game players based onįinite state automata. Proceedings of European Conference on Artificial Life, Lyon France, 298-305. Effects of Cooperative and Competitive Coevolution on Complexity in a Linguistic Prediction Game. While in the sequential-subtask environment, both singlelevelĪnd hierarchical modularity tend to rise throughout the Tend to rise initially before stagnating and even declining,

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