FITNESS
| Collection | International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics |
|---|---|
| Year | 2004 |
| Vol. (num.) | 2(1) |
| ID | ◀ 1280 ▶ |
| Object type | Discipline oriented, General information, Methodology or model |
Selective value of some characteristics of a system, a member of a species or a species as a whole .
Of course fitness is a relative concept. It cannot be understood without some specific environment , as for example ecological or enonomic.
However its meaning is quite general. It applies not only to individuals, but also to populations . As conditions change, the transient nature of fitness becomes obvious, be it for dinosaurs at the end of mesozoic, or horse driven coaches at the beginning of the 20th Century.
Fitness is now researched experimentally through “ evolutionary robotics ” (D. FLOREANO, 1996 and 2002 and M. SIPPER & J.A. REGGIA, 2001)
Floreano “computers robots ”(i.e. electronic models of robots) and their behavior is discussed extensively in a “ written symposium” (“Symposium écrit”) on “ artificial evolution ”, organized by the Institut de la Méthode (Lausanne University, Switzerland)
See also
Evolution (artificial), Paralled distributed processing, Robot (Khepera), Weights (Synaptic)