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Members of the Thesis Committee: (2013)
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@MISC{Sarailidis13membersof,
author = {Georgios Sarailidis and Benedikt Löwe and Roeland Merks and Ronald De Wolf and Jelle Zuidema},
title = {Members of the Thesis Committee:},
year = {2013}
}
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Abstract
We introduce a framework designed to mathematically study and model the ‘evolvability ’ of entities. Our use of ‘evolvability ’ is different than the one found in the context of biology. We roughly understand an entity as being ‘evolvable ’ if, with non-negligible probability, it can arise as the result of an evolutionary process. However, this is not a formal definition. An essential part of our work is to examine how one may arrive at a formal definition for evolvability. The exact definition will depend on one’s application of interest. With such a definition in hand one may approach questions like “is there a mechanism that can make such-and-such entities co-evolve under such-andsuch initial conditions, with non-negligible probability, in a non-astronomical amount of time? ” Ultimately, we are interested in assessing the power of a given evolutionary process in terms of the evolutionary products it can give rise to, the conditions and resources necessary for this to happen, and the respective probabilities of those events. Acknowledgements
