Volume 7, Number 4, p.p. 125–128
Principles of modularity, regularity, and hierarchy for scalable systems
Hod Lipson
Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, and Computing & Information Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, 14850 NY, USA
Scalability of open-ended evolutionary processes depends on their ability to exploit functional modularity, structural regularity and hierarchy. This paper offers a number of observations about properties, dependencies and tradeoffs among these principles and proposes a formal model where such elements can be examined
Keywords: evolutionary computation, hierarchy, modularity, regularity, tiling problem