Codynamic Fitness Landscapes of Coevolutionary Minimal Substrates

TL;DR

This paper introduces a framework for analyzing coevolutionary fitness landscapes using minimal substrates, providing new similarity measures and experimental insights into cooperative and competitive interactions.

Contribution

It presents a novel approach for defining and analyzing coevolutionary fitness landscapes with similarity measures and experimental evaluation on test-based and compositional problems.

Findings

Developed similarity measures for codynamic fitness landscapes

Analyzed minimal substrates for cooperative and competitive interactions

Provided experimental insights into coevolutionary dynamics

Abstract

Coevolutionary minimal substrates are simple and abstract models that allow studying the relationships and codynamics between objective and subjective fitness. Using these models an approach is presented for defining and analyzing fitness landscapes of coevolutionary problems. We devise similarity measures of codynamic fitness landscapes and experimentally study minimal substrates of test--based and compositional problems for both cooperative and competitive interaction.