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Dr. David Fogel Gives IEEE Distinguished Lecture to San Diego Chapter of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
San Diego, CA - Dr. David Fogel, chief executive officer of Natural Selection, Inc., gave an IEEE Distinguished Lecture to the San Diego Chapter of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society tonight. His lecture, titled “Issues in Modeling Complex Adaptive Systems,” highlighted the effects that assumptions can have on the emergent properties of even small networks of interacting agents. His lecture examined three mathematical games: the iterated prisoner’s dilemma, the hawk-dove game, and the El Farol problem. In each case, Dr. Fogel demonstrated that vastly different behavior can emerge from a population of evolutionary-based agents, depending on the assumptions imposed on the game. “I find it very interesting and important that the behavior of agents in a well-studied game, such as the iterated prisoner’s dilemma, can vary markedly from the standard ‘evolution of cooperation’ that was observed in early experiments, simply by giving players more options than just cooperate or defect,” said Dr. Fogel, who continued “When this sort of effect is observed as a repeated pattern across diverse games, it serves as a reminder that when studying complex adaptive systems, it is extremely important to consider all the assumptions, whether they are explicit or implied. This is just as true for military combat and commercial decision-making as it is for idealized games that are studied in mathematics.”
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Dr. David B. Fogel
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Natural Selection, Inc.
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