Fitness Landscape Simulation

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Fitness Landscape Simulation

• Modeling Architecture and Component Research

Ezra Goodnoe
Murat Cokol
Igor Feldman
Laurent Mirabeau
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Innovation Theory

• Dominant Design
• After a given time a few dominant designs will
  emerge. They can be thought as basin of
  attractions

Dominant Design
Process
Product
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Innovation Theory

• Architecture Vs Component Innovation
• Companies organize around the architecture of the
  product they research / manufacture

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The Model

• One central hub architecture team
• Several peripheral nodes component teams
• Hub decisions impact overall system
• Generic network motif

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Fitness Function
Create n nodes, initialize values 1-5
utility Create n(n-1)ss links, initialize
random -1ltlt1 Calculate fitness for points in
landscape Random drop on landscape Select
one-mutant neighbor Calculate fitness and walk
if higher Iterate, repeat for many agents over
several landscapes
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Results
10 Landscapes
100 Agents
500 Iterations
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Emergence of Dominant Designs
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Next Steps

• Increase complexity of model by adding
  dependencies
• Try various strategies Stochastic process to
  melt off peaks, Concurrent agents, Increase
  hamming distance
• Combine several motifs to create new class of
  problems