Using Feedback to Regulate Gene Expression in a Developmental Control Architecture

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Abstract

We present what we believe is the first, attempt to physically reconstruct the exploratory mehanism of genetic regulatory networks. Feedback plays a crucial role during developmental processes and its mechanisms have recently become much clearer due to evidence from evolutionary developmental biology. We believe that without similar mechanisms of interaction and feedback, digital genomes cannot guide themselves across functional search spaces in a way that fully exploits a domain's resources, particularly in the complex search domains of real-world physics. Our architecture is designed W let evolution Utilise feedback as part of its mechanism of exploration.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationGECCO 2007: GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE, VOL 1 AND 2
Place of PublicationNEW YORK
PublisherACM
Pages966-973
Number of pages8
ISBN (Print)978-1-59593-697-4
Publication statusPublished - 2007
EventGECCO 2007 - London, England
Duration: 7 Jul 200711 Jul 2007

Conference

ConferenceGECCO 2007
CityLondon, England
Period7/07/0711/07/07

Keywords

  • Evolvable hardware
  • adaptation/self-adaptation
  • signal processing
  • gene regulatory networks
  • developmental processes

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