We present what we believe is the first attempt to physically reconstruct the exploratory mechanism 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 in- teraction 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 to let evolution utilise feedback as part of its mechanism of exploration.
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@inproceedings(SS-GECCO07,
author = "Kester Clegg and Susan Stepney and Tim Clarke",
title = "Using Feedback to Regulate Gene Expression in a
Developmental Control Architecture",
pages = "966--973",
crossref = "GECCO07"
)
@proceedings(GECCO07,
title = "Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference:
GECCO 2005, Washington DC, USA, June 2005",
booktitle = "Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference:
GECCO 2007, London, UK, July 2007",
publisher = "ACM Press",
year = 2007
)