Adaptation On Rugged Landscapes

In the first section of this paper we introduce a general framework give some preliminary intuitive examples and specify some of the questions that arise naturally.

Adaptation on rugged landscapes.

The moderating effect of learning behavior and. Adaptation on rugged land scapes. Levinthal built on a specific rugged landscape model kauffman s nk models to study the interaction between selection and adaptation. Kauffman s and s levin toward a general theory of adaptive walks on rugged landscapes j theoretical biology 128 1987 11 45 google scholar cross ref.

Organizational adaptation sometimes referred to as strategic fit and organizational congruence is a concept in organization theory and strategic management that is used to describe the relationship between an organization and its environment. A working summary of d. George mason university i am a phd student in the department of computational social sciences at the krasnow institute for advanced studies. Levinthal the wharton school university of pennsylvania philadelphia pennsylvania 19104 6370 a simple model is developed to explore the interrelationship between processes of organi zational level change and population selection forces.

In addition we show that switching between rugged landscapes often selects for increased tness in both landscapes even in situations where the landscapes them selves are anti correlated. Adaptation on rugged landscapes. Adaptation on rugged landscapes daniel a. Relatedness complexity and the long run effects of coordination in diversified firms 21 august 2019 strategic management journal vol.

Kauffman s adaptation on rugged fitness landscapes in d stein ed lectures in the sciences of complexity addison wesley reading ma 1989 google scholar. Academia edu is a platform for academics to share research papers. Adaptation across multiple landscapes. And the inter landscape correlation can either increase or decrease steady state tness relative to evolution in single environments.

This paper then is only a beginning in developing a general theory of adaptive walks on rugged fitness landscapes. A critical property of the model is. For computational organizational theory css739. In fact in the case of rugged landscapes with a mild density of local maxima the.

Rugged landscapes with these properties were simulated via a computer program to study their consequences for evolution.