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Coal Blending: Business Value, Analysis, and Optimization
James Whitacre, Sven Schellenberg, Antony Iorio
Coal blending is a critically important process in the coal mining industry as it directly influences the number of product tonnes and the total revenue generated by a mine site. C…
Pervasive Flexibility in Living Technologies through Degeneracy Based Design
James Whitacre, Axel Bender
The capacity to adapt can greatly influence the success of systems that need to compensate for damaged parts, learn how to achieve robust performance in new environments, or exploi…
The Diversity Paradox: How Nature Resolves an Evolutionary Dilemma
James M. Whitacre, Sergei P. Atamas
Adaptation to changing environments is a hallmark of biological systems. Diversity in traits is necessary for adaptation and can influence the survival of a population faced with n…
Evolutionary Mechanics: new engineering principles for the emergence of flexibility in a dynamic and uncertain world
James M Whitacre, Philipp Rohlfshagen, Axel Bender +1
Engineered systems are designed to deftly operate under predetermined conditions yet are notoriously fragile when unexpected perturbations arise. In contrast, biological systems op…
Networked buffering: a basic mechanism for distributed robustness in complex adaptive systems
James M Whitacre, Axel Bender
Here we propose a generic mechanism - networked buffering - for generating robust traits in complex systems that requires two basic conditions to be satisfied: 1) agents are versat…
Degeneracy: a link between evolvability, robustness and complexity in biological systems
James Whitacre, Axel Bender
A full accounting of biological robustness remains elusive; both in terms of the mechanisms by which robustness is achieved and the forces that have caused robustness to grow over…