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20092014
most citedDegeneracy: a design principle for achieving robustness and evolvability

212 citations · 469 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.HC2014★ 1 cited

Visualizing Cognitive Moves for Assessing Information Perception Biases in Decision Making

Antony W. Iorio, Hussein A. Abbass, Svetoslav Gaidow +1

In decision making a key source of uncertainty is people's perception of information which is influenced by their attitudes toward risk. Both, perception of information and risk at…

nlin.AO2011

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…

nlin.AO2011★ 2 cited

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…

nlin.AO2009★ 42 cited

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…

nlin.AO2009★ 181 cited

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…

cs.NE2009

Robustness and Adaptiveness Analysis of Future Fleets

Slawomir Wesolkowski, Michael Mazurek, James M. Whitacre +2

Making decisions about the structure of a future military fleet is a challenging task. Several issues need to be considered such as the existence of multiple competing objectives a…