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Evolution Engines And Artificial Intelligence

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  • ANDREAS HEMKER

    (Physics Department, University of Wuppertal 42097 Wuppertal, Gauss-Str. 20, Germany)

  • KARL-HEINZ BECKS

    (Physics Department, University of Wuppertal 42097 Wuppertal, Gauss-Str. 20, Germany)

Abstract

In the last years artificial intelligence has achieved great successes, mainly in the field of expert systems and neural networks. Nevertheless the road to truly intelligent systems is still obscured. Artificial intelligence systems with a broad range of cognitive abilities are not within sight. The limited competence of such systems (brittleness) is identified as a consequence of the top-down design process. The evolution principle of nature on the other hand shows an alternative and elegant way to build intelligent systems. We propose to take an evolution engine as the driving force for the bottom-up development of knowledge bases and for the optimization of the problem-solving process. A novel data analysis system for the high energy physics experiment DELPHI at CERN shows the practical relevance of this idea. The system is able to reconstruct the physical processes after the collision of particles by making use of the underlying standard model of elementary particle physics. The evolution engine acts as a global controller of a population of inference engines working on the reconstruction task. By implementing the system on the Connection Machine (Model CM-2) we use the full advantage of the inherent parallelization potential of the evolutionary approach.

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  • Andreas Hemker & Karl-Heinz Becks, 1994. "Evolution Engines And Artificial Intelligence," International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 5(01), pages 15-36.
  • Handle: RePEc:wsi:ijmpcx:v:05:y:1994:i:01:n:s0129183194000039
    DOI: 10.1142/S0129183194000039
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