Rugged Landscape Model

Adaptation on rugged landscapes daniel a.

Rugged landscape model.

This can be seen from the following. Request pdf adaptation in tunably rugged fitness landscapes. Rivkin and siggelkow 2003. Subsequently a large number of papers have employed similar models to study a range of questions in strategic management see e g rivkin 2000.

The landscape is rugged because interdependencies among choices give rise to peaks characterized by higher pe rformance and valleys in which performance is lower. Except for rare ties. For k 0 each site is independent of all other sites. Levinthal built on a specific rugged landscape model kauffman s nk models to study the interaction between selection and adaptation.

The nk model is a mathematical model described by its primary inventor stuart kauffman as a tunably rugged fitness landscape. The landscape model 2 has been designed to simulate the fluctuation of the concepts activation scores similarly to the ci model a visual representation of results from the landscape model are. The rough mount fuji model much of the current theory of adaptation is based on gillespie s mutational landscape model mlm which. A rugged landscape model for self organization and emergent leadership in creative problem solving and production groups august 2005 nonlinear dynamics psychology and life sciences 9 3 297 333.

This is a highly simplified model because true strategies will need to align far more than 2 attributes but it does give us an idea of how the concept works. Ethiraj and levinthal 2004a b. The nk model affords a tuneably rugged fitness landscape since tuning k alters how rugged the landscape is. Levinthal the wharton school university of pennsylvania philadelphia pennsylvania 19104 6370 a simple model is developed to explore the interrelationship between processes of.