Cartlidge, John, and Seth Bullock. “Learning lessons from the common cold: How reducing parasite virulence improves coevolutionary optimization.” In Proceedings of the 2002 Congress on Evolutionary Computation. CEC’02 (Cat. No. 02TH8600) , vol. 2, pp. 1420-1425. IEEE, 2002.
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Inspired by the virulence of natural parasites, a novel approach is developed to tackle disengagement, a detrimental phenomenon coevolutionary systems sometimes experience. After demonstrating beneficial results in a simple model, minimum comparison sorting networks are coevolved, with results suggesting that moderating parasite virulence can help in practical problem domains.