Rugged Landscape Model

For k 0 each site is independent of all other sites.

Rugged landscape model.

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. The nk or rugged landscape model an elegant and far reaching formulation that explains how a system of components continuously improves by evolving over time. Levinthal built on a specific rugged landscape model kauffman s nk models to study the interaction between selection and adaptation. 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.

Rivkin and siggelkow 2003. Request pdf adaptation in tunably rugged fitness landscapes. The nk model is a mathematical model described by its primary inventor stuart kauffman as a tunably rugged fitness landscape. Ethiraj and levinthal 2004a b.

Subsequently a large number of papers have employed similar models to study a range of questions in strategic management see e g rivkin 2000. 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. This can be seen from the following. Levinthal the wharton school university of pennsylvania philadelphia pennsylvania 19104 6370 a simple model is developed to explore the interrelationship between processes of.

In the visual example of a rugged landscape you can see how your anti nazi strategy tends to work well when your infantry and air force have a relatively equivalent balance and works best when they give approximately equal time to both. The nk model affords a tuneably rugged fitness landscape since tuning k alters how rugged the landscape is. Adaptation on rugged landscapes daniel a. Except for rare ties.