Healing strategies for networks

Title

An investigation into healing strategies for boolean networks (?)

Members

1. Alex Healing
2. ...

Overview

Simple

1. Random Boolean Network
2. Evolve network parameters (boolean function, connections, ...)
3. Select n best networks
4. Apply different healing strategies to each n network and compare

Evolved-Resilience Network

1. Random Boolean Network
2. Evolve with failures / insertions
3. Select n best networks
4. Apply different healing strategies

Healing Strategies

• Re-evolve whole network
• Local healing / Directed evolution
  • Static re-evolution around failure point
    • Breadth-first
    • Depth-first
  • Dynamic expansion of re-evolution

Types of failure

• Removal of node
• Removal of connections
• Byzantine failure
  • Insertion of 'crazy' node

Still to decide

• Simulation environment - Java?
• Stochasisity / non-determinism?
• Boolean functions, etc...

Background Reading

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