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EvoMUSART 2012: Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design pp 129–140Cite as

Fitness in Evolutionary Art and Music: What Has Been Used and What Could Be Used?

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This paper considers the notion of fitness in evolutionary art and music. A taxonomy is presented of the ways in which fitness is used in such systems, with two dimensions: what the fitness function is applied to, and the basis by which the function is constructed. Papers from a large collection are classified using this taxonomy. The paper then discusses a number of ideas that have not be used for fitness evaluation in evolutionary art and which might be valuable in future developments: memory, scaffolding, connotation and web search.

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Johnson, C.G. (2012). Fitness in Evolutionary Art and Music: What Has Been Used and What Could Be Used?. In: Machado, P., Romero, J., Carballal, A. (eds) Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design. EvoMUSART 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7247. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29142-5_12

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