Adapting to a changing environment:  Simulating the effects of noise on animal sonification

David Kadish; Sebastian Risi

doi:10.1162/isal_a_00320

Adapting to a changing environment: Simulating the effects of noise on animal sonification

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Abstract

Adaptation is an important capability in a fast-changing world. What factors allow an animal population to adapt to external changes in their environments? What effects do those changes have on the animal populations that do adapt? This paper explores these questions in the context of intraspecies communication in a noisy soundscape. Using a simulated soundscape and populations generated using Neuroevolution of Augmenting Topologies (NEAT), the same scenario is played through many times to understand the range of possible outcomes given an initial population and a set of noise conditions. While noise is found to have minimal effect on the best possible scenario, it affects how often that scenario is reached. The onset of noise is also found to impact the complexity of the evolved neural networks.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ALIFE 2020: The 2020 Conference on Artificial Life
Editors	Josh Bongard, Juniper Lovato , Laurent Hebert-Dufrésne, Radhakrishna Dasari, Lisa Soros
Number of pages	9
Publisher	MIT Press
Publication date	14 Jul 2020
Edition	32
Pages	687-695
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1162/isal_a_00320
Publication status	Published - 14 Jul 2020
Event	ALIFE 2020: The 2020 Conference on Artificial Life - online, Montreal, Canada Duration: 13 Jul 2020 → 18 Dec 2020 http://2020.alife.org/ https://alife.org/conference/alife-2020/

Conference

Conference	ALIFE 2020
Location	online
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Montreal
Period	13/07/2020 → 18/12/2020
Internet address	http://2020.alife.org/ https://alife.org/conference/alife-2020/

Series	Artificial Life Conference Proceedings
ISSN	2693-1508

Keywords

Adaptation
Intraspecies Communication
Neuroevolution of Augmenting Topologies (NEAT)
Simulated Soundscape
Environmental Noise Impact

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Kadish, D & Risi, S 2020, Adapting to a changing environment: Simulating the effects of noise on animal sonification. in J Bongard, JL, L Hebert-Dufrésne, R Dasari & L Soros (eds), ALIFE 2020: The 2020 Conference on Artificial Life. 32 edn, MIT Press, Artificial Life Conference Proceedings , pp. 687-695, ALIFE 2020, Montreal, Canada, 13/07/2020. https://doi.org/10.1162/isal_a_00320

Adapting to a changing environment: Simulating the effects of noise on animal sonification. / Kadish, David; Risi, Sebastian.
ALIFE 2020: The 2020 Conference on Artificial Life. ed. / Josh Bongard; Juniper Lovato; Laurent Hebert-Dufrésne; Radhakrishna Dasari; Lisa Soros. 32. ed. MIT Press, 2020. p. 687-695 (Artificial Life Conference Proceedings ).

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