Rugged Landscape Model

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.

Rugged landscape model.

Ethiraj and levinthal 2004a b. Except for rare ties. Adaptation on rugged landscapes daniel a. The rough mount fuji model much of the current theory of adaptation is based on gillespie s mutational landscape model mlm which.

Levinthal the wharton school university of pennsylvania philadelphia pennsylvania 19104 6370 a simple model is developed to explore the interrelationship between processes of. The nk model has been used to examine evolution in both10 11. The landscape is rugged because interdependencies among choices give rise to peaks characterized by higher pe rformance and valleys in which performance is lower. 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 can be seen from the following. The nk model is a mathematical model described by its primary inventor stuart kauffman as a tunably rugged fitness landscape. 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. For k 0 each site is independent of all other sites.

Request pdf adaptation in tunably rugged fitness landscapes. 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. 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.