Rugged Landscape Model

Rivkin and siggelkow 2003.

Rugged landscape model.

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. This can be seen from the following. 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. Subsequently a large number of papers have employed similar models to study a range of questions in strategic management see e g rivkin 2000.

The nk model has been used to examine evolution in both10 11. Levinthal built on a specific rugged landscape model kauffman s nk models to study the interaction between selection and adaptation. Ethiraj and levinthal 2004a b. Adaptation on rugged landscapes daniel a.

The nk model affords a tuneably rugged fitness landscape since tuning k alters how rugged the landscape is. Except for rare ties. 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.

Levinthal the wharton school university of pennsylvania philadelphia pennsylvania 19104 6370 a simple model is developed to explore the interrelationship between processes of. 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. The nk model is a mathematical model described by its primary inventor stuart kauffman as a tunably rugged fitness landscape. The rough mount fuji model much of the current theory of adaptation is based on gillespie s mutational landscape model mlm which.