The Developmental Systems Competition for GECCO 2005

This competition is now closed, and was won by Gregory Hornby, with his entry:

• GENRE, an L-system based developmental system for evolving structures
   

This competitions is closely associated with the GECCO 2005 SEEDS Workshop.

The challenge is to provide a novel demonstration of an evolved developmental system.  The demonstration should consist of a 2 minute video or software run showing your system grow an interesting artefact.

This is very open-ended, but the main judging criteria are as follows:

• Novelty
• Mathematical elegance and simplicity
• New formalism
• Regenerative ability (damage repair)
• Biological plausibility (not essential)
• Lifecycle (can your system grow seeds for the next generation...)
• Applications (does it solve some problem better than a non-developmental system?)
• Artistic merit - wow factor
• Emergence
• Evolvability

Entrants will be expected to attend the SEEDS workshop and make a short presentation and demonstration of their system.  Judging will be done subjectively by an expert panel, and the workshop audience.

Simon Lucas
Bill Langdon
Julian Miller
Sanjeev Kumar