The nk model affords a tuneably rugged fitness landscape since tuning k alters how rugged the landscape is.
Rugged landscape model.
Rivkin and siggelkow 2003.
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 landscape is rugged because interdependencies among choices give rise to peaks characterized by higher pe rformance and valleys in which performance is lower.
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.
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.
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.
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The rough mount fuji model much of the current theory of adaptation is based on gillespie s mutational landscape model mlm which.
Except for rare ties.
Levinthal the wharton school university of pennsylvania philadelphia pennsylvania 19104 6370 a simple model is developed to explore the interrelationship between processes of.
Ethiraj and levinthal 2004a b.
For k 0 each site is independent of all other sites.
Adaptation on rugged landscapes daniel a.
Levinthal built on a specific rugged landscape model kauffman s nk models to study the interaction between selection and adaptation.
The nk model is a mathematical model described by its primary inventor stuart kauffman as a tunably rugged fitness landscape.
The nk model has been used to examine evolution in both10 11.