The Evolutionary Container

The Evolutionary Container (EC) is a Java based application environment designed to support the evolution and development of virtual organisms in order to develop highly optimized artificial intelligence.    The container provides access to a probability inference engine that enables decision making.

I'm presently working on developing a generic structure for the construction of test case patterns.  The problem lies in giving virtual organisms the ability to query their environment, and create their own test structures. 

I began writting a test program for the probability inference engine.  My goal is to evolve a BlackJack player within the EC.  The simulation involves creating a BJ table, a number of players, a dealer, and a deck of cards.  One player is designed to gain intelligence using the inference engine.

I'll have an object/class model to share soon.

Started reading a couple cool books this weekend.  The Emotion Machine by Marvin Minsky is a book about the brain, and artificial intelligence. 

Also got Matt Ridley's An Agile Gene.  I've read a bunch of Matt's books, and I find him to one of the best science writters.

Back to work on the EC.  Next post I'll show some of the BlackJack object structures.