Hydractinia

Jeremy Avnet and Aaron Clauset

CS591: Complex Adaptive Systems
Prof. Stephanie Forrest

Date: May 12, 2003

Abstract:

An agent-based simulation of the Hydractinia colonies and their allorecognition behavior was constructed. We show evidence that the model successfully mimics the phenomenon of colony growth, fusing, rejection (both active and passive), morphological and genotypic mutation, competitive exclusion and the unexpected phenomenon of buffering. We were unable to reproduce the rock-paper-scissors dynamic due to limitations inherent to the model.