To create the
software infrastructure necessary to support the next generation of evolving
infohabitants in an open and scalable fashion, using existing Internet infrastructure
and existing hardware resources.
To unify evolution
approaches, so that infohabitants can evolve using a number of complementary
mechanisms.
To allow meta-optimisation
procedures, so that the algorithms for evolution themselves can be optimised
by co-evolving a virtual world with the infohabitants it contains.
To create the
software infrastructure necessary to support the emergent virtual economy
that will result from the implementation of virtual machine on to physical
resources.
To demonstrate
the usefulness of the infrastructure by using it to implement three applicaoions
which can make full use of it.
To facilitate
an improved understanding of the dynamics underlying real-world economic
and social systems by simulating these systems with the DREAM.
