written by Fernando Silva Fernandes

Monkey Business illustrates the reproduction of the famous Shakespeare phrase "To be or not to be, that is the question!" by a simple genetic algorithm.  It was inspired by the American physical chemist Henry Bent regarding the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics: "At room temperature, for example, conversion of a single calorie of thermal energy completely into potential energy is a less likely event than the production of Shakespeare's complete works fifteen quadrillion times in succession without error by a tribe of wild monkeys punching randomly on a set of typewriters."   The model uses successive strings (phrases) from a random population without crossover but mutating, with a fixed probability to match the given phrase. Strings are kept or discarded using a fitness function as described in the documentation.

Monkey Business was developed using the Easy Java/JavaScript Simulations (EjsS) version 5 modeling tool.  It is distributed as a ready-to-run (compiled) Java archive.

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Published August 9, 2016
Last Modified September 9, 2016

The source code zip archive contains an XML representation of the Monkey Business Model.   Unzip this archive in your EjsS workspace to compile and run this model using EjsS ver 5.

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Last Modified September 9, 2016