Table 2. Notations for parameters and quantities in the model.
number of all ingredients | |
number of initial ingredients at time | |
number of all recipes | |
number of recipes in the regional cuisine | |
number of initial recipes in the regional cuisine at time | |
number of ingredients per recipe | |
number of ingredients to be mutated in each recipe, | |
probability of interaction | |
the fitness of ingredient | |
the topological distance of regional cuisine and |