The use of animation to explain genetic algorithms

SIGCSE Bulletin (Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education)

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 243-247

  Jackson, David ^a   Fovargue, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

SOFTWARE PACKAGE XTANGO;

ANIMATION;

EID: 0030672355     PISSN: 00978418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/268085.268175     Document Type: Article

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