Analysing spider web-building behaviour with rule-based simulations and genetic algorithms

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 185, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 321-331

  Krink, Thiemo ^a   Vollrath, Fritz ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC MODEL; GEOMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIDER;

EID: 0031557671     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jtbi.1996.0306     Document Type: Article

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