Creatures: Entertainment Software Agents with Artificial Life

Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 39-57

  Grand, Stephen ^a   Cliff, Dave ^b  

^a CyberLife Technology Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive behavior; Artificial life; Entertainment software; Evolutionary computation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032329152     PISSN: 13872532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1010042522104     Document Type: Article

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