The framsticks system: Versatile simulator of 3D agents and their evolution

Kybernetes

Volumn 32, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 156-173

  Komosiński, Maciej ^a  

^a POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Complexity; Cybernetics; Simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPLEXITY; EMBEDDED CONTROL SYSTEMS; EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS; HUMAN UNDERSTANDING; SIMULATION; SIMULATION MODEL; SYSTEM FRAMEWORK; THREE-DIMENSIONAL BODY;

CYBERNETICS;

EID: 0037219965     PISSN: 0368492X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03684920310452382     Document Type: Article

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