Belief revision via Lamarckian evolution

New Generation Computing

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 247-275

  Lamma, Evelina ^a   Riguzzi, Fabrizio ^a   Pereira, Luís Moniz ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Belief Revision; Evolutionary Systems; Learning; Multi agent Communication; Multi agent Systems

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOMES; DIGITAL CIRCUITS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

LAMARCKIAN EVOLUTION;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0037872184     PISSN: 02883635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03037475     Document Type: Article

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