Emergence of collective behavior in evolving populations of flying agents

Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 111-125

  Spector, Lee ^a   Klein, Jon ^a,b   Perry, Chris ^a   Feinstein, Mark ^a  

^a HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

3D virtual worlds; Collective behavior; Visualization

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION; SOFTWARE AGENTS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUALIZATION;

COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOR; MULTICELLULAR ORGANIZATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL (3D) VIRTUAL WORLDS; WARM-BLOODED ANIMALS;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

EID: 14844353367     PISSN: 13892576     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10710-005-7620-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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