Biotope: An integrated framework for simulating distributed multiagent computational systems

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans.

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 420-432

  Symeonidis, Andreas L ^a,b   Valtos, Evangelos ^a,c   Seroglou, Seraphim ^a,c   Mitkas, Pericles A ^a,b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES INSTITUTE   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Classifier systems; Computational ecosystems; Distributed systems; Genetic algorithms (GAs); Self organization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; USER INTERFACES;

BIOTOPE USER INTERFACE; CLASSIFIER SYSTEMS; COMPUTATIONAL ECOSYSTEMS; SELF ORGANIZATION;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 18144391540     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2005.846406     Document Type: Article

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