Learning lessons from the common cold: How reducing parasite virulence improves coevolutionary optimization

Proceedings of the 2002 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2002

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages 1420-1425

  Cartlidge, John ^a   Bullock, Seth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

CO-EVOLUTIONARY; CO-EVOLUTIONARY SYSTEM; COMMON COLD; PARASITE; PRACTICAL PROBLEMS; SIMPLE MODELING; SORTING NETWORK;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

EID: 21044448959     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CEC.2002.1004451     Document Type: Conference Paper

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