Developing fitness functions for pleasant music: Zipf's law and interactive evolution systems

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Volumn 3449, Issue , 2005, Pages 498-507

  Manaris, Bill ^a   Machado, Penousal ^b   McCauley, Clayton ^a   Romero, Juan ^c   Krehbiel, Dwight ^d  

^a School of Business   (United States)

^b POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

^d Bethel College Kansas   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER MUSIC; METRIC SYSTEM; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EVOLUTIONARY MUSIC SYSTEMS; FITNESS ASSIGNMENT; PLEASANTNESS; VISUAL ART;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

EID: 24644505837     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-32003-6_50     Document Type: Conference Paper

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