Measuring, enabling and comparing modularity, regularity and hierarchy in evolutionary design

GECCO 2005 - Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1729-1736

  Hornby, Gregory S ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer Automated Design; Design; Evolutionary Algorithms; Evolutionary Design; Open ended design; Representation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER-AUTOMATED DESIGN; EVOLUTIONARY DESIGN; OPEN-ENDED DESIGN; REPRESENTATION;

COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; CORRELATION METHODS; DESIGN; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; METRIC SYSTEM;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

EID: 32444435664     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1068009.1068297     Document Type: Conference Paper

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