Predicting population dynamics and evolutionary trajectories based on performance evaluations in alife simulations

GECCO 2005 - Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 35-42

  Scheutz, Matthias ^a   Schermerhorn, Paul ^a  

^a University of Notre Dame   (United States)

Author keywords

A Life; Adaptive Behavior; Agents; Evolution

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

A-LIFE; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTION;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

EID: 32444438303     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1068009.1068015     Document Type: Conference Paper

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