Towards an empirical measure of evolvability

GECCO 2005 - Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference

Volumn 2005-January, Issue , 2005, Pages 257-264

  Reisinger, Joseph ^a   Stanley, Kenneth O ^a   Miikkulainen, Risto ^a  

^a University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

development; evolvability; genetic algorithms; genetic regulatory networks; indirect encodings; representations

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; CALCULATIONS; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); GENETIC PROGRAMMING; NETWORK CODING;

DEVELOPMENT; DIRECT ENCODING; EMPIRICAL MEASURE; EVOLVABILITY; FITNESS FUNCTIONS; GENETIC REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENETIC REPRESENTATIONS; INDIRECT ENCODINGS; ONE-TO-ONE MAPPINGS; REPRESENTATION;

GENETIC ALGORITHMS;

EID: 34250191767     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1102256.1102315     Document Type: Conference Paper

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