Rough ethology: Towards a biologically-inspired study of collective behavior in intelligent systems with approximation spaces

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3400 LNCS, Issue , 2005, Pages 153-174

  Peters, James F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Approximation space; Behavior; Ethology; Intelligent systems; Learning; Rough sets; Swarm

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; ROUGH SET THEORY;

ACTION-BASED REFERENCE REWARDS; APPROXIMATION SPACES; ETHOLOGY;

INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 36949021089     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11427834_7     Document Type: Article

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