Cellz: A simple dynamic game for testing evolutionary algorithms

Proceedings of the 2004 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC2004

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages 1007-1014

  Lucas, Simon M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

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FUNCTIONAL MAPPING; HIGH-PERFORMANCE CONTROLLERS; ROBOT CONTROLLERS; SOFTWARE INTERFACES;

CHAOS THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; GAME THEORY; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

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EID: 4344612481     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
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