Very effective evolutionary techniques for searching cellular automata rule spaces

Journal of Cellular Automata

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 289-312

  Wolz, Dietmar ^a   de Oliveira, Pedro P B ^b  

^a SOPERA GmbHt   (Germany)

^b MACKENZIE PRESBYTERIAN UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cellular automata; Density classification; Emergent computation; Evolutionary computation; Parity problem; Unconventional computation

Indexed keywords

EID: 57049151002     PISSN: 15575969     EISSN: 15575977     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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