Passive and driven trends in the evolution of complexity

Artificial Life XI: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, ALIFE 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 725-732

  Yaeger, Larry ^a   Griffith, Virgil ^a,b   Sporns, Olaf ^c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL LIFE; EVOLUTIONARY TREND; FOSSIL RECORDS; INFORMATION THEORETIC MEASURE; NEURAL COMPLEXITY;

INFORMATION THEORY; NEURAL NETWORKS;

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 67650433429     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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