Evolving cooperative pheromone usage in digital organisms

2009 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life, ALIFE 2009 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 184-191

  Connelly, Brian D ^a   McKinley, Philip K ^a   Beckmann, Benjamin E ^a  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE ENVIRONMENT; FOOD SOURCES; GROUP MEMBERS; SEARCH STRATEGIES;

MAMMALS;

HORMONES;

EID: 67650495266     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ALIFE.2009.4937711     Document Type: Conference Paper

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