Evolving quorum sensing in digital organisms

Proceedings of the 11th Annual Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO-2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 97-104

  Beckmann, Benjamin E ^a   McKinley, Philip K ^a  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial life; Cooperative behavior; Digital evolution; Multi agent system; Quorum sensing; Self organization

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL LIFE; CO-OPERATIVE BEHAVIORS; DIGITAL EVOLUTION; QUORUM-SENSING; SELF-ORGANIZATIONS;

BACTERIOLOGY; BIOINFORMATICS; ENZYMES; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; FLUORINE CONTAINING POLYMERS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

BACTERIA;

EID: 72749100686     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1569901.1569916     Document Type: Conference Paper

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