Facilitating evolutionary innovation by developmental modularity and variability

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 683-690

  Doursat, René ^a  

^a Centre de Recherche en Epistemologie Appliquee Ecole Polytechnique   (France)

Author keywords

Architectures; Artificial embryogeny; Bio inspired engineering; Complex systems; Evolutionary development; Modularity; Robotics; Self organization; Spatial computing; Systems design

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

ARTIFICIAL EMBRYOGENY; BIO-INSPIRED ENGINEERINGS; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENT; MODULARITY; SELF ORGANIZATIONS; SPATIAL COMPUTING;

SWARM INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 72749114949     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1569901.1569996     Document Type: Conference Paper

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