Evolution of probabilistic consensus in digital organisms

SASO 2009 - 3rd IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 223-232

  Knoester, David B ^a   McKinley, Philip K ^a  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Consensus; Digital evolution; Distributed algorithm; Evolutionary computation; Self organization

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL LIFE; CONSENSUS ALGORITHMS; COURSE OF ACTION; DESIGN APPROACHES; DIGITAL EVOLUTION; DISTRIBUTED ALGORITHM; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED PROTOCOLS; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; ENGINEERING PROBLEMS; EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATIONS; NEW STUDY; PHYSICAL WORLD; SELF-ORGANIZATIONS;

ALGORITHMS; CYBERNETICS;

COMPUTATION THEORY;

EID: 73649092158     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SASO.2009.29     Document Type: Conference Paper

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