Altruism amongst spatial predator-prey animats

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 537-544

  Scogings, Chris ^a   Hawick, Ken ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Altruism; Animats; Predator prey

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; ANIMATS; PREDATOR-PREY; PREDATOR-PREY MODELS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CHEMISTRY; CIRCUIT SIMULATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 77649119723     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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