Making evolution an offer it can’t refuse: Morphology and the extradimensional bypass

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2159, Issue , 2001, Pages 401-412

  Bongard, Josh C ^a   Paul, Chandana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIPED LOCOMOTION; CONTROLLERS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MORPHOLOGY;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOUR; CONTROL PARAMETERS; COUPLED EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS; FITNESS LANDSCAPE; MASS DISTRIBUTION; MORPHOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SIMULATED AGENTS;

ARTIFICIAL LIFE;

EID: 77955668919     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-44811-x_43     Document Type: Conference Paper

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