The role of degenerate robustness in the evolvability of multi-agent systems in dynamic environments

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

Volumn 6238 LNCS, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages 284-293

  Whitacre, James M ^a   Rohlfshagen, Philipp ^a   Bender, Axel ^b   Yao, Xin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGENT-BASED SYSTEMS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EVOLUTIONARY DYNAMICS; EVOLVABILITY; MAS ARCHITECTURE; OPTIMISATIONS; TIME VARIANT;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; PROBLEM SOLVING;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 78149264265     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15844-5_29     Document Type: Conference Paper

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