Artificial hormone reaction networks: Towards higher evolvability in evolutionary multi-modular robotics

Artificial Life XII: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, ALIFE 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 773-780

  Hamann, Heiko ^a   Stradner, Jürgen ^a   Schmickl, Thomas ^a   Crailsheim, Karl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL EVOLUTION; ARTIFICIAL HORMONES; AUTOMATIC SYNTHESIS; DIFFERENT EFFECTS; EVOLVABILITY; HOMEOSTATIC PROCESS; MULTI-MODULAR; NETWORK SIZE; REACTION NETWORK; ROBOT CONTROLLER; SEMI-AUTOMATICS; SIMPLE BEHAVIORS;

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; ROBOTS;

SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

EID: 79959441199     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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