On embodied memetic evolution and the emergence of behavioural traditions in Robots

Memetic Computing

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 261-270

  Winfield, Alan F T ^a   Erbas, Mehmet Dincer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Artificial culture; Collective robotics; Memetic evolution; Robot imitation

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL CULTURE; COLLECTIVE ROBOT SYSTEM; COLLECTIVE ROBOTICS; EVOLUTIONARY OPERATORS; MEMETIC; MULTIROBOTS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 80955158819     PISSN: 18659284     EISSN: 18659292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12293-011-0063-x     Document Type: Article

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