Morphologies of self-organizing swarms in 3D swarm chemistry

GECCO'12 - Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 577-584

  Sayama, Hiroki ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

3D; artificial chemistry; artificial life; morphology; spatial dimension; swarm chemistry; swarms

Indexed keywords

3D; ARTIFICIAL CHEMISTRIES; ARTIFICIAL LIFE; SPATIAL DIMENSION; SWARMS;

MORPHOLOGY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 84864672941     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2330163.2330245     Document Type: Conference Paper

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