Smooth operator? Understanding and visualising mutation bias

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

Volumn 2159, Issue , 2001, Pages 602-612

  Bullock, Seth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

GENOTYPE-PHENOTYPE MAPPING; MUTATION DISTRIBUTION; MUTATION OPERATORS; NEUTRAL NETWORK; SMOOTH OPERATOR;

ARTIFICIAL LIFE;

EID: 84867225797     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-44811-x_68     Document Type: Conference Paper

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