Avida: A software platform for research in computational evolutionary biology

Artificial Life Models in Software (Second Edition)

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3-35

  Ofria, Charles ^a   Bryson, David M ^a   Wilke, Claus O ^b  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-84882-285-6_1     Document Type: Chapter

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