Digital evolution exhibits surprising robustness to poor design decisions

Artificial Life 13: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, ALIFE 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 19-26

  Bryson, David M ^a   Ofria, Charles ^a  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; DESIGN;

DESIGN DECISIONS; DIGITAL EVOLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EVOLUTIONARY POTENTIAL; INSTRUCTION SET; PRINCIPAL LINES; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; STATIC ENVIRONMENT;

E-LEARNING;

EID: 84874749148     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.7551/978-0-262-31050-5-ch003     Document Type: Conference Paper

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