A Case Study of the De Novo Evolution of a Complex Odometric Behavior in Digital Organisms

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Grabowski, Laura M ^a   Bryson, David M ^b   Dyer, Fred C ^b   Pennock, Robert T ^b   Ofria, Charles ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PAN AMERICAN   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; COMPLEX ODOMETRIC BEHAVIOR; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIGITAL EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENOME; MUTATION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84875988551     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060466     Document Type: Article

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