Goal Functions and Orientors

Encyclopedia of Ecology, Five-Volume Set

Volumn 1-5, Issue , 2008, Pages 1746-1754

  Bossel, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Animat; Artificial life; Emergent properties; Evolution; Exergy; Genetic algorithms; Goal function; Learning; Orientors; Value orientation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881167528     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-008045405-4.00691-1     Document Type: Chapter

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