Critical interplay between density-dependent predation and evolution of the selfish herd

GECCO 2013 - Proceedings of the 2013 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 247-254

  Olson, Randal S ^a,c   Knoester, David B ^b,c   Adami, Christoph ^b,c  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Density dependent predation; Digital evolutionary model; Group behavior; Predator prey co evolution; Selfish herd hypothesis

Indexed keywords

CO-EVOLUTION; DENSITY-DEPENDENT; DIGITAL EVOLUTIONARY MODELS; GROUP BEHAVIOR; SELFISH HERD HYPOTHESIS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; PREDATOR PREY SYSTEMS;

BIOLOGY;

EID: 84883106691     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2463372.2463394     Document Type: Conference Paper

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