Understanding evolutionary potential in virtual CPU instruction set architectures

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Bryson, David M ^a   Ofria, Charles ^a  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; MODELS, GENETIC;

EID: 84893453066     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0083242     Document Type: Article

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