An evolutionary approach to multiagent heap formation

Proceedings of the 1999 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 1999

Volumn 1, Issue , 1999, Pages 420-427

  Barfoot, T D ^a   D'Eleuterio, G M T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR AUTOMATA; GENETIC ALGORITHMS;

AUTONOMOUS MOBILE ROBOT; EVOLUTIONARY APPROACH; GLOBAL COORDINATION;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84901435990     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CEC.1999.781955     Document Type: Conference Paper

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