Neutrality and ruggedness in robot landscapes

Proceedings of the 2002 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2002

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages 1348-1353

  Smith, Tom ^a   Philippides, Andy ^a   Husbands, Phil ^a   O'Shea, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

EVOLUTIONARY OPTIMISATION; EVOLUTIONARY ROBOTICS; FITNESS LANDSCAPE; ROBOT CONTROLLER;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 84901450900     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CEC.2002.1004439     Document Type: Conference Paper

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