On self-reproduction and evolvability

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1674, Issue , 1999, Pages 94-103

  Taylor, Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTERS;

ARTIFICIAL LIFE; DESIRABLE FEATURES; EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS; EVOLVABILITY; EVOLVABLE MACHINES; NEUMANN; SELF REPRODUCTION; SELF-INSPECTION;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 84941156837     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-48304-7_15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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