Indirectly encoded sodarace for artificial life

Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems: Advances in Artificial Life, ECAL 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 218-225

  Szerlip, Paul ^a   Stanley, Kenneth O ^a  

^a University of Central Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; SIGNAL ENCODING;

ARTIFICIAL CREATURE; ARTIFICIAL LIFE; BUILDING SIMULATOR; COMPOSITIONAL PATTERN-PRODUCING NETWORKS; ENCODINGS; EVOLUTIONARY DYNAMICS; INDIRECT ENCODINGS; LARGE-SCALES; TWO-DIMENSIONAL; TWO-DIMENSIONAL DOMAIN;

ENCODING (SYMBOLS);

EID: 84963651810     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.7551/978-0-262-31709-2-ch033     Document Type: Conference Paper

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