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- From: rmah@panix.com (Robert Mah)
- Subject: Re: Use of Genetic Algorithms to evolve robot behavior?
- Message-ID: <C0JxFJ.Ly8@panix.com>
- Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC
- References: <C0ICnz.o6@world.std.com> <24659@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 20:11:43 GMT
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- In <24659@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM> tackett@ipld01.hac.com (Walter Alden Tackett) writes:
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- >Larry Yaegar (sorry if I butchered the last name!) at apple (larryy@apple.com
- >is his address if memory serves) has a wonderful simulation that runs on
- >SGI machines. It falls most squarely under the category of Artificial Life,
- >since the evolving creatures are implicitly rewarded for survival and
- >reproduction (i.e., they must feed, defend themselves, and mate while others
- >around them do the same) rather than being rewarded for an explicit externally
- >imposed fitness function. Different genotypes evolve, each with their own
- >niche. Most go extinct fairly rapidly, some flourish. Very visual, this work
- >will probably be published in the forthcoming Artificial Life III procedings
- >and the software can be obtained from Larry Yaegar (I think).
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- I think it's also available via anonymous ftp at "ftp.apple.com" and maybe
- at "ftp.cognet.ucla.edu" as well.
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- Cheers,
- Rob
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