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- From: revell@rodan.UU.NET (James R Revell Jr)
- Newsgroups: comp.ai.genetic
- Subject: Re: Use of Genetic Algorithms to evolve robot behavior?
- Date: 8 Jan 1993 20:54:17 -0500
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- In article <24659@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM> tackett@ipld01.hac.com (Walter Alden Tackett) writes:
- } In article <C0ICnz.o6@world.std.com> lains@world.std.com (Layne L Ainsworth) writes:
- }
- } 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).
-
- I was part of a group that did a project very much like at GWU a while back,
- though ours was quite non-visual.
-
- "Survival of the Fittest". G. Bailey, R. Demeo, H. Holz, and J. Revell.
- Proceedings of the Workshop on Evolution and Chaos in Cognitive Processing
- (IJCAI-91), August '91.
-
- There is additional work, but it's not particularly related to the original
- request.
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