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AROBOTS
2007
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13 years 5 months ago
Behaviors for physical cooperation between robots for mobility improvement
— A team of small, low-cost robots instead of a single large, complex robot is useful in operations such as search and rescue, urban exploration etc. However, the performance of ...
Ashish Deshpande, Jonathan E. Luntz
MANSCI
2007
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13 years 4 months ago
Selecting a Selection Procedure
Selection procedures are used in a variety of applications to select the best of a finite set of alternatives. ‘Best’ is defined with respect to the largest mean, but the me...
Jürgen Branke, Stephen E. Chick, Christian Sc...
SAGA
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Self-replication, Evolvability and Asynchronicity in Stochastic Worlds
We consider temporal aspects of self-replication and evolvability – in particular, the massively asynchronous parallel and distributed nature of living systems. Formal views of s...
Chrystopher L. Nehaniv
MOBIHOC
2005
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Link-layer salvaging for making routing progress in mobile ad hoc networks
IEEE 802.11 MAC, called the Distributed Coordination Function (DCF), employs carrier sensing to effectively avoid collisions, but this makes it difficult to maximally reuse the sp...
Chansu Yu, Kang G. Shin, Lubo Song
GECCO
2010
Springer
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13 years 5 months ago
Implicit fitness and heterogeneous preferences in the genetic algorithm
This paper takes an economic approach to derive an evolutionary learning model based entirely on the endogenous employment of genetic operators in the service of self-interested a...
Justin T. H. Smith