This paper describes a study in the evolution of distributed cooperative behavior, specifically leader election, through digital evolution and group selection. In digital evoluti...
David B. Knoester, Philip K. McKinley, Charles Ofr...
Software systems should consist of simple, conceptually clean software components interacting along narrow, well-defined paths. All too often, this is not reality: complex compon...
We examine the problem of how to ensure behavioral consistency of an object-oriented system after its schema has been updated. The problem is viewed from the perspective of both t...
This paper investigates L-system evolution through experiments with a simulation platform of virtual plants. The conducted simulations vary the occurrence probability of terminal ...
—Image population analysis is the class of statistical methods that plays a central role in understanding the development, evolution and disease of a population. However, these t...