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CEC
2003
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
A note on general adaptation in populations of painting robots
A population of virtual robots is evolved to perform the task of competitively painting the floor of a toroidal room. Two robots are present in any given room and paint using dis...
Dan Ashlock, Elizabeth Blankenship, Jonathan Gandr...
PODC
1999
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
Dynamically Configurable Distributed Objects
The dynamically configurable distributed object (DCDO) model helps enable object evolution and facilitate the development of distributed objects from multiple independent implemen...
Michael J. Lewis, Andrew S. Grimshaw
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ECOOP
2004
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
A Reflective Approach to Dynamic Software Evolution
In this paper, we present a solution that allows systems to remain active while they are evolving. Our approach goes out from the principle of separated concerns and has two steps....
Peter Ebraert, Tom Tourwé
101
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CORR
2010
Springer
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15 years 24 days ago
Evolution with Drifting Targets
We consider the question of the stability of evolutionary algorithms to gradual changes, or drift, in the target concept. We define an algorithm to be resistant to drift if, for s...
Varun Kanade, Leslie G. Valiant, Jennifer Wortman ...
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ALIFE
2006
15 years 23 days ago
Genetic Stability and Territorial Structure Facilitate the Evolution of Tag-Mediated Altruism
Evolutionary theorists have long been interested in the conditions that permit the evolution of altruistic cooperation. Recent work has demonstrated that altruistic donation can ev...
Lee Spector, Jon Klein