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A comparison of methods for evolving groups of simple evolving agents is performed and analyzed. The symbot model is used as a testbed for comparing three possible representations of a population or group of populations used to evolve a cooperative simulated robot team. The goal of this work is to identify the effect of the different representations upon the total group effectiveness and individual contributions of group members.
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Walker, J.F. (1998). Testing three paradigms for evolving groups of cooperative, simple agents. In: Porto, V.W., Saravanan, N., Waagen, D., Eiben, A.E. (eds) Evolutionary Programming VII. EP 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1447. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0040760
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