Abstract: Social virtual worlds such as Second Life are digital representations of the real world where human-controlled avatars evolve and interact through social activities. Unde...
This paper introduces a novel approach to generating audio or visual heterogeneity by simulating multi-level habitat formation by ecosystemengineer organisms. Ecosystem engineers g...
The dramatic growth of computer networks creates both an opportunity and a daunting distributed computing problem for users seeking to build applications that can configure themse...
Kenneth P. Birman, Robbert van Renesse, James Kauf...
This paper uses the GP paradigm to evolve linear genotypes (individuals) that consist of Java byte code. Our prototype GP system is implemented in Java using a standard Java devel...
The appeal of persistent class-oriented programming languages is great. Allowing class definitions to be persistent, in addition to instance data, greatly increases the ease of ac...