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Evolving coupled map lattices for computation

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Genetic Programming (EuroGP 1998)

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Genetic programming is used to evolve coupled map lattices for density classification. The most successful evolved rules depending only on nearest neighbors (r = 1) show better performance than existing r = 3 cellular automaton rules on this task.

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Wolfgang Banzhaf Riccardo Poli Marc Schoenauer Terence C. Fogarty

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Andersson, C., Nordahl, M.G. (1998). Evolving coupled map lattices for computation. In: Banzhaf, W., Poli, R., Schoenauer, M., Fogarty, T.C. (eds) Genetic Programming. EuroGP 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1391. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0055935

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