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Cooperative Evolution on the Intertwined Spirals Problem

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This paper examines the evolution cooperation on the intertwined spirals problem. Multiple cooperation mechanisms are tested. Cooperation evolves fairly easily for each of the cooperation mechanisms, producing compact, successful team based solutions. Importantly, the team members’ fitness is relatively poor.

This research supported by a University of Idaho Seed Grant and an NIH Grant NCRR P20 RR16448. The experiments were performed on a Beowulf cluster built with funds from NSF grant EPS80935 and a generous hardware donation from Micron Technologies.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Idaho, 83844-1010, Moscow, Idaho

    Terence Soule

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  1. Computer Science and Information Systems, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

    Conor Ryan

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Idaho, 83844-1010, Moscow, ID, USA

    Terence Soule

  3. Department of Computer Science, Free University of Amsterdam, 1081, HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Maarten Keijzer

  4. Department of Computer Science, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, CO4 3SQ, Colchester, UK

    Edward Tsang  & Riccardo Poli  & 

  5. Department of Computer Science, University of Coimbra, Polo II, Pinhal Marrocos, 3030-290, Coimbra, Portugal

    Ernesto Costa

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Soule, T. (2003). Cooperative Evolution on the Intertwined Spirals Problem. In: Ryan, C., Soule, T., Keijzer, M., Tsang, E., Poli, R., Costa, E. (eds) Genetic Programming. EuroGP 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2610. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36599-0_41

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