Co-evolving robocode tanks

author = "Robin Harper",

title = "Co-evolving robocode tanks",

booktitle = "GECCO '11: Proceedings of the 13th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation",

year = "2011",

editor = "Natalio Krasnogor and Pier Luca Lanzi and Andries Engelbrecht and David Pelta and Carlos Gershenson and Giovanni Squillero and Alex Freitas and Marylyn Ritchie and Mike Preuss and Christian Gagne and Yew Soon Ong and Guenther Raidl and Marcus Gallager and Jose Lozano and Carlos Coello-Coello and Dario Landa Silva and Nikolaus Hansen and Silja Meyer-Nieberg and Jim Smith and Gus Eiben and Ester Bernado-Mansilla and Will Browne and Lee Spector and Tina Yu and Jeff Clune and Greg Hornby and Man-Leung Wong and Pierre Collet and Steve Gustafson and Jean-Paul Watson and Moshe Sipper and Simon Poulding and Gabriela Ochoa and Marc Schoenauer and Carsten Witt and Anne Auger",

isbn13 = "978-1-4503-0557-0",

pages = "1443--1450",

keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming, grammatical evolution",

month = "12-16 " # jul,

organisation = "SIGEVO",

address = "Dublin, Ireland",

DOI = "

doi:10.1145/2001576.2001770",

publisher = "ACM",

publisher_address = "New York, NY, USA",

abstract = "Robocode is a Java based programming platform where robot tanks, controlled by programs written in Java, compete. In this paper Grammatical Evolution is used to evolve Java programs to control a Robocode robot. This paper demonstrates how Grammatical Evolution together with spatial co-evolution in age layered planes (SCALP) can harness co-evolution to evolve relatively complex behaviour, including robots capable of beating Robocode's sample robots as well as some more complex human coded robots. The results of the co-evolution are similar to the results obtained by direct evolution against a range of human coded robots. This indicates that co-evolution alone is able to evolve robots of a similar standard to those evolved against graded human coded robots.",

notes = "Also known as \cite{2001770} GECCO-2011 A joint meeting of the twentieth international conference on genetic algorithms (ICGA-2011) and the sixteenth annual genetic programming conference (GP-2011)",