Survival strategies for Ant-Like Agents in a Competitive Environment
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We describe the development of a collection of survival strategies for populations of ant-like agents in a virtual world implemented in the XRaptor multi-agent simulation environment. The diierent strategies have been developed by diierent teams and competed with each other in a sequence of tournaments, thus providing not only a set of paradigms useful for survival under competition, but also a highly motivating approach for Artiicial Life education.
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تاریخ انتشار 1998