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Themes : Information Society x Research Centres Groups : Centre for Algorithms, Visualisation and Evolving Systems x People : Andreas Steyven x Library Of Congress : QA75 Electronic computers Computer science x

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Evolution of a Functionally Diverse Swarm via a Novel Decentralised Quality-Diversity Algorithm

Hart, E., Steyven, A. S. W., & Paechter, B. (2018). Evolution of a Functionally Diverse Swarm via a Novel Decentralised Quality-Diversity Algorithm. In GECCO '18 Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 101-108. https://doi.org/10.1145/3205455.3205481
<p>Hart, E., Steyven, A. S. W., & Paechter, B. (2018). Evolution of a Functionally Diverse Swarm via a Novel Decentralised Quality-Diversity Algorithm. In <i>GECCO '18 Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference</i>, 101-108. https://doi.org/10.1145/3205455.3205481</p>

The presence of functionality diversity within a group has been demonstrated to lead to greater robustness, higher performance and increased problem-solving ability in a broad...

2018
An investigation of environmental influence on the benefits of adaptation mechanisms in evolutionary swarm robotics

Steyven, A., Hart, E., & Paechter, B. (2017). An investigation of environmental influence on the benefits of adaptation mechanisms in evolutionary swarm robotics. In GECCO '17 Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary, (155-162). https://doi.org/10.1145/3071178.3071232
<p>Steyven, A., Hart, E., & Paechter, B. (2017). An investigation of environmental influence on the benefits of adaptation mechanisms in evolutionary swarm robotics. In <i>GECCO '17 Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary</i>, (155-162). https://doi.org/10.1145/3071178.3071232</p>

A robotic swarm that is required to operate for long periods in a potentially unknown environment can use both evolution and individual learning methods in order to adapt. How...

2017
Understanding Environmental Influence in an Open-Ended Evolutionary Algorithm

Steyven, A., Hart, E., & Paechter, B. (2016). Understanding Environmental Influence in an Open-Ended Evolutionary Algorithm. In Parallel Problem Solving from Nature – PPSN XIV; Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 921-931. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45823-6_86
<p>Steyven, A., Hart, E., & Paechter, B. (2016). Understanding Environmental Influence in an Open-Ended Evolutionary Algorithm. In <i>Parallel Problem Solving from Nature – PPSN XIV; Lecture Notes in Computer Science</i>, 921-931. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45823-6_86</p>

It is well known that in open-ended evolution, the nature of the environment plays in key role in directing evolution. However, in Evolutionary Robotics, it is often unclear e...

2016
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Themes : Information Society x Research Centres Groups : Centre for Algorithms, Visualisation and Evolving Systems x People : Andreas Steyven x Library Of Congress : QA75 Electronic computers Computer science x

Themes : Information Society x Research Centres Groups : Centre for Algorithms, Visualisation and Evolving Systems x People : Andreas Steyven x Library Of Congress : QA75 Electronic computers Computer science x

Evolution of a Functionally Diverse Swarm via a Novel Decentralised Quality-Diversity Algorithm

Hart, E., Steyven, A. S. W., & Paechter, B. (2018). Evolution of a Functionally Diverse Swarm via a Novel Decentralised Quality-Diversity Algorithm. In GECCO '18 Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 101-108. https://doi.org/10.1145/3205455.3205481
<p>Hart, E., Steyven, A. S. W., & Paechter, B. (2018). Evolution of a Functionally Diverse Swarm via a Novel Decentralised Quality-Diversity Algorithm. In <i>GECCO '18 Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference</i>, 101-108. https://doi.org/10.1145/3205455.3205481</p>

The presence of functionality diversity within a group has been demonstrated to lead to greater robustness, higher performance and increased problem-solving ability in a broad...

2018
An investigation of environmental influence on the benefits of adaptation mechanisms in evolutionary swarm robotics

Steyven, A., Hart, E., & Paechter, B. (2017). An investigation of environmental influence on the benefits of adaptation mechanisms in evolutionary swarm robotics. In GECCO '17 Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary, (155-162). https://doi.org/10.1145/3071178.3071232
<p>Steyven, A., Hart, E., & Paechter, B. (2017). An investigation of environmental influence on the benefits of adaptation mechanisms in evolutionary swarm robotics. In <i>GECCO '17 Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary</i>, (155-162). https://doi.org/10.1145/3071178.3071232</p>

A robotic swarm that is required to operate for long periods in a potentially unknown environment can use both evolution and individual learning methods in order to adapt. How...

2017
Understanding Environmental Influence in an Open-Ended Evolutionary Algorithm

Steyven, A., Hart, E., & Paechter, B. (2016). Understanding Environmental Influence in an Open-Ended Evolutionary Algorithm. In Parallel Problem Solving from Nature – PPSN XIV; Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 921-931. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45823-6_86
<p>Steyven, A., Hart, E., & Paechter, B. (2016). Understanding Environmental Influence in an Open-Ended Evolutionary Algorithm. In <i>Parallel Problem Solving from Nature – PPSN XIV; Lecture Notes in Computer Science</i>, 921-931. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45823-6_86</p>

It is well known that in open-ended evolution, the nature of the environment plays in key role in directing evolution. However, in Evolutionary Robotics, it is often unclear e...

2016
The Cost of Communication: Environmental Pressure and Survivability in mEDEA

Steyven, A., Hart, E., & Paechter, B. (2015). The Cost of Communication: Environmental Pressure and Survivability in mEDEA. In Proceedings of the Companion Publication of the 2015 on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference - GECCO Companion '15, 1239-1240. doi:10.1145/2739482.2768489
<p>Steyven, A., Hart, E., & Paechter, B. (2015). The Cost of Communication: Environmental Pressure and Survivability in mEDEA. In <i>Proceedings of the Companion Publication of the 2015 on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference - GECCO Companion '15</i>, 1239-1240. doi:10.1145/2739482.2768489</p>

We augment the mEDEA algorithm to explicitly account for the costs of communication between robots. Experimental results show that adding a costs for communication exerts envi...

2015
Improving survivability in environment-driven distributed evolutionary algorithms through explicit relative fitness and fitness proportionate communication.

Hart, E., Steyven, A., & Paechter, B. (2015). Improving survivability in environment-driven distributed evolutionary algorithms through explicit relative fitness and fitness proportionate communication. In Proceedings of the 2015 on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference - GECCO '15, 169-176. doi:10.1145/2739480.2754688
<p>Hart, E., Steyven, A., & Paechter, B. (2015). Improving survivability in environment-driven distributed evolutionary algorithms through explicit relative fitness and fitness proportionate communication. In <i>Proceedings of the 2015 on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference - GECCO '15</i>, 169-176. doi:10.1145/2739480.2754688</p>

Ensuring the integrity of a robot swarm in terms of maintaining a stable population of functioning robots over long periods of time is a mandatory prerequisite for building mo...

2015

Themes : Information Society x Research Centres Groups : Centre for Algorithms, Visualisation and Evolving Systems x People : Andreas Steyven x Library Of Congress : QA75 Electronic computers Computer science x

Themes : Information Society x Research Centres Groups : Centre for Algorithms, Visualisation and Evolving Systems x People : Andreas Steyven x Library Of Congress : QA75 Electronic computers Computer science x

Themes : Information Society x Research Centres Groups : Centre for Algorithms, Visualisation and Evolving Systems x People : Andreas Steyven x Library Of Congress : QA75 Electronic computers Computer science x

Themes : Information Society x Research Centres Groups : Centre for Algorithms, Visualisation and Evolving Systems x People : Andreas Steyven x Library Of Congress : QA75 Electronic computers Computer science x

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