Concurrent Genetic Programming, Tartarus and Dancing Agents

  • Authors:
  • Adrian Trenaman

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the Second European Workshop on Genetic Programming
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

Evolutionary approaches such as genetic programming have often been applied to the automatic design of controllers for autonomous agents in virtual worlds. This paper applies a multi-tree genetic programming representation to the Tartarus world. Agent-controllers are evolved whose behaviour is the emergent effect of the interleaved evaluation of the program trees. Agents with good fitness and of very low complexity are evolved, and it is found that this technique evolves agents that exploit the characteristics of the runtime scheduler to provide an implicit rather than explicit form of state in the form of a "fixed dance".