%0 Conference Paper %1 corno:2004:oteocw %A Corno, Fulvio %A Sanchez, Ernesto %A Squillero, Giovanni %B Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation %C Portland, Oregon %D 2004 %I IEEE Press %K Computation Evolutionary Games algorithms, and genetic programming, %P 133--138 %T On The Evolution of Corewar Warriors %U http://www.cad.polito.it/pap/db/cec2004b.pdf %X This paper analyzes corewar, a peculiar computer game where different programs fight in the memory of a virtual computer. An evolutionary assembly-program generator, is used to evolve efficient programs, and the game is exploited to evaluate new evolutionary techniques. The paper introduces a new migration model that exploits the polarization effect and a new hierarchical coarse-grained approach applicable whenever the final goal can be seen as a combination of semi-independent sub goals. Additionally, two general enhancements are proposed. Analyzed techniques are orthogonal and broadly applicable to different real-life contexts. Experimental results show that all these techniques are able to outperform a previous approach. %@ 0-7803-8515-2

@inproceedings{corno:2004:oteocw, abstract = {This paper analyzes corewar, a peculiar computer game where different programs fight in the memory of a virtual computer. An evolutionary assembly-program generator, is used to evolve efficient programs, and the game is exploited to evaluate new evolutionary techniques. The paper introduces a new migration model that exploits the polarization effect and a new hierarchical coarse-grained approach applicable whenever the final goal can be seen as a combination of semi-independent sub goals. Additionally, two general enhancements are proposed. Analyzed techniques are orthogonal and broadly applicable to different real-life contexts. Experimental results show that all these techniques are able to outperform a previous approach.}, added-at = {2008-06-19T17:35:00.000+0200}, address = {Portland, Oregon}, author = {Corno, Fulvio and Sanchez, Ernesto and Squillero, Giovanni}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2d2a164ec95266dbf13fa3cf0e21fe559/brazovayeye}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation}, interhash = {3dc77448adf6fe33a59b2bff42b7c9cc}, intrahash = {d2a164ec95266dbf13fa3cf0e21fe559}, isbn = {0-7803-8515-2}, keywords = {Computation Evolutionary Games algorithms, and genetic programming,}, month = {20-23 June}, notes = {CEC 2004 - A joint meeting of the IEEE, the EPS, and the IEE.}, pages = {133--138}, publisher = {IEEE Press}, size = {6 page}, timestamp = {2008-06-19T17:38:09.000+0200}, title = {On The Evolution of Corewar Warriors}, url = {http://www.cad.polito.it/pap/db/cec2004b.pdf}, year = 2004 }