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CityBreeder: city design with evolutionary computation

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GECCO Comp '14: Proceedings of the Companion Publication of the 2014 Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2598394.2598495

Published: 12 July 2014 Publication History

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The process of creating city designs is a complex, time-consuming endeavor. This paper presents CityBreeder, a system which uses Evolutionary Computation to enable the rapid, user-guided development of city designs based on the blending of multiple existing designs.

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CityBreeder: city design with evolutionary computation
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Search methodologies
      1. Heuristic function construction
  2. Modeling and simulation

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GECCO Comp '14: Proceedings of the Companion Publication of the 2014 Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation

July 2014

1524 pages

ISBN:9781450328814

DOI:10.1145/2598394

Editor-in-chief:
Christian Igel
Ruhr University of Bochum, University of Copenhagen
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Dirk V. Arnold
Dalhousie University

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GECCO Comp '14 Paper Acceptance Rate 180 of 544 submissions, 33%;

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