de Buitleir, Amy and Daly, Mark and Russell, Michael and Heffernan, Daniel
(2014)
A Functional Approach to Sex: Reproduction in the Creatur Framework.
In: International Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming, 2014.
Abstract
Implementing genetics and reproduction for artificial life
involves a set of tasks that are only loosely dependent on the type of
agent or the method of reproduction. Creatur is a software framework
for automating experiments with artificial life, and a library of modules
that can be used to implement agents. In this paper we describe how
Creatur uses Haskell features such as monads, domain-specific embedded
languages, and datatype-generic programming to simplify the implementation
of genetics and reproduction. We discuss the possibility that type
families could support duplicate instance declarations in appropriate circumstances.
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Conference or Workshop Item
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| Keywords: |
Haskell; Artificial life; Datatype generic programming; Domain specific language; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Science and Engineering > Mathematical Physics |
| Item ID: |
9682 |
| Depositing User: |
Prof. Daniel Heffernan
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| Date Deposited: |
13 Jul 2018 14:46 |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
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