9 Article history: 10 Received 30 August 2011 11 Received in revised form 12 February 2012 12 Accepted 7 March 2012 13 Available online xxxx 1456 17

1 Escola Superior de Tecnologia, Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco, Av. do Empresário, 6000 Castelo Branco – Portugal 2 Departamento de Engenharia Informática, Universidade de Coimbra, Polo II – Pinhal de Marrocos, 3030 Coimbra – Portugal Abstract – This article presents a new approach to the evolution of controllers for autonomous agents. We propose the evolution of a connectionist struc...

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