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Applied Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 705483, 21 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/705483
Research Article
Qualitative Functional Decomposition Analysis of Evolved Neuromorphic Flight Controllers
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Wright State University, Dayton, OH 45435, USA
Received 21 February 2012; Accepted 21 May 2012
Academic Editor: P. Balasubramaniam
Copyright © 2012 Sanjay K. Boddhu and John C. Gallagher. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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