Dario Floreano

Contents

• Hans Meinhardt.

From Fertilized Eggs to Complex Organisms: Models of Biological Pattern Formation

• William D. Hamilton.

Fables of Cyberspace: Tapeworms, Horses, and Mountains

• Luc Steels.

Cognitive Teleportation and Situated Embodiment

• Tim Lenton.

Testing Gaia Theory with Artificial Life

• Edmund M. A. Ronald, Moshe Sipper, Mathieu S. Capcarrere.

Testing for Emergence in Artificial Life

• Paul Domjan.

Are Romance Novels Really Alive? A Discussion of the Supple Adaptation View of Life

• Richard A. Watson, Jordan B. Pollack.

How Symbiosis Can Guide Evolution

• Yuka Yamamoto, Takahiro Sasaki, Mario Tokoro.

Adaptability of Darwinian and Lamarckian Populations Toward an Unknown New World

• Tsutomu Oohashi, Tadao Maekawa, Osamu Ueno, Emi Nishina, Norie Kawai.

Requirements for Immortal ALife to Exterminate Mortal ALife in One Finite, Heterogeneous Ecosystem

• Gabriela Ochoa, Inman Harvey, Hilary Buxton.

Error Thresholds and Their Relation to Optimal Mutation Rates

• Seth Bullock.

Are Artificial Mutation Biases Unnatural?

• Stevan Jay Anastasoff.

Evolving Mutation Rates for the Self-Optimisation of Genetic Algorithms

• Sevan G. Ficici, Jordan B. Pollack.

Statistical Reasoning Strategies in the Pursuit and Evasion Domain

• Atsuko Mutoh, Satoru Oono, Kousuke Moriwaki, Tsuyoshi Nakamura, Nobuhiro Inuzuka, Hidenori Itoh.

An Evolutionary Method Using Crossover in a Food Chain Simulation

• Tim Taylor.

On Self-Reproduction and Evolvability

• Russell K. Standish.

Some Techniques for the Measurement of Complexity in Tierra

• Andreas Rechtsteiner, Mark A. Bedau.

A Generic Neutral Model for Quantitative Comparison of Genotypic Evolutionary Activity

• Henning Schwobbermeyer, Jan T. Kim.

A Comparative Analysis of Biodiversity Measures

• Charles Ofria, Christoph Adami, Travis C. Collier, Grace K. Hsu.

Evolution of Differentiated Expression Patterns in Digital Organisms

• Arno Rasek, Walter Doerwald, Michael Hauhs, Alois Kastner-Maresch.

Species Formation in Evolving Finite State Machines

• Michael O'Neill, Conor Ryan.

Genetic Code Degeneracy: Implications for Grammatical Evolution and Beyond

• Josh C. Bongard.

Coevolutionary Dynamics of a Multi-population Genetic Programming System

• Vesselin Vassilev, Julian F. Miller, Terence C. Fogarty.

The Evolution of Computation in Co-evolving Demes of Non-uniform Cellular Automata for Global Synchronisation

• Stefano Nolfi, Domenico Parisi.

Exploiting the Power of Sensory-Motor Coordination

• Dario Floreano, Joseba Urzelai.

Evolution of Neural Controllers with Adaptive Synapses and Compact Genetic Encoding

• Auke Jan Ijspeert.

Synthetic Approaches to Neurobiology: Review and Case Study in the Control of Anguiliform Locomotion

• Richard Walker, Orazio Miglino.

Replicating Experiments in "Detour Behavior" with Artificially Evolved Robots: An A-Life Approach to Comparative Psychology

• Rens Kortmann, John Hallam.

Studying Animals through Artificial Evolution: The Cricket Case

• Anil K. Seth.

Evolving Behavioural Choice: An Investigation of Herrnstein's Matching Law

• John Albert.

Modeling of an Early Evolutionary Stage of the Cnidarian Nervous System and Behavior

• Ranit Aharonov-Barki, Tuvik Beker, Eytan Ruppin.

Spontaneous Evolution of Command Neurons, Place Cells and Memory Mechanisms in Autonomous Agents

• Adam Rotaru-Varga.

Modularity in Evolved Artificial Neural Networks

• Maciej Komosinski, Szymon Ulatowski.

Framsticks: Towards a Simulation of a Nature-Like World, Creatures and Evolution

• Tony Belpaeme.

Evolving Visual Feature Detectors

• Seiji Yamada.

Evolutionary Design of Mobile Robot Behaviors for Action-Based Environment Modeling

• Jun Tani, Yuya Sugita.

On the Dynamics of Robot Exploration Learning

• Ian Kelly, Owen E. Holland, Martin Scull, David J. McFarland.

Artificial Autonomy in the Natural World: Building a Robot Predator

• Yasuhisa Hasegawa, Yoshikuni Ito, Toshio Fukuda.

Behavior Adaptation on Behavior-Based Controller for Brachiation Robot

• Andrew Adamatzky, Owen E. Holland, N. Rambidi, Alan Winfield.

Wet Artificial Brains: Towards the Chemical Control of Robot Motion by Reaction-Diffusion and Excitable Media

• Sorin Moga, Philippe Gaussier.

A Neuronal Structure for Learning by Imitation

• Mathias Quoy, Philippe Gaussier, Sacha Lepretre, Arnaud Revel.

A Neural Model for the Visual Navigation and Planning of a Mobile Robot

• J. A. Becerra, J. Santos, R. J. Duro.

Progressive Construction of Compound Behavior Controllers for Autonomous Robots Using Temporal Information

• Axel Loffler, Jurgen Klahold, Manfred Hussman, Ulrich Ruckert.

A Visualization Tool for the Mini-Robot Khepera: Behavior Analysis and Optimization

• Thomas Netter, Nicolas Franceschini.

Towards UAV Nap-of-the-Earth Flight Using Optical Flow

• Tom Quick, Kerstin Dautenhahn, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, Graham Roberts.

On Bots and Bacteria: Ontology Independent Embodiment

• Daniel Thalmann.

Populating the Virtual Worlds with Interactive Perceptive Virtual Actors

• Soraia Raupp Musse, Marcelo Kallmann, Daniel Thalmann.

Level of Autonomy for Virtual Human Agents

• Aapo Hyvarinen, Timo Honkela.

Emotional Disorders in Autonomous Agents?

• Mark Witkowski.

Integrating Unsupervised Learning, Motivation and Action Selection in an A-Life Agent

• George G. Szpiro.

Can Computers Have Sentiments? The Case of Risk Aversion and Utility for Wealth

• Daniel Mange.

Towards Robust Bio-inspired Circuits: The Embryonics Approach

• Kepa Ruiz-Mirazo, Alvaro Moreno, Federico Moran, J. J. Merelo.

Designing a Simulation Model of a Self-Maintaining Cellular System

• Hugues Bersini.

Design Patterns for an Object-Oriented Computational Chemistry

• Naoaki Ono, Takashi Ikegami.

Model of Self-Replicating Cell Capable of Self-Maintenance

• Oliver Sharpe.

Evolution at the Origins of Life: Modelling Simple Persistent Replication Objects

• Hideaki Suzuki.

A Simulation of Life Using a Dynamic Core Memory Partitioned by Membrane Data

• Claus O. Wilke, Christopher Ronnewinkel, Thomas Martinetz.

Molecular Evolution in Time-Dependent Environments

• Tomoyuki Yamamoto, Paulien Hogeweg.

Evolution to Complexity: Replication, Elongation and Assembly in an RNA World

• Kouji Harada, Takashi Ikegami.

Evolution of Multispecificity in an Immune Network

• Andrew Adamatzky, Owen E. Holland, Chris R. Melhuish.

Laziness + Sensitivity + Mobility = Structure: Emergence of Patterns in Lattice Swarms

• Cesar Ortega, Andy M. Tyrrell.

Self-Repairing Multicellular Hardware: A Reliability Analysis

• Enrico Petraglio, Jean-Marc Henry, Gianluca Tempesti.

Arithmetic Operations on Self-Replicating Cellular Automata

• Torsten Reil.

Dynamics of Gene Expression in an Artificial Genome -- Implications for Biological and Artificial Ontogeny

• Shugo Hamahashi, Hiroaki Kitano.

Parameter Optimization in Hierarchical Structures

• Koji Kyoda, Hiroaki Kitano.

A Model of Axis Determination for the Drosophila Wing Disc

• Mineo Morohashi, Hiroaki Kitano.

Identifying Gene Regulatory Networks from Time Series Expression Data by in silico Sampling and Screening

• Massimiliano Ugolini, Domenico Parisi.

Simulating the Evolution of Artifacts

• Martijn Brinkers, Paul den Dulk.

The Evolution of Non-reciprocal Altruism

• Ezequiel A. Di Paolo.

A Little More than Kind and Less than Kin: The Unwarranted Use of Kin Selection in Spatial Models of Communication

• Jason Noble, Elio Tuci, Peter M. Todd.

An Evolutionary Simulation Model of Social Learning about Food by Norway Rats

• Charlotte K. Hemelrijk.

Effects of Cohesiveness on Inter-Sexual Dominance Relationships and Spatial Structure among Group-Living Virtual Entities

• Seth Bullock, Jennifer Nerissa Davis, Peter M. Todd.

Simplicity Rules the Roost: Exploring Birdbrain Parental Investment Heuristics

• Takashi Ikegami, Makoto Taiji.

Imitation and Cooperation in Coupled Dynamical Recognizers

• Takashi Ishida, Hiroshi Yokoi, Yukinori Kakazu.

Emergence of Adaptive Society with Competitive Selfish Agents

• Eizo Akiyama, Kunihiko Kaneko.

Dynamical Systems Game (The Lumberjacks' Dilemma Model)

• Yoshiki Yamaguchi, Tsutomu Maruyama, Tsutomu Hoshino.

High Speed Hardware Computation of Co-evolution Models

• Alcherio Martinoli, Auke Jan Ijspeert, Luca Maria Gambardella.

A Probabilistic Model for Understanding and Comparing Collective Aggregation Mechanisms

• Chris R. Melhuish.

Exploiting Domain Physics: Using Stigmergy to Control Cluster Building with Real Robots

• Aude Billard, Auke Jan Ijspeert, Alcherio Martinoli.

Exploration of a Dynamic Environment by a Group of Communicating Robots

• Jordi Delgado, Ricard V. Sole.

Task Fulfilment and Temporal Patterns of Activity in Artificial Ant Colonies

• Ann Nowe, Katja Verbeeck.

Formalizing the Ant Algorithms in Terms of Reinforcement Learning

• A. E. Langham, P. W. Grant.

Using Competing Ant Colonies to Solve k-way Partitioning Problems with Foraging and Raiding Strategies

• N. Monmarche, M. Slimane, Gilles Venturini.

On Improving Clustering in Numerical Databases with Artificial Ants

• Hidenori Kawamura, Masahito Yamamoto, Keiji Suzuki, Azuma Ohuchi.

Ants War with Evolutive Pheromone Style Communication

• Jason Noble.

Sexual Signalling in an Artificial Population: When Does the Handicap Principle Work?

• Angelo Cangelosi.

Modeling the Evolution of Communication: From Stimulus Associations to Grounded Symbolic Associations

• Bart de Boer, Paul Vogt.

Emergence of Speech Sounds in Changing Populations

• Ahmed-Reda Berrah, Rafael Laboissiere.

SPECIES: An Evolutionary Model for the Emergence of Phonetic Structures in an Artificial Society of Speech Agents

• Luc Steels, Frederic Kaplan.

Collective Learning and Semiotic Dynamics

• Edwin D. de Jong.

Analyzing the Evolution of Communication from a Dynamical System's Perspective

• Simon Kirby.

Syntax out of Learning: The Cultural Evolution of Structured Communication in a Population of Induction Algorithms

• Daniel Livingstone, Colin Fyfe.

Modelling the Evolution of Linguistic Diversity

• Tracy Teal, Daniel Albro, Edward Stabler, Charles E. Taylor.

Compression and Adaptation

• Christopher Dircks, Scott C. Stoness.

Effective Lexicon Change in the Absence of Population Flux

• Pierre-Yves Oudeyer.

Self-Organization of a Lexicon in a Structured Society of Agents

• Takashi Hashimoto.

Modeling Categorization Dynamics through Conversation by Constructive Approach