Advances in Artificial Life

Keynote Lectures.- From Fertilized Eggs to Complex Organisms: Models of Biological Pattern Formation.- Fables of Cyberspace: Tapeworms, Horses, and Mountains.- Cognitive Teleportation and Situated Embodiment.- Testing Gaia Theory with Artificial Life.- Epistemology.- Testing for Emergence in Artificial Life.- Are Romance Novels Really Alive? A Discussion of the Supple Adaptation View of Life.- Evolutionary Dynamics.- How Symbiosis Can Guide Evolution.- Adaptability of Darwinian and Lamarckian Populations toward an Unknown New World.- Requirements for Immortal ALife to Exterminate Mortal ALife in One Finite, Heterogeneous Ecosystem.- Error Thresholds and Their Relation to Optimal Mutation Rates.- Are Artificial Mutation Biases Unnatural?.- Evolving Mutation Rates for the Self-Optimisation of Genetic Algorithms.- Statistical Reasoning Strategies in the Pursuit and Evasion Domain.- An Evolutionary Method Using Crossover in a Food Chain Simulation.- On Self-Reproduction and Evolvability.- Some Techniques for the Measurement of Complexity in Tierra.- A Generic Neutral Model for Quantitative Comparison of Genotypic Evolutionary Activity.- A Comparative Analysis of Biodiversity Measures.- Evolution of Differentiated Expression Patterns in Digital Organisms.- Species Formation in Evolving Finite State Machines.- Genetic Code Degeneracy: Implications for Grammatical Evolution and Beyond.- Coevolutionary Dynamics of a Multi-population Genetic Programming System.- The Evolution of Computation in Co-evolving Demes of Non-uniform Cellular Automata for Global Synchronisation.- Evolutionary Cybernetics.- Exploiting the Power of Sensory-Motor Coordination.- Evolution of Neural Controllers with Adaptive Synapses and Compact Genetic Encoding.- Synthetic Approaches to Neurobiology: Review and Case Study in the Control of Anguiliform Locomotion.- Replicating Experiments in “Detour Behavior” with Artificially Evolved Robots: An A-Life Approach to Comparative Psychology.- Studying Animals through Artificial Evolution: The Cricket Case.- Evolving Behavioural Choice: An Investigation into Herrnstein’s Matching Law.- Modeling of an Early Evolutionary Stage of the Cnidarian Nervous System and Behavior.- Spontaneous Evolution of Command Neurons, Place Cells and Memory Mechanisms in Autonomous Agents.- Modularity in Evolved Artificial Neural Networks.- Framsticks: Towards a Simulation of a Nature-Like World, Creatures and Evolution.- Evolving Visual Feature Detectors.- Evolutionary Design of Mobile Robot Behaviors for Action-Based Environment Modeling.- Bio-inspired Robotics and Autonomous Agents.- On the Dynamics of Robot Exploration Learning.- Artificial Autonomy in the Natural World: Building a Robot Predator.- Behaviour Adaption on Behavior-Based Controller for Brachiation Robot.- Wet Artificial Brains: Towards the Chemical Control of Robot Motion by Reaction-Diffusion and Excitable Media.- A Neural Structure for Learning by Imitation.- A Neural Model for the Visual Navigation and Planning of a Mobile Robot.- Progressive Construction of Compound Behavior Controllers for Autonomous Robots Using Temporal Information.- A Visualization Tool for the Mini-Robot Khepera: Behavior Analysis and Optimization.- Towards UAV Nap-of-the-Earth Flight Using Optical Flow.- On Bots and Bacteria: Ontology Independent Embodiment.- Populating the Virtual Worlds with Interactive Perceptive Virtual Actors.- Level of Autonomy for Virtual Human Agents.- Emotional Disorders in Autonomous Agents ?.- Integrating Unsupervised Learning, Motivation and Action Selection in an A-life Agent.- Can Computers Have Sentiments? The Case of Risk Aversion and Utility for Wealth.- Self-Replication, Self-Maintenance, and Gene Expression.- Towards Robust Bio-inspired Circuits: The Embryonics Approach.- Designing a Simulation Model of a Self-Maintaining Cellular System.- Design Patterns for an Object-Oriented Computational Chemistry.- Model of Self-Replicating Cell Capable of Self-Maintenance.- Evolution at the Origins of Life: Modelling Simple Persistent Replicating Objects.- A Simulation of Life Using a Dynamic Core Memory Partitioned by Membrane Data.- Molecular Evolution in Time-Dependent Environments.- Evolution to Complexity: Replication, Elongation and Assembly in an RNA World.- Evolution of Multispecificity in an Immune Network.- Laziness + Sensitivity + Mobility = Structure.- Self-Repairing Multicellular Hardware: A Reliability Analysis.- Arithmetic Operations on Self-Replicating Cellular Automata.- Dynamics of Gene Expression in an Artificial Genome — Implications for Biological and Artificial Ontogeny.- Parameter Optimization in Hierarchical Structures.- A Model of Axis Determination for the Drosophila Wing Disc.- Identifying Gene Regulatory Networks from Time Series Expression Data by in silico Sampling and Screening.- Societies and Collective Behaviour.- Simulating the Evolution of Artifacts.- The Evolution of Non-reciprocal Altruism.- A Little More than Kind and Less than Kin: The Unwarranted Use of Kin Selection in Spatial Models of Communication.- An Evolutionary Simulation Model of Social Learning about Food by Norway Rats.- Effects of Cohesiveness on Inter-sexual Dominance Relationships and Spatial Structure among Group-Living Virtual Entities.- Simplicity Rules the Roost: Exploring Birdbrain Parental Investment Heuristics.- Imitation and Cooperation in Coupled Dynamical Recognizers.- Emergence of Adaptive Society with Competitive Selfish Agents.- Dynamical Systems Game.- High Speed Hardware Computation of Co-evolution Models.- A Probabilistic Model for Understanding and Comparing Collective Aggregation Mechanisms.- Exploiting Domain Physics: Using Stigmergy to Control Cluster Building with Real Robots.- Adaptive Exploration of a Dynamic Environment by a Group of Communicating Robots.- Task Fulfilment and Temporal Patterns of Activity in Artificial Ant Colonies.- Formalizing the Ant Algorithms in Terms of Reinforcement Learning.- Using Competing Ant Colonies to Solve k-way Partitioning Problems with Foraging and Raiding Strategies.- On Improving Clustering in Numerical Databases with Artificial Ants.- Communication and Language.- Ants War with Evolutive Pheromone Style Communication.- Sexual Signalling in an Artificial Population: When Does the Handicap Principle Work?.- Modeling the Evolution of Communication: From Stimulus Associations to Grounded Symbolic Associations.- Emergence of Speech Sounds in Changing Populations.- SPECIES: An Evolutionary Model for the Emergence of Phonetic Structures in an Artificial Society of Speech Agents.- Collective Learning and Semiotic Dynamics.- Analyzing the Evolution of Communication from a Dynamical System’s Perspective.- Syntax out of Learning: The Cultural Evolution of Structured Communication in a Population of Induction Algorithms.- Modelling the Evolution of Linguistic Diversity.- Compression and Adaptation.- Effective Lexicon Change in the Absence of Population Flux.- Self-Organization of a Lexicon in a Structured Society of Agents.- Modeling Categorization Dynamics through Conversation by Constructive Approach.