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Advances in Artificial Life

8th European Conference, ECAL 2005, Canterbury, UK, September 5-9, 2005, Proceedings

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  1. Mathieu S. Capcarrère

    1. Natural Computation Group, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

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  2. Alex A. Freitas

    1. Computing Laboratory and Centre for BioMedical Informatics, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

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  3. Peter J. Bentley

    1. Computer Science Department, University College London, London, UK

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  4. Colin G. Johnson

    1. Computing Laboratory, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

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  5. Jon Timmis

    1. Department of Electronics, University of York, Heslington, York, UK

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 3630)

Part of the book sub series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)

Conference series link(s): ECAL: European Conference on Artificial Life

Conference proceedings info: ECAL 2005.

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Table of contents (94 papers)

  1. Robotics and Autonomous Agents

    1. Co-evolution of Structures and Controllers for Neubot Underwater Modular Robots

      • Barthélémy von Haller, Auke Ijspeert, Dario Floreano
      Pages 189-199

    2. CoEvolutionary Incremental Modelling of Robotic Cognitive Mechanisms

      • Michail Maniadakis, Panos Trahanias
      Pages 200-209

    3. A Dynamical Systems Approach to Learning: A Frequency-Adaptive Hopper Robot

      • Jonas Buchli, Ludovic Righetti, Auke Jan Ijspeert
      Pages 210-220

    5. Evolving Neural Mechanisms for an Iterated Discrimination Task: A Robot Based Model

      • Elio Tuci, Christos Ampatzis, Marco Dorigo
      Pages 231-240

    7. Is an Embodied System Ever Purely Reactive?

      • Eduardo Izquierdo-Torres, Ezequiel Di Paolo
      Pages 252-261

    9. Self-assembly on Demand in a Group of Physical Autonomous Mobile Robots Navigating Rough Terrain

      • Rehan O’Grady, Roderich Groß, Francesco Mondada, Michael Bonani, Marco Dorigo
      Pages 272-281

    10. Superlinear Physical Performances in a SWARM-BOT

      • Francesco Mondada, Michael Bonani, André Guignard, Stéphane Magnenat, Christian Studer, Dario Floreano
      Pages 282-291

    11. Timescale and Stability in Adaptive Behaviour

      • Christopher L. Buckley, Seth Bullock, Netta Cohen
      Pages 292-301

  2. Evolutionary Computation and Theory

    1. Analysing the Evolvability of Neural Network Agents Through Structural Mutations

      • Ehud Schlessinger, Peter J. Bentley, R. Beau Lotto
      Pages 312-321

    3. Evolution and the Regulation of Environmental Variables

      • Hywel Williams, Jason Noble
      Pages 332-341

    4. Evolutionary Transitions as a Metaphor for Evolutionary Optimisation

      • Anne Defaweux, Tom Lenaerts, Jano van Hemert
      Pages 342-352

    5. Genetic Assimilation and Canalisation in the Baldwin Effect

      • Rob Mills, Richard A. Watson
      Pages 353-362

    7. How Niche Construction Can Guide Coevolution

      • Reiji Suzuki, Takaya Arita
      Pages 373-382
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About this book

TheArti?cialLifetermappearedmorethan20yearsagoinasmallcornerofNew Mexico, USA. Since then the area has developed dramatically, many researchers joining enthusiastically and research groups sprouting everywhere. This frenetic activity led to the emergence of several strands that are now established ?elds in themselves. We are now reaching a stage that one may describe as maturer: with more rigour, more benchmarks, more results, more stringent acceptance criteria, more applications, in brief, more sound science. This, which is the n- ural path of all new areas, comes at a price, however. A certain enthusiasm, a certain adventurousness from the early years is fading and may have been lost on the way. The ?eld has become more reasonable. To counterbalance this and to encourage lively discussions, a conceptual track, where papers were judged on criteria like importance and/or novelty of the concepts proposed rather than the experimental/theoretical results, has been introduced this year. A conference on a theme as broad as Arti?cial Life is bound to be very - verse,but a few tendencies emerged. First, ?elds like ‘Robotics and Autonomous Agents’ or ‘Evolutionary Computation’ are still extremely active and keep on bringing a wealth of results to the A-Life community. Even there, however, new tendencies appear, like collective robotics, and more speci?cally self-assembling robotics, which represent now a large subsection. Second, new areas appear.
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Natural Computation Group, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

    Mathieu S. Capcarrère

  • Computing Laboratory and Centre for BioMedical Informatics, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

    Alex A. Freitas

  • Computer Science Department, University College London, London, UK

    Peter J. Bentley

  • Computing Laboratory, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

    Colin G. Johnson

  • Department of Electronics, University of York, Heslington, York, UK

    Jon Timmis

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