Advances in Artificial Life

1. Evolutionary Dynamics

   1. A Comparative Analysis of Biodiversity Measures

      • Henning Schwöbbermeyer, Jan T. Kim

      Pages 119-128

   2. Evolution of Differentiated Expression Patterns in Digital Organisms

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

      Pages 129-138

   3. Species Formation in Evolving Finite State Machines

      • Arno Rasek, Walter Dörwald, Michael Hauhs, Alois Kastner-Maresch

      Pages 139-148

   4. Genetic Code Degeneracy: Implications for Grammatical Evolution and Beyond

      • Michael O’Neill, Conor Ryan

      Pages 149-153

   5. Coevolutionary Dynamics of a Multi-population Genetic Programming System

      • Josh C. Bongard

      Pages 154-158

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

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

      Pages 159-169

2. Evolutionary Cybernetics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-171

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   2. Exploiting the Power of Sensory-Motor Coordination

      • Stefano Nolfi, Domenico Parisi

      Pages 173-182

   3. Evolution of Neural Controllers with Adaptive Synapses and Compact Genetic Encoding

      • Dario Floreano, Joseba Urzelai

      Pages 183-194

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

      • Auke Jan Ijspeert

      Pages 195-204

   5. Replicating Experiments in “Detour Behavior” with Artificially Evolved Robots: An A-Life Approach to Comparative Psychology

      • Richard Walker, Orazio Miglino

      Pages 205-214

   6. Studying Animals through Artificial Evolution: The Cricket Case

      • Rens Kortmann, John Hallam

      Pages 215-224

   7. Evolving Behavioural Choice: An Investigation into Herrnstein’s Matching Law

      • Anil K Seth

      Pages 225-235

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

      • John Albert

      Pages 236-245

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

      • Ranit Aharonov-Barki, Tuvik Beker, Eytan Ruppin

      Pages 246-255

   10. Modularity in Evolved Artificial Neural Networks

       • Ádám Rotaru-Varga

       Pages 256-260

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

       • Maciej Komosiński, Szymon Ulatowski

       Pages 261-265

   12. Evolving Visual Feature Detectors

       • Tony Belpaeme

       Pages 266-270

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

       • Yamada Seiji

       Pages 271-275

3. Bio-inspired Robotics and Autonomous Agents

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 277-277

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No matter what your perspective is, what your goals are, or how experienced you are, Artificial Life research is always a learning experience. The variety of phe­ nomena that the people who gathered in Lausanne reported and discussed for the fifth time since 1991 at the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL) has not been programmed, crafted, or assembled by analytic design. It has evolved, emerged, or appeared spontaneously from a process of artificial evolution, se- organisation, or development. Artificial Life is a field where biological and artificial sciences meet and blend together, where the dynamics of biological life are reproduced in the memory of computers, where machines evolve, behave, and communicate like living organ­ isms, where complex life-like entities are synthesised from electronic chromo­ somes and artificial chemistries. The impact of Artificial Life in science, phi­ losophy, and technology is tremendous. Over the years the synthetic approach has established itself as a powerful method for investigating several complex phenomena of life. From a philosophical standpoint, the notion of life and of in­ telligence is continuously reformulated in relation to the dynamics of the system under observation and to the embedding environment, no longer a privilege of carbon-based entities with brains and eyes. At the same time, the possibility of engineering machines and software with life-like properties such as evolvability, self-repair, and self-maintainance is gradually becoming reality, bringing new perspectives in engineering and applications.

• artificial life
• autonom
• autonomous agent
• communication
• cybernetics
• epistemology
• evolution
• robot
• robotics

• Laboratory of Microprocessors and Interfaces (LAMI) Department of Computer Science, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

  Dario Floreano, Jean-Daniel Nicoud, Francesco Mondada

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