1. Artificial life and robotics—Message from the editor-in-chief

   • Masanori Sugisaka

   Editorial Pages: 1 - 1

2. Congratulatory address to the international symposium

   • Arata Nomura

   Editorial Pages: 3 - 4

3. Congratulatory address to the international symposium

   • Kazuro Iida

   Editorial Pages: 5 - 5

4. Information versus matter

   • John L. Casti

   Editorial Pages: 7 - 7

5. Artificial life and robotics

   • Sueo Ueno

   Editorial Pages: 9 - 9

6. Would-be worlds: Toward a theory of complex systems

   • John L. Casti

   Invited Paper Pages: 11 - 13

7. Feature extraction from EEGs associated with emotions

   • Toshimitsu Musha
   • Yuniko Terasaki
   • George A. Ivamitsky

   Invited Paper Pages: 15 - 19

8. Evolving complexity

   • Thomas S. Ray

   Invited Paper Pages: 21 - 26

9. Insect-model-based microrobot

   • Hirofumi Miura
   • Takashi Yasuda
   • Isao Shimoyama

   Invited Paper Pages: 27 - 31

10. Artificial societies and generative social science

    • Joshua M. Epstein
    • Robert Axtell

    Invited Paper Pages: 33 - 34

11. Artificial evolution and real robots

    • Inman Harvey

    Original Paper Pages: 35 - 38

12. A local motion planner for car-like robots in a cluttered environment

    • Sun-Gi Hong
    • Ju-Jang Lee

    Original Paper Pages: 39 - 42

13. Design principles for autonomous agents: A case study of classification

    • Rolf Pfeifer

    Original Paper Pages: 43 - 46

14. Neurocomputer control in an artificial brain for tracking moving objects

    • Masanori Sugisaka

    Original Paper Pages: 47 - 51