Fourth European Conference on Artificial Life

by European Conference on Artificial Life 1997 (Brighton, England); Husbands, Phil; Harvey, Inman

• ISBN13: 9780262581578
• ISBN10: 0262581574
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-07-11
• Publisher: Bradford Books

Summary

Researchers in artificial life attempt to use the physical representation of lifelike phenomena to understand the organizational principles underlying the dynamics of living systems. The goal of the 1997 European Conference on Artificial Life is to provoke new understandings of the relationships between the natural and the artificial. Topics include self-organization, the origins of life, natural selection, evolutionary computation, neural networks, communication, artificial worlds, software agents, philosophical issues in artificial life, ethical problems, and learning and development.

Table of Contents

Preface
Program Committee
Epistemic Autonomy in Models of Living Systems	p. 2
Cognition's Coming Home: The Reunion of Life and Mind	p. 10
In Defence of Functional Analysis	p. 20
"Why Are There So Few Biologists Here?" - Artificial Life as a Theoretical Biology of Artistry	p. 28
Rediscovering Computational Autopoiesis	p. 38
An Attempt for Description of Quasi-Autopoietic Sytems Using Metabolism-Repair Systems	p. 48
Symbolic and Global Dynamics in Coupled Genetic Networks: Evolution of Artificial Cell Populations at the Edge of and within Chaotic Transient Behaviour	p. 57
Time Out of Joint: Attractors in Asynchronous Random Boolean Networks	p. 67
Insights into Evolution of RNA-Structures	p. 76
Molecular Evolution of Catalysis	p. 83
Evolution of Random Catalytic Networks	p. 92
Optimization Criteria for Design of Serial Transfer Evolution Experiments	p. 101
Competition in a Fitness Landscape	p. 110
Information Analysis of Fitness Landscapes	p. 116
A Comparison of Evolutionary Activity in Artificial Evolving Systems and the Biosphere	p. 125
Guiding or Hiding: Explorations into the Effects of Learning on the Rate of Evolution	p. 135
Adaptation toward Changing Environments: Why Darwinian in Nature?	p. 145
Models for Interacting Populations of Memes: Competition and Niche Behavior	p. 154
N-Sex Reproduction in Dynamic Environments	p. 163
Emergence of Differentiation Rules Leading to Hierarchy and Diversity	p. 172
Recursive Mappings and the Complexity Catastrophes	p. 182
On the Evolution of Multicellularity	p. 190
Emergence of Structure and Function in Evolutionary Modular Neural Networks	p. 214
Evolving Morphologies of Simulated 3D Organisms Based on Differential Gene Expression	p. 205
Formation of Neural Structures	p. 214
Activity-based Pruning in Developmental Artificial Neural Networks	p. 224
Homing by Parameterized Scene Matching	p. 236
A Robot Attracted to the Cricket Species Gryllus bimaculatus	p. 246
Artificial Lampreys: Comparing Naturally and Artificially Evolved Swimming Controllers	p. 256
Real Botany with Artificial Plants: A Dynamic Self Assembling, Plant Model for Individuals and Populations	p. 266
The Virtual Biology Laboratories: A New Approach of Computational Biology	p. 274
Constructing Amoeba-like Behavior System: Mobile Automata in Vibrating Field	p. 284
What's Value Worth? Constraining Unsupervised Behaviour Acquisition	p. 290
Building Grounded Symbols for Localization Using Motivations	p. 299
Dynamical Interactions between Learning, Visual Attention, and Behavior: An Experiment with a Vision-Based Mobile Robot	p. 309
Emergent Construction of Immune Networks for Autonomous Mobile Robots through the Metadynamics Function	p. 318
The Dynamics of Photo-Taxis: Applying the Agent Environment Interaction System to a Simple Braitenberg Robot	p. 327
A Comparison of Robot Implementation of Explicit and Implicit Activity Selection Schemes	p. 337
Half-baked, Ad-hoc and Noisy: Minimal Simulations for Evolutionary Robotics	p. 348
Computer Evolution of Buildable Objects	p. 358
Cellular Encoding for Interactive Evolutionary Robotics	p. 368
Adaptive Behavior in Competing Co-evolving Species	p. 378
Temperature in Natural and Artificial Systems	p. 388
VLSE: Very Large Scale Evolution in Hardware	p. 398
Lossless Image Compression by Evolvable Hardware	p. 407
A Colony of Ant-like Agents for Partitioning in VLSI Technology	p. 417
Evolutionary Signal Processing: Preliminary Report	p. 425
Too Many Love Songs: Sexual Selection and the Evolution of Communication	p. 434
The Truth Is Out There: The Evolution of Reliability in Aggressive Communication Systems	p. 444
An Exploration of Signalling Behaviour by Both Analytic and Simulation Means for Both Discrete and Continuous Models	p. 454
Social Coordination and Spatial Organization: Steps towards the Evolution of Communication	p. 464
Grounding Adaptive Language Games in Robotics	p. 474
Usage-based Structuralization of Relationships between Words	p. 483
Learning, Culture and Evolution in the Origin of Linguistic Constraints	p. 493
Generating Vowel Systems in a Population of Agents	p. 503
Cooperation without Genes, Games or Cognition	p. 511
Interaction, Uncertainty, and the Evolution of Complexity	p. 521
Stochastic Simulation of Ants That Forage by Expectation	p. 531
Chorusing and Controlled Clustering for Minimal Mobile Agents	p. 539
Studying Evolution with Self-Replicating Computer Programs	p. 550
Self-replication in a 2D von Neumann Architecture	p. 560
The Garden of Chances: An Integrated Approach to Abstract Painting and Reactive DAI	p. 566
An Adaptive Approach for Reactive Actor Design	p. 574
Author Index	p. 585
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