Advances in Artificial Life

9th European Conference, ECAL 2007, Lisbon, Portugal, September 10-14, 2007. Proceedings

  • Editors
  • Fernando Almeida e Costa
  • Luis Mateus Rocha
  • Ernesto Costa
  • Inman Harvey
  • António Coutinho
Conference proceedings ECAL 2007
Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 4648)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
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  2. Artificial Chemistries, Pre-biotic Evolution

    1. Chemical Organizations at Different Spatial Scales
      Pietro Speroni di Fenizio, Peter Dittrich
      Pages 1-11
    2. Formulating Membrane Dynamics with the Reaction of Surface Objects
      Kazuto Tominaga, Tooru Watanabe, Maki Suzuki
      Pages 12-21
    3. Multi-level Selectional Stalemate in a Simple Artificial Chemistry
      Barry McMullin, Ciarán Kelly, Darragh O’Brien
      Pages 22-31
    4. Simulation Model for Functionalized Vesicles: Lipid-Peptide Integration in Minimal Protocells
      Kepa Ruiz-Mirazo, Fabio Mavelli
      Pages 32-41

  3. Evolution

    1. Emergence of Genetic Coding: An Information-Theoretic Model
      Mahendra Piraveenan, Daniel Polani, Mikhail Prokopenko
      Pages 42-52
    2. Emergent Phenomena Only Belong to Biology
      Hugues Bersini, Christophe Philemotte
      Pages 53-62
    3. Genotype Editing and the Evolution of Regulation and Memory
      Luis M. Rocha, Jasleen Kaur
      Pages 63-73
    4. Investigating the Emergence of Phenotypic Plasticity in Evolving Digital Organisms
      Jeff Clune, Charles Ofria, Robert T. Pennock
      Pages 74-83
    5. Simulation of the Evolution of Aging: Effects of Aggression and Kin-Recognition
      Svetlana Krivenko, Mikhail Burtsev
      Pages 84-92

  4. Ecosystems

    1. Artificial Ecosystem Selection for Evolutionary Optimisation
      Hywel T. P. Williams, Timothy M. Lenton
      Pages 93-102
    2. Building Virtual Ecosystems from Artificial Chemistry
      Alan Dorin, Kevin B. Korb
      Pages 103-112
    3. Energy Flows and Maximum Power on an Evolutionary Ecological Network Model
      Jiang Zhang
      Pages 113-122
    4. Entropy Production in Ecosystems
      Nathaniel Virgo, Inman Harvey
      Pages 123-132
    5. Increasing Complexity Can Increase Stability in a Self-Regulating Ecosystem
      James Dyke, Jamie McDonald-Gibson, Ezequiel Di Paolo, Inman Harvey
      Pages 133-142
    6. Niche Differentiation and Coexistence in a Multi-resource Ecosystem with Competition
      Walter de Back, László Gulyás, George Kampis
      Pages 143-152
    7. Variance in Water Temperature as a Factor in the Modelling of Starfish and Mussel Population Density and Diversity
      David White
      Pages 153-162

  5. Morphodynamics, Development

    1. Cell Tracking: Genesis and Epigenesis in an Artificial Organism
      Alessandro Fontana
      Pages 163-171
    2. Developmental Neural Heterogeneity Through Coarse-Coding Regulation
      Jekanthan Thangavelautham, Gabriele M. T. D’Eleuterio
      Pages 172-182
    3. Re-examination of Swimming Motion of Virtually Evolved Creature Based on Fluid Dynamics
      Yoshiyuki Usami
      Pages 183-192

About these proceedings

Keywords

Automat agents artificial life automata autonom autonomous agents communication evolution evolutionary computation robot robotics simulation

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74913-4
  • Copyright Information Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007
  • Publisher Name Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
  • eBook Packages Computer Science
  • Print ISBN 978-3-540-74912-7
  • Online ISBN 978-3-540-74913-4
  • Series Print ISSN 0302-9743
  • Series Online ISSN 1611-3349
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