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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)

Also part of the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence book sub series (LNAI, 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

  6. Adaptive Behavior

    1. Adaptation to Sensory Delays
      Marieke Rohde, Ezequiel Di Paolo
      Pages 193-202
    2. Adapting to Your Body
      Peter Fine, Ezequiel Di Paolo, Eduardo Izquierdo
      Pages 203-212
    3. An Analysis of Behavioral Attractor Dynamics
      Alberto Montebelli, Carlos Herrera, Tom Ziemke
      Pages 213-222
    4. Artificial Emotions: Are We Ready for Them?
      Jackeline Spinola de Freitas, João Queiroz
      Pages 223-232
    5. Evolution of an Adaptive Sleep Response in Digital Organisms
      Benjamin E. Beckmann, Philip K. McKinley, Charles Ofria
      Pages 233-242
    6. Where Did I Put My Glasses? Determining Trustfulness of Records in Episodic Memory by Means of an Associative Network
      Cyril Brom, Klára Pešková, Jiří Lukavský
      Pages 243-252
    7. Grounding Action-Selection in Event-Based Anticipation
      Philippe Capdepuy, Daniel Polani, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv
      Pages 253-262

  7. Learning and Evolution

    1. Aging in Artificial Learning Systems
      Sarunas Raudys
      Pages 263-272
    2. An Analysis of the Effects of Lifetime Learning on Population Fitness and Diversity in an NK Fitness Landscape
      Dara Curran, Colm O’Riordan, Humphrey Sorensen
      Pages 273-283
    3. Embodied Evolution and Learning: The Neglected Timing of Maturation
      Steffen Wischmann, Kristin Stamm, Florentin Wörgötter
      Pages 284-293
    4. Evolution and Learning in an Intrinsically Motivated Reinforcement Learning Robot
      Massimiliano Schembri, Marco Mirolli, Gianluca Baldassarre
      Pages 294-303
    5. Evolving Cultural Learning Parameters in an NK Fitness Landscape
      Dara Curran, Colm O’Riordan, Humphrey Sorensen
      Pages 304-314
    6. How Does Niche Construction Reverse the Baldwin Effect?
      Hajime Yamauchi
      Pages 315-324
    7. Improving Search Efficiency in the Action Space of an Instance-Based Reinforcement Learning Technique for Multi-robot Systems
      Toshiyuki Yasuda, Kazuhiro Ohkura
      Pages 325-334
    8. Improving Agent Localisation Through Stereotypical Motion
      Bart Baddeley, Andrew Philippides
      Pages 335-344
    9. Neuroevolution of Agents Capable of Reactive and Deliberative Behaviours in Novel and Dynamic Environments
      Edward Robinson, Timothy Ellis, Alastair Channon
      Pages 345-354
    10. On the Adaptive Disadvantage of Lamarckianism in Rapidly Changing Environments
      Ingo Paenke, Bernhard Sendhoff, Jon Rowe, Chrisantha Fernando
      Pages 355-364
    11. The Dynamics of Associative Learning in an Evolved Situated Agent
      Eduardo Izquierdo, Inman Harvey
      Pages 365-374

  8. Communication, Constitution of Meaning, Language

    1. Constructing the Basic Umwelt of Artificial Agents: An Information-Theoretic Approach
      Philippe Capdepuy, Daniel Polani, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv
      Pages 375-383
    2. Directed Evolution of Communication and Cooperation in Digital Organisms
      David B. Knoester, Philip K. McKinley, Benjamin Beckmann, Charles Ofria
      Pages 384-394
    3. Evolution of Acoustic Communication Between Two Cooperating Robots
      Elio Tuci, Christos Ampatzis
      Pages 395-404
    4. Group Size Effects on the Emergence of Compositional Structures in Language
      Paul Vogt
      Pages 405-414
    5. Language Learning Dynamics: Coexistence and Selection of Grammars
      Valery Tereshko
      Pages 415-424
    6. Multi-level Selection in the Emergence of Language Systematicity
      Luc Steels, Remi van Trijp, Pieter Wellens
      Pages 425-434
    7. Protolanguages That Are Semi-holophrastic
      Mike Dowman
      Pages 435-444
    8. From the Outside-In: Embodied Attention in Toddlers
      Linda B. Smith, Chen Yu, Alfredo Pereira
      Pages 445-454

  9. Agency, Autopoiesis, Autonomy

    1. Autonomy: A Review and a Reappraisal
      Tom Froese, Nathaniel Virgo, Eduardo Izquierdo
      Pages 455-464
    2. Category Theoretical Distinction Between Autopoiesis and (M,R) Systems
      Tatsuya Nomura
      Pages 465-474
    3. Measuring Autonomy by Multivariate Autoregressive Modelling
      Anil K. Seth
      Pages 475-484
    4. Minimal Agency Detection of Embodied Agents
      Hiroyuki Iizuka, Ezequiel Di Paolo
      Pages 485-494

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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