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

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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