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Advances in Artificial Life. Darwin Meets von Neumann

10th European Conference, ECAL 2009, Budapest, Hungary, September 13-16, 2009, Revised Selected Papers, Part II

  • George Kampis
  • István Karsai
  • Eörs Szathmáry
Conference proceedings ECAL 2009

Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 5778)

Also part of the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence book sub series (LNAI, volume 5778)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
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  2. Group Selection

    1. Investigations of Wilson’s and Traulsen’s Group Selection Models in Evolutionary Computation
      Shelly X. Wu, Wolfgang Banzhaf
      Pages 1-9
    2. The Evolution of Division of Labor
      Heather J. Goldsby, David B. Knoester, Jeff Clune, Philip K. McKinley, Charles Ofria
      Pages 10-18
    3. A Sequence-to-Function Map for Ribozyme-Catalyzed Metabolisms
      Alexander Ullrich, Christoph Flamm
      Pages 19-26
    4. Can Selfish Symbioses Effect Higher-Level Selection?
      Richard A. Watson, Niclas Palmius, Rob Mills, Simon T. Powers, Alexandra Penn
      Pages 27-36
    5. The Effect of Group Size and Frequency-of-Encounter on the Evolution of Cooperation
      Steve Phelps, Gabriel Nevarez, Andrew Howes
      Pages 37-44
    6. Moderate Contact between Sub-populations Promotes Evolved Assortativity Enabling Group Selection
      James R. Snowdon, Simon T. Powers, Richard A. Watson
      Pages 45-52
    7. Evolution of Individual Group Size Preference Can Increase Group-Level Selection and Cooperation
      Simon T. Powers, Richard A. Watson
      Pages 53-60

  3. Ecosystems and Evolution

    1. Implications of the Social Brain Hypothesis for Evolving Human-Like Cognition in Digital Organisms
      Suzanne Sadedin, Greg Paperin
      Pages 61-68
    2. Embodiment of Honeybee’s Thermotaxis in a Mobile Robot Swarm
      Daniela Kengyel, Thomas Schmickl, Heiko Hamann, Ronald Thenius, Karl Crailsheim
      Pages 69-76
    3. Positively versus Negatively Frequency-Dependent Selection
      Robert Morris, Tim Watson
      Pages 77-84
    4. Origins of Scaling in Genetic Code
      Oliver Obst, Daniel Polani, Mikhail Prokopenko
      Pages 85-93
    5. Adaptive Walk on Fitness Soundscape
      Reiji Suzuki, Takaya Arita
      Pages 94-101
    6. Breaking Waves in Population Flows
      George Kampis, Istvan Karsai
      Pages 102-109
    7. Symbiosis Enables the Evolution of Rare Complexes in Structured Environments
      Rob Mills, Richard A. Watson
      Pages 110-117
    8. Growth of Structured Artificial Neural Networks by Virtual Embryogenesis
      Ronald Thenius, Michael Bodi, Thomas Schmickl, Karl Crailsheim
      Pages 118-125

  4. Algorithms and Evolutionary Computation

    1. The Microbial Genetic Algorithm
      Inman Harvey
      Pages 126-133
    2. HybrID: A Hybridization of Indirect and Direct Encodings for Evolutionary Computation
      Jeff Clune, Benjamin E. Beckmann, Robert T. Pennock, Charles Ofria
      Pages 134-141
    3. An Analysis of Lamarckian Learning in Changing Environments
      Dara Curran, Barry O’Sullivan
      Pages 142-149
    4. Linguistic Selection of Language Strategies
      Joris Bleys, Luc Steels
      Pages 150-157
    5. Robots That Say ‘No’
      Frank Förster, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, Joe Saunders
      Pages 158-166
    6. A Genetic Programming Approach to an Appropriation Common Pool Game
      Alan Cunningham, Colm O’Riordan
      Pages 167-174
    7. Using Pareto Front for a Consensus Building, Human Based, Genetic Algorithm
      Pietro Speroni di Fenizio, Chris Anderson
      Pages 175-182
    8. The Universal Constructor in the DigiHive Environment
      Rafał Sienkiewicz, Wojciech Jędruch
      Pages 183-190
    9. A Local Behavior Identification Algorithm for Generative Network Automata Configurations
      Burak Özdemir, Hürevren Kılıç
      Pages 191-199
    10. Solving a Heterogeneous Fleet Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows through the Asynchronous Situated Coevolution Algorithm
      Abraham Prieto, Francisco Bellas, Pilar Caamaño, Richard J. Duro
      Pages 200-207

  5. Philosophy and Arts

    1. Modeling Living Systems
      Peter Andras
      Pages 208-215
    2. Facing N-P Problems via Artificial Life: A Philosophical Appraisal
      Carlos E. Maldonado, Nelson Gómez
      Pages 216-221
    3. Observer Based Emergence of Local Endo-time in Living Systems: Theoretical and Mathematical Reasoning
      Igor Balaz, Dragutin T. Mihailovic
      Pages 222-229
    4. Life and Its Close Relatives
      Simon McGregor, Nathaniel Virgo
      Pages 230-237
    5. A Loosely Symmetric Model of Cognition
      Tatsuji Takahashi, Kuratomo Oyo, Shuji Shinohara
      Pages 238-245
    6. Algorithmic Feasibility of Entity Recognition in Artificial Life
      Janardan Misra
      Pages 246-253
    7. Creative Agency: A Clearer Goal for Artificial Life in the Arts
      Oliver Bown, Jon McCormack
      Pages 254-261

  6. Optimization, Action, and Agent Connectivity

    1. Agent-Based Toy Modeling for Comparing Distributive and Competitive Free Market
      Hugues Bersini
      Pages 262-269
    2. Swarm Cognition and Artificial Life
      Vito Trianni, Elio Tuci
      Pages 270-277
    3. Life Engine - Creating Artificial Life for Scientific and Entertainment Purposes
      Gonçalo M. Marques, António Lorena, João Magalhães, Tânia Sousa, S. A. L. M. Kooijman, Tiago Domingos
      Pages 278-285
    4. An Analysis of New Expert Knowledge Scaling Methods for Biologically Inspired Computing
      Jason M. Gilmore, Casey S. Greene, Peter C. Andrews, Jeff Kiralis, Jason H. Moore
      Pages 286-293
    5. Impoverished Empowerment: ‘Meaningful’ Action Sequence Generation through Bandwidth Limitation
      Tom Anthony, Daniel Polani, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv
      Pages 294-301
    6. Influence of Promoter Length on Network Convergence in GRN-Based Evolutionary Algorithms
      Paul Tonelli, Jean-Baptiste Mouret, Stéphane Doncieux
      Pages 302-309
    7. Cellular Automata Evolution of Leader Election
      Peter Banda
      Pages 310-317
    8. Update Dynamics, Strategy Exchanges and the Evolution of Cooperation in the Snowdrift Game
      Carlos Grilo, Luís Correia
      Pages 318-325
    9. Learning in Minority Games with Multiple Resources
      David Catteeuw, Bernard Manderick
      Pages 326-333
    10. Robustness of Market-Based Task Allocation in a Distributed Satellite System
      Johannes van der Horst, Jason Noble, Adrian Tatnall
      Pages 334-341
    11. Hierarchical Behaviours: Getting the Most Bang for Your Bit
      Sander G. van Dijk, Daniel Polani, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv
      Pages 342-349
    12. The Common Stomach as a Center of Information Sharing for Nest Construction
      Istvan Karsai, Andrew Runciman
      Pages 350-357
    13. Economics of Specialization in Honeybees
      Thomas Schmickl, Karl Crailsheim
      Pages 358-366
    14. How Two Cooperating Robot Swarms Are Affected by Two Conflictive Aggregation Spots
      Michael Bodi, Ronald Thenius, Thomas Schmickl, Karl Crailsheim
      Pages 367-374
    15. A Minimalist Flocking Algorithm for Swarm Robots
      Christoph Moeslinger, Thomas Schmickl, Karl Crailsheim
      Pages 375-382
    16. Networks of Artificial Social Interactions
      Peter Andras
      Pages 383-390

  7. Swarm Intelligence

    1. An Ant-Based Rule for UMDA’s Update Strategy
      C. M. Fernandes, C. F. Lima, J. L. J. Laredo, A. C. Rosa, J. J. Merelo
      Pages 391-398

Other volumes

  1. Advances in Artificial Life. Darwin Meets von Neumann
    10th European Conference, ECAL 2009, Budapest, Hungary, September 13-16, 2009, Revised Selected Papers, Part I
  2. Advances in Artificial Life. Darwin Meets von Neumann
    10th European Conference, ECAL 2009, Budapest, Hungary, September 13-16, 2009, Revised Selected Papers, Part II

About these proceedings

Introduction

The two-volume set LNAI 5777 and LNAI 5778 constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 10th European Conference, ECAl 2009, held in Budapest, Hungary, in September 2009. The 141 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from161 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on evolutionary developmental biology and hardware, evolutionary robotics, protocells and prebiotic chemistry, systems biology, artificial chemistry and neuroscience, group selection, ecosystems and evolution, algorithms and evolutionary computation, philosophy and arts, optimization, action, and agent connectivity, and swarm intelligence.

Keywords

adaptive systems algorithmic chemistry cellular automata evolvable systems genetic algorithms neural systems synthetic biology

Editors and affiliations

  • George Kampis
    • 1
  • István Karsai
    • 2
  • Eörs Szathmáry
    • 3
  1. 1.Department of History and Philosophy of ScienceEötvös UniversityBudapestHungary
  2. 2.Department of Biological SciencesEast Tennessee State UnviversityJohnso CityUSA
  3. 3.Collegium BudapestBudapestHungary

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21314-4
  • Copyright Information Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2011
  • Publisher Name Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
  • eBook Packages Computer Science
  • Print ISBN 978-3-642-21313-7
  • Online ISBN 978-3-642-21314-4
  • Series Print ISSN 0302-9743
  • Series Online ISSN 1611-3349
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