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Advances in Artificial Life

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

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

Part of the book sub series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)

Conference series link(s): ECAL: European Conference on Artificial Life

Conference proceedings info: ECAL 2009.

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Table of contents (55 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Group Selection

    1. The Evolution of Division of Labor

      • Heather J. Goldsby, David B. Knoester, Jeff Clune, Philip K. McKinley, Charles Ofria
      Pages 10-18
    2. A Sequence-to-Function Map for Ribozyme-Catalyzed Metabolisms

      • Alexander Ullrich, Christoph Flamm
      Pages 19-26
    3. Can Selfish Symbioses Effect Higher-Level Selection?

      • Richard A. Watson, Niclas Palmius, Rob Mills, Simon T. Powers, Alexandra Penn
      Pages 27-36
    4. The Effect of Group Size and Frequency-of-Encounter on the Evolution of Cooperation

      • Steve Phelps, Gabriel Nevarez, Andrew Howes
      Pages 37-44
    5. Moderate Contact between Sub-populations Promotes Evolved Assortativity Enabling Group Selection

      • James R. Snowdon, Simon T. Powers, Richard A. Watson
      Pages 45-52
  3. Ecosystems and Evolution

    1. Embodiment of Honeybee’s Thermotaxis in a Mobile Robot Swarm

      • Daniela Kengyel, Thomas Schmickl, Heiko Hamann, Ronald Thenius, Karl Crailsheim
      Pages 69-76
    2. Positively versus Negatively Frequency-Dependent Selection

      • Robert Morris, Tim Watson
      Pages 77-84
    3. Origins of Scaling in Genetic Code

      • Oliver Obst, Daniel Polani, Mikhail Prokopenko
      Pages 85-93
    4. Adaptive Walk on Fitness Soundscape

      • Reiji Suzuki, Takaya Arita
      Pages 94-101
    5. Breaking Waves in Population Flows

      • George Kampis, Istvan Karsai
      Pages 102-109
    6. 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

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  1. Advances in Artificial Life. Darwin Meets von Neumann

About this book

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

  • Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary

    George Kampis

  • Department of Biological Sciences, East Tennessee State Unviversity, Johnso City, USA

    István Karsai

  • Collegium Budapest, Budapest, Hungary

    Eörs Szathmáry

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