Artificial life IV proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (MIT Press, 1994)
Held at MIT, Cambridge, Mass., July 6th-8th, 1994. - "A Bradford book."
Includes bibliographical references and index
Plenary Talks -- - Evolutionary Systems for Brain Communications -- Towards an Artificial Brain - Katsunori Shimohara -- - Emergent Functionality in Robotic Agents through On-Line Evolution - Luc Steels -- - Long Papers -- - Artificial Fishes with Autonomous Locomotion, Perception, Behavior, and Learning in a Simulated Physical World - Demetri Terzopoulos, Xiaoyuan Tu and Radek Grzeszczuk -- - Evolving 3D Morphology and Behavior by Competition - Karl Sims -- - Altruism in the Evolution of Communication - David H. Ackley and Michael L. Littman -- - Evolution of Metabolism for Morphogenesis - Hiroaki Kitano -- - Competition, Coevolution and the Game of Tag - Craig W. Reynolds -- - In Praise of Interactive Emergence, or Why Explanations Don't Have to Wait for Implementations - Horst Hendriks-Jansen -- - Spencer and Dewey on Life and Mind - Peter Godfrey-Smith -- - Crossovers Generate Non-Random Recombinants under Darwinian Selection - Gene Levinson --
- Steps Towards Co-Evolutionary Classification Neural Networks. - Jan Paredis -- - Self-Organisation in a System of Binary Strings - Wolfgang Banzhaf -- - Effects of Tree Size on Travelband Formation in Orang-Utans: Data Analysis Suggested by a Model Study - Irenaeus J.A. te Boekhorst and Pauline Hogeweg -- - A Biologically Inspired Immune System for Computers - Jeffrey O. Kephart -- - Egrets of a Feather Flock Together - Yukihiko toquenaga, Isamu Kajitani and Tsutomu Hoshino -- - A Model of the Effects of Dispersal Distance on the Evolution of Virulence in Parasites - C.C. Maley -- - Innate Biases and Critical Periods: Combining Evolution and Learning in the Acquisition of Syntax - John Batali -- - Dynamics of Self-Assembling Systems -- Analogy with Chemical Kinetics - Kazuo Hosokawa, Isao Shimoyama and Hirofumi Miura -- - From Local Actions to Global Tasks: Stigmergy and Collective Robotics - R. Beckers, O.E. Holland and J.L. Deneubourg --
- How to Evolve Autonomous Robots: Different Approaches in Evolutionary Robotics - Stefano Nolfi, Dario Floreano, Orazio Miglino and Francesco Mondada -- - Evolving Visual Routines - Michael Patrick Johnson, Pattie Maes and Trevor Darrell -- - Evolving Sensors in Environments of Controlled Complexity - Filippo Menczer and Richard K. Belew -- - Traffic at the Edge of Chaos - Kai Nagel and Steen Rasmussen -- - A Phase Transition in Random Boolean Networks - James F. Lynch -- - Toward an Evolvable Model of Development for Autonomous Agent Synthesis - Frank Dellaert and Randall D. Beer -- - Bifurcation Structure in Diversity Dynamics - Mark A. Bedau and Alan Bahm -- - On Modelling Life - Chris Adami -- - Short Papers -- - Genes, Phenes and the Baldwin Effect: Learning and Evolution in a Simulated Population - Robert M. French and Adam Messinger -- - Evolving Multi-Cellular Artificial Life - Kurt Thearling and Thomas S. Ray --