Recent Additions (June, 2000)

Adaptive Behaviour

Funes, P., Pollack, J. B. (2000). Measuring Progress in Coevolutionary Competition. From Animals to Animats 6: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior. MIT Press

Social Behaviour

Bergstrom, C., Lachmann, M., (2000) Alarm Calls as Costly Signals of Anti-Predator Vigilance: The Watchful Babbler Game Submitted to Animal Behaviour.
Billard A., Dautenhahn K., (2000) Experiments in social robotics: grounding and use of communication in autonomous agents,Adaptive Behavior vol. 7:3/4.

Briscoe, T., (1997) Co-evolution of Language and of the Language Acquisition Device ACL-EACL97, cmp-lg/9705001
Noble, J. (2000). Talk is cheap: Evolved strategies for communication and action in asymmetrical animal contests. In Proc. Sixth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior.
Vaughan, R.T., Stoy, K., Sukhatme, G.S., Mataric, M.J. (2000) Go ahead, make my day: robot conflict resolution by aggressive competition Proc. 6th Int. Conf. Simulation of Adaptive Behaviour, Paris, France.

Evolutionary Biology

Adami, C., Ofria, C., Collier, T. C. (2000) Evolution of Biological Complexity Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci (USA) 97 (2000) 4463.
Bornholdt, S., Sneppen, K. (2000) Robustness as an Evolutionary Principle submitted to Proc R. Soc. London B.
Bornholdt, S., Sneppen, K. (1998) Neutral Mutations and Punctuated Equilibrium in Evolving Genetic Networks Phys. Rev. Lett. 81 (1998) 236-239.
Ficici, Sevan G., Pollack, Jordan B. (2000). Effects of Finite Populations on Evolutionary Stable Strategies. Proceedings of the 2000 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, L. Darrell Whitley (ed.), Morgan-Kaufmann
Newman, M. E. J. (1999) Simple models of evolution and extinction To appear as an invited article in Computing in Science and Engineering
Newman, M. E. J. , Fraser, S.M., Sneppen, K., Tozier, W. A. (1997) Comment on "Self-organized criticality in living systems" by C. Adami Phys. Lett. A 228, 202 (1997).
Ofria, C., Adami, C., Collier, T. C. , Hsu, G.K., (1999) Evolution of differentiated expression patterns in digital organisms "Advances in Artificial Life", 5th European Conference ECAL'99, D. Floreano et al, eds. (1999).
Ofria, C., Adami, C., (1999) Evolution of genetic organization in digital organisms Proc. of DIMACS workshop on "Evolution as Computation", Jan. 11-12, Princeton, NJ. L. Landweber and E. Winfree, eds. (Springer, 1999)
Sibani, P., Pedersen, A., (1999) Evolution dynamics in terraced NK landscapes Europhysics Lett. 48, 346-352 (1999)
Standish, R. K. (2000) An Ecolab Perspective on the Bedau Evolutionary Statistics Artificial Life VII, Portland, OR, USA.
van Nimwegen, E., Crutchfield J.P., (1999) Metastable Evolutionary Dynamics: Crossing Fitness Barriers or Escaping via Neutral Paths? adap-org/9907002

Complex Systems, Adaptive Dynamics, Neutral Evolution

Ficici, S. G., Melnik, O., Pollack, J. B. (2000). A Game-Theoretic Investigation of Selection Methods Used in Evolutionary Algorithms. Proceedings of the 2000 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, A. Zalzala, et al, (eds.), IEEE Press
Shipman, R., Shackleton, M., Ebner, M., Watson, R.A. (2000). Neutral Search Spaces for Artificial Evolution: A Lesson from Life. Proceedings of Artificial Life VII, Bedau, M, McCaskill, J, Packard, N, Rasmussen, S (eds.)
Sibani, P., Pedersen, A., (1999) Evolution dynamics in terraced NK landscapes Europhysics Lett. 48, 346-352 (1999)
Solé, R. V., Luque, B., Kauffman, S. (2000) Phase Transitions in Random Networks with Multiple States Submitted to Physical Review E
van Nimwegen, E., Crutchfield J.P., (1999) Metastable Evolutionary Dynamics: Crossing Fitness Barriers or Escaping via Neutral Paths? adap-org/9907002
Watson, R.A., Pollack, J.B. (2000). Recombination Without Respect: Schema Combination and Disruption in Genetic Algorithm Crossover. Proceedings of the 2000 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Whitley, D., et al (eds.), Morgan Kaufmann.

Morphogenesis and Development

Learning

Billard, A. (2000) Learning motor skills by imitation: a biologically inspired robotic model Cybernetics & Systems, Special issue on "Imitation in animals and artifacts", C. Nehaniv & K. Dautenhahn editors.

Robotics

Billard, A., Ijspeert, A-J., Martinoli, A., (2000) A multi-robot system for adaptive exploration of a fast changing environment: probabilistic modelling and experimental study. Connection Science, Vol. 11, No. 3/4, pp.357-377.
Harvey, I. (2000) Robotics: Philosophy of Mind using a Screwdriver In Evolutionary Robotics: From Intelligent Robots to Artificial Life, Vol. III, T. Gomi (ed), AAI Books, Ontario, Canada, 2000. pp. 207-230
Hornby, G.S., Takamura, S., Yokono, J., Hanagata, O., Fujita, M., Pollack, J. (2000) Evolution of Controllers from a High-Level Simulator to a High DOF Robot. Miller, J. (ed) Evolvable Systems: from biology to hardware; proceedings of the third international conference (ICES 2000). Springer (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 1801). pp. 80-89.
Hornby, G.S., Takamura, S., Yokono, J., Hanagata, O., Yamamoto, T., Fujita, M. (2000). Evolving Robust Gaits with AIBO. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. pp. 3040-3045.
Marsland, S., Nehmzow, U., Shapiro, J. (2000) Novelty Detection for Robot Neotaxis In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Neural Computation, 2000.
Marsland, S., Nehmzow, U., Shapiro, J. (2000) Novelty Detection on a Mobile Robot Using Habituation In From Animals to Animats 6, The Sixth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behaviour, Paris, 2000
Vaughan, R., Sumpter, N., Henderson, J., Frost, A., Cameron, S. (2000) Experiments in Automatic Flock Control To appear in Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Vaughan, R.T., Stoy, K., Sukhatme, G.S., Mataric, M.J. (2000) Go ahead, make my day: robot conflict resolution by aggressive competition Proc. 6th Int. Conf. Simulation of Adaptive Behaviour, Paris, France.
Vaughan, R.T., Stoy, K., Sukhatme, G.S., Mataric, M.J. (2000) Whistling in the dark: cooperative trail following in uncertain localization space Proc. Int. Conf. Autonomous Agents, Barcelona, Spain.
Vaughan, R., Sumpter, N, Frost, A., Cameron, S., (1998) Robot Sheepdog Project achieves automatic animal control. in Proc.Int. Conf. Simulation of Adaptive Behaviour, Zurich, Switzerland.
Vaughan, R., Sumpter, N, Frost, A. and Cameron, S. (1998) Robot control of animal flocks in Proc. Int. Symp. Intelligent Control, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA.
Vaughan, R. (1999) Experiments in Animal-Interactive Robotics DPhil. Thesis, University of Oxford.
Watson, R. A., Ficici, S. G., Pollack, J. B. (2000) Embodied Evolution: Distributing an Evolutionary Algorithm in a Population of Robots. Technical Report CS-00-208.

Applications

Chang M-H., Harrington Jr., J. E. (2000) Centralization vs. Decentralization in a Multi-Unit Organization: A Computational Model of

a Retail Chain as a Multi-Agent Adaptive System Submitted to Management Science.

Epstein, J. M., (2000) Learning to Be Thoughtless: Social Norms and Individual Computation To appear in Computational Economics
Farmer, J. D., Lo, A. W., (1999) Frontiers of finance: Evolution and efficient markets Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Vol . 96, p. 9991-9992
Farmer, J. D., (1998) Market force, ecology and evolution submitted to the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
Nagel, K., Rickert, M., Simon, P. M., Pieck, M. (2000) The Dynamics of Iterated Transportation Simulations Submitted to Transportation Research C.
Nagel, K., Shubik, M., Paczuski, M., Bak, P. (2000) Spatial Competition and Price Formation To appear in Physics A, Special issue on "Economic Dynamics from the Physics Point of View"
Weaver, L., Bossomaier, T., (1996) Evolution of Neural Networks to Play the Game of Dots-and-Boxes Alife V: Poster Presentations, May 16-18 1996, pages 43-50.

Philosophy

Agre, P., Horswill, I. (1997) Lifeworld Analysis Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, Vol 6, (1997), 111-145
Boden, M. A., (2000) Autopoiesis and Life Cognitive Science Quarterly, 1:1, (pp. 117-145).
Harvey, I. (2000) Robotics: Philosophy of Mind using a Screwdriver In Evolutionary Robotics: From Intelligent Robots to Artificial Life, Vol. III, T. Gomi (ed), AAI Books, Ontario, Canada, 2000. pp. 207-230
Seth, A. K. (2000) Unorthodox Optimal Foraging Theory, in Proceedings of the 6th International Conference of the Society for Adaptive Behavior (SAB00), Paris, September 2000, MIT Press.

Software

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