Publications
Ezequiel Di Paolo
Last update: October, 2011
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Journal Publications

Edited special issues

Conference publications

  • Barandiaran, X. and Di Paolo, E. A. (2011) Modelling sensorimotor habits with neuro-robotics: A reappraisal of the habit concept in psychology, in ESCOP 2011, 17th Meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Donostia, Spain, 29 Sept 2 Oct 2011.

  • Kyselo, M. and Di Paolo, E. A. (2010) Through the Enactive Eye – Locked-in Syndrome as a Challenge for Embodied Cognition, 10th Biannual Conference of the German Society for Cognitive Science, KogWis 2010, Postdam, October 3 - 6 , 2010.

  • Egbert, M., Barandiaran, X and Di Paolo, E. A. (2010). Behavioral Metabolution: Metabolism based behavior enables new forms of adaptation and evolution Artificial Life XII, The 12th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, 19-23 August, 2010, Odense, Denmark.

  • Hu, X-B, Wang, M., Leeson, M. S., Hines, E. L. and Di Paolo, E. A. (2010) A Review on Ripple-Spreading Genetic Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization Problems, In ICCI 2010, The 9th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics, July 7-9, 2010, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

  • Barandiaran, X. and Di Paolo. E. A. (2010) Homeostatic plasticity in robots. 4th International Conference on Cognitive Systems. CogSys, 2010, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, Jan 27 - 28, 2010.

  • Froese, T. and Di Paolo, E. A. (2009) Toward minimally social behavior: Social psychology meets evolutionary robotics, in Kampis, G., Karsai, I and Szathmary, E. (eds) Advances in Artificial Life Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Artificial Life, ECAL09, Budapest, September 13-16, 2009, LNAI 5777, Springer Verlag, pp. 420 - 427.

  • Manicka, S. and Di Paolo, E. A. (2009) Local ultrastability in a real system based on programmable springs in Kampis, G., Karsai, I and Szathmary, E. (eds) Advances in Artificial Life Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Artificial Life, ECAL09, Budapest, September 13-16, 2009, LNAI 5777, Springer Verlag, pp. 87 - 94.

  • Egbert, M., Di Paolo, E. A. and Barandiaran, X. (2009) Chemo-ethology of a adaptive protocell: Sensor-less sensitivity to implicit viability conditions in Kampis, G., Karsai, I and Szathmary, E. (eds) Advances in Artificial Life Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Artificial Life, ECAL09, Budapest, September 13-16, 2009, LNAI 5777, Springer Verlag, pp. 242 - 249.

  • Hu, X-B, and Di Paolo, E., (2009). A ripple-spreading genetic algorithm for the airport gate assignment problem. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC, 2009, Trondheim, Norway, 18-21 May, 2009.

  • Grespan, L., Froese, T., Di Paolo, E. A., Seth, A. K., Spiers, A., and Bigge, W. (2008). Investigating the role of movement in the constitution of spatial perception using the Enactive Torch. Enactive08 5th International Conference on Enactive Interfaces, 19 - 21 November, Pisa, Italy.

  • Egbert, M. and Di Paolo, E. A.(2008). Mechanisms of adaptation to periodic environmental change. Epigenetics Robotics 2008, July 30 - 31, Brighton, UK.

  • Di Paolo, E. A.(2008). Life in time: The missing temporal dimension in autopoiesis (Abstract). In S. Bullock, J. Noble, R. A. Watson, and M. A. Bedau (Eds.) Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Artificial Life, Alife XI, Winchester, UK, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

  • Rohde, M. and Di Paolo, E. A.(2008). Evolutionary robotics models in the interdisciplinary study of embodied time perception (Abstract). In S. Bullock, J. Noble, R. A. Watson, and M. A. Bedau (Eds.) Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Artificial Life, Alife XI, Winchester, UK, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

  • Barandiaran, X. and Di Paolo, E. A.(2008). Artificial mental life (Abstract). In S. Bullock, J. Noble, R. A. Watson, and M. A. Bedau (Eds.) Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Artificial Life, Alife XI, Winchester, UK, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

  • Vargas, P., Di Paolo, E. A. and Husbands, P. (2008). A study of GasNets spatial embedding in a delayed response task. In S. Bullock, J. Noble, R. A. Watson, and M. A. Bedau (Eds.) Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Artificial Life, Alife XI, Winchester, UK, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

  • Buckley, C., Fine, P. Bullock, S. and Di Paolo, E. A. (2008). Monostable controllers for adaptive behaviour. In From Animats to Animals 10, The Tenth International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, Osaka, Japan, July 7-10, 2008.

  • Froese, T. and Di Paolo, E. A. (2008). Stability of coordination requires mutuality of interaction in a model of embodied agents. In From Animats to Animals 10, The Tenth International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, Osaka, Japan, July 7-10, 2008.

  • Fernandez-Leon, J. and Di Paolo, E. A. (2008). Neural noise induces the evolution of robust behaviour by avoiding non-functional bifurcations. In From Animats to Animals 10, The Tenth International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, Osaka, Japan, July 7-10, 2008.

  • Iizuka, H. and Di Paolo, E. A. (2008). Extended homeostatic adaptation: Improving the link between internal and behavioural stability. In From Animats to Animals 10, The Tenth International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, Osaka, Japan, July 7-10, 2008.

  • Rohde, M. and Di Paolo, E. A. (2008). Embodiment and perceptual crossing in 2D: A comparative evolutionary robotics study. In From Animats to Animals 10, The Tenth International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, Osaka, Japan, July 7-10, 2008.

  • Froese, T. and Di Paolo, E. A. (2008). An enactive approach to social cognition: Detection of social contingency or stability of interaction dynamics? In euCognition Fourth Six-Monthly Meeting, 10-11 January 2008, Venice. (Winner of best paper competition).

  • Hu, X-B., Di Paolo E. A. and Barnett, L. (2008). Ripple-spreading model and genetic algorithm for random complex networks: Preliminary study. In The World Congress on Computer Intelligence (WCCI2008), Hong Kong, China, 01-06 June 2008.

  • Hu, X., and Di Paolo, E. A., (2007). A genetic algorithm based on complex networks theory for the management of airline route networks. In Proceedings of NICSO2007, Workshop on Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization, Acireale, Sicily (Italy), November8-10 2007. Studies in Computational Intelligence series, Springer-Verlag.

  • Hu, X., and Di Paolo, E. A., (2007). A hybrid genetic algorithm for the travelling salesman problem. In IProceedings of NICSO2007, Workshop on Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization, Acireale, Sicily (Italy), November 8-10 2007. Studies in Computational Intelligence series, Springer-Verlag.

  • Di Paolo, E. A., (2007). Play, enaction and the dialectics of worldmaking in Toward a Science of Consciousness 2007, Budapest, Hungary, July 23-26, 2007.

  • Wood, R. and Di Paolo, E. A. (2007). New models for old questions: Evolutionary robotics and the 'A not B' error. In Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Artificial life ECAL 2007. Springer-Verlag.

  • Rohde, M. and Di Paolo, E. A. (2007). Adaptation to sensory delays. An evolutionary robotics model of an empirical study. Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Artificial life ECAL 2007. Springer-Verlag.

  • Iizuka, H. and Di Paolo, E. A. (2007). Minimal agency detection of embodied agents. Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Artificial life ECAL 2007. Springer-Verlag.

  • Fine, P., Di Paolo, E. A., Izquierdo, E. (2007). Adapting to your body. Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Artificial life ECAL 2007. Springer-Verlag.

  • Dyke, J., McDonald-Gibson, J., Di Paolo, E. A. and Harvey, I. (2007). Increasing complexity can increase stability in a self-regulating ecosystems. Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Artificial life ECAL 2007. Springer-Verlag.

  • Fernandez-Leon, J. and Di Paolo, E. A. (2007). Neural uncertainty and sensorimotor robustness Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Artificial life ECAL 2007. Springer-Verlag.

  • Vargas, P., Di Paolo, E. A. and Husbands, P. (2007). Preliminary investigations on the evolvability of a non-spatial GasNet model Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Artificial life ECAL 2007. Springer-Verlag.

  • Hu, X. and Di Paolo, E. A., (2007) An efficient genetic algorithm with uniform crossover for the multi-objective airport gate assignment problem, in 2007 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2007, Singapore, September 25-28, 2007.

  • Iizuka, H., and Di Paolo, E. A., (2006). Are you interacting with me? The embodied dynamics of minimal agency detection. Last minute abstract From Animats to Animals 9 The Ninth International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB'06) 25 - 29 September 2006, CNR, Roma, Italy .

  • Rohde, M and Di Paolo, E. A. (2006) An Evolutionary Robotics Simulation of Human Minimal Social Interaction. Workshop on Behaviour and Mind as a Complex Adaptive System, SAB'06, Roma, Italy, 30 September 2006.

  • Wood, R., and Di Paolo, E. A., (2006). Learn to live with yourself: A developmental perspective on morphology and motion. Workshop on Morphology, Motion and Cognition, Alife X, 3-4 June, 2006, Bloomington, Indiana, USA.

  • Buehrmann, T., and Di Paolo, E. A., (2006). Biological actuators are not just springs: Investigating muscle dynamics and control signals. From Animats to Animals 9 The Ninth International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB'06) 25 - 29 September 2006, CNR, Roma, Italy , S. Nolfi et al. (eds), Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, LNAI 4095, pp 89-100.

  • Fine, P. A., Di Paolo, E. A., and Philippides, A. O., (2006). Spatially constrained networks and the evolution of modular control systems. From Animats to Animals 9 The Ninth International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB'06) 25 - 29 September 2006, CNR, Roma, Italy , S. Nolfi et al. (eds), Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, LNAI 4095, pp 546-557.

  • Rohde, M., and Di Paolo, E. A., (2006). Evolutionary robotics and perceptual supplementation: Dialogue between two minimalist approaches. AI'50. 50th Anniversary Summit of Artificial Intelligence. Monte Verita, Switzerland, 9-14 July, 2006.

  • Hu, X., and Di Paolo, E. A., (2006). Genetic algorithms: artificial selection via natural selection. 6th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation, WCICA06, DaLian, China.

  • Macinnes, I., and Di Paolo, E. A., (2005). The advantages of evolving perceptual cues. Active agents and their environments as dynamical systems (Activate.d) workshop at ECAL 2005.

  • Rohde, M. and Di Paolo, E. A., (2005). t for two. Linear synergy advances the evolution of directional pointing behaviour. Advances in Artificial Life, Proceedings ECAL 2005, 8th European Conference, Canterbury UK, M. S. Capcarrere et al. (eds), Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, LNAI 3630, pp 262-271

  • Izquierdo-Torres, E., and Di Paolo, E. A., (2005). Is an embodied system ever purely reactive? Advances in Artificial Life, Proceedings ECAL 2005, 8th European Conference, Canterbury UK, M. S. Capcarrere et al. (eds), Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, LNAI 3630, pp 252-261

  • Vickerstaff, R. J., and Di Paolo, E. A., (2005). An evolved agent performing efficient path integration based homing and search. Advances in Artificial Life, Proceedings ECAL 2005, 8th European Conference, Canterbury UK, M. S. Capcarrere et al. (eds), Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, LNAI 3630, pp 221-230

  • Macinnes, I., and Di Paolo, E. A., (2005). From the inside looking out: self-extinguishing perceptual cues and the constructed worlds of animats. Advances in Artificial Life, Proceedings ECAL 2005, 8th European Conference, Canterbury UK, M. S. Capcarrere et al. (eds), Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, LNAI 3630, pp 11-20

  • Suzuki, M., Floreano, D. and Di Paolo, E. A., (2005). Constraints on body movement during visual development affect behavior of evolutionary robots. IJCNN'2005 Montreal.

  • Harvey, I., Vaughan, E., and Di Paolo, E. A., (2004). Time and Motion Studies: The Dynamics of Cognition, Computation and Humanoid Walking . In HART 2004, Fourth International Symposium on Human and Artificial Intelligence Systems: From Control to Autonomy. December 5-6, 2004, University of Fukui, Fukui, Japan.

  • Vaughan, E., Di Paolo, E. A. and Harvey, I., (2004). The tango of a load balancing biped. 7th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots, CLAWAR 2004 Madrid, September 22th-24th, 2004.

  • Buehrmann, T. and Di Paolo, E. A., (2004). Closing the loop: Evolving a model-free visually-guided robot arm. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, ALIFE'9 Boston, September 12th-15th, 2004. MIT Press

  • Fernando, C. and Di Paolo, E. A. (2004). The Chemoton: A model for the origin of long RNA templates. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, ALIFE'9 Boston, September 12th-15th, 2004. MIT Press

  • Macinnes, I. and Di Paolo, E. A., (2004). Crawling out of the simulation: Evolving real robot morphologies using cheap, reusable modules. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, ALIFE'9 Boston, September 12th-15th, 2004. MIT Press

  • Vaughan, E., Di Paolo, E. A. and Harvey, I., (2004). The evolution of control and adaptation in a 3D powered passive dynamic walker. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, ALIFE'9 Boston, September 12th-15th, 2004. MIT Press

  • Di Paolo, E. A., (2002). Evolving spike-timing dependent plasticity for robot control. EPSRC/BBSRC International Workshop: Biologically-inspired Robotics, The Legacy of W. Grey Walter, WGW'2002. HP Labs, Bristol, 14 - 16 August 2002.

  • Di Paolo, E. A., (2002). Fast homeostatic oscillators induce radical robustness in robot performance. Proc. of SAB'2002, MIT Press.

  • Di Paolo, E. A.,  (2001).  Artificial life and historical processes. In "Advances in Artificial life" Proc. ECAL'2001, Prague, J. Kelemen, P. Sosik (eds), Springer-Verlag, LNAI 2159, pp. 649-658.

  • Di Paolo, E. A., (2000). Homeostatic adaptation to inversion of the visual field and other sensorimotor disruptions. From Animals to Animals, Proc. of the Sixth International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, SAB'2000, Paris, J-A. Meyer, A. Berthoz, D. Floreano, H. Roitblat and S W. Wilson (eds), MIT Press, pp. 440-449

  • Di Paolo, E. A., (2000). Searching for rhythms in asynchronous Boolean Networks.  Artificial Life VII: The Seventh International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, Reed College, Portland, Oregon, USA, 1-6 August, 2000.

  • Di Paolo, E. A., Noble, J. & Bullock, S. (2000). Simulation models as opaque thought experiments.  Artificial Life VII: The Seventh International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, Reed College, Portland, Oregon, USA, 1-6 August, 2000.

  • Di Paolo, E. A., (1999).  A little more than kind and less than kin: the unwarranted use of kin selection in spatial models of communication. In "Advances in Artificial life" Proc. ECAL'99, Lausanne, Switzerland. D. Floreano, J-D. Nicoud, and F. Mondada,  (eds.).  LNAI 1674, Springer-Verlag, pp. 504 - 513.

  • Di Paolo, E. A., (1998). Behavioural Coordination in Acoustically Coupled Agents. In Proceedings of  ICANN'98 8th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Skoevde, Sweden, 2-4 September 1998, Nicklasson, L, Boden, M. and Ziemke, T. (eds.) Springer, London, p. 1097 - 1102.

  • Di Paolo, E. A., (1998). Assessing the role of social development in the evolution of cooperation  Proc. Fifth International Conference of the Society for Adaptive Behavior (SAB98), Zuerich, Switzerland, 17-21 August, 1998.

  • Di Paolo, E. A., (1997). Social coordination and spatial organization: Steps towards the evolution of communication Proceedings of the 4th European Conference on Artificial Life, ECAL97, Phil Husbands and Inman Harvey (eds.). MIT Press/Bradford Books 1997.

Book Chapters

  • Wheeler, M. and Di Paolo, E. A. (2011) Existentialism and cognitive science, in Reynolds, J., Woodward, A., and Joseph, F. (eds) The Continuum Companion to Existentialism, Continuum.

  • Di Paolo, E. A. (2010). Living Technology. In Living Technology: 5 Questions, Mark Bedau, Pelle Guldborg Hansen, Emily Parke, Steen Rasmussen (Eds), Automatic Press/VIP, pp. 67 - 76.

  • Di Paolo, E. A. (2009) Overcoming autopoiesis: a enactive detour on the way from life to society. In Magalhaes, R., and Sanchez, R. (Eds) Autopoiesis in Organizations and Information Systems, Elsevier, pp. 43 - 68.

  • De Jaegher, H. and Di Paolo, E. A. (2008) Making sense in participation: An enactive approach to social cognition. In F. Morganti, A. Carassa, and G. Riva (eds) Enacting Intersubjectivity: A cognitive and social perspective to the study of interactions, IOS Press: Amsterdam, pp 33 - 47.

  • Di Paolo, E. A., Rohde, M. and De Jaegher, H., (2010) Horizons for the Enactive Mind: Values, Social Interaction, and Play. In J. Stewart, O. Gapenne and E. A. Di Paolo (eds), Enaction: Towards a New Paradigm for Cognitive Science, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 33 - 87.

  • Bird, J., and Di Paolo, E. A., (2008) Gordon Pask and his maverick machines. In P. Husbands, M. Wheeler, O. Holland (eds), The Mechanization of Mind in History, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 185 - 211.

  • Hu, X., and Di Paolo, E. A. (2008). An efficient genetic algorithm with uniform crossover for the multi-objective airport gate assignment problem, in K. C. Tan, C. K. Goh and Y. S. Ong (eds) Multi-Objective Memetic Algorithms, Springer-Verlag, pp. 71 - 90.

  • Hu, X., and Di Paolo, E. A. (2008). Genetic algorithms for the airport gate assignment problem: Linkage, representation and uniform crossover in Y.P. Chen and M.H. Lim (eds) Linkage in Evolutionary Computation, Springer-Verlag, pp 361 - 388.

  • Di Paolo, E. A., (2003). Organismically-inspired robotics: Homeostatic adaptation and natural teleology beyond the closed sensorimotor loop, in: K. Murase & T. Asakura (Eds) Dynamical Systems Approach to Embodiment and Sociality, Advanced Knowledge International, Adelaide, Australia, pp 19 - 42.

  • Noble, J., Di Paolo, E. A., & Bullock, S., (2001). Adaptive factors in the evolution of signalling systems, in: A. Cangelosi & D. Parisi (Eds) Simulating the Evolution of Language, Springer Verlag, London, pp. 53 - 78.

Reviews, Commentaries, Editorials

DPhil Thesis

Technical Reports

  • Rohde, M. and Di Paolo, E. A., (2006). 'Value signals' and adaptation: An exploration in evolutionary robotics. Cognitive Science Research Paper 584, School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences, University of Sussex

  • Di Paolo, E. A., (2002). Evolving robust robots using homeostatic oscillators. Cognitive Science Research Paper 548, School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences, University of Sussex

  • Di Paolo, E. A., (2001). Artificial Life and historical processes. Cognitive Science Research Paper 536, School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences, University of Sussex

  • Di Paolo, E. A., (2001). Rhythmic and non-rhythmic attractors in asynchronous random Boolean networks. Cognitive Science Research Paper 412, School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences, University of Sussex

  • Di Paolo, E. A., (1996). An investigation into the evolution of communicative behaviors. Cognitive Science Research Paper 445, School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences, University of Sussex.

  • Di Paolo, E. A., (1996). Some false starts in the construction of a research methodology for Artificial Life. Noble, J., Parsowith, S. (eds.) The 9th White House Papers: Graduate Research in the Cognitive and Computing Sciences at Sussex. University of Sussex, School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences.

  • Di Paolo, E. A., (1996). A computational model of speciation in non-uniform environments without physical barriers. Cognitive Science Research Paper 412, School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences, University of Sussex.
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