Publications by Inman Harvey
Updated Feb 2024
Journals to 2024, Conferences to 2023, Chapters to 2024


Journal Articles

Journal or other Review Articles

Conference Papers

Edited Proceedings

Book Chapters

Other External Publications

Submitted/Under Review

Technical Reports

Unpublished

Doctoral Thesis


Journal Articles


Harvey, I., (2024). Motivations for Artificial Intelligence, for Deep Learning, for ALife: Mortality and Existential Risk

Artificial Life 30(1): 2024.

https://doi.org/10.1162/artl_a_00427 


Harvey, I., (2023). Review of: Re: Teleology and the Meaning of Life

Qeios: 04 Nov 2023.

https://doi.org/10.32388/NOWQ71 


Egbert, M., Hanczyc, M.M., Harvey, I., Virgo, N., Parke, E.C., Froese, T., Sayama, H., Penn, A.S., Bartlett, S. (2023). Behaviour and the Origin of Organisms.

Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres 53, 87–112 (2023).

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11084-023-09635-0 


Harvey, I. (2019). Neurath’s boat and the Sally-Anne test: Life, cognition, matter and stuff.

Adaptive Behavior.

https://doi.org/10.1177/1059712319856882 


Harvey, I. (2019). Circular causation, circular cognition: a tour around some common confusions.

Artificial Life, 25(4): 334-351.


Harvey, I. (2019). Habeas Corpus: the ins and outs of autopoiesis.

Open Peer Commentary on: “Are living beings extended autopoietic systems?” By Villalobos, M. and Razeto-Barry, P.

Adaptive Behavior, March 2019.

https://doi.org/10.1177/1059712319836401


Harvey, I. (2018). Robustness and contingent history: from Prisoner’s Dilemma to Gaia theory.

Artificial Life 24(1):29-48.


Harvey, I. (2018). Misunderstood circular causation: “Who implements autonomy?”and “What stabilises the daisies?”

Open Peer Commentary on: “What is a cognizing subject? Construction, autonomy and original causation.” By Palfreyman N. and Miller-Young, J.

Constructivist Foundations 13(3): 374-376

https://cepa.info/5304


Harvey, I. (2014). Takashi Gomi: a bridge builder in robotics. Adaptive Behavior (December 2014) 22: 370-375, first published on September 11, 2014 doi:10.1177/1059712314541299


Tomko, N., Harvey, I., Virgo, N. and Philippides, A, (2014). Many hands make light work: further studies in group evolution. Artificial Life (Winter 2014) 20(1): 163-181, doi:10.1162/ARTL_a_00102


Harvey, I. (2013). Standing on the broad shoulders of Ashby.

Open Peer Commentary on: “Homeostasis for the 21st century? Simulating Ashby simulating the Brain” by Franchi, S.

Constructivist Foundations 9(19):102-104.


Harvey, I. (2009)

Tool-makers versus tool-users: Division of Labour

Adaptive Behavior 17(4), pp. 313-316..


Izquierdo, E., Harvey, I. and Beer, R. (2008):

Associative learning on a continuum in evolved dynamical networks

Adaptive Behavior 16, pp 361-384.


McDonald-Gibson, J., Dyke, J. G., Di Paolo, E. A. and Harvey, I. R. (2008). Environmental Regulation can arise under Minimal Assumptions.   J. Theoretical Biology  251(4). pp 653-666. 

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2007.12.016

Java Simulation code related to paper is in  http://www.informatics.sussex.ac.uk/users/inmanh/EnvReg/


Bigge, W. T. and Harvey, I. (2007).  Programmable Springs: Developing Actuators with Programmable Compliance for Autonomous Robots. J. Robotics and Autonomous Systems 5 (9). pp. 728-734.

ISSN: 0921-8890


McGregor, S., and Harvey, I. (2005): Embracing Plagiarism: Theoretical , Biological and Empirical Justification for Copy Operators in Genetic Optimisation [pdf] Genetic Programming and Evolvable Hardware, 6 (4). pp. 407-420.

ISSN: 1389-2576 (Paper) 1573-7632 (Online). Journal Link


Harvey, I., Di Paolo, E., Wood, R., Quinn, M, and E. A., Tuci, (2005).   Evolutionary Robotics: A new scientific tool for studying cognition [pdf]  [Word]. Artificial Life, 11(1-2), pp. 79-98.


Di Paolo, E. A. and Harvey, I., (2003). Decisions and noise: the scope of evolutionary synthesis and dynamical analysis. Adaptive Behavior 11(4): 284-288.


E. Tuci, M. Quinn and I. Harvey (2003): An evolutionary ecological approach to the study of learning behaviour using a robot based model

Adaptive Behavior 10(3/4):201-222, 2003.


W. Bains, R. Gilbert, L. Sviridenko, J-M. Gascon, R. Scoffin, K. Birchall, I. Harvey and J. Caldwell (2002): Evolutionary computational methods to predict oral bioavailability QSPRs

Current Opinion in Drug Discovery & Development 5(1):44-51, 2002.


R. Shipman, M. Shackleton and I. Harvey (2000): The use of neutral genotype-phenotype mappings for improved evolutionary search

BT Technology Journal, v. 18 no. 4, pp. 103-111, October 2000. ISSN 1358-3948.


P. Husbands and I. Harvey (1997): Evolving minimal sensorimotor systems: Rectangles, triangles, robots and transients.

Artificial Life and Robotics, 1(2):23-42, 1997.


P. Husbands, I. Harvey, D. Cliff and G. Miller (1997): Artificial Evolution: A New Path for Artificial Intelligence?

Brain and Cognition v. 34, pp. 130-159, 1997.


I. Harvey (1997): Artificial Evolution and Real Robots

Artificial Life and Robotics vol. 1, pp. 35--38 (1997).


I. Harvey, P. Husbands, D. Cliff, A. Thompson, N. Jakobi (1997): Evolutionary Robotics: the Sussex Approach

In Robotics and Autonomous Systems, v. 20 (1997) pp. 205--224.


I. Harvey (1997): Is There Another New Factor in Evolution?

Evolutionary Computation, Special Issue on Evolution, Learning, and Instinct: 100 Years of the Baldwin Effect v. 4, n. 3, pp. 311--327, 1997.


Inman Harvey and Jim Stone: Unicycling helps your French: Spontaneous recovery of associations by learning unrelated tasks 

Neural Computation v.8, n.4, (1996) pp. 697-704.


I. Harvey: Relearning and Evolution in Neural Networks

Adaptive Behavior v.4, no.1, (1996) pp. 79-82.


P. Husbands, I. Harvey and D. Cliff: Circle in the Round: State Space Attractors for Evolved Sighted Robots

Robotics and Autonomous Systems 15 (1995) pp. 83--106.


D. Cliff, I. Harvey, P. Husbands: Explorations in Evolutionary Robotics

In Adaptive Behavior, vol. 2 no. 1, pp. 71--104, 1993


Journal or other Review Articles


I. Harvey (1999): Creatures from another world  [Word]

Nature, v.400, 12 August 1999, pp. 618-619.


Inman Harvey (1996): Stars in their Eyes

Book review of Cognition in the Wild, Edwin Hutchins, MIT Press 1995. Review appears in Times Higher Education Supplement, p. 30, May 17th 1996.


Conference Papers, Workshops etc


Harvey, I. (2023). Dispelling Ghosts: Observations on Life and Mind.

In Proceedings of the ALIFE 2023: Ghost in the Machine: Proceedings of the 2023 Artificial Life Conference. Online. (pp. 84).

https://doi.org/10.1162/isal_a_00575


Harvey, I. (2022). Navigating blind without a map: models of active wayfinding.

In Proceedings of the ALIFE 2022: The 2022 Conference on Artificial Life . Online. (pp. 69)


Harvey, I. (2020). What Matters? Agent Concerns, Agent-designer Concerns.

In Proceedings of the ALIFE 2020: The 2020 Conference on Artificial Life. Online. (pp. pp. 300-302)

https://doi.org/10.1162/isal_a_00241


Harvey, I. (2019). Daisyworld misunderstood: Gaian Homeostasis is inevitable. 

Abstract for Lovelock centenary: the future of global systems thinking. University of Exeter, 29-31 July 2019.

Poster for the Abstract.


Harvey, I. (2018). Artificial Life beyond AI: Neats, Scruffies and Holograms. Abstract for Alife conference keynote.

https://doi.org/10.1162/isal_a_00009


Harvey, I. (2018). An artificial life perspective on traditional Pacific wave navigation.

In Proceedings of Artificial Life Conf. 2018, Tokyo. 30:359-360. MIT Press.

https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/isal_a_00067


Harvey, I. (2018). Parallel paths across the Pacific: a speculative explanation for the dilep in Marshallese navigation.

arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.09151


Harvey, I. (2017). Going round in Circles.

In Knibbe, C. et al (Eds.), Proceedings of ECAL 2017, pages 198-199. MIT Press.


Harvey, I. (2016). Social Systems and Ecosystems: History Matters

In Gershenson, Froese, Siqueiros, Aguilar, Izquierdo and Sayama (Eds.) Proc. Artificial Life Con. 2016, pages 418-425. MIT Press.


Harvey, I. (2015). The Circular Logic of Gaia: Fragility and Fallacies, Regulation and Proofs

In Andrews, P., Caves, L., Doursat, R., Hickinbotham, S., Polack, F., Stepney, S., Taylor, T. and Timmis, J. (Eds.), Advances in Artificial Life, ECAL 2015. MIT Press, 2015. Pages 90-97. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/978-0-262-33027-5-ch023


Harvey, I. (2013). How Fast Can We Evolve Something?

In Lio, P., Miglino, O., Nicosia, G., Nolfi, S. and Pavone, M. (Eds.), Advances in Artificial Life, ECAL 2013. MIT Press, 2013. Pages 1170-1171. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/978-0-262-31719-2-ch179


Harvey, I. (2011). Opening Stable Doors: Complexity and Stability in Nonlinear Systems.

In Lenaerts, T., Giacobini, M., Bersini, H., Bourgine, P., Dorigo, M. and Doursat, R. (Eds.)

Advances in Artificial Life, ECAL 2011, Proceedings of 11th Eur. Conf. on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems,

pp. 318-325. MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-29714-1.

Associated Matlab code.


Tomko, N., Harvey, I., Philippides, A., and Virgo, N. (2011). Many Hands Make Light Work: Group Evolution and the Emergent Division of Labour.

In Lenaerts, T., Giacobini, M., Bersini, H., Bourgine, P., Dorigo, M. and Doursat, R. (Eds.)

Advances in Artificial Life, ECAL 2011, Proceedings of 11th Eur. Conf. on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems,

pp. 805-812. MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-29714-1.


Harvey, I. (2011). The Microbial Genetic Algorithm. 

In G. Kampis, I. Karsai, E. Szathmáry (Eds.): Advances in Artificial Life: ECAL 2009, Part II, LNCS 5778, pp. 126-133. Springer, Heidelberg. ISBN-13: 978-3642212826.


Harvey, I. and Tomko, N. (2010). Binomics: Where Metagenomics meets the Binary World

In H Fellermann, M Dörr, M. Hanczyc, L Laursen, S Maurer, D Merkle, P-A Monnard, K Stoy and S Rasmussen (Eds.): Artificial Life XII, Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, pp. 370-377. MIT Press.


Tomko, N. and Harvey, I. (2010).[Abstract/poster presented at conference: full paper downloadable] Do not disturb: recommendations for incremental evolution.

In H Fellermann, M Dörr, M. Hanczyc, L Laursen, S Maurer, D Merkle, P-A Monnard, K Stoy and S Rasmussen (Eds.): Artificial Life XII, Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems. MIT Press.


Bigge, B. and Harvey, I. (2010). Evolvable Mechanics:  Hardware tools for evolutionary robotics

Proceedings of 2010 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), pp. 1-7. IEEE Press. ISBN 978-1-4244-6909-3.


Harvey, I. (2009). In Praise of Evolution and Opacity.

In M. Boden, M, D'Inverno, J. McCormack (Eds.) Computational Creativity: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings 09291. ISSN 1862-4405


Harvey, I. (2008). Misrepresentations.

In S. Bullock, J. Noble, R. A. Watson, and M. A. Bedau (Eds.) Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Artificial Life, pp.227-233, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. ISBN: 978-0-262-75017-2


Manicka, S. and Harvey, I. (2008). 'Psychoanalysis' of a  Minimal Agent.

In S. Bullock, J. Noble, R. A. Watson, and M. A. Bedau (Eds.) Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Artificial Life, pp.382-389, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. ISBN: 978-0-262-75017-2


Virgo, N. and Harvey, I. (2008). Adaptive growth processes: a model inspired by Pask's ear.

In S. Bullock, J. Noble, R. A. Watson, and M. A. Bedau (Eds.) Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Artificial Life, pp.656-661, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. ISBN: 978-0-262-75017-2


Almeida e Costa, F.,  Macinnes, I. and Harvey I. (2008). [Abstract only] Morphodynamics and perceptual worlds: conceptual approach and an experiment in evolutionary robotics.

In S. Bullock, J. Noble, R. A. Watson, and M. A. Bedau (Eds.) Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Artificial Life, p. 744, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. ISBN: 978-0-262-75017-2


Harvey, I. (2008). [Abstract only] Homeostasis via chaos: implementing the uniselector as a dynamical system.

In S. Bullock, J. Noble, R. A. Watson, and M. A. Bedau (Eds.) Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Artificial Life, p. 774, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. ISBN: 978-0-262-75017-2


Studer, G., and Harvey, I. (2008). [Abstract only] A minimal approach to modular assembly.

In S. Bullock, J. Noble, R. A. Watson, and M. A. Bedau (Eds.) Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Artificial Life, p. 805, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. ISBN: 978-0-262-75017-2


Virgo, N. and Harvey, I. (2008). [Abstract only] Reaction-diffusion spots as a model for autopiesis.

In S. Bullock, J. Noble, R. A. Watson, and M. A. Bedau (Eds.) Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Artificial Life, p. 816, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. ISBN: 978-0-262-75017-2


Furey. A. and Harvey, I. (2008). Adaptive behavioural modulation and hysteresis in an analogue of a kite control task.

In Asada, M., Hallam, J.C.T., Meyer, J.-A. and Tani, J. (Eds.) From Animals to Animats 10, Proc. of 10th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, Springer. ISBN: 978-3-540-69133-4.


Furey, A, and Harvey, I. (2008). Robust adaptive control for kite wind energy using evolutionary robotics.

In Proceedings of  Biological Approaches for Engineering Conference, held 17-19 March 2008 at

University of Southampton, Southampton, UK


Furey, A. and Harvey, I. (2007). Evolution of  Neural Networks for Active Control  of Tethered Airfoils.

In Fernando Almeida e Costa, Luis Mateus Rocha, Ernesto Costa, Inman Harvey, António Coutinho (Eds.) (2007): Advances in Artificial Life, 9th European Conference, ECAL 2007, Lisbon, Portugal, September 10-14, 2007, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4648, Springer. pp. 746-755. ISBN 978-3-540-74912-7


Izquierdo, I. and Harvey, I. (2007). The Dynamics of Associative Learning in an Evolved Situated Agent.

In Fernando Almeida e Costa, Luis Mateus Rocha, Ernesto Costa, Inman Harvey, António Coutinho (Eds.) (2007): Advances in Artificial Life, 9th European Conference, ECAL 2007, Lisbon, Portugal, September 10-14, 2007, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4648, Springer. pp 365-374. ISBN 978-3-540-74912-7


Dyke, J., McDonald-Gibson, J., Di Paolo, E. and Harvey, I. (2007). Increasing complexity can increase stability in a self-regulating ecosystem.

In Fernando Almeida e Costa, Luis Mateus Rocha, Ernesto Costa, Inman Harvey, António Coutinho (Eds.) (2007): Advances in Artificial Life, 9th European Conference, ECAL 2007, Lisbon, Portugal, September 10-14, 2007, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4648, Springer. pp 133-142. ISBN 978-3-540-74912-7


Virgo, N. and Harvey, I. (2007). Entropy Production in Ecosystems.

In Fernando Almeida e Costa, Luis Mateus Rocha, Ernesto Costa, Inman Harvey, António Coutinho (Eds.) (2007): Advances in Artificial Life, 9th European Conference, ECAL 2007, Lisbon, Portugal, September 10-14, 2007, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4648, Springer. pp 123-132. ISBN 978-3-540-74912-7.


Studer, G. and Harvey, I. (2007). A Distributed Formation Algorithm to Organize Agents with No Coordinate Agreement. 

In Fernando Almeida e Costa, Luis Mateus Rocha, Ernesto Costa, Inman Harvey, António Coutinho (Eds.) (2007): Advances in Artificial Life, 9th European Conference, ECAL 2007, Lisbon, Portugal, September 10-14, 2007, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4648, Springer. pp 515-524. ISBN 978-3-540-74912-7. 


Owen, A. and Harvey, I. (2007): Adapting Particle Swarm Optimisation for Fitness Landscapes with Neutrality

In Proceedings 2007 IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium. Pp. 258-265. ISBN: 1-4244-0698-6. IEEE Press

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Izquierdo-Torres, E. and Harvey, I. (2007): Hebbian Learning using Fixed Weight Evolved Dynamical 'Neural' Networks.

In H. A. Abbass et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the First IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life. (IEEE-ALife'07). Pp. 394-401. ISBN: 1-4244-0698-6. IEEE Press.


Bigge, B. and Harvey, I.R. (2006): Programmable Springs: Developing Compliant Actuators for Autonomous Robots [pdf] 

In  Procedings "Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems", TAROS 2006.

Proceedings Editors: M. Witkowski, U. Nehmzow, C. Melhuish, E. Moxey, A. Ellery.

 ISBN 0-905247-03-5. Best Paper Award.


Izquierdo-Torres, E. and Harvey, I. (2006): Learning on a Continuum in Evolved Dynamical Node Networks [pdf] 

Artificial Life X, Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems

 Proceedings Editors: L.M. Rocha, L.S. Yager, M.A. Bedau, D. Floreano, R.L. Goldstone, A. Vespignani

 MIT Press.  ISBN-10: 0-262-68162-5. Pp. 507-512.


Dyke, J.G. and Harvey, I. (2006): Pushing Up the Daisies [pdf] [Word] 

Artificial Life X, Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems

 Proceedings Editors: L.M. Rocha, L.S. Yager, M.A. Bedau, D. Floreano, R.L. Goldstone, A. Vespignani

 MIT Press.  ISBN-10: 0-262-68162-5. Pp. 426-431.


Dyke, J.G. and Harvey, I. (2005): Hysteresis and the Limits of Homeostasis: From Daisyworld to Phototaxis [pdf] [Word] 

Advances in Artificial Life: 8th European Conference, ECAL 2005, Canterbury, UK, September 5-9, 2005. 

Proceedings Editors:  Mathieu S. Capcarrere, Alex A. Freitas, Peter J. Bentley, Colin G. Johnson, Jon Timmis. 

Springer-Verlag: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol 3630/2005. pp 241-246. ISSN: 0302-9743 


Izquierdo-Torres, E., Harvey, I. (2005). Learning to Discriminate Between Multiple Possible Environments: an Imprinting Scenario. Workshop on Memory and Learning Mechanisms in Autonomous Robotics as part of the 8th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 2005).


Harvey, I., Vaughan, E., and Di Paolo, E. (2004). Time and Motion Studies: The Dynamics of Cognition, Computation and Humanoid Walking [pdf] [Word]. Paper  presented at HART 2004, Fourth Intl. Symp. on Human and Artificial Intelligence Systems: From Control to Autonomy. December 5-6, 2004, University of Fukui, Fukui, Japan.


Harvey, I., (2004). Homeostasis and Rein Control: From Daisyworld to Active Perception 

Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, ALIFE'9, Pollack, J., Bedau, M,. Husbands, P., Ikegami, T., and Watson, R.A. (eds), pp. 309-314.  MIT Press, Cambridge MA.


Penn, A. and Harvey, I., (2004).  The Role of Non-Genetic Change in the Heritability, Variation, and Response to Selection of Artificially Selected Ecosystems. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, ALIFE'9. Pollack, J., Bedau, M,. Husbands, P., Ikegami, T., and Watson, R.A. (eds), pp. 352-357.  MIT Press, Cambridge MA. ISBN: 0262661837.


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, Pollack, J., Bedau, M,. Husbands, P., Ikegami, T., and Watson, R.A. (eds), pp. 139-145.  MIT Press, Cambridge MA. ISBN: 0262661837.


Vaughan, E., Di Paolo, E. A. and Harvey, I., (2004). The tango of a load balancing biped. Proceedings of  CLAWAR 2004, 7th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots. Conference 22-24 Sept. 2004, Madrid. Springer-Verlag, ISBN: 3540229922.


E. Tuci, I. Harvey and P.M. Todd (2002): Using a net to catch a mate: Evolving CTRNNs for the Dowry Problem. 

Proceedings of The Seventh International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB'02), 4-9 August 2002, Edinburgh, UK. MIT Press, ISBN: 0262582171.


E. Tuci, I. Harvey and M. Quinn (2002): Evolving integrated controllers for autonomous learning robots using dynamic neural networks.

Proceedings of The Seventh International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB'02), 4-9 August 2002, Edinburgh, UK. MIT Press, ISBN: 0262582171.


E. Tuci, M. Quinn and I. Harvey (2002): Evolving fixed-weight networks for learning robots.

Proceedings Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) 2002, Honolulu, Hawaii, May 12-17, 2002. IEEE Press, ISBN: 0780372824.


I. Harvey (2001): Artificial Evolution: A Continuing SAGA

In Evolutionary Robotics: From Intelligent Robots to Artificial Life, Takashi Gomi (ed.), Proc. of 8th Intl. Symposium on Evolutionary Robotics (ER2001). Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science LNCS 2217 2001. ISSN: 0302-9743


I. Harvey (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. ISBN 0-9698872-3-X.


G. Ochoa, I. Harvey, H. Buxton. (2000): Consensus Sequence Plots and Error Thresholds: Tools for Visualising the Structure of Fitness Landscapes Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN VI) 6th International Conference, Paris, France, LNCS 1917, Springer-Verlag, Berlin.


G. Ochoa, I. Harvey, H. Buxton. (2000): Optimal Mutation Rates and Selection Pressure in Genetic Algorithms. Proceedings of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference  (GECCO-2000), Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco, CA., CA.


W.E. Moore and I. Harvey (1999): Evolution of a Non-Linear Robot Controller

In Robotics and Applications, M.A. Hanza (ed.), Acta Press, Calgary, 1999.

Proc. of IASTED Int. Conf. on Robotics and Applications (RA'99), Santa Barbara October 1999. ISBN: 0-88986-265-6 (304).


G. Ochoa, I. Harvey and H. Buxton (1999): Error Thresholds and their Relation to Optimal Mutation Rates

In Proceedings of the Fifth European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL99), D. Floreano, J-D. Nicoud, F. Mondada (eds), Springer-Verlag, 1999. ISBN: 3540664521


G. Ochoa, I. Harvey and H. Buxton(1999): On Recombination and Optimal Mutation Rates

In Gecco '99 : Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference W. Banzhaf, J. Daida and A.E. Eiben (eds.). Morgan Kaufmann 1999. ISBN: 1558606114


G. Ochoa and I. Harvey (1999): Recombination and Error Thresholds in Finite Populations

In Foundations of Genetic Algorithms, W. Banzhaf (ed.). Proc. of FOGA 5 (Foundations of Genetic Algorithms Workshop, Leiden Sept 1998). Morgan Kaufmann 1999. ISBN: 1558605592


J-A. Meyer, P. Husbands and I. Harvey (1998): Evolutionary Robotics: a Survey of Applications and Problems

In Evolutionary Robotics : First European Workshop, Evorobot'98, P. Husbands and J.-A. Meyer (eds.). Springer Verlag 1998. ISBN: 3540649573


I. Harvey (1997): Open the Box

Workshop on Evolutionary Computation with Variable Size Representation, at ICGA97, Intl. Conf. on Genetic Algorithms, July 19--23 1997 at Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan.


I. Harvey (1997): Cognition is not Computation: Evolution is not Optimisation

In Artificial Neural Networks - ICANN97, Gerstner, W., Germond, A., Hasler, M, and Nicoud, J-D (eds). Springer-Verlag LNCS 1327 (1997) pp. 685-690. ISBN: 3540636315 

Proc. of 7th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, 7-10 October 1997, Lausanne, Switzerland.


I. Harvey (1997): Artificial Evolution for Real Problems

5th Intl. Symposium on Evolutionary Robotics, Tokyo April 1997. Invited paper. In: Evolutionary Robotics: From Intelligent Robots to Artificial Life (ER'97), T. Gomi (ed.). AAI Books,Kanata, Ontario Canada 1997, pp. 127-149. ISBN: 0-9698872-1-3


I. Harvey and T. Bossomaier (1997): Time Out of Joint: Attractors in Asynchronous Random Boolean Networks

In Proceedings of the Fourth European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL97), P. Husbands and I. Harvey (eds.). MIT Press 1997, pp. 67-75.


I. Harvey (1997): Artificial Evolution and Real Robots

[As appears in Artificial Life and Robotics vol. 1, pp. 35--38 (1997).]

Also appears in Proceedings of International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics (AROB) Beppu, Japan Feb 18-20 1996. Masanori Sugisaka (ed.). ISBN4-9900462-6-9 (1996), pp. 138--141.


J. Hobbs, P. Husbands and I. Harvey (1996): Achieving Improved Mission Robustness

In Proc. of 4th ESA Workshop on Advanced Space Technologies for Robotic Applications, ASTRA 96, European Space Agency 1996.


I. Harvey and A. Thompson (1996): Through the Labyrinth Evolution Finds a Way: A Silicon Ridge In Evolvable Systems : From Biology to Hardwar, T. Higuchi, M. Iwata, and L. Weixin (eds.). Proc. of The First International Conference on Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware (ICES96). Springer-Verlag 1996. ISBN: 3540631739 

Electronic online Springer version via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-63173-9_62 available if you have the appropriate registration with them.

There is an MPEG movie of the saga through genotype space pictured in this paper -- but beware, it is 1255899 bytes compressed. Top left shows current position in saga, centre shows expanded version of current population and recent tail.


P. Husbands, I. Harvey, D. Cliff, A. Thompson and N. Jakobi (1996): Artificial Evolution of Control Systems

In Proc. of the 2nd Intl. Conf. on Adaptive Computing in Engineering Design and Control '96 I.C. Parmee (ed), University of Plymouth (1996) pp. 41--49. ISBN 0 905227 61 1.


P. Husbands, D. Cliff and I. Harvey (1996): The Artificial Evolution of Control Systems

In Genetic Algorithms in Design Optimisation Proceedings of a Colloquium at The Institution of Mechanical Engineers, London, 31 January 1996.


P.P.B. de Oliveira, F.M. Ramos, R.C. Gatto, H.F.C. Velho, S. Stephany, P.L.K.G. Navarro, P. Husbands and I. Harvey (1996): A Research Agenda for Iterative Approaches to Inverse Problems using Evolutionary Computation

Proceedings of 3rd IEEE Intl. Conf. on Evol. Computation, Nagoya, Japan, May 1996. IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, pp.55-60, 1996.


I. Harvey, P. Husbands, D. Cliff, A. Thompson, N. Jakobi (1996): Evolutionary Robotics at Sussex

In Robotics and Manufacturing: Recent Trends in Research and Applications vol. 6, M. Jamshidi, F. Pin and P. Dauchez (eds.), ASME Press, New York (1996) pages 293--298. Proceedings of ISRAM96, International Symposium on Robotics and Manufacturing, Montpellier, France May 27-30 1996.


A. Thompson, I. Harvey and P. Husbands: Unconstrained Evolution and Hard Consequences

In Towards Evolvable Hardware, E. Sanchez and M. Tomassini (eds.) Proceedings of First Intl. Conf. on Evolvable Hardware, Lausanne. Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science v. 1062 (1996).


A. Thompson, I. Harvey and P. Husbands: The Natural Way to Evolve Hardware

(A short 4 page version of the previous paper). Poster paper at the 1996 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS96).


P. Husbands, I. Harvey and D. Cliff: Circle in the Round: State Space Attractors for Evolved Sighted Robots

Robotics and Autonomous Systems 15 (1995) pp. 83--106.

P. Husbands, I. Harvey and D. Cliff: Circle in the Round: State Space Attractors for Evolved Sighted Robots
[As also appears in Robotics and Autonomous Systems 15 (1995) pp. 83--106.]
In The Biology and Technology of Intelligent Autonomous Agents, Luc Steels (ed.), NATO ASI Series, Series F: Computer and Systems Sciences, Vol. 144, Springer (1995) pp. 222--257. 

N. Jakobi, P. Husbands and I. Harvey: Noise and the Reality Gap: The use of Simulation in Evolutionary Robotics

In Advances in Artificial Life: Proc. 3rd European Conference on Artificial Life, Moran, F., Moreno, A., Merelo, J., Chacon, P. (eds.) Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 929 (1995) pp. 704--720.  ISSN: 0302-9743. ISBN: 3-540-59496-5.

Online here from Springer if you have access. 


Inman Harvey, Phil Husbands and Dave Cliff: Seeing the light: artificial evolution, real vision

Appears in D. Cliff, P. Husbands, J.-A. Meyer and S. Wilson (eds), From Animals to Animats 3, Proc. of 3rd Intl. Conf. on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, SAB94, pp. 392--401. MIT Press/Bradford Books, Boston MA, 1994.


P. Husbands, I. Harvey, D. Cliff and G. Miller: The Use of Genetic Algorithms for the Development of Sensorimotor Control Systems in P. Gaussier and J.-D. Nicoud (eds.) From Perception to Action, pp. 110--121. IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos CA, 1994.


Inman Harvey: Evolutionary robotics and SAGA: the case for hill crawling and tournament selection 

Appears in C. Langton (ed.), Artificial Life III, Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity, Proc. Vol. XVI, pp. 299--326. Addison Wesley 1994.


Inman Harvey: The puzzle of the persistent question marks: a case study of genetic drift

Appears in S. Forrest (ed.), Genetic Algorithms: Proc. of the Fifth Intl. Conference, pp. 15-22, San Mateo CA, Morgan Kaufmann, 1993.


I. Harvey, P. Husbands and D. Cliff: Genetic convergence in a species of evolved robot control architectures

Version appears in: S. Forrest (ed.), Genetic Algorithms: Proc. of the Fifth Intl. Conference, pp. 636, San Mateo CA, Morgan Kaufmann, 1993.


Husbands, I. Harvey and D. Cliff: Analysing recurrent dynamical networks evolved for robot control

Appears in: Proceedings of the Third IEE International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ANN93), pp.158--162. IEE Press, 1993.


Dave Cliff, Inman Harvey and Phil Husbands: General visual robot controller networks via artificial evolution

Appears in: D. Casasent (ed.): Proceedings of the Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers Conference 1993 (SPIE93), Session on Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XII: Algorithms and Techniques. SPIE Conference Volume 2055, pp.271-282, 1993.


D.T. Cliff, P. Husbands and I. Harvey: Analysis of evolved sensory-motor controllers

Appears in: Proceedings of the Second European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL93), pp.192--204 (preprint) 1993.


D. Cliff, I. Harvey and P. Husbands: Incremental evolution of neural network architectures for adaptive behaviour

Appears in: M. Verleysen (ed.): Proceedings of the First European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (ESANN93), pp.39--44. Brussels, Belgium: D-facto/Editions Quorum, 1993.


D. Cliff, I. Harvey and P. Husbands: Visual Sensory-Motor Networks Without Design: Evolving Visually Guided Robots

In B. Svensson (ed.): Proceedings of the International Workshop on Mechatronical Computer Systems for Perception and Action (MCPA93), pp.269--278. Halmstad, Sweden: CCA/Hogskolan press, 1993.


D. Cliff, P. Husbands and I. Harvey: Evolving visually guided robots

Appears in: J.-A. Meyer, H. Roitblat and S. Wilson (eds.), From Animals to Animats 2: Proc. of the Second Intl. Conf. on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, (SAB92), pp. 374--383. MIT Press/Bradford Books, Cambridge MA, 1993.


I. Harvey, P. Husbands and D. Cliff: Issues in evolutionary robotics

Appears in: J.-A. Meyer, H. Roitblat and S. Wilson (eds.), From Animals to Animats 2: Proc. of the Second Intl. Conf. on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, (SAB92), pp. 364--373. MIT Press/Bradford Books, Cambridge MA, 1993.


D. Cliff, P. Husbands and I. Harvey: Evolving Recurrent Dynamical Networks for Robot Control. In R. Albrecht, C. Reeves, and N. Steele (eds.): Proceedings of the International Conference on Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms (ANNGA93), pp.428--435. Springer-Verlag, 1993.


P. Husbands and I. Harvey and D. Cliff: An Evolutionary Approach to Situated AI

In A. Sloman, D. Hogg, G. Humphreys, A. Ramsay and D. Partridge (eds.): Prospects for Artificial Intelligence: Proceedings of the Ninth Conference of the Society for Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour (AISB93), pp.61--70. IOS Press, 1993.


D. Cliff, I. Harvey and P. Husbands: Evolved Recurrent Dynamical Networks use Noise.

In S. Gielen and B. Kappen (eds.) Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN93), pp.285--288. Springer Verlag, 1993


Inman Harvey: The SAGA Cross: The Mechanics of Recombination for Species with Variable Length Genotypes

Appears in: Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, 2, R. Manner and B. Manderick, (eds.), North-Holland, 1992, pp. 269-278.


Inman Harvey: Species Adaptation Genetic Algorithms: A basis for a continuing SAGA

Appears in: Toward a Practice of Autonomous Systems: Proceedings of the First European Conference on Artificial Life, F.J. Varela and P. Bourgine (eds.), MIT Press/Bradford Books, Cambridge, MA, 1992, pp. 346-354.


I. Harvey and P. Husbands: Evolutionary Robotics

In Proceedings of IEE Colloquium on Genetic Algorithms for Control Systems Engineering, London, Digest 1992/106: pp. 6/1-6/4, IEE Publications.


P. Husbands and I. Harvey: Evolution versus Design: Controlling Autonomous Robots

In Integrating Perception, Planning and Action: Proceedings of 3rd Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Simulation and Planning, IEEE Press, 1992, pp. 139-146.


Inman Harvey: The Artificial Evolution of Behaviour

Appears in: From Animals to Animats: Proceedings of The First International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior J.-A. Meyer and S.W. Wilson (eds.), MIT Press/Bradford Books, Cambridge, MA, 1991, pp. 400-408.


Edited Proceedings, Books


Vargas, P.A., Di Paolo, E.A., Harvey, I. and Husbands, P., (Eds.) (2014): The horizons of evolutionary robotics. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA. ISBN 9780262026765


Harvey, I., Cavoukian, A., Tomko, G., Borrett, D., Kwan, H., and Hatzinakos, D., (Eds.) (2013): SmartData: Privacy Meets Evolutionary Robotics. Springer. ISBN: 978-1-4614-6408-2 (Print) 978-1-4614-6409-9 (Online).


Fernando Almeida e Costa, Luis Mateus Rocha, Ernesto Costa, Inman Harvey, António Coutinho (Eds.) (2007): Advances in Artificial Life, 9th European Conference, ECAL 2007, Lisbon, Portugal, September 10-14, 2007, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4648, Springer. ISBN 978-3-540-74912-7


P. Husbands and I. Harvey (eds.) (1997): Proceedings of the Fourth European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL97), MIT Press 1997. ISBN: 0262581574


Book Chapters


Harvey, I. (2024). R.U.R. and the Robot Revolution: Intelligence and Labor, Society and Autonomy. .In Čejková, J. (ed) , Karel Čapek’s R.U.R. and the Vision of Artificial Life. MIT Press.


Harvey, I. (2020) CZECH VERSION. R.U.R. and the Robot Revolution: Intelligence and Labor, Society and Autonomy.. In Čejková, J (ed): Robot 100: Sto rozumů. VCHT Prague. Translated into Czech. ENGLISH version published as (Harvey, 2024).


Harvey, I. and Di Paolo, E. A. (2014). Evolutionary Pathways. In Vargas, P.A., Di Paolo, E.A., Harvey, I. and Husbands, P., eds. (2014) The horizons of evolutionary robotics, pages 77-92. MIT Press.


Vaughan, E., Di Paolo, E. and Harvey, I. (2014). Incremental evolution of an omni-directional biped for rugged terrain. In Vargas, P.A., Di Paolo, E.A., Harvey, I. and Husbands, P., eds. (2014) The horizons of evolutionary robotics, chap. 11. MIT Press.


Harvey, I. (2013). Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence: Three Ways to be Smart. In Harvey et al., Eds,(2013) Smart Data: Privacy Meets Evolutionary Robotics, Pages 27-38. Springer.


Tomko, N., Harvey, I., and Philippides, A. (2013). Unconstrain the Population: The Benefits of Horizontal Gene Transfer in Genetic Algorithms. In Harvey et al., Eds,(2013) Smart Data: Privacy Meets Evolutionary Robotics, Pages 117-127. Springer.


Harvey, I., (2005):  Evolution and the Origins of the Rational [pdf] [Word] Paper presented at Cognition, Evolution and Rationality: Cognitive Science for the 21st Century. Oporto, September 2002.  In: Zilhão, António (ed.), Cognition, Evolution, and Rationality. London, Routledge, 2005. Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science. ISBN 0415362601.


Harvey, I., (2004). Artificial Life [pdf] [Word]. In: Gregory, Richard L. (ed.), The Oxford Companion to the Mind, 2nd edn, p. 56. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 0198662246.


I. Harvey (2002): Evolving Robot Consciousness: The Easy Problems and the Rest [pdf] [compressed ps]

In Evolving Consciousness, J.H. Fetzer (ed.), Advances in Consciousness Research Series, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, pp. 205 -219, 2002. ISBN 90 272 5154 1


P. Husbands, I. Harvey, D. Cliff and G. Miller (2000): Artificial evolution: a new path for Artificial Intelligence? 

In: Artificial Intelligence: Critical Concepts in Cognitive Science, R. Chrisley (ed.). Vol. III. Routledge, 2000, ISBN 0415193311.


P. Husbands, I. Harvey, N. Jakobi, A. Thompson, and D. Cliff (1997): Evolutionary Robotics

In Handbook of Evolutionary Computation, chap. G3.7, T. Back, D. Fogel, and Z. Michalewicz (Eds.) Oxford University Press/Institute of Physics 1997.


D. Cliff, I. Harvey, P. Husbands (1997): Artificial Evolution of Visual Control Systems for Robots

In From Living Eyes to Seeing Machines M. Srinivisan and S. Venkatesh (eds), Oxford University Press (1997).


Other External Publications


Harvey, I. (2018). Parallel paths across the Pacific: a speculative explanation for the dilep in Marshallese navigation.

arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.09151


I. Harvey (2009). Help needed with a Badly-formed MEP Question!

Poster at workshop “Maximum Entropy Production in the Earth system”, May 2009 at Max-Planck-Institut für Biogeochemie in Jena, Germany.


Inman Harvey (1996): Untimed and misrepresented: connectionism and the computer metaphor

AISB Quarterly, 1996 no. 96, pp. 20--27.

Also appears as CSRP 245 below.

Technical reports


CSRP 245 Inman Harvey: Untimed and misrepresented: connectionism and the computer metaphor


Unpublished


I. Harvey (1996): The Microbial Genetic Algorithm [pdf]  [gzipped ps]

Unpublished 1996, cite this web page as original reference. For a published reference to the Microbial GA, see I. Harvey (2001): Artificial Life, a Continuing SAGA above, and Harvey, I. (2009). The Microbial Genetic Algorithm. (see above) In G. Kampis et al (Eds.) Proceedings of the Tenth European Conference on Artificial Life, Springer LNCS.


Izquierdo-Torres, E., and Harvey, I. (2006). A Situated, Embodied and Dynamical Systems Approach to Understanding Learning and Memory. AI'50. 50th Anniversary Summit of Artificial Intelligence. Monte Verita, Switzerland, 9-14 July, 2006.


Izquierdo-Torres, E. and Harvey, I. (2005) Learning to Discriminate Between Multiple Possible Environments: an Imprinting Scenario. In Workshop on Memory and Learning Mechanisms in Autonomous Robotics as part of the 8th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 2005). Canterbury, UK.


Doctoral Thesis


Information on my D.Phil thesis on "The Artifical Evolution of Adaptive Behaviour" is available here.


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