Proceedings of an Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Things
An Instance of a Replicator (Erik Schultes) A Case for Lamarckian Evolution (David H. Ackley and Michael L. Littman) Evolution and Coevolution in a Rugged Fitness Landscape (Per Bak, Henrik Flyvbjerg, and Benny Lathrup) Evolution to the Edge of Chaos in an Imitation Game (Kunihiko Kaneko and Junji Suzuki) Coevolving High-Level Representations (Peter J. Angeline and Jordan B. Pollack) Artificial Food Webs (Kristian Lindgren and Mats G. Nordahl) Evolution of Size-Structured, Predator-Prey Community (Alan R. Johnson) Iterated Prisoners Dilemma with Choice and Refusal of Partners (E. Ann Stanley, Dan Ashlock, and Leigh Tesfastion) Contest and Scramble Competitions in an Artificial World: Genetic Analysis with Genetic Algorithms (Yukihiko Toquenaga, Masanori Ichinose, Tsutomu Hoshino and Koichi Fujii) Emergent Properties of Balinese Water Temple Networks: Coadaptation on a Rugged Fitness Landscape (J. Stephen Lansing and James N. Kremer) Artificial Life: Spontaneous Emergence of Self-Replicating and Evolutionary Self-Improving Computer Programs (John R. Koza) Computational Genetics, Physiology, Metabolism, Neural Systems, Learning, Vision, and Behavioral or PolyWorld: Life in a New Context (Larry Yaeger) Evolutionary Robotics and SAGA: The Case for Hill Crawling and Tournament Selection (Inman Harvey) An Evolved, Vision-Based Model of Obstacle Avoidance Behavior (Craig W. Reynolds) Simulation of Autonomous Legged Locomotion (David Zeltzer and Michael McKenna) The Motility of Microrobots (Johndale C. Solem) A Simulation Testbed for the Study of Multicellular Development: The Multiple Mechanisms of Morpohogenesis (Kurt Fleischer and Alan H. Barr) Swarms, Phase Transitions, and Collective Intelligence (Mark M. Millonas) How Topology Affects Population Dynamics (Jeffrey O. Kephart) The Ghost in the Machine (Andrew Wuensche) The Computational Completeness of Rays Tierran Assembly Language (Carlo C. Maley) Emergence, Hierarchies, and Hyperstructures (Nils A. Baas) Artificial Life: Synthetic vs. Virtual (Stevan Harnad) Is Life as a Multiverse Phenomenon? (Claus Emmeche) Against the Global Replacement: On the Application of the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence to Artificial Life (Brian L. Keeley)