Advances in Artificial Life: Third European Conference on Artificial Life Granada, Spain, June 4–6, 1995 Proceedings

Artificial life and molecular evolutionary biology....Pages 1-19
Artificial life needs a real epistemology....Pages 21-38
Grounding and the entailment structure in robots and artificial life....Pages 39-51
Mean field theory of the Edge of Chaos....Pages 52-64
Escaping from the Cartesian mind-set: Heidegger and artificial life....Pages 65-76
Semantic Closure: A guiding notion to ground artificial life....Pages 77-94
The inside and outside views of life....Pages 95-102
Prebiotic chemistry, artificial life, and complexity theory: What do they tell us about the origin of biological systems?....Pages 103-115
Compartimentation in replicator models....Pages 116-127
Evolutionary dynamics and optimization....Pages 128-147
Population evolution in a single peak fitness landscape how high are the clouds?....Pages 148-157
Replicators don\'t!....Pages 158-169
RNA viruses: a bridge between life and artificial life....Pages 170-178
Complexity analysis of a self-organizing vs. a template-directed system....Pages 179-187
Tile Automaton for evolution of metabolism....Pages 188-199
Tracking the red queen: Measurements of adaptive progress in co-evolutionary simulations....Pages 200-218
The coevolution of mutation rates....Pages 219-233
Coevolution of machines and tapes....Pages 234-245
Incremental co-evolution of organisms: A new approach for optimization and discovery of strategies....Pages 246-260
Symbiosis and co-evolution in animats....Pages 261-272
Artificial endosymbiosis....Pages 273-289
Mathematical analysis of evolutionary process....Pages 290-301
The evolution of hierarchical representations....Pages 302-313
Adaptation and the modular design of organisms....Pages 315-328
A theory of differentiation with dynamic clustering....Pages 329-340
Cell differentiation and neurogenesis in evolutionary large scale chaos....Pages 341-352
Evolving artificial neural networks that develop in time....Pages 353-367
Contextual genetic algorithms: Evolving developmental rules....Pages 368-382
Can development be designed? What we may learn from the Cog Project....Pages 383-395
Emergent organization of interspecies communication in Q-learning artificial organisms....Pages 396-405
Self and nonseld revisited: Lessons from modelling the immune network....Pages 406-420
On formation of structures....Pages 421-435
Learning in the active mode....Pages 437-462
Learning subjective “cognitive maps” in the presence of sensory-motor errors....Pages 463-476
Specialization under social conditions in shared environments....Pages 477-489
Iterated prisoner\'s dilemma with choice and refusal of partners: Evolutionary results....Pages 490-502
Abundance-distributions in artificial life and stochastic models: “age and area” revisited....Pages 503-514
Elements of a theory of simulation....Pages 515-529
To simulate or not to simulate: A problem of minimising functional logical depth....Pages 530-543
Quasi-Uniform Computation-Universal cellular automata....Pages 544-554
A new self-reproducing cellular automaton capable of construction and computation....Pages 555-563
Self-inspection based reproduction in cellular automata....Pages 564-576
Evaluation of learning performance of situated embodied agents....Pages 577-589
Seeing in the dark with artificial bats....Pages 590-601
Navigating with an adaptive light compass....Pages 602-613
Collision avoidance using an egocentric memory of proximity....Pages 614-624
A useful autonomous vehicle with a hierarchical behavior control....Pages 625-639
Evolving electronic robot controllers that exploit hardware resources....Pages 640-656
Classification as sensory-motor coordination....Pages 657-667
High-pass filtered positive feedback for decentralized control of cooperation....Pages 668-678
Learning and adaptivity: Enhancing reactive behaviour architectures in real-world interaction systems....Pages 679-690
Interactivism: A functional model of representation for behavior-based systems....Pages 691-703
Noise and the reality gap: The use of simulation in evolutionary robotics....Pages 704-720
Essential dynamical structure in learnable autonomous robots....Pages 721-732
Optimizing the performance of a robot society in structured environment through Genetic Algorithms....Pages 733-746
Spatial games and evolution of cooperation....Pages 747-759
Aggressive signaling meets adaptive receiving: Further experiments in synthetic behavioural ecology....Pages 760-771
Modelling foraging behaviour of ant colonies....Pages 772-783
The computationally complete ant colony: Global coordination in a system with no hierarchy....Pages 784-800
Mimicry and coevolution of hedonic agents....Pages 801-811
Evolution of symbolic grammar systems....Pages 812-823
Driven cellular automata, adaptation and the binding problem....Pages 824-840
The functional composition of living machines as a design principle for artificial organisms....Pages 841-851
Thermodynamics of RNA folding. When is an RNA molecule in equilibrium?....Pages 852-861
An artificial life model for predicting the tertiary structure of unknown proteins that emulates the folding process....Pages 862-875
Energy cost evaluation of computing capabilities in biomolecular and artificial matter....Pages 876-889
Contemporary evolution strategies....Pages 891-907
The usefulness of recombination....Pages 908-919
The investigation of Lamarckian Inheritance with Classifier Systems in a massively parallel simulation environment....Pages 920-933
Orgy in the computer: Multi-parent reproduction in genetic algorithms....Pages 934-945
A simplification of the theory of neural groups selection for adaptive control....Pages 946-958