Advances in Artificial Life. Darwin Meets von Neumann: 10th European Conference, ECAL 2009, Budapest, Hungary, September 13-16, 2009, Revised Selected Papers, Part I

Front Matter....Pages -
Self-organizing Biologically Inspired Configurable Circuits....Pages 1-9
Epigenetic Tracking: Biological Implications....Pages 10-17
The Effect of Proprioceptive Feedback on the Distribution of Sensory Information in a Model of an Undulatory Organism....Pages 18-26
Emerged Coupling of Motor Control and Morphological Development in Evolution of Multi-cellular Animats....Pages 27-34
Evolution of the Morphology and Patterning of Artificial Embryos: Scaling the Tricolour Problem to the Third Dimension....Pages 35-43
Artificial Cells for Information Processing: Iris Classification....Pages 44-52
Digital Organ Cooperation: Toward the Assembly of a Self-feeding Organism....Pages 53-58
Distance Discrimination of Weakly Electric Fish with a Sweep of Tail Bending Movements....Pages 59-66
Adaptation in Tissue Sustained by Hormonal Loops....Pages 67-74
Embodiment of the Game of Life....Pages 75-82
Metamorphosis and Artificial Development: An Abstract Approach to Functionality....Pages 83-90
Local Ultrastability in a Real System Based on Programmable Springs....Pages 91-98
Acquisition of Swimming Behavior on Artificial Creature in Virtual Water Environment....Pages 99-106
Evolving Amphibian Behavior in Complex Environment....Pages 107-114
Neuro-Evolution Methods for Gathering and Collective Construction....Pages 115-123
On the Dynamics of Active Categorisation of Different Objects Shape through Tactile Sensors....Pages 124-131
Evolving a Novel Bio-inspired Controller in Reconfigurable Robots....Pages 132-139
Functional and Structural Topologies in Evolved Neural Networks....Pages 140-147
Input from the External Environment and Input from within the Body....Pages 148-155
Towards Self-reflecting Machines: Two-Minds in One Robot....Pages 156-164
Swarm-Bots to the Rescue....Pages 165-172
Towards an Autonomous Evolution of Non-biological Physical Organisms....Pages 173-180
Acquisition of Adaptive Behavior for Virtual Modular Robot Using Evolutionary Computation....Pages 181-188
Guiding for Associative Learning: How to Shape Artificial Dynamic Cognition....Pages 189-196
ALife in the Galapagos: Migration Effects on Neuro-Controller Design....Pages 197-204
To Grip, or Not to Grip: Evolving Coordination in Autonomous Robots....Pages 205-212
Development of Abstract Categories in Embodied Agents....Pages 213-221
For Corvids together Is Better....Pages 222-229
Dynamical Systems Analysis of a Protocell Lipid Compartment....Pages 230-239
The Role of the Spatial Boundary in Autopoiesis....Pages 240-247
Chemo-ethology of an Adaptive Protocell....Pages 248-255
On the Transition from Prebiotic to Proto-biological Membranes: From ‘Self-assembly’ to ‘Self-production’....Pages 256-264
SimSoup: Artificial Chemistry Meets Pauling....Pages 265-272
Elongation Control in an Algorithmic Chemistry....Pages 273-280
Are Cells Really Operating at the Edge of Chaos?....Pages 281-288
Cotranslational Protein Folding with L-systems....Pages 289-296
Molecular Microprograms....Pages 297-304
Identifying Molecular Organic Codes in Reaction Networks....Pages 305-312
An Open-Ended Computational Evolution Strategy for Evolving Parsimonious Solutions to Human Genetics Problems....Pages 313-320
Gene Regulatory Network Properties Linked to Gene Expression Dynamics in Spatially Extended Systems....Pages 321-328
Adding Vertical Meaning to Phylogenetic Trees by Artificial Evolution....Pages 329-336
Transient Perturbations on Scale-Free Boolean Networks with Topology Driven Dynamics....Pages 337-344
Agent-Based Model of Dengue Disease Transmission by Aedes aegypti Populations....Pages 345-352
All in the Same Boat: A “Situated” Model of Emergent Immune Response....Pages 353-360
Multi-Agent Model for Simulation at the Subcellular Level....Pages 361-368
Visualising Random Boolean Network Dynamics: Effects of Perturbations and Canalisation....Pages 369-376
RBN-World....Pages 377-384
Flying over Mount Improbable....Pages 385-393
Behaviors of Chemical Reactions with Small Number of Molecules....Pages 394-401
Memory-Based Cognitive Framework: A Low-Level Association Approach to Cognitive Architectures....Pages 402-409
Modelling Coordination of Learning Systems: A Reservoir Systems Approach to Dopamine Modulated Pavlovian Conditioning....Pages 410-417
Evolving Central Pattern Generators with Varying Number of Neurons....Pages 418-425
Toward Minimally Social Behavior: Social Psychology Meets Evolutionary Robotics....Pages 426-433
Emergence of Cooperation in Adaptive Social Networks with Behavioral Diversity....Pages 434-441
Evolving for Creativity: Maximizing Complexity in a Self-organized Multi-particle System....Pages 442-449
Evolving Group Coordination in an N-Player Game....Pages 450-457
Combining Different Interaction Strategies Reduces Uncertainty When Bootstrapping a Lexicon....Pages 458-465
A Chemical Model of the Naming Game....Pages 466-473
Evolving Virtual Fireflies....Pages 474-481
Selection of Cooperative Partners in n -Player Games....Pages 482-489
Evolving Social Behavior in Adverse Environments....Pages 490-498
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