Advances in Artificial Life: 7th European Conference, Ecal 2003, Dortmund, Germany, September 14-17, 2003, Proceedings (Paperback, 2003)

Artificial Chemistries, Self-Organization, and Self-Replication.- A Universal Framework for Self-Replication.- Generic Properties of Chemical Networks: Artificial Chemistry Based on Graph Rewriting.- How to Program Artificial Chemistries.- Artificial Life as an Aid to Astrobiology: Testing Life Seeking Techniques.- Molecularly Accessible Permutations.- Simulating Evolution's First Steps.- Cellular Evolution in a 3D Lattice Artificial Chemistry.- Evolution of Rewriting Rule Sets Using String-Based Tierra.- Models for the Conservation of Genetic Information with String-Based Artificial Chemistry.- Interaction Based Evolution of Self-Replicating Loop Structures.- Artificial Societies.- Architectural Design for the Survival Optimization of Panicking Fleeing Victims.- Meta-evolutionary Game Dynamics for Mathematical Modelling of Rules Dynamics.- Preventing Bluff Agent Invasions in Honest Societies.- Effects of Group Composition and Level of Selection in the Evolution of Cooperation in Artificial Ants.- Effects of Learning to Interact on the Evolution of Social Behavior of Agents in Continuous Predators-Prey Pursuit Problem.- War and Peace among Artificial Nations - A Model and Simulation Based on a Two-Layered Multi-agent System.- Cellular and Neural Systems.- Developmental Neural Networks for Agents.- Revisiting Idiotypic Immune Networks.- Production of Gliders by Collisions in Rule 110.- A Computational Model of Neocortical-Hippocampal Cooperation and Its Application to Self-Localization.- Fascinating Rhythms by Chaotic Hopfield Networks.- Solving a Delayed Response Task with Spiking and McCulloch-Pitts Agents.- First Steps in Evolving Path Integration in Simulation.- Evolution and Development.- On the Dynamics of an Artificial Regulatory Network.- Evolution and Growth of Virtual Plants.- Evolvability of the Genotype-Phenotype Relation in Populations of Self-Replicating Digital Organisms in a Tierra-Like System.- An Evolutionary Approach to Damage Recovery of Robot Motion with Muscles.- Evolving Developmental Programs for Adaptation, Morphogenesis, and Self-Repair.- Evolving Embodied Genetic Regulatory Network-Driven Control Systems.- Evolution of Fault-Tolerant Self-Replicating Structures.- Evolving the Ability of Limited Growth and Self-Repair for Artificial Embryos.- Evolutionary and Adaptive Dynamics.- Caring versus Sharing: How to Maintain Engagement and Diversity in Coevolving Populations.- Culture and the Baldwin Effect.- Evolutionary Network Minimization: Adaptive Implicit Pruning of Successful Agents.- Population Dynamics under Spatially and Temporally Heterogenous Resource Limitations in Multi-agent Networks.- Adaptive Coupling and Intersubjectivity in Simulated Turn-Taking Behaviour.- Distributed Genetic Algorithm: Learning by Direct Exchange of Chromosomes.- An Approach to Describe the Tierra Instruction Set Using Microoperations: The First Result.- Critical Values in Asynchronous Random Boolean Networks.- Artificial Organisms That Sleep.- Visualizing Evolutionary Dynamics of Self-Replicators Using Graph-Based Genealogy.- The Baldwin Effect Revisited: Three Steps Characterized by the Quantitative Evolution of Phenotypic Plasticity.- Does the Red Queen Reign in the Kingdom of Digital Organisms?.- Languages and Communication.- Conditions for Stable Vowel Systems in a Population.- Piep Piep Piep - Ich Hab' Dich Lieb: Rhythm as an Indicator of Mate Quality.- Evolving Agent Societies with VUScape.- Why Synonymy Is Rare: Fitness Is in the Speaker.- A Noisy Way to Evolve Signaling Behaviour.- Language Games with Mixed Populations.- Artificial Agents and Natural Determiners.- Coevolution of Birdsong Grammar without Imitation.- Systemic Architecture for Audio Signal Processing.- Semantic Generalisation and the Inference of Meaning.- Language Evolution in Populations: Extending the Iterated Learning Model.- Learning Biases for the Evolution of Linguistic Structure: An Associative Network Model.