Advances in Artificial Life: 8th European Conference, Ecal 2005, Canterbury, UK, September 5-9, 2005, Proceedings (Paperback, 2005)

Conceptual Track.- Effect of Synthetic Emotions on Agents’ Learning Speed and Their Survivability.- From the Inside Looking Out: Self Extinguishing Perceptual Cues and the Constructed Worlds of Animats.- Globular Universe and Autopoietic Automata: A Framework for Artificial Life.- May Embodiment Cause Hyper-Computation?.- Perception as a Dynamical Sensori-Motor Attraction Basin.- Toward Genuine Continuity of Life and Mind.- Morphogenesis and Development.- Biological Development of Cell Patterns: Characterizing the Space of Cell Chemistry Genetic Regulatory Networks.- A Coarse-Coding Framework for a Gene-Regulatory-Based Artificial Neural Tissue.- A Computational Model of Cellular Morphogenesis in Plants.- A Developmental Model for Generative Media.- Evolutionary Simulations of Maternal Effects in Artificial Developmental Systems.- METAMorph: Experimenting with Genetic Regulatory Networks for Artificial Development.- Morphological Plasticity: Environmentally Driven Morphogenesis.- A Self-organising, Self-adaptable Cellular System.- Self-repair Ability of a Toroidal and Non-toroidal Cellular Developmental Model.- Simulating Evolution with a Computational Model of Embryogeny: Obtaining Robustness from Evolved Individuals.- Topology Changes Enable Reaction-Diffusion to Generate Forms.- Robotics and Autonomous Agents.- Aggregation Behaviour as a Source of Collective Decision in a Group of Cockroach-Like-Robots.- (Co)Evolution of (De)Centralized Neural Control for a Gravitationally Driven Machine.- Co-evolution of Structures and Controllers for Neubot Underwater Modular Robots.- CoEvolutionary Incremental Modelling of Robotic Cognitive Mechanisms.- A Dynamical Systems Approach to Learning: A Frequency-Adaptive Hopper Robot.- An Evolved Agent Performing Efficient Path Integration Based Homing and Search.- Evolving Neural Mechanisms for an Iterated Discrimination Task: A Robot Based Model.- Hysteresis and the Limits of Homeostasis: From Daisyworld to Phototaxis.- Is an Embodied System Ever Purely Reactive?.- t for Two Linear Synergy Advances the Evolution of Directional Pointing Behaviour.- Self-assembly on Demand in a Group of Physical Autonomous Mobile Robots Navigating Rough Terrain.- Superlinear Physical Performances in a SWARM-BOT.- Timescale and Stability in Adaptive Behaviour.- Whisker-Based Texture Discrimination on a Mobile Robot.- Evolutionary Computation and Theory.- Analysing the Evolvability of Neural Network Agents Through Structural Mutations.- Coevolutionary Species Adaptation Genetic Algorithms: A Continuing SAGA on Coupled Fitness Landscapes.- Evolution and the Regulation of Environmental Variables.- Evolutionary Transitions as a Metaphor for Evolutionary Optimisation.- Genetic Assimilation and Canalisation in the Baldwin Effect.- How Do Evolved Digital Logic Circuits Generalise Successfully?.- How Niche Construction Can Guide Coevolution.- Measuring Diversity in Populations Employing Cultural Learning in Dynamic Environments.- On a Quantitative Measure for Modularity Based on Information Theory.- On the Mean Convergence Time of Multi-parent Genetic Algorithms Without Selection.- The Quantitative Law of Effect is a Robust Emergent Property of an Evolutionary Algorithm for Reinforcement Learning.- Self-adaptation of Genome Size in Artificial Organisms.- Cellular Automata.- An Architecture for Modelling Emergence in CA-Like Systems.- The Density Classification Problem for Multi-states Cellular Automata.- Evolving Cellular Automata by 1/f Noise.- Evolving Sequential Combinations of Elementary Cellular Automata Rules.- Penrose Life: Ash and Oscillators.- Playing a 3D Game of Life in an Interactive Virtual Sandbox.- Using Dynamic Behavior Prediction to Guide an Evolutionary Search for Designing Two-Dimensional Cellular Automata.- Models of Biological Systems and Their Applications.- CelloS: A Multi-level Approach to Evolutionary Dynamics.- A Cytokine Formal Immune Network.- Examining Refuge Location Mechanisms in Intertidal Snails Using Artificial Life Simulation Techniques.- A Method for Designing Ant Colony Models and Two Examples of Its Application.- Simulating Artificial Organisms with Qualitative Physiology.- Slime Mould and the Transition to Multicellularity: The Role of the Macrocyst Stage.- Ant Colony and Swarm Systems.- Ant Clustering Embeded in Cellular Automata.- Ant-Based Computing.- Collective Behavior Analysis of a Class of Social Foraging Swarms.- Evolving Annular Sorting in Ant-Like Agents.- Flocking Control of Multiple Interactive Dynamical Agents with Switching Topology via Local Feedback.- Evolution of Communication.- Cultural and Biological Evolution of Phonemic Speech.- Grammar Structure and the Dynamics of Language Evolution.- Interactions Between Learning and Evolution in Simulated Avian Communication.- Perceptually Grounded Lexicon Formation Using Inconsistent Knowledge.- Simulation of Social Interactions.- Artificial Life Meets Anthropology: A Case of Aggression in Primitive Societies.- Emergence of Structure and Stability in the Prisoner’s Dilemma on Networks.- Multi-agent-based Simulation for Formation of Institutions on Socially Constructed Facts.- Self-replication.- Extensions and Variations on Construction of Autoreplicators in Typogenetics.- The Good Symbiont.- Self-description for Construction and Execution in Graph Rewriting Automata.- Artificial Chemistry.- Artificial Metabolic System: An Evolutionary Model for Community Organization in Metabolic Networks.- Explicit Collision Simulation of Chemical Reactions in a Graph Based Artificial Chemistry.- Self-replication and Evolution of DNA Crystals.- Posters.- All Else Being Equal Be Empowered.- Artificial Homeostatic System: A Novel Approach.- Artificial Life for Natural Language Processing.- A Co-evolutionary Epidemiological Model for Artificial Life and Death.- CoEvolution of Effective Observers and Observed Multi-agents System.- Comparative Reproduction Schemes for Evolving Gathering Collectives.- Construction-Based and Inspection-Based Universal Self-replication.- Coordinating Dual-Mode Biomimetic Robotic Fish in Box-Pushing Task.- Effects of Spatial Growth on Gene Expression Dynamics and on Regulatory Network Reconstruction.- Evolution of Song Communication in a 2D Space.- A Fitness-Landscape for the Evolution of Uptake Signal Sequences on Bacterial DNA.- The Genetic Coding Style of Digital Organisms.- Growing Biochemical Networks: Identifying the Intrinsic Properties.- Multi-population Cooperative Particle Swarm Optimization.- On Convergence of Dynamic Cluster Formation in Multi-agent Networks.- On the Unit of Selection in Sexual Populations.- Periodic Motion Control by Modulating CPG Parameters Based on Time-Series Recognition.- Self-organized Criticality on Growing Scale-Free Networks.- Synapsing Variable Length Crossover: An Algorithm for Crossing and Comparing Variable Length Genomes.- Valency for Adaptive Homeostatic Agents: Relating Evolution and Learning.