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Advances in Artificial Life

8th European Conference, ECAL 2005, Canterbury, UK, September 5-9, 2005, Proceedings

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Editors:
  1. Mathieu S. Capcarrère

    1. Natural Computation Group, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

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  2. Alex A. Freitas

    1. Computing Laboratory and Centre for BioMedical Informatics, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

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  3. Peter J. Bentley

    1. Computer Science Department, University College London, London, UK

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  4. Colin G. Johnson

    1. Computing Laboratory, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

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  5. Jon Timmis

    1. Department of Electronics, University of York, Heslington, York, UK

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 3630)

Part of the book sub series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)

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Table of contents (94 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  3. Morphogenesis and Development

    1. Biological Development of Cell Patterns: Characterizing the Space of Cell Chemistry Genetic Regulatory Networks

      • Nicholas Flann, Jing Hu, Mayank Bansal, Vinay Patel, Greg Podgorski
      Pages 57-66

    2. A Coarse-Coding Framework for a Gene-Regulatory-Based Artificial Neural Tissue

      • Jekanthan Thangavelautham, Gabriele M. T. D’Eleuterio
      Pages 67-77

    3. A Computational Model of Cellular Morphogenesis in Plants

      • Tim Rudge, Jim Haseloff
      Pages 78-87

    4. A Developmental Model for Generative Media

      • Jon McCormack
      Pages 88-97

    5. Evolutionary Simulations of Maternal Effects in Artificial Developmental Systems

      • Artur Matos, Reiji Suzuki, Takaya Arita
      Pages 98-107

    6. METAMorph: Experimenting with Genetic Regulatory Networks for Artificial Development

      • Finlay Stewart, Tim Taylor, George Konidaris
      Pages 108-117

    7. Morphological Plasticity: Environmentally Driven Morphogenesis

      • Katie Bentley, Chris Clack
      Pages 118-127

    8. A Self-organising, Self-adaptable Cellular System

      • Lucien Epiney, Mariusz Nowostawski
      Pages 128-137

    9. Self-repair Ability of a Toroidal and Non-toroidal Cellular Developmental Model

      • Can Öztürkeri, Mathieu S. Capcarrere
      Pages 138-148

    10. Simulating Evolution with a Computational Model of Embryogeny: Obtaining Robustness from Evolved Individuals

      • Chris P. Bowers
      Pages 149-158

    11. Topology Changes Enable Reaction-Diffusion to Generate Forms

      • Shuhei Miyashita, Satoshi Murata
      Pages 159-168

  4. Robotics and Autonomous Agents

    1. Aggregation Behaviour as a Source of Collective Decision in a Group of Cockroach-Like-Robots

      • Simon Garnier, Christian Jost, Raphaël Jeanson, Jacques Gautrais, Masoud Asadpour, Gilles Caprari et al.
      Pages 169-178

    2. (Co)Evolution of (De)Centralized Neural Control for a Gravitationally Driven Machine

      • Steffen Wischmann, Martin Hülse, Frank Pasemann
      Pages 179-188
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About this book

TheArti?cialLifetermappearedmorethan20yearsagoinasmallcornerofNew Mexico, USA. Since then the area has developed dramatically, many researchers joining enthusiastically and research groups sprouting everywhere. This frenetic activity led to the emergence of several strands that are now established ?elds in themselves. We are now reaching a stage that one may describe as maturer: with more rigour, more benchmarks, more results, more stringent acceptance criteria, more applications, in brief, more sound science. This, which is the n- ural path of all new areas, comes at a price, however. A certain enthusiasm, a certain adventurousness from the early years is fading and may have been lost on the way. The ?eld has become more reasonable. To counterbalance this and to encourage lively discussions, a conceptual track, where papers were judged on criteria like importance and/or novelty of the concepts proposed rather than the experimental/theoretical results, has been introduced this year. A conference on a theme as broad as Arti?cial Life is bound to be very - verse,but a few tendencies emerged. First, ?elds like ‘Robotics and Autonomous Agents’ or ‘Evolutionary Computation’ are still extremely active and keep on bringing a wealth of results to the A-Life community. Even there, however, new tendencies appear, like collective robotics, and more speci?cally self-assembling robotics, which represent now a large subsection. Second, new areas appear.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Natural Computation Group, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

    Mathieu S. Capcarrère

  • Computing Laboratory and Centre for BioMedical Informatics, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

    Alex A. Freitas

  • Computer Science Department, University College London, London, UK

    Peter J. Bentley

  • Computing Laboratory, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

    Colin G. Johnson

  • Department of Electronics, University of York, Heslington, York, UK

    Jon Timmis

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