Artificial Life: Borrowing from Biology

1. Front Matter

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2. Alife Art

   1. An Empirical Exploration of a Definition of Creative Novelty for Generative Art

      • Taras Kowaliw, Alan Dorin, Jon McCormack

      Pages 1-10

   2. A New Definition of Creativity

      • Alan Dorin, Kevin B. Korb

      Pages 11-21

   3. Genetically Optimized Architectural Designs for Control of Pedestrian Crowds

      • Pradyumn Kumar Shukla

      Pages 22-31

3. Game Theory

   1. Co-evolutionary Learning in the N-player Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma with a Structured Environment

      • Raymond Chiong, Michael Kirley

      Pages 32-42

   2. Evolving Cooperation in the N-player Prisoner’s Dilemma: A Social Network Model

      • Golriz Rezaei, Michael Kirley, Jens Pfau

      Pages 43-52

   3. Using Misperception to Counteract Noise in the Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma

      • Lachlan Brumley, Kevin B. Korb, Carlo Kopp

      Pages 53-62

4. Evolution

   1. An Analysis and Evaluation of the Saving Capability and Feasibility of Backward-Chaining Evolutionary Algorithms

      • Huayang Xie, Mengjie Zhang

      Pages 63-72

   2. Evolutionary Intelligence and Communication in Societies of Virtually Embodied Agents

      • Binh Nguyen, Andrew Skabar

      Pages 73-85

   3. Testing Punctuated Equilibrium Theory Using Evolutionary Activity Statistics

      • O. G. Woodberry, K. B. Korb, A. E. Nicholson

      Pages 86-95

5. Complex Systems

   1. Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Machine-Based Situation Assessment

      • David M. Lingard, Dale A. Lambert

      Pages 96-105

   2. Experiments with the Universal Constructor in the DigiHive Environment

      • Rafal Sienkiewicz

      Pages 106-115

   3. Making a Self-feeding Structure by Assembly of Digital Organs

      • Sylvain Cussat-Blanc, Hervé Luga, Yves Duthen

      Pages 116-125

   4. Towards Tailored Communication Networks in Assemblies of Artificial Cells

      • Maik Hadorn, Bo Burla, Peter Eggenberger Hotz

      Pages 126-135

6. Biological Systems

   1. A Developmental System for Organic Form Synthesis

      • Benjamin Porter

      Pages 136-148

   2. Layered Random Inference Networks

      • David M. Lingard

      Pages 149-158

   3. Modelling Hepatitis B Virus Antiviral Therapy and Drug Resistant Mutant Strains

      • Julie Bernal, Trevor Dix, Lloyd Allison, Angeline Bartholomeusz, Lilly Yuen

      Pages 159-168

   4. Multivesicular Assemblies as Real-World Testbeds for Embryogenic Evolutionary Systems

      • Maik Hadorn, Peter Eggenberger Hotz

      Pages 169-178

7. Social Modelling

   1. Designing Adaptive Artificial Agents for an Economic Production and Conflict Model

      • Behrooz Hassani-M, Brett W. Parris

      Pages 179-190

   2. Emergent Societal Effects of Crimino-Social Forces in an Animat Agent Model

      • Chris J. Scogings, Ken A. Hawick

      Pages 191-200

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th Australian Conference on Artificial Life, ACAL 2009, held in Melbourne, Australia, in December 2009. The 27 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. Research in Alife covers the main areas of biological behaviour as a metaphor for computational models, computational models that reproduce/duplicate a biological behaviour, and computational models to solve biological problems. Thus, Alife features analyses and understanding of life and nature and helps modeling biological systems or solving biological problems. The papers are organized in topical sections on alife art, game theory, evolution, complex systems, biological systems, social modelling, swarm intelligence, and heuristics.

• Hidden Markov Model
• adaptive agents
• agents
• artificial cells
• artificial life
• equilibrium theory
• evolutionary algorithm
• fractals
• heuristics
• learning
• modeling
• perception
• swarm intelligence
• swarms
• wireless sensor networks

• School of Information Technology, Monash University, Clayton, Australia

  Kevin Korb

• School of Information Technology, Bond University, Queensland, Australia

  Marcus Randall

• Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia

  Tim Hendtlass

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