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ALIFE
1999
13 years 4 months ago
An Approach to Biological Computation: Unicellular Core-Memory Creatures Evolved Using Genetic Algorithms
A novel machine language genetic programming system that uses one-dimensional core memories is proposed and simulated. The core is compared to a biochemical reaction space, and in ...
Hikeaki Suzuki
ALIFE
1999
13 years 4 months ago
A New Structurally Dissolvable Self-Reproducing Loop Evolving in a Simple Cellular Automata Space
tion, structural dissolutionAbstract We constructed a simple evolutionary system, "evoloop," on a deterministic nine-state five-neighbor cellular automata (CA) space by i...
Hiroki Sayama
ALIFE
1999
13 years 4 months ago
The Simulated Evolution of Biochemical Guilds: Reconciling Gaia Theory and Natural Selection
Gaia theory, which states that organisms both affect and regulate their environment, poses an interesting problem to Neo-Darwinian evolutionary biologists and provides an exciting ...
Keith L. Downing, Peter Zvirinsky
ALIFE
1999
13 years 4 months ago
The Creatures Global Digital Ecosystem
An arti cial life entertainment-software product called Creatures was released in Europe in late 1996 and in the United States and Japan in mid-1997. When installed on a domestic c...
Dave Cliff, Stephen Grand
ALIFE
1999
13 years 4 months ago
Visualizing Evolutionary Activity of Genotypes
A large amount of work has been done in the past regarding Artificial Life and Artificial Ecosystems. A summary of this literature as it pertains to the work at hand is discussed ...
Mark A. Bedau, C. Titus Brown
ALIFE
1998
13 years 4 months ago
Self-Adaptation in Evolving Systems
A theoretical and experimental analysis is made of the effects of self-adaptation in a simple evolving system. Specifically, we consider the effects of coding the mutation and ...
Christopher R. Stephens, I. Garcia Olmedo, J. Mora...
ALIFE
1998
13 years 4 months ago
Emergence of Multicellular Organisms with Dynamic Differentiation and Spatial Pattern
The origin of multicellular organisms and the mechanism of development in cell societies are studied by choosing a model with intracellular biochemical dynamics allowing for oscill...
Chikara Furusawa, Kunihiko Kaneko
ALIFE
1998
13 years 4 months ago
Evolutionary Body Building: Adaptive Physical Designs for Robots
Creating artificial life forms through evolutionary robotics faces a “chicken and egg” problem: learning to control a complex body is dominated by problems specific to its s...
Pablo Funes, Jordan B. Pollack
ALIFE
1998
13 years 4 months ago
Computational Models for the Formation of Protocell Structures
There have been various attempts to simulate the self-assembly process of lipid aggregates by computers. However, due to the computationally complex nature of the problem, previou...
Linglan Edwards, Yun Peng, James A. Reggia
ALIFE
1998
13 years 4 months ago
Self-Evolution in a Constructive Binary String System
We examine the qualitative dynamics of a catalytic self-organizing reaction system of binary strings that is inspired by the chemical information processing metaphor. A string is ...
Peter Dittrich, Wolfgang Banzhaf