ALIFE
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
The development of structure-learning algorithms for gene regulatory networks depends heavily on the availability of synthetic data sets that contain both the original network and ...
ALIFE
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
Using biological examples and theoretical arguments, the case is presented for extending the notion of natural selection to include internal selection in order to account for the e...
ALIFE
2008
13 years 5 months ago
2008
Quorum sensing is a cell density dependent gene regulation system that allows an entire population of bacterial cells to communicate in order to regulate the expression of certain ...
ALIFE
2008
13 years 5 months ago
2008
We report the faithful reproduction of the self-organized aggregation behavior of the German cockroach Blattella germanica with a group of robots. We describe the implementation of...
ALIFE
2008
13 years 5 months ago
2008
, reproductive value, soft selectionAbstract Structural complexity characterizes our representations of dissipative structures. As a mechanistic concept, when referred to natural s...
ALIFE
2008
13 years 5 months ago
2008
There is an ongoing debate as to whether the words in early pre-syntactic forms of human language had simple atomic meanings like modern words [4, 5], or whether they were holophr...
ALIFE
2008
13 years 5 months ago
2008
We attempt to provide a comprehensive answer to the question of whether, and when, an arrow of complexity emerges in Darwinian evolution. We note that this expression can be interp...
ALIFE
2008
13 years 5 months ago
2008
ALIFE
2008
13 years 5 months ago
2008
Current analyses of genomes from numerous species show that the diversity of organism's functional and behavioral characters is not proportional to the number of genes that e...
ALIFE
2008
13 years 5 months ago
2008
While complex systems have been studied now for more than two decades, there still is no agreement on what complexity actually is. This lack of a definition might be a problem when...