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ECAL
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Formal Description of Autopoiesis Based on the Theory of Category
Since the concept of autopoiesis was proposed as a model of minimal living systems by Maturana and Varela, and applied to social systems by Luhmann, there has been only a few math...
Tatsuya Nomura
ECAL
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Evolution of Reinforcement Learning in Uncertain Environments: Emergence of Risk-Aversion and Matching
Reinforcement learning (RL) is a fundamental process by which organisms learn to achieve a goal from interactions with the environment. Using Artificial Life techniques we derive ...
Yael Niv, Daphna Joel, Isaac Meilijson, Eytan Rupp...
ECAL
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Emergent Organisation in Colonies of Simple Automata
Ian W. Marshall, Chris M. Roadknight
ECAL
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Insect Inspired Visual Control of Translatory Flight
Flying insects use highly efficient visual strategies to control their self-motion in three-dimensional space. We present a biologically inspired, minimalistic model for visual ...
Titus R. Neumann, Heinrich H. Bülthoff
ECAL
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Taxonomy in Alife. Measures of Similarity for Complex Artificial Organisms
In this paper a formal approach to construction of a similarity measure for complex creatures is presented. The simulation model is described, and a Framsticks agent is expressed i...
Maciej Komosinski, Marek Kubiak
ECAL
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Patch Sorting: Multi-object Clustering Using Minimalist Robots
Chris Melhuish, Matt Wilson, Ana B. Sendova-Franks
ECAL
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
The Shifting Network: Volume Signalling in Real and Robot Nervous Systems
This paper presents recent work in computational modelling of diffusing gaseous neuromodulators in biological nervous systems. It goes on to describe work in adaptive autonomous sy...
Phil Husbands, Andrew Philippides, Tom Smith, Mich...
ECAL
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Passing the ALife Test: Activity Statistics Classify Evolution in Geb as Unbounded
Bedau and Packard’s evolutionary activity statistics [1, 2] are used to classify the evolutionary dynamics in Geb [3, 4], a system designed to verify and extend theories behind t...
Alastair Channon
ECAL
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Evolving Multi-agent Networks in Structured Environments
A crucial feature of evolving natural systems is parallelism. The simultaneous and distributed application of rules (governed by e.g. biochemistry) is generally considered as the p...
Thomas Glotzmann, Holger Lange, Michael Hauhs, A. ...