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ECAL
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
The Survival of the Smallest: Stability Conditions for the Cultural Evolution of Compositional Language
Abstract. Recent work in the field of computational evolutionary linguistics suggests that the dynamics arising from the cultural evolution of language can explain the emergence o...
Henry Brighton, Simon Kirby
ECAL
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Pareto Optimality in Coevolutionary Learning
We develop a novel coevolutionary algorithm based upon the concept of Pareto optimality. The Pareto criterion is core to conventional multi-objective optimization (MOO) algorithms....
Sevan G. Ficici, Jordan B. Pollack
ECAL
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Stability of Metabolic and Balanced Organisations
We investigate the possible organisations emerging from an artificial chemistry (AC) of colliding molecules in a well stirred reactor. The molecules are generated from 7 basic comp...
Pietro Speroni di Fenizio, Wolfgang Banzhaf
ECAL
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
The Use of Latent Semantic Indexing to Identify Evolutionary Trajectories in Behaviour Space
This paper describes the simulation of a foraging agent in an environment with a simple ecological structure, alternatively using one of three different control systems with varyi...
Ian R. Edmonds
ECAL
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Amorphous Geometry
Amorphous computing is a recently introduced paradigm that favours geometrical configurations. The physical layout of an amorphous computer is based on a possibly irregular and er...
Ellie D'Hondt, Theo D'Hondt
ECAL
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Fault-Tolerant Structures: Towards Robust Self-Replication in a Probabilistic Environment
Abstract. Self-replicating structures in cellular automata have been extensively studied in the past as models of Artificial Life. However, CAs, unlike the biological cellular mod...
Daniel C. Bünzli, Mathieu S. Capcarrèr...