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ECAL
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Conditions for Stable Vowel Systems in a Population
This paper describes an investigation of two computer models of how vowel systems can be transferred from one generation to the next. Humans tend to reduce the articulation of the ...
Bart de Boer
ECAL
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Pattern Recognition in a Bucket
This paper demonstrates that the waves produced on the surface of water can be used as the medium for a “Liquid State Machine” that pre-processes inputs so allowing a simple pe...
Chrisantha Fernando, Sampsa Sojakka
ECAL
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Optimal Morphology of a Biologically-Inspired Whisker Array on an Obstacle-Avoiding Robot
Abstract. Whiskers are versatile sensors for short-range navigation and exploration that are widespread in many animal species, especially in rodents. Their arrangement is in very ...
Miriam Fend, Hiroshi Yokoi, Rolf Pfeifer
ECAL
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Evolving Fractal Gene Regulatory Networks for Robot Control
Fractal proteins are a new evolvable method of mapping genotype to phenotype through a developmental process, where genes are expressed into proteins comprised of subsets of the Ma...
Peter J. Bentley
ECAL
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Are There Representations in Embodied Evolved Agents? Taking Measures
Abstract. The question of conceptual representation has received considerable attention in philosophy, neuroscience and embodied evolved agents. Numerous theories on the interpreta...
Hezi Avraham, Gal Chechik, Eytan Ruppin
ECAL
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Measuring the Dynamics of Artificial Evolution
This paper presents results of measuring evolution in a simple ALife system. Interpretation of these results is based on the notion of dynamical systems. This approach enables the ...
Mikhail S. Burtsev
ECAL
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
A Universal Framework for Self-Replication
Abstract. Self-replication is a fundamental property of many interesting physical, formal and biological systems, such as crystals, waves, automata, and especially forms of natural...
Bryant Adams, Hod Lipson