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ECAL
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Hysteresis and the Limits of Homeostasis: From Daisyworld to Phototaxis
All biological organisms must be able to regulate certain essential internal variables, e.g. core body temperature in mammals, in order to survive. Almost by definition, those that...
James Dyke, Inman Harvey
ECAL
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
A Co-evolutionary Epidemiological Model for Artificial Life and Death
Abstract. This paper presents a model of the co-evolution of transmissible disease and a population of non-randomly mixed susceptible agents. The presence of the disease elements i...
Alan Dorin
ECAL
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Artificial Life Meets Anthropology: A Case of Aggression in Primitive Societies
One of the greatest challenges in the modern biological and social sciences has been to understand the evolution of altruistic and cooperative behaviors. General outlines of the an...
Mikhail S. Burtsev
ECAL
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
CelloS: A Multi-level Approach to Evolutionary Dynamics
We study the evolution of simple cells that are equipped with a genome, a rudimentary gene regulation network at transcription level and two classes of functional genes: motion e...
Camille Stephan-Otto Attolini, Peter F. Stadler, C...
ECAL
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Perceptually Grounded Lexicon Formation Using Inconsistent Knowledge
Typically, multi-agent models for studying the evolution of perceptually grounded lexicons assume that agents perceive the same set of objects, and that there is either joint atten...
Federico Divina, Paul Vogt
ECAL
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Evolutionary Transitions as a Metaphor for Evolutionary Optimisation
Abstract. This paper proposes a computational model for solving optimisation problems that mimics the principle of evolutionary transitions in individual complexity. More specific...
Anne Defaweux, Tom Lenaerts, Jano I. van Hemert
ECAL
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Measuring Diversity in Populations Employing Cultural Learning in Dynamic Environments
Abstract. This paper examines the effect of cultural learning on a population of neural networks. We compare the genotypic and phenotypic diversity of populations employing only p...
Dara Curran, Colm O'Riordan
ECAL
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Penrose Life: Ash and Oscillators
We compare the long term behaviour of Conway’s Game of Life cellular automaton, from initial random configurations, on a bounded rectangular grid and a bounded Penrose tiling gr...
Margaret Hill, Susan Stepney, Francis Wan