ECAL
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2007
Springer
Real organisms live in a world full of uncertain situations and have evolved cognitive mechanisms to cope with problems based on actions and perceptions which are not always reliab...
ECAL
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2007
Springer
Abstract. We have developed a software system that simulates chemotaxis-based cell aggregation in 2D. The model implemented within the system consists of such cell behaviors as che...
ECAL
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2007
Springer
A long standing debate within ecology is to what extent ecosystem complexity and stability are related. Landmark theoretical studies claimed that the more complex an ecosystem, the...
ECAL
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2007
Springer
There is an ongoing debate about whether the words in the first languages spoken by humans expressed single concepts or complex holophrases. A computer model was used to investigat...
ECAL
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2007
Springer
Abstract. This paper adopts an interdisciplinary view of the significant elements of ecosystems and the methods by which these might be simulated to explore theoretical issues of r...
ECAL
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2007
Springer
Abstract. Proteins, under native conditions, fold to specific 3D structures according to their 1D amino acid sequence, which in turn is defined by the genetic code. The specific...
ECAL
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2007
Springer
Cultural learning allows individuals to acquire knowledge from others through non-genetic means. The effect of cultural learning on the evolution of artificial organisms has been...
ECAL
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2007
Springer
Abstract. In recent years simulation tools for agent-environment interactions have included increasingly complex and physically realistic conditions. These simulations pose challen...
ECAL
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2007
Springer
Abstract. In the natural world, individual organisms can adapt as their environment changes. In most in silico evolution, however, individual organisms tend to consist of rigid sol...
ECAL
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2007
Springer
There are examples of robotic systems in which autonomous mobile robots self-assemble into larger connected entities. However, existing systems display little or no autonomous cont...