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ALIFE
2005
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Agency in Natural and Artificial Systems
We analyze the conditions for agency in natural and artificial systems. In the case of basic (natural) autonomous systems, self-construction and activity in the environment are two...
Alvaro Moreno, Arantza Etxeberria
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ALIFE
2005
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Self-Organizing Hierarchies in Sensor and Communication Networks
We consider a hierarchical multicellular sensing and communication network, embedded in an ageless aerospace vehicle, that is expected to detect and react to multiple impacts and d...
Mikhail Prokopenko, Peter Wang, Philip Valencia, D...
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ALIFE
2004
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Building Artificial Life for Play
Toys and play-things are often engineered to replicate the character of real organisms. In the past, inventors often lavished great expense on their life-like automata, their cons...
Alan Dorin
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ALIFE
2004
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Development and the Baldwin Effect
Baldwin's classic hypothesis states that behavioral plasticity can speed evolution by (a) smoothing the fitness landscape and (b) indirect genetic assimilation of acquired cha...
Keith L. Downing
ALIFE
2004
15 years 9 days ago
Using Avida to Test the Effects of Natural Selection on Phylogenetic Reconstruction Methods
Phylogenetic trees group organisms by their ancestral relationships. There are a number of distinct algorithms used to reconstruct these trees from molecular sequence data, but dif...
George I. Hagstrom, Dehua H. Hang, Charles Ofria, ...