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2004
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Evolution of Resource Competition between Mutually Dependent Digital Organisms
We study the emergence and dynamics of competing strains of digital organisms in a world with two depletable resources. Consumption of one resource produces the other resource as a...
Tyler J. Johnson, Claus O. Wilke
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ALIFE
2004
15 years 9 days ago
Autopoiesis and Cognition in the Game of Life
Maturana and Varela's notion of autopoiesis has the potential to transform the conceptual foundation of biology as well as the cognitive, behavioral, and brain sciences. In or...
Randall D. Beer
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ALIFE
2004
15 years 9 days ago
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
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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
15 years 9 days ago
Digital Evolution in Time-Dependent Fitness Landscapes
We study the response of populations of digital organisms that adapt to a time-varying (periodic) fitness landscape of two oscillating peaks. We corroborate in general predictions ...
Ye Li, Claus O. Wilke
87
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ALIFE
2004
15 years 9 days ago
Learning Obstacle Avoidance with an Operant Behavior Model
Diego A. Gutnisky, B. Silvano Zanutto
84
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ALIFE
2005
15 years 10 days ago
New Robotics: Design Principles for Intelligent Systems
New Robotics designates an approach to robotics that, in contrast to traditional robotics, employs ideas and principles from biology. While in the traditional approach there are g...
Rolf Pfeifer, Fumiya Iida, Josh C. Bongard
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ALIFE
2005
15 years 10 days ago
Evolutionary Robotics: A New Scientific Tool for Studying Cognition
Inman Harvey, Ezequiel A. Di Paolo, Rachel Wood, M...
102
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ALIFE
2005
15 years 10 days ago
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...