Ebook: Advances in Artificial Life: 9th European Conference, ECAL 2007, Lisbon, Portugal, September 10-14, 2007. Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Artificial Life, ECAL 2007, held in Lisbon, Portugal, September 2007.

The 125 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected. The papers are organized in topical sections on conceptual articles, morphogenesis and development, robotics and autonomous agents, evolutionary computation and theory, cellular automata, models of biological systems and their applications, ant colony and swarm systems, evolution of communication, simulation of social interactions, self-replication, artificial chemistry, and posters.

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Artificial Life, ECAL 2007, held in Lisbon, Portugal, September 2007.

The 125 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected. The papers are organized in topical sections on conceptual articles, morphogenesis and development, robotics and autonomous agents, evolutionary computation and theory, cellular automata, models of biological systems and their applications, ant colony and swarm systems, evolution of communication, simulation of social interactions, self-replication, artificial chemistry, and posters.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages -
Chemical Organizations at Different Spatial Scales....Pages 1-11
Formulating Membrane Dynamics with the Reaction of Surface Objects....Pages 12-21
Multi-level Selectional Stalemate in a Simple Artificial Chemistry....Pages 22-31
Simulation Model for Functionalized Vesicles: Lipid-Peptide Integration in Minimal Protocells....Pages 32-41
Emergence of Genetic Coding: An Information-Theoretic Model....Pages 42-52
Emergent Phenomena Only Belong to Biology....Pages 53-62
Genotype Editing and the Evolution of Regulation and Memory....Pages 63-73
Investigating the Emergence of Phenotypic Plasticity in Evolving Digital Organisms....Pages 74-83
Simulation of the Evolution of Aging: Effects of Aggression and Kin-Recognition....Pages 84-92
Artificial Ecosystem Selection for Evolutionary Optimisation....Pages 93-102
Building Virtual Ecosystems from Artificial Chemistry....Pages 103-112
Energy Flows and Maximum Power on an Evolutionary Ecological Network Model....Pages 113-122
Entropy Production in Ecosystems....Pages 123-132
Increasing Complexity Can Increase Stability in a Self-Regulating Ecosystem....Pages 133-142
Niche Differentiation and Coexistence in a Multi-resource Ecosystem with Competition....Pages 143-152
Variance in Water Temperature as a Factor in the Modelling of Starfish and Mussel Population Density and Diversity....Pages 153-162
Cell Tracking: Genesis and Epigenesis in an Artificial Organism....Pages 163-171
Developmental Neural Heterogeneity Through Coarse-Coding Regulation....Pages 172-182
Re-examination of Swimming Motion of Virtually Evolved Creature Based on Fluid Dynamics....Pages 183-192
Adaptation to Sensory Delays....Pages 193-202
Adapting to Your Body....Pages 203-212
An Analysis of Behavioral Attractor Dynamics....Pages 213-222
Artificial Emotions: Are We Ready for Them?....Pages 223-232
Evolution of an Adaptive Sleep Response in Digital Organisms....Pages 233-242
Where Did I Put My Glasses? Determining Trustfulness of Records in Episodic Memory by Means of an Associative Network....Pages 243-252
Grounding Action-Selection in Event-Based Anticipation....Pages 253-262
Aging in Artificial Learning Systems....Pages 263-272
An Analysis of the Effects of Lifetime Learning on Population Fitness and Diversity in an NK Fitness Landscape....Pages 273-283
Embodied Evolution and Learning: The Neglected Timing of Maturation....Pages 284-293
Evolution and Learning in an Intrinsically Motivated Reinforcement Learning Robot....Pages 294-303
Evolving Cultural Learning Parameters in an NK Fitness Landscape....Pages 304-314
How Does Niche Construction Reverse the Baldwin Effect?....Pages 315-324
Improving Search Efficiency in the Action Space of an Instance-Based Reinforcement Learning Technique for Multi-robot Systems....Pages 325-334
Improving Agent Localisation Through Stereotypical Motion....Pages 335-344
Neuroevolution of Agents Capable of Reactive and Deliberative Behaviours in Novel and Dynamic Environments....Pages 345-354
On the Adaptive Disadvantage of Lamarckianism in Rapidly Changing Environments....Pages 355-364
The Dynamics of Associative Learning in an Evolved Situated Agent....Pages 365-374
Constructing the Basic Umwelt of Artificial Agents: An Information-Theoretic Approach....Pages 375-383
Directed Evolution of Communication and Cooperation in Digital Organisms....Pages 384-394
Evolution of Acoustic Communication Between Two Cooperating Robots....Pages 395-404
Group Size Effects on the Emergence of Compositional Structures in Language....Pages 405-414
Language Learning Dynamics: Coexistence and Selection of Grammars....Pages 415-424
Multi-level Selection in the Emergence of Language Systematicity....Pages 425-434
Protolanguages That Are Semi-holophrastic....Pages 435-444
From the Outside-In: Embodied Attention in Toddlers....Pages 445-454
Autonomy: A Review and a Reappraisal....Pages 455-464
Category Theoretical Distinction Between Autopoiesis and (M,R) Systems....Pages 465-474
Measuring Autonomy by Multivariate Autoregressive Modelling....Pages 475-484
Minimal Agency Detection of Embodied Agents....Pages 485-494
Hermeneutic Resonance in Animats and Art....Pages 495-504
Robotic Superstrings Installation: A-Life Science & Art....Pages 505-514
A Distributed Formation Algorithm to Organize Agents with No Coordinate Agreement....Pages 515-524
A Multi-level Selection Model for the Emergence of Social Norms....Pages 525-534
Evolution of Cooperation in a Population of Selfish Adaptive Agents....Pages 535-544
Evolutionary Dilemmas in a Social Network....Pages 545-554
Exogenous Fault Detection in a Collective Robotic Task....Pages 555-564
From Artificial Societies to New Social Science Theory....Pages 565-574
From Solitary to Collective Behaviours: Decision Making and Cooperation....Pages 575-584
Individual Selection for Cooperative Group Formation....Pages 585-594
Institutional Robotics....Pages 595-604
Investigating the Evolution of Cooperative Behaviour in a Minimally Spatial Model....Pages 605-614
Modeling Decentralized Organizational Change in Honeybee Societies....Pages 615-624
Social Facilitation on the Development of Foraging Behaviors in a Population of Autonomous Robots....Pages 625-634
Social Impact Theory Based Optimizer....Pages 635-644
The Role of Collective Reproduction in Evolution....Pages 645-654
Fear and the Behaviour of Virtual Flocking Animals....Pages 655-664
Comparing ACO Algorithms for Solving the Bi-criteria Military Path-Finding Problem....Pages 665-674
Decentralized Control and Interactive Design Methods for Large-Scale Heterogeneous Self-Organizing Swarms....Pages 675-684
EcoPS – a Model of Group-Foraging with Particle Swarm Systems....Pages 685-695
Efficient Multi-foraging in Swarm Robotics....Pages 696-705
Modelling the Effects of Colony Age on the Foraging Behaviour of Harvester Ants....Pages 706-715
A Mechanism to Self-Assemble Patterns with Autonomous Robots....Pages 716-725
Binocular Vision-Based Robot Control with Active Hand-Eye Coordination....Pages 726-735
Controlling an Anthropomimetic Robot: A Preliminary Investigation....Pages 736-745
Evolution of Neural Networks for Active Control of Tethered Airfoils....Pages 746-755
Feathered Flyer: Integrating Morphological Computation and Sensory Reflexes into a Physically Simulated Flapping-Wing Robot for Robust Flight Manoeuvre ....Pages 756-765
Guided Self-organisation for Autonomous Robot Development....Pages 766-775
Near-Optimal Mobile Robot Recharging with the Rate-Maximizing Forager....Pages 776-785
Neural Uncertainty and Sensorimotor Robustness....Pages 786-795
Simulations of Simulations in Evolutionary Robotics....Pages 796-805
Synthesizing Physically-Realistic Environmental Models from Robot Exploration....Pages 806-815
The Evolution of Pain....Pages 816-824
A Computational Morphogenesis Approach to Simple Structure Development....Pages 825-834
Program Evolvability Under Environmental Variations and Neutrality....Pages 835-844
The Creativity Potential Within Evolutionary Algorithms....Pages 845-854
The Problems with Counting Ancestors in a Simple Genetic Algorithm....Pages 855-864
Asynchronous Graph-Rewriting Automata and Simulation of Synchronous Execution....Pages 865-875
Catalysis by Self-Assembled Structures in Emergent Reaction Networks....Pages 876-885
Community Detection in Complex Networks Using Collaborative Evolutionary Algorithms....Pages 886-894
Detecting Non-trivial Computation in Complex Dynamics....Pages 895-904
Evolution of One-Dimensional Cellular Automata by 1/f Noise....Pages 905-914
Genotype Reuse More Important than Genotype Size in Evolvability of Embodied Neural Networks....Pages 915-924
Information-Cloning of Scale-Free Networks....Pages 925-935
MBEANN: Mutation-Based Evolving Artificial Neural Networks ....Pages 936-945
Measuring Entropy in Embodied Neural Agents with Homeostasic Units: A Link Between Complexity and Cybernetics....Pages 946-955
Networks Regulating Networks: The Effects of Constraints on Topological Evolution....Pages 956-965
Preliminary Investigations on the Evolvability of a Non spatial GasNet Model....Pages 966-975
Semi-synchronous Activation in Scale-Free Boolean Networks....Pages 976-985
Spatial Embedding and Complexity: The Small-World Is Not Enough....Pages 986-995
The Application of the Idea of Extended Cellular Automata for Some Pedestrian Behaviors....Pages 996-1005
Transients of Active Tracking: A Stroll in Attractor Spaces....Pages 1006-1015
Wavelet Network with Hybrid Algorithm to Linearize High Power Amplifiers....Pages 1016-1023
A Behavior-Based Model of the Hydra, Phylum Cnidaria....Pages 1024-1033
A Computational System for Investigating Chemotaxis-Based Cell Aggregation....Pages 1034-1049
A Signal Based Approach to Artificial Agent Modeling....Pages 1050-1059
Construction of Hypercycles in Typogenetics with Evolutionary Algorithms....Pages 1060-1068
Designing a Methodology to Estimate Complexity of Protein Structures....Pages 1069-1078
Designing for Surprise....Pages 1079-1088
Evolving Virtual Neuronal Morphologies: A Case Study in Genetic L-Systems Programming....Pages 1089-1099
Folding Protein-Like Structures with Open L-Systems....Pages 1100-1109
Formal Model of Embodiment on Abstract Systems: From Hierarchy to Heterarchy....Pages 1110-1119
Neuro-evolution Methods for Designing Emergent Specialization....Pages 1120-1130
Neutral Emergence and Coarse Graining....Pages 1131-1140
New Models for Old Questions: Evolutionary Robotics and the ‘A Not B’ Error....Pages 1141-1150
PLAZZMID: An Evolutionary Agent-Based Architecture Inspired by Bacteria and Bees....Pages 1151-1160
Self-organizing Acoustic Categories in Sensor Arrays....Pages 1161-1170
Self-organizing Systems Based on Bio-inspired Properties....Pages 1171-1181
Stepwise Transition from Direct Encoding to Artificial Ontogeny in Neuroevolution....Pages 1182-1191
Symbiosis, Synergy and Modularity: Introducing the Reciprocal Synergy Symbiosis Algorithm....Pages 1192-1201
Turing Complete Catalytic Particle Computers....Pages 1202-1211
Back Matter....Pages -

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Artificial Life, ECAL 2007, held in Lisbon, Portugal, September 2007.

The 125 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected. The papers are organized in topical sections on conceptual articles, morphogenesis and development, robotics and autonomous agents, evolutionary computation and theory, cellular automata, models of biological systems and their applications, ant colony and swarm systems, evolution of communication, simulation of social interactions, self-replication, artificial chemistry, and posters.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages -
Chemical Organizations at Different Spatial Scales....Pages 1-11
Formulating Membrane Dynamics with the Reaction of Surface Objects....Pages 12-21
Multi-level Selectional Stalemate in a Simple Artificial Chemistry....Pages 22-31
Simulation Model for Functionalized Vesicles: Lipid-Peptide Integration in Minimal Protocells....Pages 32-41
Emergence of Genetic Coding: An Information-Theoretic Model....Pages 42-52
Emergent Phenomena Only Belong to Biology....Pages 53-62
Genotype Editing and the Evolution of Regulation and Memory....Pages 63-73
Investigating the Emergence of Phenotypic Plasticity in Evolving Digital Organisms....Pages 74-83
Simulation of the Evolution of Aging: Effects of Aggression and Kin-Recognition....Pages 84-92
Artificial Ecosystem Selection for Evolutionary Optimisation....Pages 93-102
Building Virtual Ecosystems from Artificial Chemistry....Pages 103-112
Energy Flows and Maximum Power on an Evolutionary Ecological Network Model....Pages 113-122
Entropy Production in Ecosystems....Pages 123-132
Increasing Complexity Can Increase Stability in a Self-Regulating Ecosystem....Pages 133-142
Niche Differentiation and Coexistence in a Multi-resource Ecosystem with Competition....Pages 143-152
Variance in Water Temperature as a Factor in the Modelling of Starfish and Mussel Population Density and Diversity....Pages 153-162
Cell Tracking: Genesis and Epigenesis in an Artificial Organism....Pages 163-171
Developmental Neural Heterogeneity Through Coarse-Coding Regulation....Pages 172-182
Re-examination of Swimming Motion of Virtually Evolved Creature Based on Fluid Dynamics....Pages 183-192
Adaptation to Sensory Delays....Pages 193-202
Adapting to Your Body....Pages 203-212
An Analysis of Behavioral Attractor Dynamics....Pages 213-222
Artificial Emotions: Are We Ready for Them?....Pages 223-232
Evolution of an Adaptive Sleep Response in Digital Organisms....Pages 233-242
Where Did I Put My Glasses? Determining Trustfulness of Records in Episodic Memory by Means of an Associative Network....Pages 243-252
Grounding Action-Selection in Event-Based Anticipation....Pages 253-262
Aging in Artificial Learning Systems....Pages 263-272
An Analysis of the Effects of Lifetime Learning on Population Fitness and Diversity in an NK Fitness Landscape....Pages 273-283
Embodied Evolution and Learning: The Neglected Timing of Maturation....Pages 284-293
Evolution and Learning in an Intrinsically Motivated Reinforcement Learning Robot....Pages 294-303
Evolving Cultural Learning Parameters in an NK Fitness Landscape....Pages 304-314
How Does Niche Construction Reverse the Baldwin Effect?....Pages 315-324
Improving Search Efficiency in the Action Space of an Instance-Based Reinforcement Learning Technique for Multi-robot Systems....Pages 325-334
Improving Agent Localisation Through Stereotypical Motion....Pages 335-344
Neuroevolution of Agents Capable of Reactive and Deliberative Behaviours in Novel and Dynamic Environments....Pages 345-354
On the Adaptive Disadvantage of Lamarckianism in Rapidly Changing Environments....Pages 355-364
The Dynamics of Associative Learning in an Evolved Situated Agent....Pages 365-374
Constructing the Basic Umwelt of Artificial Agents: An Information-Theoretic Approach....Pages 375-383
Directed Evolution of Communication and Cooperation in Digital Organisms....Pages 384-394
Evolution of Acoustic Communication Between Two Cooperating Robots....Pages 395-404
Group Size Effects on the Emergence of Compositional Structures in Language....Pages 405-414
Language Learning Dynamics: Coexistence and Selection of Grammars....Pages 415-424
Multi-level Selection in the Emergence of Language Systematicity....Pages 425-434
Protolanguages That Are Semi-holophrastic....Pages 435-444
From the Outside-In: Embodied Attention in Toddlers....Pages 445-454
Autonomy: A Review and a Reappraisal....Pages 455-464
Category Theoretical Distinction Between Autopoiesis and (M,R) Systems....Pages 465-474
Measuring Autonomy by Multivariate Autoregressive Modelling....Pages 475-484
Minimal Agency Detection of Embodied Agents....Pages 485-494
Hermeneutic Resonance in Animats and Art....Pages 495-504
Robotic Superstrings Installation: A-Life Science & Art....Pages 505-514
A Distributed Formation Algorithm to Organize Agents with No Coordinate Agreement....Pages 515-524
A Multi-level Selection Model for the Emergence of Social Norms....Pages 525-534
Evolution of Cooperation in a Population of Selfish Adaptive Agents....Pages 535-544
Evolutionary Dilemmas in a Social Network....Pages 545-554
Exogenous Fault Detection in a Collective Robotic Task....Pages 555-564
From Artificial Societies to New Social Science Theory....Pages 565-574
From Solitary to Collective Behaviours: Decision Making and Cooperation....Pages 575-584
Individual Selection for Cooperative Group Formation....Pages 585-594
Institutional Robotics....Pages 595-604
Investigating the Evolution of Cooperative Behaviour in a Minimally Spatial Model....Pages 605-614
Modeling Decentralized Organizational Change in Honeybee Societies....Pages 615-624
Social Facilitation on the Development of Foraging Behaviors in a Population of Autonomous Robots....Pages 625-634
Social Impact Theory Based Optimizer....Pages 635-644
The Role of Collective Reproduction in Evolution....Pages 645-654
Fear and the Behaviour of Virtual Flocking Animals....Pages 655-664
Comparing ACO Algorithms for Solving the Bi-criteria Military Path-Finding Problem....Pages 665-674
Decentralized Control and Interactive Design Methods for Large-Scale Heterogeneous Self-Organizing Swarms....Pages 675-684
EcoPS – a Model of Group-Foraging with Particle Swarm Systems....Pages 685-695
Efficient Multi-foraging in Swarm Robotics....Pages 696-705
Modelling the Effects of Colony Age on the Foraging Behaviour of Harvester Ants....Pages 706-715
A Mechanism to Self-Assemble Patterns with Autonomous Robots....Pages 716-725
Binocular Vision-Based Robot Control with Active Hand-Eye Coordination....Pages 726-735
Controlling an Anthropomimetic Robot: A Preliminary Investigation....Pages 736-745
Evolution of Neural Networks for Active Control of Tethered Airfoils....Pages 746-755
Feathered Flyer: Integrating Morphological Computation and Sensory Reflexes into a Physically Simulated Flapping-Wing Robot for Robust Flight Manoeuvre ....Pages 756-765
Guided Self-organisation for Autonomous Robot Development....Pages 766-775
Near-Optimal Mobile Robot Recharging with the Rate-Maximizing Forager....Pages 776-785
Neural Uncertainty and Sensorimotor Robustness....Pages 786-795
Simulations of Simulations in Evolutionary Robotics....Pages 796-805
Synthesizing Physically-Realistic Environmental Models from Robot Exploration....Pages 806-815
The Evolution of Pain....Pages 816-824
A Computational Morphogenesis Approach to Simple Structure Development....Pages 825-834
Program Evolvability Under Environmental Variations and Neutrality....Pages 835-844
The Creativity Potential Within Evolutionary Algorithms....Pages 845-854
The Problems with Counting Ancestors in a Simple Genetic Algorithm....Pages 855-864
Asynchronous Graph-Rewriting Automata and Simulation of Synchronous Execution....Pages 865-875
Catalysis by Self-Assembled Structures in Emergent Reaction Networks....Pages 876-885
Community Detection in Complex Networks Using Collaborative Evolutionary Algorithms....Pages 886-894
Detecting Non-trivial Computation in Complex Dynamics....Pages 895-904
Evolution of One-Dimensional Cellular Automata by 1/f Noise....Pages 905-914
Genotype Reuse More Important than Genotype Size in Evolvability of Embodied Neural Networks....Pages 915-924
Information-Cloning of Scale-Free Networks....Pages 925-935
MBEANN: Mutation-Based Evolving Artificial Neural Networks ....Pages 936-945
Measuring Entropy in Embodied Neural Agents with Homeostasic Units: A Link Between Complexity and Cybernetics....Pages 946-955
Networks Regulating Networks: The Effects of Constraints on Topological Evolution....Pages 956-965
Preliminary Investigations on the Evolvability of a Non spatial GasNet Model....Pages 966-975
Semi-synchronous Activation in Scale-Free Boolean Networks....Pages 976-985
Spatial Embedding and Complexity: The Small-World Is Not Enough....Pages 986-995
The Application of the Idea of Extended Cellular Automata for Some Pedestrian Behaviors....Pages 996-1005
Transients of Active Tracking: A Stroll in Attractor Spaces....Pages 1006-1015
Wavelet Network with Hybrid Algorithm to Linearize High Power Amplifiers....Pages 1016-1023
A Behavior-Based Model of the Hydra, Phylum Cnidaria....Pages 1024-1033
A Computational System for Investigating Chemotaxis-Based Cell Aggregation....Pages 1034-1049
A Signal Based Approach to Artificial Agent Modeling....Pages 1050-1059
Construction of Hypercycles in Typogenetics with Evolutionary Algorithms....Pages 1060-1068
Designing a Methodology to Estimate Complexity of Protein Structures....Pages 1069-1078
Designing for Surprise....Pages 1079-1088
Evolving Virtual Neuronal Morphologies: A Case Study in Genetic L-Systems Programming....Pages 1089-1099
Folding Protein-Like Structures with Open L-Systems....Pages 1100-1109
Formal Model of Embodiment on Abstract Systems: From Hierarchy to Heterarchy....Pages 1110-1119
Neuro-evolution Methods for Designing Emergent Specialization....Pages 1120-1130
Neutral Emergence and Coarse Graining....Pages 1131-1140
New Models for Old Questions: Evolutionary Robotics and the ‘A Not B’ Error....Pages 1141-1150
PLAZZMID: An Evolutionary Agent-Based Architecture Inspired by Bacteria and Bees....Pages 1151-1160
Self-organizing Acoustic Categories in Sensor Arrays....Pages 1161-1170
Self-organizing Systems Based on Bio-inspired Properties....Pages 1171-1181
Stepwise Transition from Direct Encoding to Artificial Ontogeny in Neuroevolution....Pages 1182-1191
Symbiosis, Synergy and Modularity: Introducing the Reciprocal Synergy Symbiosis Algorithm....Pages 1192-1201
Turing Complete Catalytic Particle Computers....Pages 1202-1211
Back Matter....Pages -
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