8. ECAL 2005: Canterbury, UK

Conceptual Track

• Sarunas Raudys:
  Effect of Synthetic Emotions on Agents' Learning Speed and Their Survivability. 1-10
  
• Ian Macinnes, Ezequiel A. Di Paolo:
  From the Inside Looking Out: Self Extinguishing Perceptual Cues and the Constructed Worlds of Animats. 11-20
  
• Jirí Wiedermann:
  Globular Universe and Autopoietic Automata: A Framework for Artificial Life. 21-30
  
• Jozef Kelemen:
  May Embodiment Cause Hyper-Computation? 31-36
  
• M. Maillard, Olivier Gapenne, L. Hafemeister, Philippe Gaussier:
  Perception as a Dynamical Sensori-Motor Attraction Basin. 37-46
  
• Liz Stillwaggon:
  Toward Genuine Continuity of Life and Mind. 47-56
  

Morphogenesis and Development

• Nicholas S. Flann, Jing Hu, Mayank Bansal, Vinay Patel, Gregory J. Podgorski:
  Biological Development of Cell Patterns: Characterizing the Space of Cell Chemistry Genetic Regulatory Networks. 57-66
  
• Jekanthan Thangavelautham, Gabriele M. T. D'Eleuterio:
  A Coarse-Coding Framework for a Gene-Regulatory-Based Artificial Neural Tissue. 67-77
  
• Tim Rudge, Jim Haseloff:
  A Computational Model of Cellular Morphogenesis in Plants. 78-87
  
• Jon McCormack:
  A Developmental Model for Generative Media. 88-97
  
• Artur Matos, Reiji Suzuki, Takaya Arita:
  Evolutionary Simulations of Maternal Effects in Artificial Developmental Systems. 98-107
  
• Finlay Stewart, Tim Taylor, George Konidaris:
  METAMorph: Experimenting with Genetic Regulatory Networks for Artificial Development. 108-117
  
• Katie Bentley, Chris Clack:
  Morphological Plasticity: Environmentally Driven Morphogenesis. 118-127
  
• Lucien Epiney, Mariusz Nowostawski:
  A Self-organising, Self-adaptable Cellular System. 128-137
  
• Can Öztürkeri, Mathieu S. Capcarrère:
  Self-repair Ability of a Toroidal and Non-toroidal Cellular Developmental Model. 138-148
  
• Chris P. Bowers:
  Simulating Evolution with a Computational Model of Embryogeny: Obtaining Robustness from Evolved Individuals. 149-158
  
• Shuhei Miyashita, Satoshi Murata:
  Topology Changes Enable Reaction-Diffusion to Generate Forms. 159-168
  

Robotics and Autonomous Agents

• Simon Garnier, Christian Jost, Raphaël Jeanson, Jacques Gautrais, Masoud Asadpour, Gilles Caprari, Guy Theraulaz:
  Aggregation Behaviour as a Source of Collective Decision in a Group of Cockroach-Like-Robots. 169-178
  
• Steffen Wischmann, Martin Hülse, Frank Pasemann:
  (Co)Evolution of (De)Centralized Neural Control for a Gravitationally Driven Machine. 179-188
  
• Barthélémy von Haller, Auke Jan Ijspeert, Dario Floreano:
  Co-evolution of Structures and Controllers for Neubot Underwater Modular Robots. 189-199
  
• Michail Maniadakis, Panos E. Trahanias:
  CoEvolutionary Incremental Modelling of Robotic Cognitive Mechanisms. 200-209
  
• Jonas Buchli, Ludovic Righetti, Auke Jan Ijspeert:
  A Dynamical Systems Approach to Learning: A Frequency-Adaptive Hopper Robot. 210-220
  
• Robert Vickerstaff, Ezequiel A. Di Paolo:
  An Evolved Agent Performing Efficient Path Integration Based Homing and Search. 221-230
  
• Elio Tuci, Christos Ampatzis, Marco Dorigo:
  Evolving Neural Mechanisms for an Iterated Discrimination Task: A Robot Based Model. 231-240
  
• James Dyke, Inman Harvey:
  Hysteresis and the Limits of Homeostasis: From Daisyworld to Phototaxis. 241-251
  
• Eduardo Izquierdo-Torres, Ezequiel A. Di Paolo:
  Is an Embodied System Ever Purely Reactive? 252-261
  
• Marieke Rohde, Ezequiel A. Di Paolo:
  t for Two Linear Synergy Advances the Evolution of Directional Pointing Behaviour. 262-271
  
• Rehan O'Grady, Roderich Groß, Francesco Mondada, Michael Bonani, Marco Dorigo:
  Self-assembly on Demand in a Group of Physical Autonomous Mobile Robots Navigating Rough Terrain. 272-281
  
• Francesco Mondada, Michael Bonani, André Guignard, Stéphane Magnenat, Christian Studer, Dario Floreano:
  Superlinear Physical Performances in a SWARM-BOT. 282-291
  
• Christopher L. Buckley, Seth Bullock, Netta Cohen:
  Timescale and Stability in Adaptive Behaviour. 292-301
  
• Miriam Fend:
  Whisker-Based Texture Discrimination on a Mobile Robot. 302-311
  

Evolutionary Computation and Theory

• Ehud Schlessinger, Peter J. Bentley, R. Beau Lotto:
  Analysing the Evolvability of Neural Network Agents Through Structural Mutations. 312-321
  
• Larry Bull:
  Coevolutionary Species Adaptation Genetic Algorithms: A Continuing SAGA on Coupled Fitness Landscapes. 322-331
  
• Hywel T. P. Williams, Jason Noble:
  Evolution and the Regulation of Environmental Variables. 332-341
  
• Anne Defaweux, Tom Lenaerts, Jano I. van Hemert:
  Evolutionary Transitions as a Metaphor for Evolutionary Optimisation. 342-352
  
• Rob Mills, Richard A. Watson:
  Genetic Assimilation and Canalisation in the Baldwin Effect. 353-362
  
• Simon McGregor:
  How Do Evolved Digital Logic Circuits Generalise Successfully? 363-372
  
• Reiji Suzuki, Takaya Arita:
  How Niche Construction Can Guide Coevolution. 373-382
  
• Dara Curran, Colm O'Riordan:
  Measuring Diversity in Populations Employing Cultural Learning in Dynamic Environments. 383-392
  
• Daniel Polani, Peter Dauscher, Thomas Uthmann:
  On a Quantitative Measure for Modularity Based on Information Theory. 393-402
  
• Chuan-Kang Ting:
  On the Mean Convergence Time of Multi-parent Genetic Algorithms Without Selection. 403-412
  
• J. J. McDowell, Zahra Ansari:
  The Quantitative Law of Effect is a Robust Emergent Property of an Evolutionary Algorithm for Reinforcement Learning. 413-422
  
• Carole Knibbe, Guillaume Beslon, Virginie Lefort, F. Chaudier, Jean-Michel Fayard:
  Self-adaptation of Genome Size in Artificial Organisms. 423-432
  

Cellular Automata

• Fiona Polack, Susan Stepney, Heather R. Turner, Peter H. Welch, Fred R. M. Barnes:
  An Architecture for Modelling Emergence in CA-Like Systems. 433-442
  
• Anna Rosa Gabriele:
  The Density Classification Problem for Multi-states Cellular Automata. 443-452
  
• Shigeru Ninagawa:
  Evolving Cellular Automata by 1/f Noise. 453-460
  
• Claudio L. M. Martins, Pedro P. B. de Oliveira:
  Evolving Sequential Combinations of Elementary Cellular Automata Rules. 461-470
  
• Margaret Hill, Susan Stepney, Francis Wan:
  Penrose Life: Ash and Oscillators. 471-480
  
• Daisuke Ogihara, Hiroki Sayama:
  Playing a 3D Game of Life in an Interactive Virtual Sandbox. 481-490
  
• Gina Maira Barbosa de Oliveira, Sandra Regina Cardoso Siqueira:
  Using Dynamic Behavior Prediction to Guide an Evolutionary Search for Designing Two-Dimensional Cellular Automata. 491-499
  

Models of Biological Systems and Their Applications

• Camille Stephan-Otto Attolini, Peter F. Stadler, Christoph Flamm:
  CelloS: A Multi-level Approach to Evolutionary Dynamics. 500-509
  
• Alexander O. Tarakanov, Larisa B. Goncharova, Oleg A. Tarakanov:
  A Cytokine Formal Immune Network. 510-519
  
• Richard Stafford, Mark S. Davies:
  Examining Refuge Location Mechanisms in Intertidal Snails Using Artificial Life Simulation Techniques. 520-529
  
• Mari Nakamura, Koichi Kurumatani:
  A Method for Designing Ant Colony Models and Two Examples of Its Application. 530-539
  
• Simon Hartley, Marc Cavazza, Louis Bec, Jean-Luc Lugrin, Sean Crooks:
  Simulating Artificial Organisms with Qualitative Physiology. 540-550
  
• John Bryden:
  Slime Mould and the Transition to Multicellularity: The Role of the Macrocyst Stage. 551-561
  

Ant Colony and Swarm Systems

• Xiao-hua Xu, Ling Chen, Ping He:
  Ant Clustering Embeded in Cellular Automata. 562-571
  
• Loizos Michael:
  Ant-Based Computing. 572-583
  
• Bo Liu, Tianguang Chu, Long Wang:
  Collective Behavior Analysis of a Class of Social Foraging Swarms. 584-593
  
• André Heie Vik:
  Evolving Annular Sorting in Ant-Like Agents. 594-603
  
• Hong Shi, Long Wang, Tianguang Chu, Minjie Xu:
  Flocking Control of Multiple Interactive Dynamical Agents with Switching Topology via Local Feedback. 604-613
  

Evolution of Communication

• Bart de Boer:
  Cultural and Biological Evolution of Phonemic Speech. 614-623
  
• Yoosook Lee, Travis C. Collier, Gregory M. Kobele, Edward P. Stabler, Charles E. Taylor:
  Grammar Structure and the Dynamics of Language Evolution. 624-633
  
• Edgar E. Vallejo, Charles E. Taylor:
  Interactions Between Learning and Evolution in Simulated Avian Communication. 634-643
  
• Federico Divina, Paul Vogt:
  Perceptually Grounded Lexicon Formation Using Inconsistent Knowledge. 644-654
  

Simulation of Social Interactions

• Mikhail S. Burtsev:
  Artificial Life Meets Anthropology: A Case of Aggression in Primitive Societies. 655-664
  
• Leslie Luthi, Mario Giacobini, Marco Tomassini:
  Emergence of Structure and Stability in the Prisoner's Dilemma on Networks. 665-674
  
• Takashi Hashimoto, Susumu Egashira:
  Multi-agent-based Simulation for Formation of Institutions on Socially Constructed Facts. 675-684
  

Self-replication

• Kyubum Wee, Woosuk Lee:
  Extensions and Variations on Construction of Autoreplicators in Typogenetics. 685-694
  
• Chrisantha Fernando:
  The Good Symbiont. 695-704
  
• Kohji Tomita, Satoshi Murata, Akiya Kamimura, Haruhisa Kurokawa:
  Self-description for Construction and Execution in Graph Rewriting Automata. 705-715
  

Artificial Chemistry

• Naoaki Ono, Yoshi Fujiwara, Kikuo Yuta:
  Artificial Metabolic System: An Evolutionary Model for Community Organization in Metabolic Networks. 716-724
  
• Gil Benkö, Christoph Flamm, Peter F. Stadler:
  Explicit Collision Simulation of Chemical Reactions in a Graph Based Artificial Chemistry. 725-733
  
• Rebecca Schulman, Erik Winfree:
  Self-replication and Evolution of DNA Crystals. 734-743
  

Posters

• Alexander S. Klyubin, Daniel Polani, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv:
  All Else Being Equal Be Empowered. 744-753
  
• Patrícia Amâncio Vargas, Renan C. Moioli, Leandro Nunes de Castro, Jon Timmis, Mark Neal, Fernando J. Von Zuben:
  Artificial Homeostatic System: A Novel Approach. 754-764
  
• Gemma Bel Enguix, Maria Dolores Jiménez-López:
  Artificial Life for Natural Language Processing. 765-774
  
• Alan Dorin:
  A Co-evolutionary Epidemiological Model for Artificial Life and Death. 775-784
  
• Christophe Philemotte, Hugues Bersini:
  CoEvolution of Effective Observers and Observed Multi-agents System. 785-794
  
• A. E. Eiben, Geoff Nitschke, Martijn C. Schut:
  Comparative Reproduction Schemes for Evolving Gathering Collectives. 795-804
  
• André Stauffer, Daniel Mange, Gianluca Tempesti:
  Construction-Based and Inspection-Based Universal Self-replication. 805-814
  
• Dandan Zhang, Yimin Fang, Guangming Xie, Junzhi Yu, Long Wang:
  Coordinating Dual-Mode Biomimetic Robotic Fish in Box-Pushing Task. 815-824
  
• Jan T. Kim:
  Effects of Spatial Growth on Gene Expression Dynamics and on Regulatory Network Reconstruction. 825-834
  
• Kazutoshi Sasahara, Takashi Ikegami:
  Evolution of Song Communication in a 2D Space. 835-844
  
• Dominique Chu, Jonathan E. Rowe:
  A Fitness-Landscape for the Evolution of Uptake Signal Sequences on Bacterial DNA. 845-853
  
• Philip Gerlee, Torbjörn Lundh:
  The Genetic Coding Style of Digital Organisms. 854-863
  
• Hugues Bersini, Tom Lenaerts, Francisco C. Santos:
  Growing Biochemical Networks: Identifying the Intrinsic Properties. 864-873
  
• Ben Niu, Yunlong Zhu, Xiaoxian He:
  Multi-population Cooperative Particle Swarm Optimization. 874-883
  
• Mikhail Prokopenko, Piraveenan Mahendra rajah, Peter Wang:
  On Convergence of Dynamic Cluster Formation in Multi-agent Networks. 884-894
  
• Richard A. Watson:
  On the Unit of Selection in Sexual Populations. 895-905
  
• Toshiyuki Kondo, Koji Ito:
  Periodic Motion Control by Modulating CPG Parameters Based on Time-Series Recognition. 906-915
  
• Yuumi Kawachi, Shinichiro Yoshii:
  Self-organized Criticality on Growing Scale-Free Networks. 916-925
  
• Ben Hutt, Kevin Warwick:
  Synapsing Variable Length Crossover: An Algorithm for Crossing and Comparing Variable Length Genomes. 926-935
  
• Theodoros Damoulas, Ignasi Cos-Aguilera, Gillian M. Hayes, Tim Taylor:
  Valency for Adaptive Homeostatic Agents: Relating Evolution and Learning. 936-945