5. ECAL 1999: Lausanne, Switzerland

@proceedings{DBLP:conf/ecal/1999,
  editor    = {Dario Floreano and
               Jean-Daniel Nicoud and
               Francesco Mondada},
  title     = {Advances in Artificial Life, 5th European Conference, ECAL'99,
               Lausanne, Switzerland, September 13-17, 1999, Proceedings},
  booktitle = {ECAL},
  publisher = {Springer},
  series    = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume    = {1674},
  year      = {1999},
  isbn      = {3-540-66452-1},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

Keynote Lectures

• Hans Meinhardt: From Fertilized Eggs to Complex Organisms: Models of Biological Pattern Formation. 3-4
• William D. Hamilton: Fables of Cyberspace: Tapeworms, Horses, and Mountains. 5-6
• Luc Steels: Cognitive Teleportation and Situated Embodiment. 7
• Tim Lenton: Testing Gaia Theory with Artificial Life. 9-10

Epistemology

• Edmund M. A. Ronald, Moshe Sipper, Mathieu S. Capcarrère: Testing for Emergence in Artificial Life. 13-20
• Paul Domjan: Are Romance Novels Really Alive? A Discussion of the Supple Adaptation View of Life. 21-25

Evolutionary Dynamics

• Richard A. Watson, Jordan B. Pollack: How Symbiosis Can Guide Evolution. 29-38
• Yuka Yamamoto, Takahiro Sasaki, Mario Tokoro: Adaptability of Darwinian and Lamarckian Populations toward an Unknown New World. 39-48
• Tsutomu Oohashi, Tadao Maekawa, Osamu Ueno, Emi Nishida, Norie Kawai: Requirements for Immortal ALife to Exterminate Mortal ALife in One Finite, Heterogeneous Ecosystem. 49-53
• Gabriela Ochoa, Inman Harvey, Hilary Buxton: Error Thresholds and Their Relation to Optimal Mutation Rates. 54-63
• Seth Bullock: Are Artificial Mutation Biases Unnatural? 64-73
• Stevan Jay Anastasoff: Evolving Mutation Rates for the Self-Optimisation of Genetic Algorithms. 74-78
• Sevan G. Ficici, Jordan B. Pollack: Statistical Reasoning Strategies in the Pursuit and Evasion Domain. 79-88
• Atsuko Mutoh, Satoru Oono, Kousuke Moriwaki, Tsuyoshi Nakamura, Nobuhiro Inuzuka, Hidenori Itoh: An Evolutionary Method Using Crossover in a Food Chain Simulation. 89-93
• Tim Taylor: On Self-Reproduction and Evolvability. 94-103
• Russell K. Standish: Some Techniques for the Measurement of Complexity in Tierra. 104-108
• Andreas Rechtsteiner, Mark A. Bedau: A Generic Neutral Model for Quantitative Comparison of Genotypic Evolutionary Activity. 109-118
• Henning Schwöbbermeyer, Jan T. Kim: A Comparative Analysis of Biodiversity Measures. 119-128
• Charles Ofria, Christoph Adami, Travis C. Collier, Grace K. Hsu: Evolution of Differentiated Expression Patterns in Digital Organisms. 129-138
• Arno Rasek, Walter Dörwald, Michael Hauhs, Alois Kastner-Maresch: Species Formation in Evolving Finite State Machines. 139-148
• Michael O'Neill, Conor Ryan: Genetic Code Degeneracy: Implications for Grammatical. 149-153
• Josh C. Bongard: Coevolutionary Dynamics of a Multi-population Genetic Programming System. 154-158
• Vesselin K. Vassilev, Julian F. Miller, Terence C. Fogarty: The Evolution of Computation in Co-evolving Demes of Non-uniform Cellular Automata for Global Synchronisation. 159-169

Evolutionary Cybernetics

• Stefano Nolfi, Domenico Parisi: Exploiting the Power of Sensory-Motor Coordination. 173-182
• Dario Floreano, Joseba Urzelai: Evolution of Neural Controllers with Adaptive Synapses and Compact Genetic Encoding. 183-194
• Auke Jan Ijspeert: Synthetic Approaches to Neurobiology: Review and Case Study in the Control of Anguiliform Locomotion. 195-204
• Richard Walker, Orazio Miglino: Replicating Experiments in "Detour Behavior" with Artifically Evolved Robots: An A-Life Approach to Comparative Psychology. 205-214
• Rens Kortmann, John Hallam: Studying Animals through Artificial Evolution: The Cricket Case. 215-224
• Anil K. Seth: Evolving Behavioural Choice: An Investigation into Herrnstein's Matching Law. 225-235
• John Albert: Modeling of an Early Evolutionary Stage of the Cnidarian Nervous System and Behavior. 236-245
• Ranit Aharonov-Barki, Tuvik Beker, Eytan Ruppin: Spontaneous Evolution of Command Neurons, Place Cells and Memory Mechanisms in Autonomous Agents. 246-255
• Ádám Rotaru-Varga: Modularity in Evolved Artificial Neural Networks. 256-260
• Maciej Komosinski, Szymon Ulatowski: Framsticks: Towards a Simulation of a Nature-Like World, Creatures and Evolution. 261-265
• Tony Belpaeme: Evolving Visual Feature Detectors. 266-270
• Seiji Yamada: Evolutionary Design of Mobile Robot Behaviors for Action-Based Environment Modeling. 271-275

Bio-inspired Robotics and Autonomous Agents

• Jun Tani, Yuuya Sugita: On the Dynamics of Robot Exploration Learning. 279-288
• Ian Kelly, Owen Holland, Martin Scull, David McFarland: Artificial Autonomy in the Natural World: Building a Robot Predator. 289-293
• Yasuhisa Hasegawa, Yoshikuni Ito, Toshio Fukuda: Behaviour Adaption on Behavior-Based Controller for Brachiation Robot. 294-303
• Andrew Adamatzky, Owen Holland, Nikolay G. Rambidi, Alan F. T. Winfield: Wet Artificial Brains: Towards the Chemical Control of Robot Motion by Reaction-Diffusion and Excitable Media. 304-313
• Sorin Moga, Philippe Gaussier: A Neural Structure for Learning by Imitation. 314-318
• Mathias Quoy, Philippe Gaussier, Sacha Leprêtre, Arnaud Revel: A Neural Model for the Visual Navigation and Planning of a Mobile Robot. 319-323
• J. A. Becerra, José Santos Reyes, Richard J. Duro: Progressive Construction of Compound Behavior Controllers for Autonomous Robots Using Temporal Information. 324-328
• Axel Löffler, Jürgen Klahold, Manfred Hußmann, Ulrich Rückert: A Visualization Tool for the Mini-Robot Khepera: Behavior Analysis and Optimization. 329-333
• Thomas Netter, Nicolas H. Franceschini: Towards UAV Nap-of-the-Earth Flight Using Optical Flow. 334-338
• Tom Quick, Kerstin Dautenhahn, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, Graham Roberts: On Bots and Bacteria: Ontology Independent Embodiment. 339-343
• Daniel Thalmann: Populating the Virtual Worlds with Interactive Perceptive Virtual Actors. 344
• Soraia Raupp Musse, Marcelo Kallmann, Daniel Thalmann: Level of Autonomy for Virtual Human Agents. 345-349
• Aapo Hyvärinen, Timo Honkela: Emotional Disorders in Autonomous Agents? 350-354
• Mark Witkowski: Integrating Unsupervised Learning, Motivation and Action Selection in an A-life Agent. 355-364
• George G. Szpiro: Can Computers Have Sentiments? The Case of Risk Aversion and Utility for Wealth. 365-374

Self-Replication, Self-Maintenance, and Gene Expression

• Daniel Mange: Towards Robust Bio-inspired Circuits. 377-378
• Kepa Ruiz-Mirazo, Alvaro Moreno, Federico Morán, Juli Peretó, Juan J. Merelo Guervós: Designing a Simulation Model of a Self-Maintaining Cellular System. 379-388
• Hugues Bersini: Design Patterns for an Object-Oriented Computational Chemistry. 389-398
• Naoaki Ono, Takashi Ikegami: Model of Self-Replicating Cell Capable of Self-Maintenance. 399-406
• Oliver Sharpe: Evolution at the Origins of Life: Modelling Simple Persistent Replicating Objects. 407-411
• Hideaki Suzuki: A Simulation of Life Using a Dynamic Core Memory Partitioned by Membrane Data. 412-416
• Claus O. Wilke, Christopher Ronnewinkel, Thomas Martinetz: Molecular Evolution in Time-Dependent Environments. 417-421
• Tomoyuki Yamamoto, Paulien Hogeweg: Evolution to Complexity: Replication, Elongation and Assembly in an RNA World. 422-426
• Kouji Harada, Takashi Ikegami: Evolution of Multispecificity in an Immune Network. 427-431
• Andrew Adamatzky, Owen Holland, Chris Melhuish: Laziness + Sensitivity + Mobility = Structure. Emergence of Patterns in Lattice Swarms. 432-441
• Cesar Ortega-Sanchez, Andrew M. Tyrrell: Self-Repairing Multicellular Hardware: A Reliability Analysis. 442-446
• Enrico Petraglio, Jean-Marc Henry, Gianluca Tempesti: Arithmetic Operations on Self-Replicating Cellular Automata. 447-456
• Torsten Reil: Dynamics of Gene Expression in an Artificial Genome - Implications for Biological and Artificial Ontogeny. 457-466
• Shugo Hamahashi, Hiroaki Kitano: Parameter Optimization in Hierarchical Structures. 467-471
• Koji Kyoda, Hiroaki Kitano: A Model of Axis Determination for the Drosophila Wing Disc. 472-476
• Mineo Morohashi, Hiroaki Kitano: Identifying Gene Regulatory Networks from Time Series Expression Data by in silico Sampling and Screening. 477-486

Societies and Collective Behaviour

• Massimiliano Ugolini, Domenico Parisi: Simulating the Evolution of Artifacts. 489-498
• Martijn Brinkers, Paul den Dulk: The Evolution of Non-reciprocal Altruism. 499-503
• Ezequiel A. Di Paolo: A Little More than Kind and Less than Kin: The Unwarranted Use of Kin Selection in Spatial Models of Communication. 504-513
• Jason Noble, Elio Tuci, Peter M. Todd: An Evolutionary Simulation Model of Social Learning about Food by Norway Rats. 514-523
• Charlotte K. Hemelrijk: Effects of Cohesiveness on Inter-sexual Dominance Relationships and Spatial Structure among Group-Living Virtual Entities. 524-534
• Seth Bullock, Jennifer Nerissa Davis, Peter M. Todd: Simplicity Rules the Roost: Exploring Birdbrain Parental Investment Heuristics. 535-544
• Takashi Ikegami, Makoto Taiji: Imitation and Cooperation in Coupled Dynamical Recognizers. 545-554
• Takashi Ishida, Hiroshi Yokoi, Yukinori Kakazu: Emergence of Adaptive Society with Competitive Selfish Agents. 555-559
• Eizo Akiyama, Kunihiko Kaneko: Dynamical Systems Game. 560-565
• Yoshiki Yamaguchi, Tsutomu Maruyama, Tsutomu Hoshino: High Speed Hardware Computation of Co-evolution Models. 566-574
• Alcherio Martinoli, Auke Jan Ijspeert, Luca Maria Gambardella: A Probabilistic Model for Understanding and Comparing Collective Aggregation Mechansims. 575-584
• Chris Melhuish: Exploiting Domain Physics: Using Stigmergy to Control Cluster Building with Real Robots. 585-595
• Aude Billard, Auke Jan Ijspeert, Alcherio Martinoli: Adaptive Exploration of a Dynamic Environment by a Group of Communicating Robots. 596-605
• Jordi Delgado, Ricard V. Solé: Task Fulfilment and Temporal Patterns of Activity in Artificial Ant Colonies. 606-615
• Ann Nowé, Katja Verbeeck: Formalizing the Ant Algorithms in Terms of Reinforcement Learning. 616-620
• Annemarie E. Langham, P. W. Grant: Using Competing Ant Colonies to Solve k-way Partitioning Problems with Foraging and Raiding Strategies. 621-625
• Nicolas Monmarché, Mohamed Slimane, Gilles Venturini: On Improving Clustering in Numerical Databases with Artificial Ants. 626-635

Communication and Language

• Hidenori Kawamura, Masahito Yamamoto, Keiji Suzuki, Azuma Ohuchi: Ants War with Evolutive Pheromone Style Communication. 639-643
• Jason Noble: Sexual Signalling in an Artificial Population: When Does the Handicap Principle Work? 644-653
• Angelo Cangelosi: Modeling the Evolution of Communication: From Stimulus Associations to Grounded Symbolic Associations. 654-663
• Bart de Boer, Paul Vogt: Emergence of Speech Sounds in Changing Population. 664-673
• Ahmed-Reda Berrah, Rafael Laboissière: SPECIES: An Evolutionary Model for the Emergence of Phonetic Structures in an Artificial Society of Speech Agents. 674-678
• Luc Steels, Frédéric Kaplan: Collective Learning and Semiotic Dynamics. 679-688
• Edwin D. de Jong: Analyzing the Evolution of Communication from a Dynamical Systems's Perspective. 689-693
• Simon Kirby: Syntax out of Learning: The Cultural Evolution of Structured Communication in a Population of Induction Algorithms. 694-703
• Daniel Livingstone, Colin Fyfe: Modelling the Evolution of Linguistic Diversity. 704-708
• Tracy K. Teal, Daniel Albro, Edward P. Stabler, Charles E. Taylor: Compression and Adaptation. 709-719
• Christopher Dircks, Scott C. Stoness: Effective Lexicon Change in the Absence of Population Flux. 720-724
• Pierre-Yves Oudeyer: Self-Organization of a Lexicon in a Structured Society of Agents. 725-729
• Takashi Hashimoto: Modeling Categorization Dynamics through Conversation by Constructive Approach. 730-734