Artificial Life, Volume 9

Volume 9, Number 1, Winter 2003

• Lior Segev, Ranit Aharonov, Isaac Meilijson, Eytan Ruppin: High-Dimensional Analysis of Evolutionary Autonomous Agents. 1-20
• Arnold Smith, Peter D. Turney, Robert Ewaschuk: Self-Replicating Machines in Continuous Space with Virtual Physics. 21-40
• Ales Kubík: Toward a Formalization of Emergence. 41-65
• Jeremy Smith: RandScape: Complex Images from Simple Algorithms. 67-78
• Alan Dorin: Artifact & Artifice: Views on Life. 79-87
• Bart de Boer: The Atoms of Language: The Mind's Hidden Rules of Grammar, by Mark C. Baker; Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution, by Ray Jackendoff. 89-91

Volume 9, Number 2, Spring 2003

• Kenneth O. Stanley, Risto Miikkulainen: A Taxonomy for Artificial Embryogeny. 93-130
• Shlomy Boshy, Eytan Ruppin: Evolving Small Neurocontrollers with Self-Organized Compact Encoding. 131-151
• Hideaki Suzuki, Naoaki Ono, Kikuo Yuta: Several Necessary Conditions for the Evolution of Complex Forms of Life in an Artificial Environment. 153-174
• Andrew D. M. Smith: Intelligent Meaning Creation in a Clumpy World Helps Communication. 175-190
• Alon Gal, Gady Mahal, Moshe Sipper: Evolutionary Plantographics. 191-205
• Steen Rasmussen, Michael J. Raven, Gordon N. Keating, Mark A. Bedau: Colletive Intelligence of the Artificial Life Community on its own Successes, Failures, and Future. 207-235

Volume 9, Number 3, Summer 2003

• Hanspeter Kunz, Charlotte K. Hemelrijk: Artificial Fish Schools: Collective Effects of School Size, Body Size, and Body Form. 237-253
• Gianluca Baldassarre, Stefano Nolfi, Domenico Parisi: Evolving Mobile Robots Able to Display Collective Behaviors. 255-268
• Steen Rasmussen, Liaohai Chen, Martin Nilsson, Shigeaki Abe: Bridging Nonliving and Living Matter. 269-316

• Carlo C. Maley, Stephen J. Tapscott: Selective Instability: Maternal Effort and the Evolution of Gene Activation and Deactivation Rates. 317-326
• James A. R. Marshall, Jonathan E. Rowe: Viscous Populations and Their Support for Reciprocal Cooperation. 327-334

• Charlie Phoenix: Book Review: Biologically Inspired? Sixth Edition by Peter H. Raven and George B. Johnson. 335-337

Volume 9, Number 4, Fall 2003

• Charlotte K. Hemelrijk, Hanspeter Kunz: Introduction to Special Issue on Collective Effects of Human Behavior. 339-341
• Marco A. Janssen, Wander Jager: Simulating Market Dynamics: Interactions between Consumer Psychology and Social Networks. 343-356
• Yoram Louzoun, Sorin Solomon, Jacob Goldenberg, David Mazursky: World-Size Global Markets Lead to Economic Instability. 357-370
• Kenny Smith, Simon Kirby, Henry Brighton: Iterated Learning: A Framework for the Emergence of Language. 371-386
• Willem H. Zuidema, Gert Westermann: Evolution of an Optimal Lexicon under Constraints from Embodiment. 387-402
• Jorge Simão, Peter M. Todd: Emergent Patterns of Mate Choice in Human Populations. 403-417
• Dwight W. Read: Emergent Properties in Small-Scale Societies. 419-434
• George J. Gumerman, Alan C. Swedlund, Jeffrey S. Dean, Joshua M. Epstein: The Evolution of Social Behavior in the Prehistoric American Southwest. 435-444