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ECAL
2005
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Evolution and the Regulation of Environmental Variables
The idea that the biota can regulate the abiotic components of their environment to levels suitable for life has attracted criticism from neo-Darwinian theorists but is still a via...
Hywel T. P. Williams, Jason Noble
ECAL
2005
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
From the Inside Looking Out: Self Extinguishing Perceptual Cues and the Constructed Worlds of Animats
Jakob von Uexk¨ull’s theory of the Umwelt is described and it is used to show how perceptual states can be defined. It is described how perceptual cues are selected over evolut...
Ian Macinnes, Ezequiel A. Di Paolo
ECAL
2005
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Penrose Life: Ash and Oscillators
We compare the long term behaviour of Conway’s Game of Life cellular automaton, from initial random configurations, on a bounded rectangular grid and a bounded Penrose tiling gr...
Margaret Hill, Susan Stepney, Francis Wan
ECAL
2005
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Analysing the Evolvability of Neural Network Agents Through Structural Mutations
This paper investigates evolvability of artificial neural networks within an artificial life environment. Five different structural mutations are investigated, including adaptive e...
Ehud Schlessinger, Peter J. Bentley, R. Beau Lotto
ECAL
2005
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
(Co)Evolution of (De)Centralized Neural Control for a Gravitationally Driven Machine
Using decentralized control structures for robot control can offer a lot of advantages, such as less complexity, better fault tolerance and more flexibility. In this paper the ev...
Steffen Wischmann, Martin Hülse, Frank Pasema...