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ECAL
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Building Virtual Ecosystems from Artificial Chemistry
Abstract. This paper adopts an interdisciplinary view of the significant elements of ecosystems and the methods by which these might be simulated to explore theoretical issues of r...
Alan Dorin, Kevin B. Korb
ECAL
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Modelling the Effects of Colony Age on the Foraging Behaviour of Harvester Ants
Abstract. The colonies of certain species of ants, for example Pogonomyrmex barbatus, exhibit changes in behaviour as the colonies grow older, despite nearly all of the individual ...
Tom Diethe, Peter J. Bentley
ECAL
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Simulation of the Evolution of Aging: Effects of Aggression and Kin-Recognition
Current biological theory has no commonly accepted view on the phenomenon of aging. On the one hand it is considered as an inescapable degradation immanent to complex biological sy...
Svetlana Krivenko, Mikhail S. Burtsev
ECAL
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Spatial Embedding and Complexity: The Small-World Is Not Enough
The “order for free” exhibited by some classes of system has been exploited by natural selection in order to build systems capable of exhibiting complex behaviour. Here we expl...
Christopher L. Buckley, Seth Bullock
ECAL
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Neuroevolution of Agents Capable of Reactive and Deliberative Behaviours in Novel and Dynamic Environments
Both reactive and deliberative qualities are essential for a good action selection mechanism. We present a model that embodies a hybrid of two very different neural network archit...
Edward Robinson, Timothy Ellis, Alastair Channon