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ECAL
2001
Springer
14 years 7 days ago
Insect Inspired Visual Control of Translatory Flight
Flying insects use highly efficient visual strategies to control their self-motion in three-dimensional space. We present a biologically inspired, minimalistic model for visual ...
Titus R. Neumann, Heinrich H. Bülthoff
ECAL
2001
Springer
14 years 7 days ago
Taxonomy in Alife. Measures of Similarity for Complex Artificial Organisms
In this paper a formal approach to construction of a similarity measure for complex creatures is presented. The simulation model is described, and a Framsticks agent is expressed i...
Maciej Komosinski, Marek Kubiak
ECAL
2001
Springer
14 years 7 days ago
Patch Sorting: Multi-object Clustering Using Minimalist Robots
Chris Melhuish, Matt Wilson, Ana B. Sendova-Franks
ECAL
2001
Springer
14 years 7 days ago
The Shifting Network: Volume Signalling in Real and Robot Nervous Systems
This paper presents recent work in computational modelling of diffusing gaseous neuromodulators in biological nervous systems. It goes on to describe work in adaptive autonomous sy...
Phil Husbands, Andrew Philippides, Tom Smith, Mich...
ECAL
2001
Springer
14 years 7 days ago
Passing the ALife Test: Activity Statistics Classify Evolution in Geb as Unbounded
Bedau and Packard’s evolutionary activity statistics [1, 2] are used to classify the evolutionary dynamics in Geb [3, 4], a system designed to verify and extend theories behind t...
Alastair Channon
ECAL
2001
Springer
14 years 7 days ago
Evolving Multi-agent Networks in Structured Environments
A crucial feature of evolving natural systems is parallelism. The simultaneous and distributed application of rules (governed by e.g. biochemistry) is generally considered as the p...
Thomas Glotzmann, Holger Lange, Michael Hauhs, A. ...
ECAL
2001
Springer
14 years 7 days ago
The Survival of the Smallest: Stability Conditions for the Cultural Evolution of Compositional Language
Abstract. Recent work in the field of computational evolutionary linguistics suggests that the dynamics arising from the cultural evolution of language can explain the emergence o...
Henry Brighton, Simon Kirby
ECAL
2001
Springer
14 years 7 days ago
Pareto Optimality in Coevolutionary Learning
We develop a novel coevolutionary algorithm based upon the concept of Pareto optimality. The Pareto criterion is core to conventional multi-objective optimization (MOO) algorithms....
Sevan G. Ficici, Jordan B. Pollack
ECAL
2001
Springer
14 years 7 days ago
Stability of Metabolic and Balanced Organisations
We investigate the possible organisations emerging from an artificial chemistry (AC) of colliding molecules in a well stirred reactor. The molecules are generated from 7 basic comp...
Pietro Speroni di Fenizio, Wolfgang Banzhaf