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ALIFE
1999
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An Approach to Biological Computation: Unicellular Core-Memory Creatures Evolved Using Genetic Algorithms
A novel machine language genetic programming system that uses one-dimensional core memories is proposed and simulated. The core is compared to a biochemical reaction space, and in ...
Hikeaki Suzuki
ALIFE
1999
13 years 10 months ago
A New Structurally Dissolvable Self-Reproducing Loop Evolving in a Simple Cellular Automata Space
tion, structural dissolutionAbstract We constructed a simple evolutionary system, "evoloop," on a deterministic nine-state five-neighbor cellular automata (CA) space by i...
Hiroki Sayama
ALIFE
1999
13 years 10 months ago
The Simulated Evolution of Biochemical Guilds: Reconciling Gaia Theory and Natural Selection
Gaia theory, which states that organisms both affect and regulate their environment, poses an interesting problem to Neo-Darwinian evolutionary biologists and provides an exciting ...
Keith L. Downing, Peter Zvirinsky
ALIFE
1999
13 years 10 months ago
The Creatures Global Digital Ecosystem
An arti cial life entertainment-software product called Creatures was released in Europe in late 1996 and in the United States and Japan in mid-1997. When installed on a domestic c...
Dave Cliff, Stephen Grand
ALIFE
1999
13 years 10 months ago
Visualizing Evolutionary Activity of Genotypes
A large amount of work has been done in the past regarding Artificial Life and Artificial Ecosystems. A summary of this literature as it pertains to the work at hand is discussed ...
Mark A. Bedau, C. Titus Brown
ALIFE
1998
13 years 10 months ago
Self-Adaptation in Evolving Systems
A theoretical and experimental analysis is made of the effects of self-adaptation in a simple evolving system. Specifically, we consider the effects of coding the mutation and ...
Christopher R. Stephens, I. Garcia Olmedo, J. Mora...
ALIFE
1998
13 years 10 months ago
Emergence of Multicellular Organisms with Dynamic Differentiation and Spatial Pattern
The origin of multicellular organisms and the mechanism of development in cell societies are studied by choosing a model with intracellular biochemical dynamics allowing for oscill...
Chikara Furusawa, Kunihiko Kaneko
ALIFE
1998
13 years 10 months ago
Evolutionary Body Building: Adaptive Physical Designs for Robots
Creating artificial life forms through evolutionary robotics faces a “chicken and egg” problem: learning to control a complex body is dominated by problems specific to its s...
Pablo Funes, Jordan B. Pollack
ALIFE
1998
13 years 10 months ago
Computational Models for the Formation of Protocell Structures
There have been various attempts to simulate the self-assembly process of lipid aggregates by computers. However, due to the computationally complex nature of the problem, previou...
Linglan Edwards, Yun Peng, James A. Reggia
ALIFE
1998
13 years 10 months ago
Self-Evolution in a Constructive Binary String System
We examine the qualitative dynamics of a catalytic self-organizing reaction system of binary strings that is inspired by the chemical information processing metaphor. A string is ...
Peter Dittrich, Wolfgang Banzhaf