ECAL
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2007
Springer
The Bare Bones language is a programming language with a minimal set of operations that exhibits universal computation. We present a conceptual framework, Chemical Bare Bones, to c...
ECAL
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2007
Springer
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...
ECAL
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2007
Springer
Abstract. Artificial agents controlled by dynamic recurrent node networks with fixed weights are evolved to search for food and associate it with one of two different temperatur...
ECAL
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2007
Springer
We examine the practical problem of a mobile autonomous robot performing a long-duration survey task, during which it must recharge its batteries periodically. We present a scalabl...
ECAL
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2007
Springer
In this paper we describe a model in which artificial evolution is employed to design neural mechanisms that control the motion of two autonomous robots required to communicate th...
ECAL
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2007
Springer
In a social scenario, establishing whether a collaboration is required to achieve a certain goal is a complex problem that requires decision making capabilities and coordination am...
ECAL
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2007
Springer
Abstract. Classical evolutionary algorithms have been extremely successful at solving certain problems. But they implement a very simple model of evolutionary biology that misses o...
ECAL
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2007
Springer
This paper1 introduces a simple model for evolutionary dynamics approaching the “coding threshold”, where the capacity to symbolically represent nucleic acid sequences emerges ...
ECAL
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2007
Springer
We develop a multi-level selection model in the framework of indirect reciprocity. Using two levels of selection, one at the individual level and another at the group level, we pro...
ECAL
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2007
Springer
We present an extremely minimal ecosystem model which takes account of thermodynamic constraints on the organisms’ metabolism. This suggests a way to test the application of a hy...