author : John S. McCaskill

The papers are gathered under the following headings: • Origin of Life, Self-Organization, and Self-Replication • Development and Differentiation • Evolutionary and Adaptive Dynamics • Robots and Autonomous Agents • Communication, Cooperation, and Collective Behavior • Methodological and Technological Applications • The Broader Context

Contents

• Hector Fabio Restrepo, Daniel Mange, Moshe Sipper.

A Self-Replicating Universal Turing Machine: From von Neumann's Dream to New Embryonic Circuits

• Alan Dorin.

Creating a Physically-based, Virtual-Metabolism with Solid Cellular Automata

• Hiroki Sayama.

Self-Replicating Worms That Increase Structural Complexity through Gene Transmission

• Uwe Tangen.

Self-Organisation in Micro-Configurable Hardware

• Hugues Bersini.

Reaction Mechanisms in the OO Chemistry

• Pietro Speroni di Fenizio.

A Less Abstract Artificial Chemistry

• Yasuhiro Suzuki, Hiroshi Tanaka.

Chemical Evolution among Artificial Proto-cells

• Harald Huning.

A Search for Multiple Autocatalytic Sets in Artificial Chemistries based on Boolean Networks

• Ezequiel A. Di Paolo.

Searching for Rhythms in Asynchronous Random Boolean Networks

• S. Kazadi, D. Lee, R. Modi, J. Sy, W. Lue.

Levels of Compartmentalization in Alife

• Keith Downing.

Exploring Gaia Theory: Artificial Life on a Planetary Scale

• Chikara Furusawa, Kunihiko Kaneko.

Complex Organization in Multicellularity as a Necessity in Evolution

• Kunihiko Kaneko, Tetsuya Yomo.

Sympatric Speciation from Interaction-induced Phenotype Differentiation

• Hiroaki Takagi, Kunihiko Kaneko.

Evolution of Genetic Code through Isologous Diversification of Cellular States

• Thomas S. Ray, Joseph F. Hart.

Evolution of Differentiation in Multithreaded Digital Organisms

• Cefn Hoile, Richard Tateson.

Design by Morphogenesis

• Alistair G. Rust, Rod Adams, Hamid Bolouri.

Evolutionary Neural Topiary: Growing and Sculpting Artificial Neurons to Order

• David G. Green, David Newth, Michael G. Kirley.

Connectivity and Catastrophe---Towards a General Theory of Evolution

• Rob Shipman, Mark Shackleton, Marc Ebner, Richard A. Watson.

Neutral Search Spaces for Artificial Evolution: A Lesson from Life

• Richard A. Watson, Torsten Reil, Jordan B. Pollack.

Mutualism, Parasitism, and Evolutionary Adaptation

• Michael L. Best.

Coevolving Mutualists Guide Simulated Evolution

• Eizo Akiyama, Kunihiko Kaneko.

Evolution of Cooperation in Social Dilemma---Dynamical Systems Game Approach

• Takaya Arita, Reiji Suzuki.

Interactions between Learning and Evolution: The Outstanding Strategy Generated by the Baldwin Effect

• Hideaki Suzuki.

Evolvability Analysis: Distribution of Hyperblobs in a Variable-Length Protein Genotype Space

• Daniel Wagenaar, Christoph Adami.

Influence of Chance, History and Adaptation on Evolution in Digitalia

• Stevan Jay Anastasoff.

Ecology and Extinction---Macroevolutionary Extinction Dynamics in a Simulated Ecosystem

• Shinichiro Yoshii, Eiichi Miyamoto, Yukinori Kakazu.

Quantification of Microscopic Events in the Process of Long-Term Evolutionary Dynamics

• Russell K. Standish.

An Ecolab Perspective on the Bedau Evolutionary Statistics

• Patricio Lerena.

Mate Choice: Simple or Complex?

• Paul Domjan.

A Discussion of the Use of Artificial Life Models to Evaluate Gould's Hypothesis about Progress in Evolution

• Tatsuo Unemi.

Should Seeds Fly or Not?

• Bernard D. Reger, Karen M. Fleming, Vittorio Sanguineti, Simon Alford, Ferdinando A. Mussa-Ivaldi.

Connecting Brains to Robots: The Development of a Hybrid System for the Study of Learning in Neural Tissues

• Stevan Jay Anastasoff.

A ' Fitness Landscaping' Comparison of Evolved Robot Control Systems

• Hod Lipson, Jordan B. Pollack.

Evolving Physical Creatures

• Edgar E. Vallejo, Ferdando Ramos.

Evolving Insect Locomotion Using Non-uniform Cellular Automata

• Maciej Komosinski, Adam Rotaru-Varga.

From Directed to Open-Ended Evolution in a Complex Simulation Model

• Masayasu Atsumi.

Artificial Neural Development for Pulsed Neural Network Design---Generating Place Recognition Circuits of Animats

• Yuichi Sato, Takashi Nagai, Hiroshi Yokoi, Takafumi Mizuno, Yukinori Kakazu.

Emergent SMA-Net Robot Control by Coupled Oscillator System

• Norman L. Johnson.

Developmental Insights into Evolving Systems: Roles of Diversity, Non-Selection, Self-Organization, Symbiosis

• Josh C. Bongard.

Reducing Collective Behavioural Complexity through Heterogeneity

• Shin I. Nishimura.

Studying Attention Dynamics of a Predator in a Prey-Predator System

• Felix Flentge, Daniel Polani, Thomas Uthmann.

On the Emergence of Possession Norms in Agent Societies

• James A. R. Marshall, Jonathan E. Rowe.

Investigating the Mechanisms Underlying Cooperation in Viscous Population Multi-Agent Systems

• Lars Kroll Kristensen.

Aintz: A Study of Emergent Properties in a Model of Ant Foraging

• Yoshiki Yamaguchi, Tsutomu Maruyama, Tsutomu Hoshino.

A Co-evolution Model of Scores and Strategies in IPD Games: Toward the Understanding of the Emergence of the Social Morals

• Norberto Eiji Nawa, Katsunori Shimohara, Osamu Katai.

On the Effect of "Stock Alerts" in an Agent-Based Model of a Financial Market

• Frederic Kaplan.

Semiotic Schemata: Selection Units for Linguistic Cultural Evolution

• Luc Steels, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer.

The Cultural Evolution of Syntactic Constraints in Phonology

• Carlo C. Maley, Stephanie Forrest.

Modeling the Role of Neutral and Selective Mutations in Cancer

• Anthony Liekens.

From Individuals to Populations, Approaches to the Study of Biological Emergent Phenomena

• Janos Albert.

Towards a Comprehensive Alife-model of the Evolution of the Nervous System and Adaptive Behavior

• M. A. Gibney, N. R. Jennings, N. J. Vriend.

Market-Based Call Routing in Telecommunications Networks Using Adaptive Pricing and Real Bidding

• Gina M. B. Oliveira, Pedro P. B. de Oliveira, Nizam Omar.

Evolving Solutions of the Density Classification Task in 1D Cellular Automata, Guided by Parameters That Estimate Their Dynamic Behaviour

• V. J. Blue, J. L. Adler.

Cellular Automata Model of Emergent Collective Bi-Directional Pedestrian Dynamics

• James Macgill.

Using Flocks to Drive a Geographical Analysis Engine

• Una-May O'Reilly, Ian Ross, Peter Testa.

Emergent Design: Artificial Life for Architecture Design

• Barry McMullin.

John von Neumann and the Evolutionary Growth of Complexity: Looking Backwards, Looking Forwards

• Seth Bullock.

What Can We Learn from the First Evolutionary Simulation Model?

• David H. Ackley.

Real Artificial Life: Where We May Be

• Ezequiel A. Di Paolo, Jason Noble, Seth Bullock.

Simulation Models as Opaque Thought Experiments

• Alvaro Moreno.

Artificial Life as a Bridge between Science and Philosophy

• J. McKenzie Alexander.

Artificial Justice

• Edmund M. A. Ronald, Moshe Sipper.

Engineering, Emergent Engineering, and Artificial Life: Unsurprise, Unsurprising Surprise, and Surprising Surprise

• Gary R. Greenfield.

Art and Artificial Life---A Coevolutionary Approach

• Eleonora Bilotta, Pietro Pantano, Valerio Talarico.

Synthetic Harmonies: An Approach to Musical Semiosis by Means of Cellular Automata

• Christa Sommerer, Laurent Mignonneau.

Modeling Emergence of Complexity: The Application of Complex System and Origin of Life Theory to Interactive Art on the Internet

• Arantza Etxeberria.

Artificial Evolution: Creativity and the Possible