author : Charles E. Taylor

The papers are gathered under the following headings: • Overview • Origin/Self-Organization • Evolutionary Dynamics • Development • Learning and Evolution • Computation • Philosophy/Emergence • The Future

Contents

• Thomas S. Ray.

An Approach to the Synthesis of Life

A description of his virtual Tierra environment, for studying artificial open-ended evolution

• Christopher G. Langton.

Introduction to Artificial Life II

• Charles E. Taylor.

"Fleshing Out" Artificial Life II

• Christopher G. Langton.

Life at the Edge of Chaos

• Richard J. Bagley, J. Doyne Farmer.

Spontaneous Emergence of a Metabolism

• Richard J. Bagley, J. Doyne Farmer, Walter Fontana.

Evolution of a Metabolism

• Walter Fontana.

Algorithmic Chemistry

• Steen Rasmussen, Carsten Knudsen, Rasmus Feldberg.

Dynamics of Programmable Matter

• Maarten Boerlijst, Paulien Hogeweg.

Self-Structuring and Selection: Spiral Waves as a Substrate for Prebiotic Evolution

• Peter Schuster.

Complex Optimization in an Artificial RNA World

• Kristian Lindgren.

Evolutionary Phenomena in Simple Dynamics

• W. Daniel Hillis.

Co-Evolving Parasites Improve Simulated Evolution as an Optimization Procedure. 1990

• Stuart A. Kauffman, Sonke Johnson.

Co-Evolution to the Edge of Chaos: Coupled Fitness Landscapes, Poised States, and Co-Evolutionary Avalanches

• David G. Stork, Bernie Jackson, Scott Walker.

"Non-Optimality" via Pre-Adaptation in Simple Neural Systems

• Mark A. Bedau, Norman H. Packard.

Measurement of Evolutionary Activity, Teleology, and Life

• Martin J. de Boer, F. David Fracchia, Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz.

Analysis and Simulation of the Development of Cellular Layers

• David H. Ackley, Michael L. Littman.

Interactions Between Learning and Evolution

• Richard K. Belew, John McInerney, Nicol N. Schraudolph.

Evolving Networks: Using the Genetic Algorithm with Connectionist Learning

• David R. Jefferson, Robert J. Collins, Claus Cooper, Michael Dyer, Margot Flowers, Richard Korf, Charles E. Taylor, Alan Wang.

Evolution as a Theme in Artificial Life: The Genesys/Tracker System

• Robert J. Collins, David R. Jefferson.

AntFarm: Towards Simulated Evolution

• John R. Koza.

Genetic Evolution and Co-Evolution of Computer Programs

• Bruce J. MacLennan.

Synthetic Ethology: An Approach to the Study of Communication

• Gregory M. Werner, Michael G. Dyer.

Evolution of Communication in Artificial Organisms

• Edwin Hutchins, Brian Hazlehurst.

Learning in the Cultural Process

• Alvy Ray Smith.

Simple Nontrivial Self-Reproducing Machines

• Eugene H. Spafford.

Computer Viruses--A Form of Artificial Life?

• Elliott Sober.

Learning from Functionalism--Prospects for Strong Artificial Life

• Steen Rasmussen.

Aspects of Information, Life, Reality, and Physics

• Peter Cariani.

Emergence and Artificial Life

• Louis Bec.

Elements d'Epistemologie Fabulatoire

[in French]

• J. Doyne Farmer, Alletta d'A. Belin.

Artificial Life: The Coming Evolution

Contents

• Gerald F. Joyce.

What's Evolving in Wet A-Life? (abstract)

• Christos H. Papadimitriou, Martha Sideri.

Computational Complexity in the Life Sciences (abstract)

• Takaya Arita, Yuhji Koyama.

Evolution of Linguistic Diversity in a Simple Communication System

• Lionel Barnett.

Ruggedness and Neutrality: The NKp Family of Fitness Landscapes

• Jens Breyer, Joerg Ackermann, John S. McCaskill.

Evolving Reaction-Diffusion Ecosystems with Self-Assembling Structures in Thin Films

• Linglan Edwards, Yun Peng.

Computational Models for the Formation of Protocell Structures

• Chikara Furusawa, Kunihiko Kaneko.

Emergence of Multicellular Organisms with Dynamic Differentiation and Spatial Pattern

• Jeffrey O. Kephart, James E. Hanson, Jakka Sairamesh.

Price-War Dynamics in a Free-Market Economy of Software Agents

• Henrik Hautop Lund, Barbara Webb, John Hallam.

Physical and Temporal Scaling Considerations in a Robot Model of Cricket Calling Song Preference

• Mineo Morohashi, Hiroaki Kitano.

A Method to Reconstruct Gene Expression Pattern in the Development of Drosophila's Eye

• Christopher D. Rosin, Richard K. Belew, Garrett M. Morris, Arthur J. Olson, David S. Goodsell.

Computational Coevolution of Antiviral Drug Resistance

• Peter Dittrich, Jens Ziegler, Wolfgang Banzhaf.

Mesoscopic Analysis of Self-Evolution in an Artificial Chemistry

• Nicholas Mark Gotts, Paul B. Callahan.

Emergent Structures in Sparse Fields of Conway's "Game of Life"

• Hiroki Sayama.

Introduction of Structural Dissolution into Langton's Self-Reproducing Loop

• Bernd Mayer, Steen Rasmussen.

Self-Reproduction of Dynamical Hierarchies in Chemical Systems

• Yasuhiro Suzuki, Hirhoshi Tanaka.

Order Parameter for a Symbolic Chemical System

• Artur Caetano, Antonio Grilo, Agostinho Rosa.

Modeling Thymic Selection and Concomitant Immune Responses on CD4+ T Lymphocyte Sub-Populations

• Shugo Hamahashi, Hiroaki Kitano.

Simulation of Drosophila Embryogenesis

• George Marnellos, Eric Mjolsness.

Probing the Dynamics of Cell Differentiation in a Model of Drosophila Neurogenesis

• Yoshiyuki Usami, Hirano Saburo, Satoshi Inaha, Masatoshi Kitaoka.

Reconstruction of Extinct Animals in the Computer

• Jeffrey Ventrella.

Attractiveness vs. Efficiency: How Mate Preference Affects Locomotion in the Evolution of Artificial Swimming Organisms

• Jeffrey A. Fletcher, Mark A. Bedau, Martin Zwick.

Effect of Environmental Structure on Evolutionary Adaptation

• Didier Keymeulen, Masaya Iwata, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Tetsuya Higuchi.

Comparison between Off-line Model-Free and On-line Model-Based Evolution Applied to a Robotics Navigation System Using Evolvable Hardware

• Anil K. Seth.

The Evolution of Complexity and the Value of Variability

• Christoph Adami, Ryoichi Seki, Robel Yirdaw.

Critical Exponent of Species-Size Distribution in Evolution

• Mark A. Bedau, Emile Snyder, Norman H. Packard.

A Classification of Long-Term Evolutionary Dynamics

• Sevan G. Ficici, Jordan B. Pollack.

Challenges in Coevolutionary Learning: Arms-Race Dynamics, Open-Endedness, and Mediocre Stable States

• Jan Tai Tsung Kim.

Energy Dependent Adaptation of Mutation Rates in Computer Models of Evolution

• Tim Taylor, John Hallam.

Replaying the Tape: An Investigation into the Role of Contingency in Evolution

• Claus O. Wilke, Stephan Altmeyer, Thomas Martinetz.

Large-Scale Evolution and Extinction in a Hierarchically Structured Environment

• Raffaele Calabretta, Stefano Nolfi, Domenico Parisi, Gunter P. Wagner.

A Case Study of the Evolution of Modularity: Towards a Bridge Between Evolutionary Biology, Artificial Life, Neuro- and Cognitive Science

• Paulien Hogeweg.

On Searching for Generic Properties of Non-Generic Phenomena: An Approach to Bioinformatic Theory Formation

• Thomas S. Ray, Joseph F. Hart.

Evolution of Differentiated Multi-threaded Digital Organisms. 1998

• Charlotte K. Hemelrijk.

Spatial Centrality of Dominants without Positional Preference

• Tad Shannon.

Generic Behavior in the Lindgren Non-Spatial Model of Iterated Two Player Games

• Takao Terano, Setsuya Kurahashi, Ushio Minami.

TRURL: Artificial World for Social Interaction Studies

• Seth Bullock.

A Continuous Evolutionary Simulation Model of the Attainability of Honest Signalling Equilibria

• Michael de la Maza, Ayla Ogus, Deniz Yuret.

How Do Firms Transition Between Monopoly and Competitive Behavior? An Agent-Based Economic Model

• Jason Noble.

Evolved Signals: Expensive Hype vs. Conspiratorial Whispers

• Luc Steels, Frederic Kaplan.

Stochasticity as a Source of Innovation in Language Games

• Andrew Adamatzky, Owen E. Holland.

Edges and Computation in Excitable Media

• Alastair D. Channon, R. I. Damper.

Evolving Novel Behaviors via Natural Selection

• Joe Faith.

Why Gliders Don't Exist: Anti-Reductionism and Emergence

• Ben Hutt, Dave Keating.

Artificial Evolution of Visually Guided Foraging Behaviour

• Kiyoshi Izumi, Kazuhiro Ueda.

Emergent Phenomena in a Foreign Exchange Market: Analysis Based on an Artificial Market Approach

• Norman L. Johnson, Steen Rasmussen, Cliff Joslyn, Luis Mateus Rocha, Steven A. Smith, Marianna Kanto.

Symbiotic Intelligence: Self-Organizing Knowledge on Distributed Networks Driven by Human Interaction

• Franziska Kluegl, Frank Puppe, Ulrich Raub, Juergen Tautz.

Simulating Multiple Emergent Phenomena - Exemplified in an Ant Colony

• Joseph Lambke.

Evolution of Places: Intentionality in the Built Environment

• Holger Lange, Birgit Thies, Alois Kastner-Maresch, Walter Doerwald, Jan Tai Tsung Kim, Michael Hauhs.

Investigating Forest Growth Model Results on Evolutionary Time Scales

• Carlo C. Maley.

Models in Evolutionary Ecology and the Validation Problem

• Alexandra Mark, Daniel Polani, Thomas Uthmann.

A Framework for Sensor Evolution in a Population of Braitenberg Vehicle-like Agents

• George Marnellos, Eric Mjolsness.

A Gene Network Model of Resource Allocation to Growth and Reproduction

• Shin I. Nishimura, Takashi Ikegami.

Emergence and Maintenance of Relationships among Agents

• Una-May O'Reilly, Girish Ramachandran.

A Preliminary Investigation of Evolution as a Form Design Strategy

• Kepa Ruiz-Mirazo, Alvaro Moreno, Federico Moran.

Merging the Energetic and the Relational-Constructive Logic of Life

• William Seffens.

Model Predictions of an Origin of Life Hypothesis Based on Sea Spray

• Elpida S. Tzafestas.

Tom Thumb Robots Revisited: Self-Regulation as the Basis of Behavior

• Hiroki Ueda, Hiroaki Kitano.

A Generalized Reaction-Diffusion Simulator for Studying the Molecular Basis of Pattern Formation in Biological Systems

• Tatsuo Unemi, Takeshi Koike.

Evolution of a Botanical Development System in 3D Euclidean Space

• Mattias Wahde, Mats G. Nordahl.

Co-evolving Pursuit-Evasion Strategies in Open and Confined Regions

• Hiroshi Yokoi, Wenwei Yu, Jun Hakura, Yukinori Kakazu.

A Morpho-Functional Machine: An Artificial Amoeba Based on the Vibrating Potential Method

• Shinichiro Yoshii, Satoshi Ohashi, Yukinori Kakazu.

Self-organized Complexity in Computer Program Ecosystem