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Jean-Arcady Meyer, Stewart W. Wilson, editors. From Animals to Animats: proceedings of the first international conference on Simulation of Adaptive behaviour, Paris, 1990. MIT Press. 1991

 

Contents

Jean-Arcady Meyer, Agnes Guillot.
Simulation of Adaptive Behavior in Animats: Review and Prospect
Stewart W. Wilson.
The Animat Path to AI
David McFarland.
What It Means for Robot Behaviour to be Adaptive
Dave Cliff.
Computational Neuroethology: A Provisional Manifesto
Harold C. Morris.
On the Feasibility of Computational Artificial Life--A Reply to Critics
Alexandre Parodi, Pierre Bonelli.
The Animat and the Physician
Renaud Dumeur.
Extended Classifiers for Simulation of Adaptive Behavior
Herbert L. Roitblat, Patrick W. B. Moore, Paul E. Nachtigall, R. H. Penner.
Biomimetic Sonar Processing: From Dolphin Echolocation to Artificial Neural Networks
DeLiang Wang, Michael A. Arbib.
Hierarchical Dishabituation of Visual Discrimination in Toads
Dave Cliff.
The Computational Hoverfly: A Study in Computational Neuroethology
Philip Teitelbaum, Vivien C. Pellis, Sergio M. Pellis.
Can Allied Reflexes Promote the Integration of a Robot's Behavior?
Holk Cruse.
Coordination of Leg Movement in Walking Animals
Gerhard Manteuffel.
A Biological Visuo-Motor System: How Dissimilar Maps Interact to Produce Behavior
Stephen T. Barnard.
Biological and Computational Stereo Vision
Simon Benhamou, Pierre Bovet.
Modeling and Simulation of Animals' Movements
Michael A. Arbib, Alberto Cobas.
Schemas for Prey-Catching in Frog and Toad
Ulrich Nehmzow, Tim Smithers.
Mapbuilding Using Self-Organising Networks in "Really Useful Robots"
Marc Jamon.
The Contribution of Quantitative Models to The Long Distance Orientation Problems
Maja J. Mataric.
Navigating with a Rat Brain: A Neurobiologically-Inspired Model for Robot Spatial Representation
W. K. Yeap, C. C. Handley.
Four Important Issues in Cognitive Mapping
Mitch R. Harris.
Attracting Similar Shapes Towards Each Other
Frederick Toates, Per Jensen.
Ethological and Psychological Models of Motivation--Towards a Synthesis
Michel Cabanac.
Pleasure: The Answer to Conflicting Motivations
J. R. P. Halperin.
Machine Motivation
Jurgen Schmidhuber.
A Possibility for Implementing Curiosity and Boredom in Model- Building Neural Controllers
Lashon B. Booker.
Instinct as an Inductive Bias for Learning Behavioral Sequences
Pattie Maes.
A Bottom-Up Mechanism for Behavior Selection in an Artificial Creature
Randall D. Beer, Hillel J. Chiel.
The Neural Basis of Behavioral Choice in an Artificial Insect
Martin A. Snaith, Owen E. Holland.
An Investigation of Two Mediation Strategies Suitable for Behavioural Control in Animals and Animats
Toby Tyrrell, John E. W. Mayhew.
Computer Simulation of an Animal Environment
Patrick W. Colgan, T. Lynne Jamieson, Janice E. Frame, J. Terry Smith.
Ontogeny of Preferences in Guppies (Poecilia reticulata) Exposed to Food and Conspecifics
James M. Williams, P. J. B. Slater.
Simulation Studies of Song Learning in Birds
Richard S. Sutton.
Reinforcement Learning Architectures for Animats
Long-Ji Lin.
Self-Improving Reactive Agents: Case Studies of Reinforcement Learning Frameworks
Peter M. Todd, Geoffrey F. Miller.
Exploring Adaptive Agency II: Simulating the Evolution of Associative Learning
Rick L. Riolo.
Lookahead Planning and Latent Learning in a Classifier System
David Pierce, Benjamin Kuipers.
Learning Hill-Climbing Functions as a Strategy for Generating Behaviors in a Mobile Robot
David R. Shanks.
Some Parallels Between Associative Learning and Object Classification
Guy Theraulaz, Simon Goss, Jacques Gervet, Jean-Louis Deneubourg.
Task Differentation in Polistes Wasp Colonies: A Model for Self-Organizing Groups of Robots
Jean-Louis Deneubourg, Simon Goss, Nigel R. Franks, A. Sendova-Franks, C. Detrain, L. Chretien.
Dynamics of Collective Sorting: Robot-Like Ants and Ant-Like Robots
John R. Koza.
Evolution and Co-Evolution of Computer Programs to Control Independently-Acting Agents
Cynthia Kurtz.
The Evolution of Information Gathering: Operational Constraints
Robert J. Collins, David R. Jefferson.
Representations for Artificial Organisms
Federico Cecconi, Domenico Parisi.
Evolving Organisms That Can Reach for Objects
Inman Harvey.
The Artificial Evolution of Behaviour
Fabio De Luigi, Vittorio Maniezzo.
The Rise of Interaction: Intrinsic Simulation Modeling of the Onset of Interacting Behaviour
Jan Paredis.
The Evolution of Behavior: Some Experiments
Dan Wood.
A Von Neumann Approach to a Genotype Explession in a Neural Animat
Rodney A. Brooks.
Challenges for Complete Creature Architecture
Herbert L. Roitblat.
Cognitive Action Theory as a Control Architecture
Luc Steels.
Towards a Theory of Emergent Functionality
David L. Waltz.
Eight Principles for Building an Intelligent Robot
Uwe Schnepf.
Robot Ethology: A Proposal for the Research into Intelligent Autonomous System
Liane M. Gabora, Patrick W. Colgan.
A Model of the Mechanisms Underlying Exploratory Behaviour
Marijke Vonk, Felix Putters, Berend-Jan Velthuis.
Causal Analysis of an Adaptive System: Sex-Ratio Decisions as Observed in a Parasitic Wasp and Simulated by a Network Model
Paulien Hogeweg, B. Hesper.
Evolution as Pattern Processing: TODO as Substrate for Evolution
Alasdair I. Houston.
Matching, Maximizing and Melioration as Alternative Descriptions of Behaviour
Yuval Davidor.
An Adaptation Anomoly of a Genetic Algorithm
George Kiss.
Autonomous Agents, AI and Chaos Theory
Brendan McGonigle.
Incrementing Intelligent Systems by Design
Mitchel Resnick.
Animal Simulations with *Logo: Massive Parallelism for the Masses
Jim Donnett, Tim Smithers.
Lego Vehicles: A Technology for Studying Intelligent Systems

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Jean-Arcady Meyer, Herbert L. Roitblat, Stewart W. Wilson, editors. From Animals to Animats 2: proceedings of the second international conference on Simulation of Adaptive behaviour, Hawaii, 1992. MIT Press. 1993

 

Contents

Pattie Maes.
Behavior-Based Artificial Intelligence
Peter M. Todd, Stewart W. Wilson.
Environment Structure and Adaptive Behavior From the Ground Up
Geoffrey F. Miller, Peter M. Todd.
Evolutionary Wanderlust: Sexual Selection with Directional Mate Preferences
Rolf Pfeifer, Paul F. M. J. Verschure.
Designing Efficiently Navigating Non-Goal-Directed Robots
Michael A. Arbib, Hyun Bong Lee.
Anuran Visuomotor Coordination for Detour Behavior: From Retina to Motor Schemas
Holk Cruse, Uwe Muller-Wilm, Jeffrey Dean.
Artificial Neural Nets for Controlling a 6-Legged Walking System
Sunil Cherian, Wade Troxell.
A Neural Network Based Behavior Hierarchy for Locomotion Control
John C. Gallagher, Randall D. Beer.
Qualitative Dynamical Analysis of Evolved Locomotion Controllers
Richard A. Altes.
Neuronal Parameter Maps and Signal Processing
Herbert L. Roitblat, Patrick W. B. Moore, David A. Helweg, Paul E. Nachtigall.
Representation and Processing of Acoustic Information in a Biomimetic Neural Network
William R. Uttal, Thomas Shepherd, Sriram Dayanand, Robb Lovell.
An Integrated Computational Model of a Perceptual-Motor System
R. Zapata, P. Lepinay, C. Novales, P. Deplanques.
Reactive Behaviors of Fast Mobile Robots in Unstructured Environments: Sensor-Based Control and Neural Networks
Allen Brookes.
The Adaptive Nature of 3D Perception
Ralph Hartley.
Propulsion and Guidance in a Simulation of the Worm C. Elegans
Ian Horswill.
A Simple, Cheap, and Robust Visual Navigation System
Toby Tyrrell.
The Use of Hierarchies for Action Selection
Mark Ring.
Two Methods for Hierarchy Learning in Reinforcement Environments
Liane M. Gabora.
Should I Stay or Should I Go: Coordinating Biological Needs with Continuously-updated Assessments of the Environment
Leemon C. Baird III, A. Harry Klopf.
Extensions of the Associative Control Process (ACP) Network: Hierarchies and Provable Optimality
Simon Giszter.
Behavior Networks and Force Fields for Simulating Spinal Reflex Behaviors of the Frog
Emmanuel Mazer, Juan Manuel Ahuactzin, El-Ghazali Talbi, Pierre Bessiere.
The Ariadne's Clew Algorithm
Feliz Ribeiro, Jean-Paul Barthes, Eugenio Oliveira.
Dynamic Selection of Action Sequences
Jurgen Schmidhuber, Reiner Wahnsiedler.
Planning Simple Trajectories Using Neural Subgoal Generators
J. E. R. Staddon.
A Note on Rate-Sensitive Habituation
Paul F. M. J. Verschure, Rolf Pfeifer.
Categorization, Representations, and The Dynamics of System-Environment Interaction: A Case Study in Autonomous Systems
David Kortenkamp, Eric Chown.
Directional Spreading Activation Network for Mobile Robot Navigation
Saburo Tsuff, Shigang Li.
Memorizing and Representing Route Scenes
Tony J. Prescott, John E. W. Mayhew.
Building Long-Range Cognitive Maps Using Local Landmarks
Nestor A. Schmajuk, H. T. Blair.
Dynamics of Spatial Navigation: An Adaptive Neural Network
A. Harry Klopf, James S. Morgan, Scott E. Weaver.
Modeling Nervous System Function with a Hierarchical Network of Control Systems That Learn
Michael L. Littman.
An Optimization-Based Categorization of Reinforcement Learning Environments
Long-Ji Lin, Tom M. Mitchell.
Reinforcement Learning with Hidden States
Jing Peng, Ronald J. Williams.
Efficient Learning and Planning within the Dyna Framework
Ulrich Nehmzow, Tim Smithers, Brendan McGonigle.
Increasing Behavioural Repertoire in a Mobile Robot
Thomas Ulrich Vogel.
Learning Biped Robot Obstacle Crossing
Marco Colombetti, Marco Dorigo.
Learning to Control an Autonomous Robot by Distributed Genetic Algorithms
Lawrence Davis, Stewart W. Wilson, David Orvosh.
Temporary Memory for Examples Can Speed Learning in a Simple Adaptive System
Alexander Linden, Frank Weber.
Implementing Inner Drive Through Competence Reflection
Bruce E. Rosen, James M. Goodwin.
Dynamic Flight Control with Adaptive Coarse Coding
Josh Tenenberg, Jonas Karlsson, Steven Whitehead.
Learning via Task Decomposition
Federico Cecconi, Domenico Parisi.
Neural Networks with Motivational Units
Hitoshi Iba, Hugo de Garis, Tetsuya Higuchi.
Evolutionary Learning of Predatory Behaviors Based on Structured Classifiers
Inman Harvey, Philip Husbands, Dave Cliff.
Issues in Evolutionary Robotics
Dave Cliff, Philip Husbands, Inman Harvey.
Evolving Visually Guided Robots
Craig W. Reynolds.
An Evolved, Vision-Based Behavioral Model of Coordinated Group Motion
Gregory M. Werner, Michael G. Dyer.
Evolution of Herding Behavior in Artificial Animals
Dwight Deugo, Franz Oppacher.
An Evolutionary Approach to Cognition
Dario Floreano.
Emergence of Nest-Based Foraging Strategies in Ecosystems of Neural Networks
Tetsuya Higuchi, Tatsuya Niwa, Toshio Tanaka, Hitoshi Iba, Hugo de Garis, Tatsumi Furuya.
Evolving Hardware with Genetic Learning: A First Step Towards Building a Darwin Machine
Luis R. Lopez, Robert E. Smith.
Evolving Artificial Insect Brains for Artificial Compound Eye Robotics
Maja J. Mataric.
Designing Emergent Behaviors: From Local Interactions to Collective Intelligence
Lynne E. Parker.
Adaptive Action Selection for Cooperative Agent Teams
Alexis Drogoul, Jacques Ferber.
From Tom Thumb to the Dockers: Some Experiments with Foraging Robots
C. Ronald Kube, Hong Zhang.
Collective Robotic Intelligence
Chisato Numaoka, Akikazu Takeuchi.
Collective Choice of Strategic Type
Holly Yanco, Lynn Andrea Stein.
An Adaptive Communication Protocol for Cooperating Mobile Robots
Ronald C. Arkin, J. David Hobbs.
Dimensions of Communication and Social Organization in Multi-Agent Robotic Systems
Andrea Beltratti, Sergio Margarita.
Evolution of Trading Strategies Among Heterogeneous Artificial Economic Agents
Gerhard Weiss.
Action Selection and Learning in Multi-Agent Environments
John H. Andreae, Shaun W. Ryan, Mark L. Tomlinson.
Structure from Associative Learning (summary)
Christian Balkenius.
The Roots of Motivation (summary)
Gregory D. Benson, Armand Prieditis.
Learning Continuous-Space Navigation Heuristics in Real Time (summary)
Eric Chown.
The Adaptive Power of Affect: Learning in the SESAME Architecture (summary)
Luis Correia, A. Steiger-Garcao.
Model of a Behaviour Based Control Architecture (summary)
Bridget Hallam, Gillian Hayes.
Comparing Robot and Animal Behavior
(summary)
Owen E. Holland, Martin A. Snaith.
An Embodied Neurally-Based Algorithm for Optimal Action Selection (summary)
Oded Maler.
Why Should We Build Artificial Worms and How? (summary)
M. A. Rodrigues, M. H. Lee.
Creative Perception (summary)
Isao Shimoyama, Toshio Watanabe, Yoshihiko Kuwana, Hirofumi Miura.
Collective Behavior of Silicon Microrobots (summary)
Micah S. Siegel.
An Analog VLSI Model of Central Pattern Generation in the Medicinal Leech (summary)

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Dave Cliff, Philip Husbands, Jean-Arcady Meyer, Stewart W. Wilson. From Animals to Animats 3: proceedings of the third international conference on Simulation of Adaptive behaviour, Brighton, 1994. MIT Press. 1994

 

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Jean-Arcady Meyer, Alain Berthoz, Dario Floreano, Herbert L. Roitblat, Stewart W. Wilson. From Animals to Animats 6: proceedings of the sixth international conference on Simulation of Adaptive behaviour, Paris, 2000. MIT Press. 2000

 

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Erick Cantu-Paz, James A. Foster, Kalyanmoy Deb, Lawrence Davis, Rajkumar Roy, Una-May O'Reilly, Hans-Georg Beyer, Russell K. Standish, Graham Kendall, Stewart W. Wilson, Mark Harman, Joachim Wegener, Dipankar Dasgupta, Mitch A. Potter, Alan C. Schultz, Kathryn A. Dowsland, Natasha Jonoska, Julian F. Miller, editors. GECCO 2003 volume 1: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Chicago, USA, July 2003. Springer. 2003

 

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Matthew Russell, John A. Clark, Susan Stepney.
Using Ants to attack a classical cipher. 2003
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Erick Cantu-Paz, James A. Foster, Kalyanmoy Deb, Lawrence Davis, Rajkumar Roy, Una-May O'Reilly, Hans-Georg Beyer, Russell K. Standish, Graham Kendall, Stewart W. Wilson, Mark Harman, Joachim Wegener, Dipankar Dasgupta, Mitch A. Potter, Alan C. Schultz, Kathryn A. Dowsland, Natasha Jonoska, Julian F. Miller, editors. GECCO 2003 volume 2: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Chicago, USA, July 2003. Springer. 2003

 

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John A. Clark, Jeremy L. Jacob, Susan Stepney.
Secret Agents Leave Big Footprints: how to plant a crytographic trapdoor, and why you might not get away with it. 2003
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