Books

Books : reviews

Christoph Adami, Richard K. Belew, Hiroaki Kitano, Charles E. Taylor, eds.
Artificial Life VI: proceedings of the sixth international workshop on the synthesis and simulation of living systems, UCLA.
MIT Press. 1998

(read but not reviewed)

Contents

Gerald F. Joyce. What's Evolving in Wet A-Life? (abstract). 1998
Christos H. Papadimitriou, Martha Sideri. Computational Complexity in the Life Sciences (abstract). 1998
Takaya Arita, Yuhji Koyama. Evolution of Linguistic Diversity in a Simple Communication System. 1998
Lionel Barnett. Ruggedness and Neutrality: The NKp Family of Fitness Landscapes. 1998
Jens Breyer, Joerg Ackermann, John S. McCaskill. Evolving Reaction-Diffusion Ecosystems with Self-Assembling Structures in Thin Films. 1998
Linglan Edwards, Yun Peng. Computational Models for the Formation of Protocell Structures. 1998
Chikara Furusawa, Kunihiko Kaneko. Emergence of Multicellular Organisms with Dynamic Differentiation and Spatial Pattern. 1998
Jeffrey O. Kephart, James E. Hanson, Jakka Sairamesh. Price-War Dynamics in a Free-Market Economy of Software Agents. 1998
Henrik Hautop Lund, Barbara Webb, John Hallam. Physical and Temporal Scaling Considerations in a Robot Model of Cricket Calling Song Preference. 1998
Mineo Morohashi, Hiroaki Kitano. A Method to Reconstruct Gene Expression Pattern in the Development of Drosophila's Eye. 1998
Christopher D. Rosin, Richard K. Belew, Garrett M. Morris, Arthur J. Olson, David S. Goodsell. Computational Coevolution of Antiviral Drug Resistance. 1998
Peter Dittrich, Jens Ziegler, Wolfgang Banzhaf. Mesoscopic Analysis of Self-Evolution in an Artificial Chemistry. 1998
Nicholas Mark Gotts, Paul B. Callahan. Emergent Structures in Sparse Fields of Conway's "Game of Life". 1998
Hiroki Sayama. Introduction of Structural Dissolution into Langton's Self-Reproducing Loop. 1998
Bernd Mayer, Steen Rasmussen. Self-Reproduction of Dynamical Hierarchies in Chemical Systems. 1998
Yasuhiro Suzuki, Hirhoshi Tanaka. Order Parameter for a Symbolic Chemical System. 1998
Artur Caetano, Antonio Grilo, Agostinho Rosa. Modeling Thymic Selection and Concomitant Immune Responses on CD4+ T Lymphocyte Sub-Populations. 1998
Shugo Hamahashi, Hiroaki Kitano. Simulation of Drosophila Embryogenesis. 1998
George Marnellos, Eric Mjolsness. Probing the Dynamics of Cell Differentiation in a Model of Drosophila Neurogenesis. 1998
Yoshiyuki Usami, Hirano Saburo, Satoshi Inaha, Masatoshi Kitaoka. Reconstruction of Extinct Animals in the Computer. 1998
Jeffrey Ventrella. Attractiveness vs. Efficiency: How Mate Preference Affects Locomotion in the Evolution of Artificial Swimming Organisms. 1998
Jeffrey A. Fletcher, Mark A. Bedau, Martin Zwick. Effect of Environmental Structure on Evolutionary Adaptation. 1998
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. 1998
Anil K. Seth. The Evolution of Complexity and the Value of Variability. 1998
Christoph Adami, Ryoichi Seki, Robel Yirdaw. Critical Exponent of Species-Size Distribution in Evolution. 1998
Mark A. Bedau, Emile Snyder, Norman H. Packard. A Classification of Long-Term Evolutionary Dynamics. 1998
Sevan G. Ficici, Jordan B. Pollack. Challenges in Coevolutionary Learning: Arms-Race Dynamics, Open-Endedness, and Mediocre Stable States. 1998
Jan Tai Tsung Kim. Energy Dependent Adaptation of Mutation Rates in Computer Models of Evolution. 1998
Tim Taylor, John Hallam. Replaying the Tape: An Investigation into the Role of Contingency in Evolution. 1998
Claus O. Wilke, Stephan Altmeyer, Thomas Martinetz. Large-Scale Evolution and Extinction in a Hierarchically Structured Environment. 1998
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. 1998
Paulien Hogeweg. On Searching for Generic Properties of Non-Generic Phenomena: An Approach to Bioinformatic Theory Formation. 1998
Thomas S. Ray, Joseph F. Hart. Evolution of Differentiated Multi-threaded Digital Organisms. 1998
Charlotte K. Hemelrijk. Spatial Centrality of Dominants without Positional Preference. 1998
Tad Shannon. Generic Behavior in the Lindgren Non-Spatial Model of Iterated Two Player Games. 1998
Takao Terano, Setsuya Kurahashi, Ushio Minami. TRURL: Artificial World for Social Interaction Studies. 1998
Seth Bullock. A Continuous Evolutionary Simulation Model of the Attainability of Honest Signalling Equilibria. 1998
Michael de la Maza, Ayla Ogus, Deniz Yuret. How Do Firms Transition Between Monopoly and Competitive Behavior? An Agent-Based Economic Model. 1998
Jason Noble. Evolved Signals: Expensive Hype vs. Conspiratorial Whispers. 1998
Luc Steels, Frederic Kaplan. Stochasticity as a Source of Innovation in Language Games. 1998
Andrew Adamatzky, Owen E. Holland. Edges and Computation in Excitable Media. 1998
Alastair D. Channon, R. I. Damper. Evolving Novel Behaviors via Natural Selection. 1998
Joe Faith. Why Gliders Don't Exist: Anti-Reductionism and Emergence. 1998
Ben Hutt, Dave Keating. Artificial Evolution of Visually Guided Foraging Behaviour. 1998
Kiyoshi Izumi, Kazuhiro Ueda. Emergent Phenomena in a Foreign Exchange Market: Analysis Based on an Artificial Market Approach. 1998
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. 1998
Franziska Kluegl, Frank Puppe, Ulrich Raub, Juergen Tautz. Simulating Multiple Emergent Phenomena - Exemplified in an Ant Colony. 1998
Joseph Lambke. Evolution of Places: Intentionality in the Built Environment. 1998
Holger Lange, Birgit Thies, Alois Kastner-Maresch, Walter Doerwald, Jan Tai Tsung Kim, Michael Hauhs. Investigating Forest Growth Model Results on Evolutionary Time Scales. 1998
Carlo C. Maley. Models in Evolutionary Ecology and the Validation Problem. 1998
Alexandra Mark, Daniel Polani, Thomas Uthmann. A Framework for Sensor Evolution in a Population of Braitenberg Vehicle-like Agents. 1998
George Marnellos, Eric Mjolsness. A Gene Network Model of Resource Allocation to Growth and Reproduction. 1998
Shin I. Nishimura, Takashi Ikegami. Emergence and Maintenance of Relationships among Agents. 1998
Una-May O'Reilly, Girish Ramachandran. A Preliminary Investigation of Evolution as a Form Design Strategy. 1998
Kepa Ruiz-Mirazo, Alvaro Moreno, Federico Moran. Merging the Energetic and the Relational-Constructive Logic of Life. 1998
William Seffens. Model Predictions of an Origin of Life Hypothesis Based on Sea Spray. 1998
Elpida S. Tzafestas. Tom Thumb Robots Revisited: Self-Regulation as the Basis of Behavior. 1998
Hiroki Ueda, Hiroaki Kitano. A Generalized Reaction-Diffusion Simulator for Studying the Molecular Basis of Pattern Formation in Biological Systems. 1998
Tatsuo Unemi, Takeshi Koike. Evolution of a Botanical Development System in 3D Euclidean Space. 1998
Mattias Wahde, Mats G. Nordahl. Co-evolving Pursuit-Evasion Strategies in Open and Confined Regions. 1998
Hiroshi Yokoi, Wenwei Yu, Jun Hakura, Yukinori Kakazu. A Morpho-Functional Machine: An Artificial Amoeba Based on the Vibrating Potential Method. 1998
Shinichiro Yoshii, Satoshi Ohashi, Yukinori Kakazu. Self-organized Complexity in Computer Program Ecosystem. 1998