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Jean-Arcady Meyer, Stewart W. Wilson, eds.
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. 1991
Stewart W. Wilson. The Animat Path to AI. 1991
David McFarland. What It Means for Robot Behaviour to be Adaptive. 1991
Dave Cliff. Computational Neuroethology: A Provisional Manifesto. 1991
Harold C. Morris. On the Feasibility of Computational Artificial Life--A Reply to Critics. 1991
Alexandre Parodi, Pierre Bonelli. The Animat and the Physician. 1991
Renaud Dumeur. Extended Classifiers for Simulation of Adaptive Behavior. 1991
Herbert L. Roitblat, Patrick W. B. Moore, Paul E. Nachtigall, R. H. Penner. Biomimetic Sonar Processing: From Dolphin Echolocation to Artificial Neural Networks. 1991
DeLiang Wang, Michael A. Arbib. Hierarchical Dishabituation of Visual Discrimination in Toads. 1991
Dave Cliff. The Computational Hoverfly: A Study in Computational Neuroethology. 1991
Philip Teitelbaum, Vivien C. Pellis, Sergio M. Pellis. Can Allied Reflexes Promote the Integration of a Robot's Behavior?. 1991
Holk Cruse. Coordination of Leg Movement in Walking Animals. 1991
Gerhard Manteuffel. A Biological Visuo-Motor System: How Dissimilar Maps Interact to Produce Behavior. 1991
Stephen T. Barnard. Biological and Computational Stereo Vision. 1991
Simon Benhamou, Pierre Bovet. Modeling and Simulation of Animals' Movements. 1991
Michael A. Arbib, Alberto Cobas. Schemas for Prey-Catching in Frog and Toad. 1991
Ulrich Nehmzow, Tim Smithers. Mapbuilding Using Self-Organising Networks in "Really Useful Robots". 1991
Marc Jamon. The Contribution of Quantitative Models to The Long Distance Orientation Problems. 1991
Maja J. Mataric. Navigating with a Rat Brain: A Neurobiologically-Inspired Model for Robot Spatial Representation. 1991
W. K. Yeap, C. C. Handley. Four Important Issues in Cognitive Mapping. 1991
Mitch R. Harris. Attracting Similar Shapes Towards Each Other. 1991
Frederick Toates, Per Jensen. Ethological and Psychological Models of Motivation--Towards a Synthesis. 1991
Michel Cabanac. Pleasure: The Answer to Conflicting Motivations. 1991
J. R. P. Halperin. Machine Motivation. 1991
Jurgen Schmidhuber. A Possibility for Implementing Curiosity and Boredom in Model- Building Neural Controllers. 1991
Lashon B. Booker. Instinct as an Inductive Bias for Learning Behavioral Sequences. 1991
Pattie Maes. A Bottom-Up Mechanism for Behavior Selection in an Artificial Creature. 1991
Randall D. Beer, Hillel J. Chiel. The Neural Basis of Behavioral Choice in an Artificial Insect. 1991
Martin A. Snaith, Owen E. Holland. An Investigation of Two Mediation Strategies Suitable for Behavioural Control in Animals and Animats. 1991
Toby Tyrrell, John E. W. Mayhew. Computer Simulation of an Animal Environment. 1991
Patrick W. Colgan, T. Lynne Jamieson, Janice E. Frame, J. Terry Smith. Ontogeny of Preferences in Guppies (Poecilia reticulata) Exposed to Food and Conspecifics. 1991
James M. Williams, P. J. B. Slater. Simulation Studies of Song Learning in Birds. 1991
Richard S. Sutton. Reinforcement Learning Architectures for Animats. 1991
Long-Ji Lin. Self-Improving Reactive Agents: Case Studies of Reinforcement Learning Frameworks. 1991
Peter M. Todd, Geoffrey F. Miller. Exploring Adaptive Agency II: Simulating the Evolution of Associative Learning. 1991
Rick L. Riolo. Lookahead Planning and Latent Learning in a Classifier System. 1991
David Pierce, Benjamin Kuipers. Learning Hill-Climbing Functions as a Strategy for Generating Behaviors in a Mobile Robot. 1991
David R. Shanks. Some Parallels Between Associative Learning and Object Classification. 1991
Guy Theraulaz, Simon Goss, Jacques Gervet, Jean-Louis Deneubourg. Task Differentation in Polistes Wasp Colonies: A Model for Self-Organizing Groups of Robots. 1991
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. 1991
John R. Koza. Evolution and Co-Evolution of Computer Programs to Control Independently-Acting Agents. 1991
Cynthia Kurtz. The Evolution of Information Gathering: Operational Constraints. 1991
Robert J. Collins, David R. Jefferson. Representations for Artificial Organisms. 1991
Federico Cecconi, Domenico Parisi. Evolving Organisms That Can Reach for Objects. 1991
Inman Harvey. The Artificial Evolution of Behaviour. 1991
Fabio De Luigi, Vittorio Maniezzo. The Rise of Interaction: Intrinsic Simulation Modeling of the Onset of Interacting Behaviour. 1991
Jan Paredis. The Evolution of Behavior: Some Experiments. 1991
Dan Wood. A Von Neumann Approach to a Genotype Explession in a Neural Animat. 1991
Rodney A. Brooks. Challenges for Complete Creature Architecture. 1991
Herbert L. Roitblat. Cognitive Action Theory as a Control Architecture. 1991
Luc Steels. Towards a Theory of Emergent Functionality. 1991
David L. Waltz. Eight Principles for Building an Intelligent Robot. 1991
Uwe Schnepf. Robot Ethology: A Proposal for the Research into Intelligent Autonomous System. 1991
Liane M. Gabora, Patrick W. Colgan. A Model of the Mechanisms Underlying Exploratory Behaviour. 1991
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. 1991
Paulien Hogeweg, B. Hesper. Evolution as Pattern Processing: TODO as Substrate for Evolution. 1991
Alasdair I. Houston. Matching, Maximizing and Melioration as Alternative Descriptions of Behaviour. 1991
Yuval Davidor. An Adaptation Anomoly of a Genetic Algorithm. 1991
George Kiss. Autonomous Agents, AI and Chaos Theory. 1991
Brendan McGonigle. Incrementing Intelligent Systems by Design. 1991
Mitchel Resnick. Animal Simulations with *Logo: Massive Parallelism for the Masses. 1991
Jim Donnett, Tim Smithers. Lego Vehicles: A Technology for Studying Intelligent Systems. 1991

Jean-Arcady Meyer, Herbert L. Roitblat, Stewart W. Wilson, eds.
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. 1993
Peter M. Todd, Stewart W. Wilson. Environment Structure and Adaptive Behavior From the Ground Up. 1993
Geoffrey F. Miller, Peter M. Todd. Evolutionary Wanderlust: Sexual Selection with Directional Mate Preferences. 1993
Rolf Pfeifer, Paul F. M. J. Verschure. Designing Efficiently Navigating Non-Goal-Directed Robots. 1993
Michael A. Arbib, Hyun Bong Lee. Anuran Visuomotor Coordination for Detour Behavior: From Retina to Motor Schemas. 1993
Holk Cruse, Uwe Muller-Wilm, Jeffrey Dean. Artificial Neural Nets for Controlling a 6-Legged Walking System. 1993
Sunil Cherian, Wade Troxell. A Neural Network Based Behavior Hierarchy for Locomotion Control. 1993
John C. Gallagher, Randall D. Beer. Qualitative Dynamical Analysis of Evolved Locomotion Controllers. 1993
Richard A. Altes. Neuronal Parameter Maps and Signal Processing. 1993
Herbert L. Roitblat, Patrick W. B. Moore, David A. Helweg, Paul E. Nachtigall. Representation and Processing of Acoustic Information in a Biomimetic Neural Network. 1993
William R. Uttal, Thomas Shepherd, Sriram Dayanand, Robb Lovell. An Integrated Computational Model of a Perceptual-Motor System. 1993
R. Zapata, P. Lepinay, C. Novales, P. Deplanques. Reactive Behaviors of Fast Mobile Robots in Unstructured Environments: Sensor-Based Control and Neural Networks. 1993
Allen Brookes. The Adaptive Nature of 3D Perception. 1993
Ralph Hartley. Propulsion and Guidance in a Simulation of the Worm C. Elegans. 1993
Ian Horswill. A Simple, Cheap, and Robust Visual Navigation System. 1993
Toby Tyrrell. The Use of Hierarchies for Action Selection. 1993
Mark Ring. Two Methods for Hierarchy Learning in Reinforcement Environments. 1993
Liane M. Gabora. Should I Stay or Should I Go: Coordinating Biological Needs with Continuously-updated Assessments of the Environment. 1993
Leemon C. Baird III, A. Harry Klopf. Extensions of the Associative Control Process (ACP) Network: Hierarchies and Provable Optimality. 1993
Simon Giszter. Behavior Networks and Force Fields for Simulating Spinal Reflex Behaviors of the Frog. 1993
Emmanuel Mazer, Juan Manuel Ahuactzin, El-Ghazali Talbi, Pierre Bessiere. The Ariadne's Clew Algorithm. 1993
Feliz Ribeiro, Jean-Paul Barthes, Eugenio Oliveira. Dynamic Selection of Action Sequences. 1993
Jurgen Schmidhuber, Reiner Wahnsiedler. Planning Simple Trajectories Using Neural Subgoal Generators. 1993
J. E. R. Staddon. A Note on Rate-Sensitive Habituation. 1993
Paul F. M. J. Verschure, Rolf Pfeifer. Categorization, Representations, and The Dynamics of System-Environment Interaction: A Case Study in Autonomous Systems. 1993
David Kortenkamp, Eric Chown. Directional Spreading Activation Network for Mobile Robot Navigation. 1993
Saburo Tsuff, Shigang Li. Memorizing and Representing Route Scenes. 1993
Tony J. Prescott, John E. W. Mayhew. Building Long-Range Cognitive Maps Using Local Landmarks. 1993
Nestor A. Schmajuk, H. T. Blair. Dynamics of Spatial Navigation: An Adaptive Neural Network. 1993
A. Harry Klopf, James S. Morgan, Scott E. Weaver. Modeling Nervous System Function with a Hierarchical Network of Control Systems That Learn. 1993
Michael L. Littman. An Optimization-Based Categorization of Reinforcement Learning Environments. 1993
Long-Ji Lin, Tom M. Mitchell. Reinforcement Learning with Hidden States. 1993
Jing Peng, Ronald J. Williams. Efficient Learning and Planning within the Dyna Framework. 1993
Ulrich Nehmzow, Tim Smithers, Brendan McGonigle. Increasing Behavioural Repertoire in a Mobile Robot. 1993
Thomas Ulrich Vogel. Learning Biped Robot Obstacle Crossing. 1993
Marco Colombetti, Marco Dorigo. Learning to Control an Autonomous Robot by Distributed Genetic Algorithms. 1993
Lawrence Davis, Stewart W. Wilson, David Orvosh. Temporary Memory for Examples Can Speed Learning in a Simple Adaptive System. 1993
Alexander Linden, Frank Weber. Implementing Inner Drive Through Competence Reflection. 1993
Bruce E. Rosen, James M. Goodwin. Dynamic Flight Control with Adaptive Coarse Coding. 1993
Josh Tenenberg, Jonas Karlsson, Steven Whitehead. Learning via Task Decomposition. 1993
Federico Cecconi, Domenico Parisi. Neural Networks with Motivational Units. 1993
Hitoshi Iba, Hugo de Garis, Tetsuya Higuchi. Evolutionary Learning of Predatory Behaviors Based on Structured Classifiers. 1993
Inman Harvey, Philip Husbands, Dave Cliff. Issues in Evolutionary Robotics. 1993
Dave Cliff, Philip Husbands, Inman Harvey. Evolving Visually Guided Robots. 1993
Craig W. Reynolds. An Evolved, Vision-Based Behavioral Model of Coordinated Group Motion. 1993
Gregory M. Werner, Michael G. Dyer. Evolution of Herding Behavior in Artificial Animals. 1993
Dwight Deugo, Franz Oppacher. An Evolutionary Approach to Cognition. 1993
Dario Floreano. Emergence of Nest-Based Foraging Strategies in Ecosystems of Neural Networks. 1993
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. 1993
Luis R. Lopez, Robert E. Smith. Evolving Artificial Insect Brains for Artificial Compound Eye Robotics. 1993
Maja J. Mataric. Designing Emergent Behaviors: From Local Interactions to Collective Intelligence. 1993
Lynne E. Parker. Adaptive Action Selection for Cooperative Agent Teams. 1993
Alexis Drogoul, Jacques Ferber. From Tom Thumb to the Dockers: Some Experiments with Foraging Robots. 1993
C. Ronald Kube, Hong Zhang. Collective Robotic Intelligence. 1993
Chisato Numaoka, Akikazu Takeuchi. Collective Choice of Strategic Type. 1993
Holly Yanco, Lynn Andrea Stein. An Adaptive Communication Protocol for Cooperating Mobile Robots. 1993
Ronald C. Arkin, J. David Hobbs. Dimensions of Communication and Social Organization in Multi-Agent Robotic Systems. 1993
Andrea Beltratti, Sergio Margarita. Evolution of Trading Strategies Among Heterogeneous Artificial Economic Agents. 1993
Gerhard Weiss. Action Selection and Learning in Multi-Agent Environments. 1993
John H. Andreae, Shaun W. Ryan, Mark L. Tomlinson. Structure from Associative Learning (summary). 1993
Christian Balkenius. The Roots of Motivation (summary). 1993
Gregory D. Benson, Armand Prieditis. Learning Continuous-Space Navigation Heuristics in Real Time (summary). 1993
Eric Chown. The Adaptive Power of Affect: Learning in the SESAME Architecture (summary). 1993
Luis Correia, A. Steiger-Garcao. Model of a Behaviour Based Control Architecture (summary). 1993
Bridget Hallam, Gillian Hayes. Comparing Robot and Animal Behavior. 1993
(summary)
Owen E. Holland, Martin A. Snaith. An Embodied Neurally-Based Algorithm for Optimal Action Selection (summary). 1993
Oded Maler. Why Should We Build Artificial Worms and How? (summary). 1993
M. A. Rodrigues, M. H. Lee. Creative Perception (summary). 1993
Isao Shimoyama, Toshio Watanabe, Yoshihiko Kuwana, Hirofumi Miura. Collective Behavior of Silicon Microrobots (summary). 1993
Micah S. Siegel. An Analog VLSI Model of Central Pattern Generation in the Medicinal Leech (summary). 1993

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

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