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ALIFE 2010: Odense, Denmark
- Harold Fellermann, Mark Dörr, Martin M. Hanczyc, Lone Ladegaard Laursen, Sarah Elizabeth Maurer, Daniel Merkle, Pierre-Alain Monnard, Kasper Støy, Steen Rasmussen:
Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, ALIFE 2010, Odense, Denmark, August 19-23, 2010. MIT Press 2010, ISBN 9780262290753
Chemical Self-Assembly and Complexity
- Jerzy Maselko:
Self-Assembly and Self-Construction. 3 - Raphaël Plasson, Axel Brandenburg, Ludovic Jullien, Hugues Bersini:
Autocatalyses. 4-11 - H. James Cleaves II:
Spontaneous Assembly of Cell-Like Structures From Likely Prebiotic Materials - Problems and Prospects. 12 - Mark Dörr, Philipp Löffler, Pierre-Alain Monnard:
Possible Role of Ice in the Synthesis of Polymeric Compounds. 13-14 - Gonen Ashkenasy:
Light Induced Replication and Selection in Peptide Networks. 15 - Alessandro Fontana:
Devo Co-evolution of Shape and Metabolism for an Artificial Organ. 16-23 - Simon J. Hickinbotham, Edward Clark, Susan Stepney, Tim Clarke, Adam Nellis, Mungo Pay, Peter Young:
Diversity from a Monoculture - Effects of Mutation-on-Copy in a String-Based Artificial Chemistry. 24-31 - Hiroki Sayama:
Swarm Chemistry Evolving. 32-36
Origins of Life
- Kunnio Kawamura:
Temperature Limit for the Emergence of Life-like System Deduced from the Prebiotic Chemical Kinetics under the Hydrothermal Conditions. 37-44 - Chrisantha Fernando:
The Origin of Informational Replicators by Serial Dilution of a Primordial Soup. 45-48 - Andy Pratt:
Evolution, Selection and the Metabolic Foundations of the RNA World. 49-56 - Alexander Ullrich, Christoph Flamm, Markus Rohrschneider, Peter F. Stadler:
In Silico Evolution of Early Metabolism. 57-64 - Rudolf M. Füchslin, Alessandro Filisetti, Roberto Serra, Marco Villani, Davide De Lucrezia, Irene Poli:
Dynamical Stability of Autocatalytic Sets. 65-72 - Bruce Damer, Peter Newman, Richard Gordon, Tom Barbalet, David Deamer, Ryan Norkus:
The EvoGrid - A Framework for Distributed Artificial Chemistry Cameo Simulations Supporting Computational Origins of Life Endeavors. 73-79 - Richard A. Watson, Rob Mills, Christopher L. Buckley, Simon T. Powers, Alexandra S. Penn, Adam P. Davies, Jason Noble, Seth Bullock:
Adaptation without Natural Selection. 80-81 - Simon J. Hickinbotham, Adam Faulconbridge, Adam Nellis:
The Blind Watchmaker's Workshop - three Artificial Chemistries around Eigen's Paradox. 82-92
Systems Biology
- Anu Chaudhary, Geoffrey Waldo, William S. Hlavacek, Chang-Shung Tung:
Systems Biology Approaches for Developing Artificial Pathogen Detection Networks. 93 - Juan-Carlos Letelier, Sebastián Jaramillo, Ricardo Honorato-Zimmer, Ulises Pereira, Diego Contreras, Bryan Reynaert, Valentina C. Hernandez, Jorge Soto Andrade, María Luz Cárdenas, Athel Cornish-Bowden:
(M, R) Systems and RAF Sets - Common Ideas, Tools and Projections. 94-100 - Alessandro Fontana:
An Artificial Life Model for Carcinogenesis. 101-108 - Luis Delaye, Carmen Maria González-Domenech, Andrés Moya:
Towards a Simpler Photoautotrophic Cell - Conserved and Variable Genes in Synechococcus Elongatus. 109 - Sara Montagna, Nicola Donati, Andrea Omicini:
An Agent-based Model for the Pattern Formation in Drosophila Melanogaster. 110-117 - Sylvain Cussat-Blanc, Jonathan Pascalie, Hervé Luga, Yves Duthen:
Morphogen Positioning by the Means of a Hydrodynamic Engine. 118-125 - Bjørn Østman, Arend Hintze, Christoph Adami:
Critical Properties of Complex Fitness Landscapes. 126-132 - Lisa Schramm, Vander Valente Martins, Yaochu Jin, Bernhard Sendhoff:
Analysis of Gene Regulatory Network Motifs in Evolutionary Development of Multicellular Organisms. 133-142
Minimal Synthetic Cells
- Sarah Elizabeth Maurer, Anders Albertsen, Jonathan Cape, James Boncella, Steen Rasmussen, Hans Ziock, Pierre-Alain Monnard, Liam Spencer:
Designing a Protocell - Attempt at a Systemic Design Linking Information, Metabolism and Container. 143-144 - Harold Fellermann, Steen Rasmussen:
Physically Grounded Simulations of a Self-Replicating Chemical Aggregate. 145-146 - Pasquale Stano, Pier Luigi Luisi:
Chemical Approaches to Synthetic Biology - From Vesicles Self-Reproduction to Semi-Synthetic Minimal Cells. 147-153 - Fabio Mavelli:
Ribocell Modeling. 154-155 - Ben Shirt-Ediss, Fabio Mavelli, Kepa Ruiz-Mirazo:
To Burst or Not To Burst - Osmotic Regulation in a Protocell Model Through Precursor Mechano-Sensitive Channels. 156-157 - Norikazu Ichihashi, Yosuke Bansyo, Tomoaki Matsuura, Tetsuya Yomo:
Constructing an Artificial Self-replication System of Genetic Information from RNA and Proteins. 158 - Takeshi Ishida:
Simulation of Self-Reproduction Phenomenon of Cells in Two-Dimensional Cellular Automata. 159-160 - Jonghyeon Shin, Vincent Noireaux:
Approach to Synthetic Cell with a Cell-free Toolbox. 161 - Gabriel Piedrafita, Ben Shirt-Ediss, Fabio Mavelli, Pierre-Alain Monnard, Kepa Ruiz-Mirazo:
'In Vitro' and 'In Silico' Complementary Studies on the Physical Properties of Prebiotic Compartments. 162-164
Biological & Chemical Information Processing and Production
- Benny Gil, Maya Kahan-Hanum, Natalia Skirtenko, Rivka Adar, Ehud Shapiro:
'Doctor in a Cell' - Vision and Accomplishments. 165 - Michael Heymann, Kyle Ira Harrington, Jordan B. Pollack, Seth Fraden:
En Route to Signal Inversion in Chemical Computing. 166-167 - Uwe Tangen:
The Emergence of Replication in a Digital Evolution System using a Secondary Structure Approach. 168-175 - Sander G. van Dijk, Daniel Polani, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv:
What do You Want to do Today? - Relevant-Information Bookkeeping in Goal-Oriented Behaviour. 176-183 - Ángel Goñi-Moreno, Martyn Amos:
Engineered Microbial Communication for Population-Level Behaviour. 184-185 - Nicolae Radu Zabet, Andrew N. W. Hone, Dominique F. Chu:
Design Principles of Transcriptional Logic Circuits. 186-193 - Richard A. Watson, Christopher L. Buckley, Rob Mills, Adam P. Davies:
Associative Memory in Gene Regulation Networks. 194-202 - Michal Joachimczak, Borys Wróbel:
Processing Signals with Evolving Artificial Gene Regulatory Networks. 203-212
Minimal Cognition and Physical Intelligence
- Matthew D. Egbert, Xabier E. Barandiaran, Ezequiel A. Di Paolo:
Behavioral Metabolution - Metabolism Based Behavior Enables New Forms of Adaptation and Evolution. 213-220 - Dennis Görlich, Peter Dittrich:
On the Semantic Capacity of (Bio-)Chemical Systems. 221-222 - Naoto Horibe, Kei Kobayashi, Martin M. Hanczyc, Takashi Ikegami:
Mode Switching and Collective Behavior in Chemical Oil Droplets. 223 - Laura M. Grabowski, David M. Bryson, Fred C. Dyer, Charles Ofria, Robert T. Pennock:
Early Evolution of Memory Usage in Digital Organisms. 224-231 - Aubery Marchel Tientcheu Ngouabeu, Shuhei Miyashita, Rudolf M. Füchslin, Kohei Nakajima, Maurice Göldi, Rolf Pfeifer:
Self-organized Segregation Effect on Water Based Self-Assembling Robots. 232-238 - Ot de Wiljes, Ronald A. J. van Elburg, Michael Biehl, Fred Keijzer:
Early Nervous Systems - Theoretical Background and a Preliminary Model of Neuronal Processes. 239-240 - Gul Muhammad Khan, Julian Francis Miller:
Solving Mazes using an Artificial Developmental Neuron. 241-248 - Sébastien Tripodi, Pascal Ballet, Vincent Rodin:
Self-Organization of a Virtual Multicellular Organism by Adding a Shape Model in the Cellular Potts Model. 249-256 - John Rieffel, Barry Trimmer:
Body/Brain Co-Evolution in Soft Robots. 257-260
Artificial Chemistries
- Adam Faulconbridge, Susan Stepney, Julian F. Miller, Leo S. D. Caves:
RBN-World - The Hunt for a Rich AChem. 261-268 - Adam Nellis, Susan Stepney:
Automatically Moving between Levels in Artificial Chemistries. 269-276 - Lidia Yamamoto, Wolfgang Banzhaf:
Catalytic Search in Dynamic Environments. 277-284 - Philip Gerlee, Torbjörn Lundh:
Rock-Paper-Scissors Dynamics in a Digital Ecology. 285-294
Complex Networks
- Markus Brede:
Optimizing Spatially Embedded Networks for Synchronization. 295-302 - Rodrigo Poblanno-Balp, Carlos Gershenson:
Modular Random Boolean Networks. 303-304 - X. Rosalind Wang, Joseph T. Lizier, Mikhail Prokopenko:
A Fisher Information Study of Phase Transitions in Random Boolean Networks. 305-312 - Larry S. Yaeger, Olaf Sporns, Steven Williams, Xin Shuai, Sean Dougherty:
Evolutionary Selection of Network Structure and Function. 313-320 - Nicholas Geard, John Bryden, Sebastian Funk, Vincent A. A. Jansen, Seth Bullock:
Stability in Flux - Group Dynamics in Adaptive Networks. 321-322 - Alan Dorin, Kevin B. Korb:
Network Measures of Ecosystem Complexity. 323-328 - Mahendra Piraveenan, Mikhail Prokopenko, Albert Y. Zomaya:
Classifying Complex Networks using Unbiased Local Assortativity. 329-336 - Russell K. Standish:
Network Complexity of Foodwebs. 337-343 - Marie Beurton-Aimar, Nicolas Parisey, François Vallée, Sophie Colombié:
Identification of Functional Hubs through Metabolic Networks. 344-345 - Daniel Aguilar-Hidalgo, Antonio Córdoba, María Carmen Lemos, Fernando Casares, Maria Ángeles Domínguez, María Tavares:
Computational Approach to the Gene Regulatory Network in the Mus Musculus Mouse Eye Development. 346-347 - Michal Joachimczak, Borys Wróbel:
Evolving Gene Regulatory Networks for Real Time Control of Foraging Behaviours. 348-358
Theoretical and Computational Frameworks
- Igor Balaz, Dragutin T. Mihailovic:
Algebraic Representation and Modeling of Evolutionary Innovation and Adaptation in Biological Systems. 359-366 - Taichi Haruna:
A Theoretical Study on Molecular Discreteness. 367 - Jacob Midtgaard-Olesen, Carsten Baldauf, Daniel Merkle:
Barrier Trees for Continuous Fitness Landscapes. 368-369 - Inman Harvey, Nicholas Tomko:
Binomics - Where Metagenomics meets the Binary World. 370-377 - Zoe E. Brain, Matthew A. Addicoat:
Using Meta-Genetic Algorithms to tune parameters of Genetic Algorithms to find lowest energy Molecular Conformers. 378-385 - Tim Hoverd, Susan Stepney:
Formalising Harmony Seeking Rules of Morphogenesis. 386-393 - Walter de Back, Jörn Starruß:
Middle-out Modeling of Multiscale Morphodynamics. 394 - Bruno A. Santos, Phil Husbands, Tom Froese:
Accommodating Homeostatically Stable Dynamical Regimes to Cope with Different Environmental Conditions. 395-402 - Katsuhiko Nakamura:
Asynchronous Parallel Self-Replication Based on Logic Molecular Model. 403-410 - Hiroki Sayama:
An Artificial Life View to the Collatz Problem. 411-412 - Shigeru Ninagawa:
Search for Computationally Universal Cellular Automata Guided by 1/f Noise. 413 - John Rieffel, Schuyler Smith:
A Face-Encoding Grammar for the Generation of Tetrahedral-Mesh Soft Bodies. 414-420 - Jaekyun Shin:
Atlas of Patterns from One-rule Firing Cellular Automata. 421-428
Evolutionary Dynamics
- Nicolas Chaumont, Christoph Adami:
Potential and Promise of Open-Ended Evolution in Artificial Life. 429-430 - James M. Whitacre:
Genetic and Environment-Induced Innovation - Complementary Pathways to Adaptive Change that are Facilitated by Degeneracy in Multi-Agent Systems. 431-432 - Bernat Corominas-Murtra, Harold Fellermann, Ricard V. Solé, Steen Rasmussen:
On the Interplay of Kinetics, Thermodynamics, and Information in Simple Replicating Systems. 433-434 - Solvi Arnold, Reiji Suzuki, Takaya Arita:
Evolving Learning Ability in Cyclically Dynamic Environments - The Structuring Force of Environmental Heterogeneity. 435-436 - Moritz Buck, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv:
Evolution of Cooperation and Developmental Constraints - a GA-driven approach. 437-444 - Arend Hintze, Christoph Adami:
Darwinian Evolution of Cooperation via Punishment in the "Public Goods" Game. 445-450 - Joshua Evan Auerbach, Josh C. Bongard:
Dynamic Resolution in the Co-Evolution of Morphology and Control. 451-458 - Hywel Williams:
Virus-host coevolution, killing the winner, and the Red Queen. 459 - Sergey Gavrilets:
Dynamics of Adaptive Radiation. 460 - Brian D. Connelly, Luis Zaman, Charles Ofria, Philip K. McKinley:
Social Structure and the Maintenance of Biodiversity. 461-468 - John Bryden, Vincent A. A. Jansen:
The Impact of Clonal Mixing on the Evolution of Social Behaviour in Aphids. 469-470 - Reiji Suzuki, Takaya Arita:
Effects of Temporal Locality of Ecological Processes on Coevolution of Learning and Niche Construction. 471-477 - Brian White:
Aipotu - a Simulated Microworld Based on a Realistic Model of Gene Expression and Protein Folding. 478 - David P. Parsons, Carole Knibbe, Guillaume Beslon:
Importance of the Rearrangement Rates on the Organization of Genome Transcription. 479-486 - João Martins, Roger D. Kouyos, Trevor Hinkley, Colombe Chappey, Mojgan Haddad, Jeannette M. Whitcomb, Christos J. Petropoulos, Sebastian Bonhoeffer:
Evolution of Recombination on an HIV-1 Derived Fitness Landscape. 487 - Arturo Araujo, Peter J. Bentley, Buzz Baum:
Modelling the Role of Aneuploidy in Tumour Evolution. 488-495 - Greg Turk:
Sticky Feet - Evolution in a Multi-Creature Physical Simulation. 496-503 - Craig W. Reynolds:
Interactive Evolution of Camouflage. 504-511 - Philip Gerlee, David Basanta, Alexander R. A. Anderson:
Evolving Homeostatic Tissue Using Genetic Algorithms. 512-513 - Miyoung Sim, DaeEun Kim:
Identifying the Location of a Target Object in the Weakly Electric Fish through Spatiotemporal Filtering Process. 514-524
Ecology
- Jon McCormack:
Enhancing Creativity with Niche Construction. 525-532 - Jie Shao, Thomas S. Ray:
Maintenance of Species Diversity by Predation in the Tierra System. 533-540 - Matthew Bardeen:
Patch-level Selection in Darwinian Daisyworld. 541-548 - James G. Dyke:
The Daisystat - A Model to Explore Multidimensional Homeostasis. 549-558
Emergent Engineering
- James M. Whitacre:
Evolution-Inspired Approaches for Engineering Emergent Robustness in an Uncertain Dynamic World. 559-560 - Vito Trianni, Stefano Nolfi:
Re-Engineering Evolution - A Study In Self-Organising Synchronisation. 561-568 - Taivo Lints:
How to Facilitate Variability. 569-576 - Alexandra S. Penn, Richard A. Watson, Alexander Kraaijeveld, Jeremy Webb:
Systems Aikido - A Novel Approach to Managing Natural Systems. 577-580
Intelligence and Learning
- Ruth Schulz, Gordon F. Wyeth, Janet Wiles:
Language Change across Generations for Robots using Cognitive Maps. 581-588 - Animesh Mukherjee, Andrea Baronchelli, Vittorio Loreto, Andrea Puglisi, Francesca Tria:
Aging in the Emergence of Linguistic Categories. 589-590 - Elio Tuci, Tomassino Ferrauto, Gianluca Massera, Stefano Nolfi:
The Evolution of Behavioural and Linguistic Skills to Execute and Generate Two-word Instructions in Agents Controlled by Dynamical Neural Networks. 591-598 - Malte Harder, Daniel Polani, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv:
Two Agents Acting as One. 599-606 - Marieke Rohde:
Multisensory Perceptual Discrimination in Evolved Networks and Agents. 607-614 - Jason Noble, Tom Hebbron, Johannes van der Horst, Rob Mills, Simon T. Powers, Richard A. Watson:
Selection Pressures for a Theory-of-Mind Faculty in Artificial Agents. 615 - Ricardo Capitanio Martins da Silva, Ricardo R. Gudwin:
A Conscious-based Mind for an Artificial Creature. 616-623 - Takashi Ikegami, Yuta Ogai:
Self-Organization of Subjective Time and Sustainable Autonomy in Mind Time Machine. 624-625 - Konrad Diwold, Madeleine Beekman, Martin Middendorf:
Bee Nest Site Selection as an Optimization Process. 626-633 - Gul Muhammad Khan, Julian Francis Miller:
Learning Games using a Single Developmental Neuron. 634-641 - Giancarlo Schrementi, Michael Gasser:
Emergent Generalization in Bayesian Agents Using Iterated Learning. 642-647 - Thomas Schmickl, Heiko Hamann, Jürgen Stradner, Ralf Mayet, Karl Crailsheim:
Complex Taxis-Behaviour in a Novel Bio-Inspired Robot Controller. 648-658
Collective Intelligence
- Adam P. Davies, Richard A. Watson, Rob Mills, Christopher L. Buckley, Jason Noble:
If You Can't Be With the One You Love, Love the One You're With - How Individual Habituation of Agent Interactions Improves Global Utility. 659-666 - Johan Bollen:
Determining the Public Mood State by Analysis of Microblogging Posts. 667-668 - Nicholas Gessler:
Fostering Creative Emergences in Artificial Cultures. 669-676 - Jean-Paul De Cros Peronard:
The Human Use of Living Technology - Toward a Cultural Understanding of Robots. 677-678 - Thierry Buecheler, Jan Henrik Sieg, Rudolf M. Füchslin, Rolf Pfeifer:
Crowdsourcing, Open Innovation and Collective Intelligence in the Scientific Method - A Research Agenda and Operational Framework. 679-686 - Seyed Abbas Sadat, Richard T. Vaughan:
SO-LOST - An Ant-Trail Algorithm for Multi-Robot Navigation with Active Interference Reduction. 687-693 - Seth Bullock, Michael Kerby:
Multi-Modal Swarm Construction. 694-695 - Christoph Salge, Daniel Polani:
From Infotaxis to Boids-like Swarm Behaviour. 696-697 - Soichiro Tsuda, Jeff Jones:
The Emergence of Complex Oscillatory Behaviour in Physarum polycephalum and its Particle Approximation. 698-705 - Alaa Abi-Haidar, Luis M. Rocha:
Collective Classification of Biomedical Articles using T-Cell Cross-regulation. 706-716
Robotics
- Jonathan D. Hiller, Hod Lipson:
Evolving Amorphous Robots. 717-724 - Robert Lowe, Alberto Montebelli, Ioannis Ieropoulos, John Greenman, Chris Melhuish, Tom Ziemke:
Grounding Motivation in Energy Autonomy - A Study of Artificial Metabolism Constrained Robot Dynamics. 725-732 - Ioannis Ieropoulos, John Greenman, Chris Melhuish, Ian Horsfield:
EcoBot-III - A Robot with Guts. 733-740 - Yaroslav Litus, Richard T. Vaughan:
What a Sunflower Can Teach a Robot? - Efficient Robot Queuing by Reverse Phyllotaxis. 741-748 - Alberto Montebelli, Robert Lowe, Ioannis Ieropoulos, Chris Melhuish, John Greenman, Tom Ziemke:
Microbial Fuel Cell Driven Behavioral Dynamics in Robot Simulations. 749-756 - YoonSik Shim, Phil Husbands:
Chaotic Search of Emergent Locomotion Patterns for a Bodily Coupled Robotic System. 757-764 - Yan Meng, Yuyang Zhang, Yaochu Jin:
A Morphogenetic Approach to Self-Reconfigurable Modular Robots using a Hybrid Hierarchical Gene Regulatory Network. 765-772 - Heiko Hamann, Jürgen Stradner, Thomas Schmickl, Karl Crailsheim:
Artificial Hormone Reaction Networks - Towards Higher Evolvability in Evolutionary Multi-Modular Robotics. 773-780 - Serge Kernbach, Thomas Schmickl, Heiko Hamann, Jürgen Stradner, Florian Schlachter, Christopher S. F. Schwarzer, Alan F. T. Winfield, Rene Matthias:
Adaptive Action Selection Mechanisms for Evolutionary Multimodular Robotics. 781-788 - Jens Wawerla, Richard T. Vaughan:
Online Robot Task Switching Under Diminishing Returns. 789-796 - Charles Richter, Hod Lipson:
Untethered Hovering Flapping Flight of a 3D-Printed Mechanical Insect. 797-803 - David Ball, Scott Heath, Michael Milford, Gordon F. Wyeth, Janet Wiles:
A Navigating Rat Animat. 804-811 - Claire O'Bryne, Lola Cañamero:
Emotion in Decisions of Life and Death - Its Role in Brain-Body-Environment Interactions for Predator and Prey. 812-822
Socio-Technical Systems
- John A. Bullinaria:
Memes in Artificial Life Simulations of Life History Evolution. 823-830 - Andrew Buchanan, Norman H. Packard, Mark A. Bedau:
Darwinian Evolution of Culture as Reflected in Patent Records. 831-837 - Devin W. Chalmers, C. Cooper Francis, Noah M. Pepper, Mark A. Bedau:
High-content Words in Patent Records Reflect Key Innovations in the Evolution of Technology. 838-845 - Atsuko Mutoh, Shohei Kato, Nobuhiro Inuzuka, Hidenori Itoh:
Expression of Fashion in Female Preferences for a Mate by Conformity and Differentiation Genes. 846-851 - Pedro Mariano, Luís Correia:
Partner Selection - Finding the Right Combination of Players. 852-859 - Keisuke Suzuki, Ryoko Uno, Takashi Ikegami:
Language as Autopoiesis - Experimental Approach to Agency in Linguistic Communication. 860-861 - Angelo C. Loula, Ricardo R. Gudwin, João Queiroz:
On the Emergence of Indexical and Symbolic Interpretation in Artificial Creatures, or What is This I Hear? 862-868 - Edgar E. Vallejo, Charles E. Taylor:
A Self-Supervised Classifier Ensemble for Source Recognition in Acoustic Sensor Arrays. 869-876
Philosophy of Artificial Life
- Eric Silverman, Takashi Ikegami:
Robust Explanations in Artificial Life. 877-878 - Henrik Thorén, Philip Gerlee:
Weak Emergence and Complexity. 879-886 - Robert T. Pennock:
Models of Artificial Life - Herbert Simon and Evolutionary Computation. 887 - Paul Humphreys:
What Simulations Can Do That Experiments Cannot, And Vice Versa. 888 - Janardan Misra:
Algorithmic Feasibility of Observing Artificial Life Evolution. 889-896 - Owen Holland:
If There Is Something It Is Like to Be Alife, What Is It? 897 - Margareta Segerståhl:
Systems Definition of an Organism - A Formal Basis for Modeling Life. 898-
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