| From Fertilized Eggs to Complex Organisms: Models of Biological Pattern Formation | p. 3 |
| Fables of Cyberspace: Tapeworms, Horses, and Mountains | p. 5 |
| Cognitive Teleportation and Situated Embodiment | p. 7 |
| Testing Gaia Theory with Artificial Life | p. 9 |
| Testing for Emergence in Artificial Life | p. 13 |
| Are Romance Novels Really Alive? A Discussion of the Supple Adaptation View of Life | p. 21 |
| How Symbiosis Can Guide Evolution | p. 29 |
| Adaptability of Darwinian and Lamarckian Populations Toward an Unknown New World | p. 39 |
| Requirements for Immortal ALife to Exterminate Mortal ALife in One Finite, Heterogeneous Ecosystem | p. 49 |
| Error Thresholds and Their Relation to Optimal Mutation Rates | p. 54 |
| Are Artificial Mutation Biases Unnatural? | p. 64 |
| Evolving Mutation Rates for the Self-Optimisation of Genetic Algorithms | p. 74 |
| Statistical Reasoning Strategies in the Pursuit and Evasion Domain | p. 79 |
| An Evolutionary Method Using Crossover in a Food Chain Simulation | p. 89 |
| On Self-Reproduction and Evolvability | p. 94 |
| Some Techniques for the Measurement of Complexity in Tierra | p. 104 |
| A Genetic Neutral Model for Quantitative Comparison of Genotypic Evolutionary Activity | p. 109 |
| A Comparative Analysis of Biodiversity Measures | p. 119 |
| Evolution of Differentiated Expression Patterns in Digital Organisms | p. 129 |
| Species Formation in Evolving Finite State Machines | p. 139 |
| Genetic Code Degeneracy: Implications for Grammatical Evolution and Beyond | p. 149 |
| Coevolutionary Dynamics of a Multi-population Genetic Programming System | p. 154 |
| The Evolution of Computation in Co-evolving Demes of Non-uniform Cellular Automata for Global Synchronisation | p. 159 |
| Exploiting the Power of Sensory-Motor Coordination | p. 173 |
| Evolution of Neural Controllers with Adaptive Synapses and Compact Genetic Encoding | p. 183 |
| Synthetic Approaches to Neurobiology: Review and Case Study in the Control of Anguiliform Locomotion | p. 195 |
| Replicating Experiments in "Detour Behavior" with Artificially Evolved Robots: An A-Life Approach to Comparative Psychology | p. 205 |
| Studying Animals through Artificial Evolution: The Cricket Case | p. 215 |
| Evolving Behavioural Choice: An Investigation of Herrnstein's Matching Law | p. 225 |
| Modeling of an Early Evolutionary Stage of the Cnidarian Nervous System and Behavior | p. 236 |
| Spontaneous Evolution of Command Neurons, Place Cells and Memory Mechanisms in Autonomous Agents | p. 246 |
| Modularity in Evolved Artificial Neural Networks | p. 256 |
| Framsticks: Towards a Simulation of a Nature-Like World, Creatures and Evolution | p. 261 |
| Evolving Visual Feature Detectors | p. 266 |
| Evolutionary Design of Mobile Robot Behaviors for Action-Based Environment Modeling | p. 271 |
| On the Dynamics of Robot Exploration Learning | p. 279 |
| Artificial Autonomy in the Natural World: Building a Robot Predator | p. 289 |
| Behavior Adaptation on Behavior-Based Controller for Brachiation Robot | p. 294 |
| Wet Artificial Brains: Towards the Chemical Control of Robot Motion by Reaction-Diffusion and Excitable Media | p. 304 |
| A Neuronal Structure for Learning by Imitation | p. 314 |
| A Neural Model for the Visual Navigation and Planning of a Mobile Robot | p. 319 |
| Progressive Construction of Compound Behavior Controllers for Autonomous Robots using Temporal Information | p. 324 |
| A Visualization Tool for the Mini-Robot Khepera: Behavior Analysis and Optimization | p. 329 |
| Towards UAV Nap-of-the-Earth Flight Using Optical Flow | p. 334 |
| On Bots and Bacteria: Ontology Independent Embodiment | p. 339 |
| Populating the Virtual Worlds with Interactive Perceptive Virtual Actors | p. 344 |
| Level of Autonomy for Virtual Human Agents | p. 345 |
| Emotional Disorders in Autonomous Agents? | p. 350 |
| Integrating Unsupervised Learning, Motivation and Action Selection in an A-Life Agent | p. 355 |
| Can Computers Have Sentiments? The Case of Risk Aversion and Utility for Wealth | p. 365 |
| Towards Robust Bio-inspired Circuits: The Embryonics Approach | p. 377 |
| Designing a Simulation Model of a Self-Maintaining Cellular System | p. 379 |
| Design Patterns for an Object-Oriented Computational Chemistry | p. 389 |
| Model of Self-Replicating Cell Capable of Self-Maintenance | p. 399 |
| Evolution at the Origins of Life: Modelling Simple Persistent Replication Objects | p. 407 |
| A Simulation of Life Using a Dynamic Core Memory Partitioned by Membrane Data | p. 412 |
| Molecular Evolution in Time-Dependent Environments | p. 417 |
| Evolution to Complexity: Replication, Elongation and Assembly in an RNA World | p. 422 |
| Evolution of Multispecificity in an Immune Network | p. 427 |
| Laziness + Sensitivity + Mobility = Structure: Emergence of Patterns in Lattice Swarms | p. 432 |
| Self-Repairing Multicellular Hardware: A Reliability Analysis | p. 442 |
| Arithmetic Operations on Self-Replicating Cellular Automata | p. 447 |
| Dynamics of Gene Expression in an Artificial Genome - Implications for Biological and Artificial Ontogeny | p. 457 |
| Parameter Optimization in Hierarchical Structures | p. 467 |
| A Model of Axis Determination for the Drosophila Wing Disc | p. 472 |
| Identifying Gene Regulatory Networks from Time Series Expression Data by in silico Sampling and Screening | p. 477 |
| Simulating the Evolution of Artifacts | p. 489 |
| The Evolution of Non-reciprocal Altruism | p. 499 |
| A Little More than Kind and Less than Kin: The Unwarranted Use of Kin Selection in Spatial Models of Communication | p. 504 |
| An Evolutionary Simulation Model of Social Learning about Food by Norway Rats | p. 514 |
| Effects of Cohesiveness on Inter-Sexual Dominance Relationships and Spatial Structure among Group-Living Virtual Entities | p. 524 |
| Simplicity Rules the Roost: Exploring Birdbrain Parental Investment Heuristics | p. 535 |
| Imitation and Cooperation in Coupled Dynamical Recognizers | p. 545 |
| Emergence of Adaptive Society with Competitive Selfish Agents | p. 555 |
| Dynamical Systems Game | p. 560 |
| High Speed Hardware Computation of Co-evolution Models | p. 566 |
| A Probabilistic Model for Understanding and Comparing Collective Aggregation Mechanisms | p. 575 |
| Exploiting Domain Physics: Using Stigmergy to Control Cluster Building with Real Robots | p. 585 |
| Adaptive Exploration of a Dynamic Environment by a Group of Communicating Robots | p. 596 |
| Task Fulfilment and Temporal Patterns of Activity in Artificial Ant Colonies | p. 606 |
| Formalizing the Ant Algorithms in Terms of Reinforcement Learning | p. 616 |
| Using Competing Ant Colonies to Solve k-way Partitioning Problems with Foraging and Raiding Strategies | p. 621 |
| On Improving Clustering in Numerical Databases with Artificial Ants | p. 626 |
| Ants War with Evolutive Pheromone Style Communication | p. 639 |
| Sexual Signalling in an Artificial Population: When Does the Handicap Principle Work? | p. 644 |
| Modeling the Evolution of Communication: From Stimulus Associations to Grounded Symbolic Associations | p. 654 |
| Emergence of Speech Sounds in Changing Populations | p. 664 |
| SPECIES: An Evolutionary Model for the Emergence of Phonetic Structures in an Artificial Society of Speech Agents | p. 674 |
| Collective Learning and Semiotic Dynamics | p. 679 |
| Analyzing the Evolution of Communication from a Dynamical System's Perspective | p. 689 |
| Syntax out of Learning: The Cultural Evolution of Structured Communication in a Population of Induction Algorithms | p. 694 |
| Modelling the Evolution of Linguistic Diversity | p. 704 |
| Compression and Adaptation | p. 709 |
| Effective Lexicon Change in the Absence of Population Flux | p. 720 |
| Self-Organization of a Lexicon in a Structured Society of Agents | p. 725 |
| Modeling Categorization Dynamics through Conversation by Constructive Approach | p. 730 |
| Author Index | p. 735 |
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