| Preface | |
| A Self-Replication Universal Turing Machine: From von Neumann's Dream to New Embryonic Circuits | p. 3 |
| Creating a Physically-based, Virtual-Metabolism with Solid Cellular Automata | p. 13 |
| Self-Replicating Worms That Increase Structural Complexity through Gene Transmission | p. 21 |
| Self-Organisation in Micro-Configurable Hardware | p. 31 |
| Reaction Mechanisms in the OO Chemistry | p. 39 |
| A Less Abstract Artificial Chemistry | p. 49 |
| Chemical Evolution among Artificial Proto-cells | p. 54 |
| A Search for Multiple Autocatalytic Sets in Artificial Chemistries based on Boolean Networks | p. 64 |
| Searching for Rhythms in Asynchronous Random Boolean Networks | p. 73 |
| Levels of Compartmentalization in Alife | p. 81 |
| Exploring Gaia Theory: Artificial Life on a Planetary Scale | p. 90 |
| Complex Organization in Multicellularity as a Necessity in Evolution | p. 103 |
| Sympatric Speciation from Interaction-induced Phenotype Differentiation | p. 113 |
| Evolution of Genetic Code through Isologous Diversification of Cellular States | p. 122 |
| Evolution of Differentiation in Multithreaded Digital Organisms | p. 132 |
| Design by Morphogenesis | p. 141 |
| Evolutionary Neural Topiary: Growing and Sculpting Artificial Neurons to Order | p. 146 |
| Connectivity and Catastrophe - Towards a General Theory of Evolution | p. 153 |
| Neutral Search Spaces for Artificial Evolution: A Lesson from Life | p. 162 |
| Mutualism, Parasitism, and Evolutionary Adaptation | p. 170 |
| Coevolving Mutualists Guide Simulated Evolution | p. 179 |
| Evolution of Cooperation in Social Dilemma - Dynamical Systems Game Approach | p. 186 |
| Interactions between Learning and Evolution: The Outstanding Strategy Generated by the Baldwin Effect | p. 196 |
| Evolvability Analysis: Distribution of Hyperblobs in a Variable-Length Protein Genotype Space | p. 206 |
| Influence of Chance, History and Adaptation on Evolution in Digitalia | p. 216 |
| Ecology and Extinction - Macroevolutionary Extinction Dynamics in a Simulated Ecosystem | p. 221 |
| Quantification of Microscopic Events in the Process of Long-Term Evolutionary Dynamics | p. 231 |
| An Ecolab Perspective on the Bedau Evolutionary Statistics | p. 238 |
| Mate Choice: Simple or Complex? | p. 243 |
| A Discussion of the Use of Artificial Life Models to Evaluate Gould's Hypothesis about Progress in Evolution | p. 248 |
| Should Seeds Fly or Not? | p. 253 |
| Connecting Brains to Robots: The Development of a Hybrid System for the Study of Learning in Neural Tissues | p. 263 |
| A 'Fitness Landscaping' Comparison of Evolved Robot Control Systems | p. 273 |
| Evolving Physical Creatures | p. 282 |
| Evolving Insect Locomotion Using Non-uniform Cellular Automata | p. 288 |
| From Directed to Open-Ended Evolution in a Complex Simulation Model | p. 293 |
| Artificial Neural Development for Pulsed Neural Network Design - Generating Place Recognition Circuits of Animats | p. 300 |
| Emergent SMA-Net Robot Control by Coupled Oscillator System | p. 310 |
| Developmental Insights into Evolving Systems: Roles of Diversity, Non-Selection, Self-Organization, Symbiosis | p. 317 |
| Reducing Collective Behavioural Complexity through Heterogeneity | p. 327 |
| Studying Attention Dynamics of a Predator in a Prey-Predator System | p. 337 |
| On the Emergence of Possession Norms in Agent Societies | p. 343 |
| Investigating the Mechanisms Underlying Cooperation in Viscous Population Multi-Agent Systems | p. 348 |
| Aintz: A Study of Emergent Properties in a Model of Ant Foraging | p. 353 |
| A Co-evolution Model of Scores and Strategies in IPD Games: Toward the Understanding of the Emergence of the Social Morals | p. 362 |
| On the Effect of "Stock Alerts" in an Agent-Based Model of a Financial Market | p. 367 |
| Semiotic Schemata: Selection Units for Linguistic Cultural Evolution | p. 372 |
| The Cultural Evolution of Syntactic Constraints in Phonology | p. 382 |
| Modeling the Role of Neutral and Selective Mutations in Cancer | p. 395 |
| From Individuals to Populations, Approaches to the Study of Biological Emergent Phenomena | p. 405 |
| Towards a Comprehensive Alife-model of the Evolution of the Nervous System and Adaptive Behavior | p. 410 |
| Market-Based Call Routing in Telecommunications Networks Using Adaptive Pricing and Real Bidding | p. 420 |
| Evolving Solutions of the Density Classification Task in 1D Cellular Automata, Guided by Parameters That Estimate Their Dynamic Behaviour | p. 428 |
| Cellular Automata Model of Emergent Collective Bi-Directional Pedestrian Dynamics | p. 437 |
| Using Flocks to Drive a Geographical Analysis Engine | p. 446 |
| Emergent Design: Artificial Life for Architecture Design | p. 454 |
| John von Neumann and the Evolutionary Growth of Complexity: Looking Backwards, Looking Forwards | p. 467 |
| What Can We Learn from the First Evolutionary Simulation Model? | p. 477 |
| Real Artificial Life: Where We May Be | p. 487 |
| Simulation Models as Opaque Thought Experiments | p. 497 |
| Artificial Life as a Bridge Science and Philosophy | p. 507 |
| Artificial Justice | p. 513 |
| Engineering, Emergent Engineering, and Artificial Life: Unsurprise, Unsurprising Surprise, and Surprising Surprise | p. 523 |
| Art and Artificial Life - A Coevolutionary Approach | p. 529 |
| Synthetic Harmonies: An Approach to Musical Semiosis by Means of Cellular Automata | p. 537 |
| Modeling Emergence of Complexity: The Application of Complex System and Origin of Life Theory to Interactive Art on the Internet | p. 547 |
| Artificial Evolution: Creativity and the Possible | p. 555 |
| Author Index | p. 563 |
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