Advances in Artificial Life: 6th European Conference, ECAL 2001, Prague, Czech Republic, September 10-14, 2001. Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (2159))

Why Is The Question Of The Di?erence Between Living And Non-living Matter - Tellectually So Attractive To The Man Of The West? Where Are Our Dreams About Our Own Ability To Understand This Di?erence And To Overcome It Using The ?rmly Established Technologies Rooted? Where Are, For Instance, The Cultural Roots Of The Enterprises Covered Nowadays By The Discipline Of Arti?cial Life? Cont- Plating Such Questions, One Of Us Has Recognized [6] The Existence Of The Eternal Dream Of The Man Of The West Expressed, For Example, In The Old Testament As Follows: . . . The Lord God Formed The Man From The Dust Of The Ground And Breathed Into His Nostrils The Breath Of Life, And The Man Became A Living Being (genesis, 2. 7). This Is The Dream About The Workmanlike Act Of The Creation Of Adam From Clay, About The Creation Of Life From Something Non-living, And The Con?dence In The Magic Power Of Technologies. How Has This Dream Developed And Been Converted Into A Reality, And How Does It Determine Our Present-day Activities In Science And Technology? What Is This Con?dence Rooted In? Then God Said: “let Us Make Man In Our Image. . . ” (genesis, 1. 26). Man Believes In His Own Ability To Repeat The Creator’s Acts, To Change Ideas Into Real Things, Because He Believes He Is Godlike. This Con?dence Is – Using The Trendy Dawkins’ Term – Perhaps The Most Important Cultural Meme Of The West. Invited Lectures -- Computing In Nonlinear Media: Make Waves, Study Collisions -- Ant Algorithms Solve Difficult Optimization Problems -- The Shifting Network: Volume Signalling In Real And Robot Nervous Systems -- A Study Of Replicators And Hypercycles By Typogenetics -- Emergence Of A Super-turing Computational Potential In Artificial Living Systems -- Agents In Environments -- Eco-grammars To Model Biological Systems: Adding Probabilities To Agents -- Dynamics Of The Environment For Adaptation In Static Resource Models -- Adaptive Behavior Through A Darwinist Machine -- Fault-tolerant Structures: Towards Robust Self-replication In A Probabilistic Environment -- Survival Of The Unfittest? - The Seceder Model And Its Fitness Landscape -- Evolving Multi-agent Networks In Structured Environments -- Suicide As An Evolutionarily Stable Strategy -- Eden: An Evolutionary Sonic Ecosystem -- New Hybrid Architecture In Artificial Life Simulation --^ “in Silico” Experiments On Heavy Metal Sorption By Algal Biomass -- Spatially Explicit Models Of Forager Interference -- Antigens, Antibodies, And The World Wide Web -- I Like What I Know: How Recognition-based Decisions Can Structure The Environment -- Artificial Chemistry -- Bio-language For Computing With Membranes -- Artificial Chemistry: Computational Studies On The Emergence Of Self-reproducing Units -- Stability Of Metabolic And Balanced Organisations -- Spontaneous Formation Of Proto-cells In An Universal Artificial Chemistry On A Planar Graph -- Cellular And Neuronal Systems -- Understanding The Agent’s Brain: A Quantitative Approach -- Observations On Complex Multi-state Cas -- Artificial Neural Networks And Artificial Evolution As Tools To Study Organization Of Spatial Behavior In Rats -- Transsys: A Generic Formalism For Modelling Regulatory Networks In Morphogenesis --^ Evolution Of Reinforcement Learning In Uncertain Environments: Emergence Of Risk-aversion And Matching -- Searching For One-dimensional Cellular Automata In The Absence Of A Priori Information -- Neutral Networks And Evolvability With Complex Genotype-phenotype Mapping -- Externally Controllable And Destructible Self-replicating Loops -- The Effect Of Neuromodulations On The Adaptability Of Evolved Neurocontrollers -- Collaborative Systems -- Testing Collaborative Agents Defined As Stream X-machines With Distributed Grammars -- A Three-dimensional Environment For Self-reproducing Programs -- Pareto Optimality In Coevolutionary Learning -- On Emergence In Evolutionary Multiagent Systems -- Division Of Labour In Simulated Ant Colonies Under Spatial Constraints -- Emergent Organisation In Colonies Of Simple Automata -- Evolving Communication Without Dedicated Communication Channels -- Modelling Animal Behaviour In Contests: Conventions For Resource Allocation --^ A Model Of Human Mate Choice With Courtship That Predicts Population Patterns -- Establishing Communication Systems Without Explicit Meaning Transmission -- The Difficulty Of The Baldwinian Account Of Linguistic Innateness -- Evolution -- Making Evolution An Offer It Can’t Refuse: Morphology And The Extradimensional Bypass -- Model Of Evolutionary Emergence Of Purposeful Adaptive Behavior. The Role Of Motivation -- Passing The Alife Test: Activity Statistics Classify Evolution In Geb As Unbounded -- On The Evolution Of Artificial Consciousness -- Some Effects Of Individual Learning On The Evolution Of Sensors -- Transitions In A Simple Evolutionary Model -- Towards The Implementation Of Evolving Autopoietic Artificial Agents -- Verification Of Text Transcription History By Using Evolutionary Algorithms -- Genetic Algorithm As A Result Of Phenomenological Reduction Of Natural Evolution -- String Rewriting Grammar Optimized Using An Evolvability Measure --^ A Visually-based Evolvable Control Architecture For Agents In Interactive Entertainment Applications -- Symbiotic Composition And Evolvability -- Robotics -- Nbrains A New Type Of Robot Brain -- Can Wheeled Robots Illuminate Adaptive Behaviour? -- Evolution, Adaption, And Behavioural Holism In Artificial Intelligence -- Evolving Bipedal Locomotion With A Dynamically-rearranging Neural Network -- Slugbot: A Robot Predator -- Mobile Robot Control Based On Boolean Logic With Internal Memory -- Emergence Of Cooperative Tactics By Soccer Agents With Ability Of Prediction And Learning -- Patch Sorting: Multi-object Clustering Using Minimalist Robots -- Behavioural Formation Management In Robotic Soccer -- Control System Of Flexible Structure Multi-cell Robot Using Amoeboid Self-organization Mode -- Towards Self-organising Structure Formations: A Decentralized Approach -- Vision,visualisation,language,and Communication -- Affective Interaction Between Humans And Robots --^ The Survival Of The Smallest: Stability Conditions For The Cultural Evolution Of Compositional Language -- Smooth Operator? Understanding And Visualising Mutation Bias -- The Use Of Latent Semantic Indexing To Identify Evolutionary Trajectories In Behaviour Space -- Data Visualization Method For Growing Self-organizing Networks With Ant Clustering Algorithm -- Insect Inspired Visual Control Of Translatory Flight -- The Importance Of Rapid Cultural Convergence In The Evolution Of Learned Symbolic Communication -- Emergent Syntax: The Unremitting Value Of Computational Modeling For Understanding The Origins Of Complex Language -- Miscellaneous -- Amorphous Geometry -- Artificial Life And Historical Processes -- Aesthetic Fitness And Artificial Evolution For The Selection Of Imagery From The Mythical Infinite Library -- Distributing A Mind On The Internet: The World-wide-mind -- The Dimensions Of The Cyber Universe --^ Taxonomy In Alife. Measures Of Similarity For Complex Artificial Organisms -- The ?-game System: An Approach To A Meta-game -- Formal Description Of Autopoiesis Based On The Theory Of Category -- An Information-theoretic Approach For The Quantification Of Relevance -- First Implementation Of The World-wide-mind -- Evolving Lives: The Individual Historical Dimension In Evolution. Jozef Kelemen, Petr Sosík, Eds. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Computing in Nonlinear Media: Make Waves, Study Collisions....Pages 1-10 Ant Algorithms Solve Difficult Optimization Problems....Pages 11-22 The Shifting Network: Volume Signalling in Real and Robot Nervous Systems....Pages 23-36 A Study of Replicators and Hypercycles by Typogenetics....Pages 37-54 Emergence of a Super-Turing Computational Potential in Artificial Living Systems....Pages 55-65 Eco-Grammars to Model Biological Systems: Adding Probabilities to Agents....Pages 66-75 Dynamics of the Environment for Adaptation in Static Resource Models....Pages 76-85 Adaptive Behavior through a Darwinist Machine....Pages 86-89 Fault-Tolerant Structures: Towards Robust Self-Replication in a Probabilistic Environment....Pages 90-99 Survival of the Unfittest? - The Seceder Model and its Fitness Landscape....Pages 100-109 Evolving Multi-agent Networks in Structured Environments....Pages 110-119 Suicide as an Evolutionarily Stable Strategy....Pages 120-132 Eden: An Evolutionary Sonic Ecosystem....Pages 133-142 New Hybrid Architecture in Artificial Life Simulation....Pages 143-146 “In Silico” Experiments on Heavy Metal Sorption by Algal Biomass....Pages 147-150 Spatially Explicit Models of Forager Interference....Pages 151-160 Antigens, Antibodies, and the World Wide Web....Pages 161-165 I Like What I Know: How Recognition-Based Decisions Can Structure the Environment....Pages 166-175 Bio-Language for Computing with Membranes....Pages 176-185 Artificial Chemistry: Computational Studies on the Emergence of Self-Reproducing Units....Pages 186-195 Stability of Metabolic and Balanced Organisations....Pages 196-205 Spontaneous Formation of Proto-cells in an Universal Artificial Chemistry on a Planar Graph....Pages 206-215 Understanding the Agent’s Brain: A Quantitative Approach....Pages 216-225 Observations on Complex Multi-state CAs....Pages 226-235 Artificial Neural Networks and Artificial Evolution as Tools to Study Organization of Spatial Behavior in Rats....Pages 236-241 transsys: A Generic Formalism for Modelling Regulatory Networks in Morphogenesis....Pages 242-251 Evolution of Reinforcement Learning in Uncertain Environments: Emergence of Risk-Aversion and Matching....Pages 252-261 Searching for One-Dimensional Cellular Automata in the Absence of a priori Information....Pages 262-271 Neutral Networks and Evolvability with Complex Genotype-Phenotype Mapping....Pages 272-281 Externally Controllable and Destructible Self-Replicating Loops....Pages 282-291 The Effect of Neuromodulations on the Adaptability of Evolved Neurocontrollers....Pages 292-295 Testing Collaborative Agents Defined as Stream X-Machines with Distributed Grammars....Pages 296-305 A Three-Dimensional Environment for Self-Reproducing Programs....Pages 306-315 Pareto Optimality in Coevolutionary Learning....Pages 316-325 On Emergence in Evolutionary Multiagent Systems....Pages 326-337 Division of Labour in Simulated Ant Colonies Under Spatial Constraints....Pages 338-348 Emergent Organisation in Colonies of Simple Automata....Pages 349-356 Evolving Communication without Dedicated Communication Channels....Pages 357-366 Modelling Animal Behaviour in Contests: Conventions for Resource Allocation....Pages 367-376 A Model of Human Mate Choice with Courtship That Predicts Population Patterns....Pages 377-380 Establishing Communication Systems without Explicit Meaning Transmission....Pages 381-390 The Difficulty of the Baldwinian Account of Linguistic Innateness....Pages 391-400 Making Evolution an Offer It Can’t Refuse: Morphology and the Extradimensional Bypass....Pages 401-412 Model of Evolutionary Emergence of Purposeful Adaptive Behavior. The Role of Motivation....Pages 413-416 Passing the ALife Test: Activity Statistics Classify Evolution in Geb as Unbounded....Pages 417-426 On the Evolution of Artificial Consciousness....Pages 427-431 Some Effects of Individual Learning on the Evolution of Sensors....Pages 432-435 Transitions in a Simple Evolutionary Model....Pages 436-439 Towards the Implementation of Evolving Autopoietic Artificial Agents....Pages 440-443 Verification of Text Transcription History by Using Evolutionary Algorithms....Pages 444-453 Genetic Algorithm as a Result of Phenomenological Reduction of Natural Evolution....Pages 454-457 String Rewriting Grammar Optimized Using an Evolvability Measure....Pages 458-468 A Visually-Based Evolvable Control Architecture for Agents in Interactive Entertainment Applications....Pages 469-479 Symbiotic Composition and Evolvability....Pages 480-490 nBrains A New Type of Robot Brain....Pages 491-494 Can Wheeled Robots Illuminate Adaptive Behaviour?....Pages 495-498 Evolution, Adaption, and Behavioural Holism in Artificial Intelligence....Pages 499-508 Evolving Bipedal Locomotion with a Dynamically-Rearranging Neural Network....Pages 509-518 SlugBot: A Robot Predator....Pages 519-528 Mobile Robot Control Based on Boolean Logic with Internal Memory....Pages 529-538 Emergence of Cooperative Tactics by Soccer Agents with Ability of Prediction and Learning....Pages 539-542 Patch Sorting: Multi-object Clustering Using Minimalist Robots....Pages 543-552 Behavioural Formation Management in Robotic Soccer....Pages 553-562 Control System of Flexible Structure Multi-cell Robot Using Amoeboid Self-Organization Mode....Pages 563-572 Towards Self-Organising Structure Formations: A Decentralized Approach....Pages 573-581 Affective Interaction between Humans and Robots....Pages 582-591 The Survival of the Smallest: Stability Conditions for the Cultural Evolution of Compositional Language....Pages 592-601 Smooth Operator? Understanding and Visualising Mutation Bias....Pages 602-612 The Use of Latent Semantic Indexing to Identify Evolutionary Trajectories in Behaviour Space....Pages 613-622 Data Visualization Method for Growing Self-Organizing Networks with Ant Clustering Algorithm....Pages 623-626 Insect Inspired Visual Control of Translatory Flight....Pages 627-636 The Importance of Rapid Cultural Convergence in the Evolution of Learned Symbolic Communication....Pages 637-640 Emergent Syntax: The Unremitting Value of Computational Modeling for Understanding the Origins of Complex Language....Pages 641-644 Amorphous Geometry....Pages 645-648 Artificial Life and Historical Processes....Pages 649-658 Aesthetic Fitness and Artificial Evolution for the Selection of Imagery from the Mythical Infinite Library....Pages 659-668 Distributing a Mind on the Internet: The World-Wide-Mind....Pages 669-680 The Dimensions of the Cyber Universe....Pages 681-684 Taxonomy in Alife. Measures of Similarity for Complex Artificial Organisms....Pages 685-694 The λ-Game System: An Approach to a Meta-game....Pages 695-699 Formal Description of Autopoiesis Based on the Theory of Category....Pages 700-703 An Information-Theoretic Approach for the Quantification of Relevance....Pages 704-713 First Implementation of the World-Wide-Mind....Pages 714-718 Evolving Lives: The Individual Historical Dimension in Evolution....Pages 719-722 This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Artificial Life, ECAL 2001, held in Prague, Czech Republic, in September 2001. The 54 revised papers and 25 posters presented together with five invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The book reflects the state of the art in ALife. It is divided into topical sections on agents in environments; artificial chemistry; cellular and neural systems; collaborative systems; evolution; robotics; vision, visualization, language, and communication; and miscellaneous