Table of Contents

• Artificial Life and Molecular Evolutionary BiologyPeter Schuster. 3-19
• Artificial Life Needs a Real EpistemologyHoward H. Pattee. 23-38
• Grounding and the Entailment Structure in Robots and Artificial LifeErich Prem. 39-51
• Mean Field Theory of the Edge of ChaosHoward Gutowitz, Chris Langton. 52-64
• Escaping from the Cartesian Mind-Set: Heidegger and Artificial LifeMichael Wheeler. 65-76
• Semantic Closure: A Guiding Notion to Ground Artificial LifeJon Umerez. 77-94
• The Inside and Outside Views of LifeGeorge Kampis. 95-102
• Prebiotic Chemistry, Artificial Life, and Complexity Theory: What Do They Tell Us About the Origin of Biological Systems?Antonio Lazcano. 105-115
• Compartimentation in Replicator ModelsJuan Carlos Nuño, Pablo Chacón, Alvaro Moreno, Federico Morán. 116-127
• Evolutionary Dynamics and Optimization: Neutral Networks as Model-Landscapes for RNA Secondary-Structure Folding-LandscapesChristian V. Forst, Christian Reidys, Jacqueline Weber. 128-147
• Population Evolution in a Single Peak Fitness Landscape - How High are the Clouds?Glenn Woodcock, Paul G. Higgs. 148-157
• Replicators Don t!Barry McMullin. 158-169
• RNA Viruses: a Bridge Between Life and Artificial LifeAndrés Moya, Esteban Domingo, John J. Holland. 170-178
• Complexity Analysis of a Self-organizing vs. a Template-Directed SystemGad Yagil. 179-187
• Tile Automaton for Evolution of MetabolismTomoyuki Yamamoto, Kunihiko Kaneko. 188-199
• Tracking the Red Queen: Measurements of Adaptive Progress in Co-Evolutionary SimulationsDave Cliff, Geoffrey F. Miller. 200-218
• The Coevolution of Mutation RatesCarlo C. Maley. 219-233
• Coevolution of Machines and TapesTakashi Ikegami, Takashi Hashimoto. 234-245
• Incremental Co-Evolution of Organisms: A New Approach for Optimization and Discovery of StrategiesHugues Juillé. 246-260
• Symbioses and Co-Evolution in AnimatsChisato Numaoka. 261-272
• Artificial EndosymbiosisLarry Bull, Terence C. Fogarty, Anthony G. Pipe. 273-289
• Mathematical Analysis of Evolutionary ProcessTetsuya Maeshiro, Masayuki Kimura. 290-301
• The Evolution of Hierarchical RepresentationsFranz Oppacher, Dwight Deugo. 302-313
• Adaptation and the Modular Design of OrganismsGünter P. Wagner. 317-328
• A Theory of Differentiation with Dynamic ClusteringKunihiko Kaneko, Tetsuya Yomo. 329-340
• Cell Differentiation and Neurogenesis in Evolutionary Large Scale ChaosHiroaki Kitano. 341-352
• Evolving Artificial Neural Networks that Develop in TimeStefano Nolfi, Domenico Parisi. 353-367
• Contextual Genetic Algorithms: Evolving Developmental RulesLuis Mateus Rocha. 368-382
• Can Development Be Designed? What we May Learn from the Cog ProjectJulie C. Rutkowska. 383-395
• Emergent Organization of Interspecies Communication in Q-Learning Artificial OrganismsNorihiko Ono, T. Ohira, Adel Torkaman Rahmani. 396-405
• Self and Nonself Revisited: Lessons from Modelling the Immune NetworkJorge Carneiro, John Stewart. 406-420
• On Formation of StructuresJari Vaario, Katsunori Shimohara. 421-435
• Learning in the Active ModeDomenico Parisi, Federico Cecconi. 439-462
• Learning Subjective "Cognitive Maps" in the Presence of Sensory-Motor ErrorsAnthony G. Pipe, Brian Carse, Terence C. Fogarty, Alan F. T. Winfield. 463-476
• Specialization Under Social Conditions in Shared EnvironmentsHenrik Hautop Lund. 477-489
• Iterated Prisoner s Dilemma with Choice and Refusal of Partners: Evolutionary ResultsE. Ann Stanley, Dan Ashlock, Mark D. Smucker. 490-502
• Abundance-Distributions in Artificial Life and Stochastic Models: "Age and Area" RevisitedChristoph Adami, C. Titus Brown, Michael R. Haggerty. 503-514
• Elements of a Theory of SimulationSteen Rasmussen, Christopher L. Barrett. 515-529
• To Simulate or Not to Simulate: A Problem of Minimising Functional Logic DepthGregory R. Mulhauser. 530-543
• Quasi-Uniform Computation-Universal Cellular AutomataMoshe Sipper. 544-554
• A New Self-Reproducing Cellular Automaton Capable of Construction and ComputationGianluca Tempesti. 555-563
• Self-Inspection Based Reproduction in Cellular AutomataJesús Ibáñez, Daniel Anabitarte, Iker Azpeitia, Oscar Barrera, Arkaitz Barrutieta, Haritz Blanco, Francisco Echarte. 564-576
• Evaluation of Learning Performance of Situated Embodied AgentsMaja J. Mataric. 579-589
• Seeing in the Dark with Artificial BatsKourosh Teimoorzadeh. 590-601
• Navigating with an Adaptive Light CompassDimitrios Lambrinos. 602-613
• Collision Avoidance Using an Egocentric Memory of ProximityRené Zapata, Pascal Lépinay, Pascal Deplanques. 614-624
• A Useful Autonomous Vehicle with a Hierarchical Behavior ControlLuís Correia, Adolfo Steiger-Garção. 625-639
• Evolving Electronic Robot Controller that Exploit Hardware ResourcesAdrian Thompson. 640-656
• Classification as Sensory-Motor Coordination: A Case Study on Autonomous AgentsChristian Scheier, Rolf Pfeifer. 657-667
• High-Pass Filtered Positive Feedback. Decentralized Control of CooperationHolk Cruse, Christian Bartling, Thomas Kindermann. 668-678
• Learning and Adaptivity: Enhancing Reactive Behaviour Architectures in Real-World Interaction SystemsMiles Pebody. 679-690
• Interactivistm: a Functional Model of Representation for Behavior-Based SystemsSunil Cherian, Wade Troxell. 691-703
• Noise and the Reality Gap: The Use of Simulation in Evolutionary RoboticsNick Jakobi, Phil Husbands, Inman Harvey. 704-720
• Essential Dynamical Structure in Learnable Autonomous RobotsJun Tani. 721-732
• Optimizing the Performance of a Robot Society in Structured Environment Through Genetic AlgorithmsMika Vainio, Torsten Schönberg, Aarne Halme, Peter Jakubik. 733-746
• Spatial Games and Evolution of CooperationRobert M. May, Sebastian Bonhoeffer, Martin A. Nowak. 749-759
• Aggressive Signaling Meets Adaptive Receiving: Further Experiments in Synthetic Behavioural EcologyPeter de Bourcier, Michael Wheeler. 760-771
• Modelling Foraging Behaviour of Ant ColoniesR. P. Fletcher, C. Cannings, P. G. Blackwell. 772-783
• The Computationally Complete Ant Colony: Global Coordination in a System with No HierarchyMichael Lachmann, Guy Sella. 784-800
• Mimicry and Coevolution of Hedonic AgentsPaul Bourgine, Dominique Snyers. 801-811
• Evolution of Symbolic Grammar SystemsTakashi Hashimoto, Takashi Ikegami. 812-823
• Driven Cellular Automata, Adaptation and the Binding ProblemWilliam Sulis. 824-840
• The Functional Composition of Living Machines as a Design Principle for Artificial OrganismsChristos A. Ouzounis, Alfonso Valencia, Javier Tamames, Peer Bork, Chris Sander. 843-851
• Thermodynamics of RNA Folding: When is an RNA Molecule in Equilibrium?Paul G. Higgs, Steven R. Morgan. 852-861
• An Artificial Life Model for Predicting the Tertiary Structure of Unknown Proteins that Emulates the Folding ProcessRaffaele Calabretta, Stefano Nolfi, Domenico Parisi. 862-875
• Energy Cost Evaluation of Computing Capabilities in Biomolecular and Artificial MatterRafael Lahoz-Beltra, Stuart R. Hameroff. 876-889
• Contemporary Evolution StrategiesHans-Paul Schwefel, Günter Rudolph. 893-907
• The Usefulness of RecombinationWim Hordijk, Bernard Manderick. 908-919
• The Investigation of Lamarckian Inheritance with Classifier Systems in a Massively Parallel Simulation EnvironmentEckhard Bartscht, Jens Engel, Christian Müller-Schloer. 920-933
• Orgy in the Computer: Multi-Parent Reproduction in Genetic AlgorithmsA. E. Eiben, Cees H. M. van Kemenade, Joost N. Kok. 934-945
• A Simplification of the Theory of Neural Groups Selection for Adaptive ControlS. Lobo, A. J. García-Tejedor, R. Rodríguez-Galán, Luis López, Ángel García-Crespo. 946-958