Advances in Artificial Life

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.