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Dario Floreano, Jean-Daniel Nicoud, Francesco Mondada, eds.
Advances in Artificial Life, ECAL'99: 5th European Conference on Artificial Life, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Springer. 1999

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Contents

• Hans Meinhardt. From Fertilized Eggs to Complex Organisms: Models of Biological Pattern Formation. 1999
• William D. Hamilton. Fables of Cyberspace: Tapeworms, Horses, and Mountains. 1999
• Luc Steels. Cognitive Teleportation and Situated Embodiment. 1999
• Tim Lenton. Testing Gaia Theory with Artificial Life. 1999
• Edmund M. A. Ronald, Moshe Sipper, Mathieu S. Capcarrere. Testing for Emergence in Artificial Life. 1999
• Paul Domjan. Are Romance Novels Really Alive? A Discussion of the Supple Adaptation View of Life. 1999
• Richard A. Watson, Jordan B. Pollack. How Symbiosis Can Guide Evolution. 1999
• Yuka Yamamoto, Takahiro Sasaki, Mario Tokoro. Adaptability of Darwinian and Lamarckian Populations Toward an Unknown New World. 1999
• Tsutomu Oohashi, Tadao Maekawa, Osamu Ueno, Emi Nishina, Norie Kawai. Requirements for Immortal ALife to Exterminate Mortal ALife in One Finite, Heterogeneous Ecosystem. 1999
• Gabriela Ochoa, Inman Harvey, Hilary Buxton. Error Thresholds and Their Relation to Optimal Mutation Rates. 1999
• Seth Bullock. Are Artificial Mutation Biases Unnatural?. 1999
• Stevan Jay Anastasoff. Evolving Mutation Rates for the Self-Optimisation of Genetic Algorithms. 1999
• Sevan G. Ficici, Jordan B. Pollack. Statistical Reasoning Strategies in the Pursuit and Evasion Domain . 1999
• Atsuko Mutoh, Satoru Oono, Kousuke Moriwaki, Tsuyoshi Nakamura, Nobuhiro Inuzuka, Hidenori Itoh. An Evolutionary Method Using Crossover in a Food Chain Simulation. 1999
• Tim Taylor. On Self-Reproduction and Evolvability. 1999
• Russell K. Standish. Some Techniques for the Measurement of Complexity in Tierra. 1999
• Andreas Rechtsteiner, Mark A. Bedau. A Generic Neutral Model for Quantitative Comparison of Genotypic Evolutionary Activity. 1999
• Henning Schwobbermeyer, Jan T. Kim. A Comparative Analysis of Biodiversity Measures. 1999
• Charles Ofria, Christoph Adami, Travis C. Collier, Grace K. Hsu. Evolution of Differentiated Expression Patterns in Digital Organisms. 1999
• Arno Rasek, Walter Doerwald, Michael Hauhs, Alois Kastner-Maresch. Species Formation in Evolving Finite State Machines. 1999
• Michael O'Neill, Conor Ryan. Genetic Code Degeneracy: Implications for Grammatical Evolution and Beyond. 1999
• Josh C. Bongard. Coevolutionary Dynamics of a Multi-population Genetic Programming System. 1999
• Vesselin Vassilev, Julian F. Miller, Terence C. Fogarty. The Evolution of Computation in Co-evolving Demes of Non-uniform Cellular Automata for Global Synchronisation. 1999
• Stefano Nolfi, Domenico Parisi. Exploiting the Power of Sensory-Motor Coordination. 1999
• Dario Floreano, Joseba Urzelai. Evolution of Neural Controllers with Adaptive Synapses and Compact Genetic Encoding. 1999
• Auke Jan Ijspeert. Synthetic Approaches to Neurobiology: Review and Case Study in the Control of Anguiliform Locomotion. 1999
• Richard Walker, Orazio Miglino. Replicating Experiments in "Detour Behavior" with Artificially Evolved Robots: An A-Life Approach to Comparative Psychology. 1999
• Rens Kortmann, John Hallam. Studying Animals through Artificial Evolution: The Cricket Case . 1999
• Anil K. Seth. Evolving Behavioural Choice: An Investigation of Herrnstein's Matching Law. 1999
• John Albert. Modeling of an Early Evolutionary Stage of the Cnidarian Nervous System and Behavior. 1999
• Ranit Aharonov-Barki, Tuvik Beker, Eytan Ruppin. Spontaneous Evolution of Command Neurons, Place Cells and Memory Mechanisms in Autonomous Agents. 1999
• Adam Rotaru-Varga. Modularity in Evolved Artificial Neural Networks. 1999
• Maciej Komosinski, Szymon Ulatowski. Framsticks: Towards a Simulation of a Nature-Like World, Creatures and Evolution. 1999
• Tony Belpaeme. Evolving Visual Feature Detectors. 1999
• Seiji Yamada. Evolutionary Design of Mobile Robot Behaviors for Action-Based Environment Modeling. 1999
• Jun Tani, Yuya Sugita. On the Dynamics of Robot Exploration Learning. 1999
• Ian Kelly, Owen E. Holland, Martin Scull, David J. McFarland. Artificial Autonomy in the Natural World: Building a Robot Predator. 1999
• Yasuhisa Hasegawa, Yoshikuni Ito, Toshio Fukuda. Behavior Adaptation on Behavior-Based Controller for Brachiation Robot. 1999
• Andrew Adamatzky, Owen E. Holland, Nicholas G. Rambidi, Alan F. T. Winfield. Wet Artificial Brains: Towards the Chemical Control of Robot Motion by Reaction-Diffusion and Excitable Media. 1999
• Sorin Moga, Philippe Gaussier. A Neuronal Structure for Learning by Imitation. 1999
• Mathias Quoy, Philippe Gaussier, Sacha Lepretre, Arnaud Revel. A Neural Model for the Visual Navigation and Planning of a Mobile Robot. 1999
• J. A. Becerra, J. Santos, R. J. Duro. Progressive Construction of Compound Behavior Controllers for Autonomous Robots Using Temporal Information. 1999
• Axel Loffler, Jurgen Klahold, Manfred Hussman, Ulrich Ruckert. A Visualization Tool for the Mini-Robot Khepera: Behavior Analysis and Optimization. 1999
• Thomas Netter, Nicolas Franceschini. Towards UAV Nap-of-the-Earth Flight Using Optical Flow. 1999
• Tom Quick, Kerstin Dautenhahn, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, Graham Roberts. On Bots and Bacteria: Ontology Independent Embodiment. 1999
• Daniel Thalmann. Populating the Virtual Worlds with Interactive Perceptive Virtual Actors. 1999
• Soraia Raupp Musse,, Marcelo Kallmann, Daniel Thalmann. Level of Autonomy for Virtual Human Agents. 1999
• Aapo Hyvarinen, Timo Honkela. Emotional Disorders in Autonomous Agents?. 1999
• Mark Witkowski. Integrating Unsupervised Learning, Motivation and Action Selection in an A-Life Agent. 1999
• George G. Szpiro. Can Computers Have Sentiments? The Case of Risk Aversion and Utility for Wealth. 1999
• Daniel Mange. Towards Robust Bio-inspired Circuits: The Embryonics Approach. 1999
• Kepa Ruiz-Mirazo, Alvaro Moreno, Federico Moran, J. J. Merelo. Designing a Simulation Model of a Self-Maintaining Cellular System. 1999
• Hugues Bersini. Design Patterns for an Object-Oriented Computational Chemistry. 1999
• Naoaki Ono, Takashi Ikegami. Model of Self-Replicating Cell Capable of Self-Maintenance. 1999
• Oliver Sharpe. Evolution at the Origins of Life: Modelling Simple Persistent Replication Objects. 1999
• Hideaki Suzuki. A Simulation of Life Using a Dynamic Core Memory Partitioned by Membrane Data. 1999
• Claus O. Wilke, Christopher Ronnewinkel, Thomas Martinetz. Molecular Evolution in Time-Dependent Environments. 1999
• Tomoyuki Yamamoto, Paulien Hogeweg. Evolution to Complexity: Replication, Elongation and Assembly in an RNA World. 1999
• Kouji Harada, Takashi Ikegami. Evolution of Multispecificity in an Immune Network. 1999
• Andrew Adamatzky, Owen E. Holland, Chris R. Melhuish. Laziness + Sensitivity + Mobility = Structure: Emergence of Patterns in Lattice Swarms. 1999
• Cesar Ortega, Andy M. Tyrrell. Self-Repairing Multicellular Hardware: A Reliability Analysis. 1999
• Enrico Petraglio, Jean-Marc Henry, Gianluca Tempesti. Arithmetic Operations on Self-Replicating Cellular Automata. 1999
• Torsten Reil. Dynamics of Gene Expression in an Artificial Genome -- Implications for Biological and Artificial Ontogeny. 1999
• Shugo Hamahashi, Hiroaki Kitano. Parameter Optimization in Hierarchical Structures. 1999
• Koji Kyoda, Hiroaki Kitano. A Model of Axis Determination for the Drosophila Wing Disc. 1999
• Mineo Morohashi, Hiroaki Kitano. Identifying Gene Regulatory Networks from Time Series Expression Data by in silico Sampling and Screening. 1999
• Massimiliano Ugolini, Domenico Parisi. Simulating the Evolution of Artifacts. 1999
• Martijn Brinkers, Paul den Dulk. The Evolution of Non-reciprocal Altruism. 1999
• Ezequiel A. Di Paolo. A Little More than Kind and Less than Kin: The Unwarranted Use of Kin Selection in Spatial Models of Communication. 1999
• Jason Noble, Elio Tuci, Peter M. Todd. An Evolutionary Simulation Model of Social Learning about Food by Norway Rats. 1999
• Charlotte K. Hemelrijk. Effects of Cohesiveness on Inter-Sexual Dominance Relationships and Spatial Structure among Group-Living Virtual Entities. 1999
• Seth Bullock, Jennifer Nerissa Davis, Peter M. Todd. Simplicity Rules the Roost: Exploring Birdbrain Parental Investment Heuristics. 1999
• Takashi Ikegami, Makoto Taiji. Imitation and Cooperation in Coupled Dynamical Recognizers. 1999
• Takashi Ishida, Hiroshi Yokoi, Yukinori Kakazu. Emergence of Adaptive Society with Competitive Selfish Agents. 1999
• Eizo Akiyama, Kunihiko Kaneko. Dynamical Systems Game (The Lumberjacks' Dilemma Model). 1999
• Yoshiki Yamaguchi, Tsutomu Maruyama, Tsutomu Hoshino. High Speed Hardware Computation of Co-evolution Models. 1999
• Alcherio Martinoli, Auke Jan Ijspeert, Luca Maria Gambardella. A Probabilistic Model for Understanding and Comparing Collective Aggregation Mechanisms. 1999
• Chris R. Melhuish. Exploiting Domain Physics: Using Stigmergy to Control Cluster Building with Real Robots. 1999
• Aude Billard, Auke Jan Ijspeert, Alcherio Martinoli. Exploration of a Dynamic Environment by a Group of Communicating Robots. 1999
• Jordi Delgado, Ricard V. Solé. Task Fulfilment and Temporal Patterns of Activity in Artificial Ant Colonies. 1999
• Ann Nowe, Katja Verbeeck. Formalizing the Ant Algorithms in Terms of Reinforcement Learning. 1999
• A. E. Langham, P. W. Grant. Using Competing Ant Colonies to Solve k-way Partitioning Problems with Foraging and Raiding Strategies. 1999
• N. Monmarche, M. Slimane, Gilles Venturini. On Improving Clustering in Numerical Databases with Artificial Ants. 1999
• Hidenori Kawamura, Masahito Yamamoto, Keiji Suzuki, Azuma Ohuchi. Ants War with Evolutive Pheromone Style Communication. 1999
• Jason Noble. Sexual Signalling in an Artificial Population: When Does the Handicap Principle Work?. 1999
• Angelo Cangelosi. Modeling the Evolution of Communication: From Stimulus Associations to Grounded Symbolic Associations. 1999
• Bart de Boer, Paul Vogt. Emergence of Speech Sounds in Changing Populations. 1999
• Ahmed-Reda Berrah, Rafael Laboissiere. SPECIES: An Evolutionary Model for the Emergence of Phonetic Structures in an Artificial Society of Speech Agents. 1999
• Luc Steels, Frederic Kaplan. Collective Learning and Semiotic Dynamics. 1999
• Edwin D. de Jong. Analyzing the Evolution of Communication from a Dynamical System's Perspective. 1999
• Simon Kirby. Syntax out of Learning: The Cultural Evolution of Structured Communication in a Population of Induction Algorithms. 1999
• Daniel Livingstone, Colin Fyfe. Modelling the Evolution of Linguistic Diversity. 1999
• Tracy Teal, Daniel Albro, Edward Stabler, Charles E. Taylor. Compression and Adaptation. 1999
• Christopher Dircks, Scott C. Stoness. Effective Lexicon Change in the Absence of Population Flux. 1999
• Pierre-Yves Oudeyer. Self-Organization of a Lexicon in a Structured Society of Agents. 1999
• Takashi Hashimoto. Modeling Categorization Dynamics through Conversation by Constructive Approach. 1999

Stefano Nolfi, Dario Floreano.
Evolutionary Robotics: the biology, intelligence, and technology of self-organizing machines.
MIT Press. 2000

Jean-Arcady Meyer, Alain Berthoz, Dario Floreano, Herbert L. Roitblat, Stewart W. Wilson.
From Animals to Animats 6: proceedings of the sixth international conference on Simulation of Adaptive behaviour, Paris, 2000.
MIT Press. 2000

Luis Mateus Rocha, Larry S. Yaeger, Mark A. Bedau, Dario Floreano, Robert L. Goldstone, Alessandro Vespignani.
Artificial Life X: proceedings of the ninth international conference on artificial life, Bloomington, USA.
MIT Press. 2006

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Dario Floreano, Claudio Mattiussi.
Bio-Inspired Artificial Intelligence: theories, methods, and technologies.
MIT Press. 2008

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New approaches to artificial intelligence spring from the idea that intelligence emerges as much from cells, bodies, and societies as it does from evolution, development, and learning. Traditionally, artificial intelligence has been concerned with reproducing the abilities of human brains; newer approaches take inspiration from a wider range of biological structures that are capable of autonomous self-organization. Examples of these new approaches include evolutionary computation and evolutionary electronics, artificial neural networks, immune systems, biorobotics, and swarm intelligence—to mention only a few. This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the emerging field of biologically inspired artificial intelligence that can be used as an upper-level text or as a reference for researchers.

Each chapter presents computational approaches inspired by a different biological system; each begins with background information about the biological system and then proceeds to develop computational models that make use of biological concepts. The chapters cover evolutionary computation and electronics; cellular systems; neural systems, including neuromorphic engineering; developmental systems; immune systems; behavioral systems—including several approaches to robotics, such as behavior-based, biomimetic, epigenetic, and evolutionary robots; and collective systems, including swarm robotics as well as cooperative and competitive coevolving systems. Chapters end with a concluding overview and suggested reading.

Dario Floreano, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Mandyam V. Srinivasan, Charlie Ellington.
Flying Insects and Robots.
Springer. 2009

Flying insects are intelligent micromachines capable of exquisite maneuvers in unpredictable environments. Understanding these systems advances our knowledge of flight control, sensor suites, and unsteady aerodynamics, which is of crucial interest to engineers developing intelligent flying robots or micro air vehicles (MAVs). The insights we gain when synthesizing bioinspired systems can in turn benefit the fields of neurophysiology, ethology and zoology by providing real-life tests of the proposed models.

This book was written by biologists and engineers leading the research in this crossdisciplinary field. It examines all aspects of the mechanics, technology and intelligence of insects and insectoids. After introductory-level overviews of flight control in insects, dedicated chapters focus on the development of autonomous flying systems using biological principles to sense their surroundings and autonomously navigate. A significant part of the book is dedicated to the mechanics and control of flapping wings both in insects and artificial systems. Finally hybrid locomotion, energy harvesting and manufacturing of small flying robots are covered. A particular feature of the book is the depth on realization topics such as control engineering, electronics, mechanics, optics, robotics and manufacturing.

This book will be of interest to academic and industrial researchers engaged with theory and engineering in the domains of aerial robotics, artificial intelligence, and entomology.