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Jean-Arcady Meyer, Stewart W. Wilson, eds.
From Animals to Animats: proceedings of the first international conference on Simulation of Adaptive behaviour, Paris, 1990.
MIT Press. 1991

Contents

• Jean-Arcady Meyer, Agnes Guillot. Simulation of Adaptive Behavior in Animats: Review and Prospect. 1991
• Stewart W. Wilson. The Animat Path to AI. 1991
• David J. McFarland. What It Means for Robot Behaviour to be Adaptive. 1991
• Dave Cliff. Computational Neuroethology: A Provisional Manifesto. 1991
• Harold C. Morris. On the Feasibility of Computational Artificial Life--A Reply to Critics. 1991
• Alexandre Parodi, Pierre Bonelli. The Animat and the Physician. 1991
• Renaud Dumeur. Extended Classifiers for Simulation of Adaptive Behavior. 1991
• Herbert L. Roitblat, Patrick W. B. Moore, Paul E. Nachtigall, R. H. Penner. Biomimetic Sonar Processing: From Dolphin Echolocation to Artificial Neural Networks. 1991
• DeLiang Wang, Michael A. Arbib. Hierarchical Dishabituation of Visual Discrimination in Toads. 1991
• Dave Cliff. The Computational Hoverfly: A Study in Computational Neuroethology. 1991
• Philip Teitelbaum, Vivien C. Pellis, Sergio M. Pellis. Can Allied Reflexes Promote the Integration of a Robot's Behavior?. 1991
• Holk Cruse. Coordination of Leg Movement in Walking Animals. 1991
• Gerhard Manteuffel. A Biological Visuo-Motor System: How Dissimilar Maps Interact to Produce Behavior. 1991
• Stephen T. Barnard. Biological and Computational Stereo Vision. 1991
• Simon Benhamou, Pierre Bovet. Modeling and Simulation of Animals' Movements. 1991
• Michael A. Arbib, Alberto Cobas. Schemas for Prey-Catching in Frog and Toad. 1991
• Ulrich Nehmzow, Tim Smithers. Mapbuilding Using Self-Organising Networks in "Really Useful Robots". 1991
• Marc Jamon. The Contribution of Quantitative Models to The Long Distance Orientation Problems. 1991
• Maja J. Mataric. Navigating with a Rat Brain: A Neurobiologically-Inspired Model for Robot Spatial Representation. 1991
• W. K. Yeap, C. C. Handley. Four Important Issues in Cognitive Mapping. 1991
• Mitch R. Harris. Attracting Similar Shapes Towards Each Other. 1991
• Frederick Toates, Per Jensen. Ethological and Psychological Models of Motivation--Towards a Synthesis. 1991
• Michel Cabanac. Pleasure: The Answer to Conflicting Motivations. 1991
• J. R. P. Halperin. Machine Motivation. 1991
• Jurgen Schmidhuber. A Possibility for Implementing Curiosity and Boredom in Model- Building Neural Controllers. 1991
• Lashon B. Booker. Instinct as an Inductive Bias for Learning Behavioral Sequences. 1991
• Pattie Maes. A Bottom-Up Mechanism for Behavior Selection in an Artificial Creature. 1991
• Randall D. Beer, Hillel J. Chiel. The Neural Basis of Behavioral Choice in an Artificial Insect. 1991
• Martin A. Snaith, Owen E. Holland. An Investigation of Two Mediation Strategies Suitable for Behavioural Control in Animals and Animats. 1991
• Toby Tyrrell, John E. W. Mayhew. Computer Simulation of an Animal Environment. 1991
• Patrick W. Colgan, T. Lynne Jamieson, Janice E. Frame, J. Terry Smith. Ontogeny of Preferences in Guppies (Poecilia reticulata) Exposed to Food and Conspecifics. 1991
• James M. Williams, P. J. B. Slater. Simulation Studies of Song Learning in Birds. 1991
• Richard S. Sutton. Reinforcement Learning Architectures for Animats. 1991
• Long-Ji Lin. Self-Improving Reactive Agents: Case Studies of Reinforcement Learning Frameworks. 1991
• Peter M. Todd, Geoffrey F. Miller. Exploring Adaptive Agency II: Simulating the Evolution of Associative Learning. 1991
• Rick L. Riolo. Lookahead Planning and Latent Learning in a Classifier System. 1991
• David Pierce, Benjamin Kuipers. Learning Hill-Climbing Functions as a Strategy for Generating Behaviors in a Mobile Robot. 1991
• David R. Shanks. Some Parallels Between Associative Learning and Object Classification. 1991
• Guy Theraulaz, Simon Goss, Jacques Gervet, Jean-Louis Deneubourg. Task Differentation in Polistes Wasp Colonies: A Model for Self-Organizing Groups of Robots. 1991
• Jean-Louis Deneubourg, Simon Goss, Nigel R. Franks, A. Sendova-Franks, C. Detrain, L. Chretien. Dynamics of Collective Sorting: Robot-Like Ants and Ant-Like Robots. 1991
• John R. Koza. Evolution and Co-Evolution of Computer Programs to Control Independently-Acting Agents. 1991
• Cynthia Kurtz. The Evolution of Information Gathering: Operational Constraints. 1991
• Robert J. Collins, David R. Jefferson. Representations for Artificial Organisms. 1991
• Federico Cecconi, Domenico Parisi. Evolving Organisms That Can Reach for Objects. 1991
• Inman Harvey. The Artificial Evolution of Behaviour. 1991
• Fabio De Luigi, Vittorio Maniezzo. The Rise of Interaction: Intrinsic Simulation Modeling of the Onset of Interacting Behaviour. 1991
• Jan Paredis. The Evolution of Behavior: Some Experiments. 1991
• Dan Wood. A Von Neumann Approach to a Genotype Explession in a Neural Animat. 1991
• Rodney A. Brooks. Challenges for Complete Creature Architecture. 1991
• Herbert L. Roitblat. Cognitive Action Theory as a Control Architecture. 1991
• Luc Steels. Towards a Theory of Emergent Functionality. 1991
• David L. Waltz. Eight Principles for Building an Intelligent Robot. 1991
• Uwe Schnepf. Robot Ethology: A Proposal for the Research into Intelligent Autonomous System. 1991
• Liane M. Gabora, Patrick W. Colgan. A Model of the Mechanisms Underlying Exploratory Behaviour. 1991
• Marijke Vonk, Felix Putters, Berend-Jan Velthuis. Causal Analysis of an Adaptive System: Sex-Ratio Decisions as Observed in a Parasitic Wasp and Simulated by a Network Model. 1991
• Paulien Hogeweg, B. Hesper. Evolution as Pattern Processing: TODO as Substrate for Evolution. 1991
• Alasdair I. Houston. Matching, Maximizing and Melioration as Alternative Descriptions of Behaviour. 1991
• Yuval Davidor. An Adaptation Anomoly of a Genetic Algorithm. 1991
• George Kiss. Autonomous Agents, AI and Chaos Theory. 1991
• Brendan McGonigle. Incrementing Intelligent Systems by Design. 1991
• Mitchel Resnick. Animal Simulations with *Logo: Massive Parallelism for the Masses. 1991
• Jim Donnett, Tim Smithers. Lego Vehicles: A Technology for Studying Intelligent Systems. 1991

Jean-Arcady Meyer, Herbert L. Roitblat, Stewart W. Wilson, eds.
From Animals to Animats 2: proceedings of the second international conference on Simulation of Adaptive behaviour, Hawaii, 1992.
MIT Press. 1993

Contents

• Pattie Maes. Behavior-Based Artificial Intelligence. 1993
• Peter M. Todd, Stewart W. Wilson. Environment Structure and Adaptive Behavior From the Ground Up. 1993
• Geoffrey F. Miller, Peter M. Todd. Evolutionary Wanderlust: Sexual Selection with Directional Mate Preferences. 1993
• Rolf Pfeifer, Paul F. M. J. Verschure. Designing Efficiently Navigating Non-Goal-Directed Robots. 1993
• Michael A. Arbib, Hyun Bong Lee. Anuran Visuomotor Coordination for Detour Behavior: From Retina to Motor Schemas. 1993
• Holk Cruse, Uwe Muller-Wilm, Jeffrey Dean. Artificial Neural Nets for Controlling a 6-Legged Walking System. 1993
• Sunil Cherian, Wade Troxell. A Neural Network Based Behavior Hierarchy for Locomotion Control. 1993
• John C. Gallagher, Randall D. Beer. Qualitative Dynamical Analysis of Evolved Locomotion Controllers. 1993
• Richard A. Altes. Neuronal Parameter Maps and Signal Processing. 1993
• Herbert L. Roitblat, Patrick W. B. Moore, David A. Helweg, Paul E. Nachtigall. Representation and Processing of Acoustic Information in a Biomimetic Neural Network. 1993
• William R. Uttal, Thomas Shepherd, Sriram Dayanand, Robb Lovell. An Integrated Computational Model of a Perceptual-Motor System. 1993
• R. Zapata, P. Lepinay, C. Novales, P. Deplanques. Reactive Behaviors of Fast Mobile Robots in Unstructured Environments: Sensor-Based Control and Neural Networks. 1993
• Allen Brookes. The Adaptive Nature of 3D Perception. 1993
• Ralph Hartley. Propulsion and Guidance in a Simulation of the Worm C. Elegans. 1993
• Ian Horswill. A Simple, Cheap, and Robust Visual Navigation System. 1993
• Toby Tyrrell. The Use of Hierarchies for Action Selection. 1993
• Mark Ring. Two Methods for Hierarchy Learning in Reinforcement Environments. 1993
• Liane M. Gabora. Should I Stay or Should I Go: Coordinating Biological Needs with Continuously-updated Assessments of the Environment. 1993
• Leemon C. Baird III, A. Harry Klopf. Extensions of the Associative Control Process (ACP) Network: Hierarchies and Provable Optimality. 1993
• Simon Giszter. Behavior Networks and Force Fields for Simulating Spinal Reflex Behaviors of the Frog. 1993
• Emmanuel Mazer, Juan Manuel Ahuactzin, El-Ghazali Talbi, Pierre Bessiere. The Ariadne's Clew Algorithm. 1993
• Feliz Ribeiro, Jean-Paul Barthes, Eugenio Oliveira. Dynamic Selection of Action Sequences. 1993
• Jurgen Schmidhuber, Reiner Wahnsiedler. Planning Simple Trajectories Using Neural Subgoal Generators. 1993
• J. E. R. Staddon. A Note on Rate-Sensitive Habituation. 1993
• Paul F. M. J. Verschure, Rolf Pfeifer. Categorization, Representations, and The Dynamics of System-Environment Interaction: A Case Study in Autonomous Systems. 1993
• David Kortenkamp, Eric Chown. Directional Spreading Activation Network for Mobile Robot Navigation. 1993
• Saburo Tsuff, Shigang Li. Memorizing and Representing Route Scenes. 1993
• Tony J. Prescott, John E. W. Mayhew. Building Long-Range Cognitive Maps Using Local Landmarks. 1993
• Nestor A. Schmajuk, H. T. Blair. Dynamics of Spatial Navigation: An Adaptive Neural Network. 1993
• A. Harry Klopf, James S. Morgan, Scott E. Weaver. Modeling Nervous System Function with a Hierarchical Network of Control Systems That Learn. 1993
• Michael L. Littman. An Optimization-Based Categorization of Reinforcement Learning Environments. 1993
• Long-Ji Lin, Tom M. Mitchell. Reinforcement Learning with Hidden States. 1993
• Jing Peng, Ronald J. Williams. Efficient Learning and Planning within the Dyna Framework. 1993
• Ulrich Nehmzow, Tim Smithers, Brendan McGonigle. Increasing Behavioural Repertoire in a Mobile Robot. 1993
• Thomas Ulrich Vogel. Learning Biped Robot Obstacle Crossing. 1993
• Marco Colombetti, Marco Dorigo. Learning to Control an Autonomous Robot by Distributed Genetic Algorithms. 1993
• Lawrence Davis, Stewart W. Wilson, David Orvosh. Temporary Memory for Examples Can Speed Learning in a Simple Adaptive System. 1993
• Alexander Linden, Frank Weber. Implementing Inner Drive Through Competence Reflection. 1993
• Bruce E. Rosen, James M. Goodwin. Dynamic Flight Control with Adaptive Coarse Coding. 1993
• Josh Tenenberg, Jonas Karlsson, Steven Whitehead. Learning via Task Decomposition. 1993
• Federico Cecconi, Domenico Parisi. Neural Networks with Motivational Units. 1993
• Hitoshi Iba, Hugo de Garis, Tetsuya Higuchi. Evolutionary Learning of Predatory Behaviors Based on Structured Classifiers. 1993
• Inman Harvey, Philip Husbands, Dave Cliff. Issues in Evolutionary Robotics. 1993
• Dave Cliff, Philip Husbands, Inman Harvey. Evolving Visually Guided Robots. 1993
• Craig W. Reynolds. An Evolved, Vision-Based Behavioral Model of Coordinated Group Motion. 1993
• Gregory M. Werner, Michael G. Dyer. Evolution of Herding Behavior in Artificial Animals. 1993
• Dwight Deugo, Franz Oppacher. An Evolutionary Approach to Cognition. 1993
• Dario Floreano. Emergence of Nest-Based Foraging Strategies in Ecosystems of Neural Networks. 1993
• Tetsuya Higuchi, Tatsuya Niwa, Toshio Tanaka, Hitoshi Iba, Hugo de Garis, Tatsumi Furuya. Evolving Hardware with Genetic Learning: A First Step Towards Building a Darwin Machine. 1993
• Luis R. Lopez, Robert E. Smith. Evolving Artificial Insect Brains for Artificial Compound Eye Robotics. 1993
• Maja J. Mataric. Designing Emergent Behaviors: From Local Interactions to Collective Intelligence. 1993
• Lynne E. Parker. Adaptive Action Selection for Cooperative Agent Teams. 1993
• Alexis Drogoul, Jacques Ferber. From Tom Thumb to the Dockers: Some Experiments with Foraging Robots. 1993
• C. Ronald Kube, Hong Zhang. Collective Robotic Intelligence. 1993
• Chisato Numaoka, Akikazu Takeuchi. Collective Choice of Strategic Type. 1993
• Holly Yanco, Lynn Andrea Stein. An Adaptive Communication Protocol for Cooperating Mobile Robots. 1993
• Ronald C. Arkin, J. David Hobbs. Dimensions of Communication and Social Organization in Multi-Agent Robotic Systems. 1993
• Andrea Beltratti, Sergio Margarita. Evolution of Trading Strategies Among Heterogeneous Artificial Economic Agents. 1993
• Gerhard Weiss. Action Selection and Learning in Multi-Agent Environments. 1993
• John H. Andreae, Shaun W. Ryan, Mark L. Tomlinson. Structure from Associative Learning (summary). 1993
• Christian Balkenius. The Roots of Motivation (summary). 1993
• Gregory D. Benson, Armand Prieditis. Learning Continuous-Space Navigation Heuristics in Real Time (summary). 1993
• Eric Chown. The Adaptive Power of Affect: Learning in the SESAME Architecture (summary). 1993
• Luis Correia, A. Steiger-Garcao. Model of a Behaviour Based Control Architecture (summary). 1993
• Bridget Hallam, Gillian Hayes. Comparing Robot and Animal Behavior. 1993
(summary)
• Owen E. Holland, Martin A. Snaith. An Embodied Neurally-Based Algorithm for Optimal Action Selection (summary). 1993
• Oded Maler. Why Should We Build Artificial Worms and How? (summary). 1993
• M. A. Rodrigues, M. H. Lee. Creative Perception (summary). 1993
• Isao Shimoyama, Toshio Watanabe, Yoshihiko Kuwana, Hirofumi Miura. Collective Behavior of Silicon Microrobots (summary). 1993
• Micah S. Siegel. An Analog VLSI Model of Central Pattern Generation in the Medicinal Leech (summary). 1993

Dave Cliff, Philip Husbands, Jean-Arcady Meyer, Stewart W. Wilson.
From Animals to Animats 3: proceedings of the third international conference on Simulation of Adaptive behaviour, Brighton, 1994.
MIT Press. 1994

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