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Francisco J. Varela, Paul Bourgine, eds.
Toward a Practice of Autonomous Systems: proceedings of the first European conference on Artificial Life.
MIT Press. 1992

Contents

Rodney A. Brooks. Artificial Life and Real Robots. 1992
Mukesh J. Patel, Uwe Schnepf. Concept Formation as Emergent Phenomena. 1992
Rolf Pfeifer, Paul F. M. J. Verschure. Distributed Adaptive Control: A Paradigm for Designing Autonomous Agents. 1992
Tim Smithers. Taking Eliminative Materialism Seriously: A Methodology for Autonomous Systems Research. 1992
Leslie Pack Kaelbling. An Adaptable Mobile Robot. 1992
Pattie Maes. Learning Behavior Networks from Experience. 1992
Ian Horswill. Characterizing Adaptation by Constraint. 1992
Didier Keymeulen, Jo Decuyper. On the Self-Organizing Properties of Topological Maps. 1992
Piet Spiessens, Jan Torreele. Massively Parallel Evolution of Recurrent Networks: An Approach to Temporal Processing. 1992
Dave Cliff. Neural Networks for Visual Tracking in an Artificial Fly. 1992
Eric Dedieu, Emmanuel Mazer. An Approach to Sensorimotor Relevance. 1992
Ulrich Nehmzow, Tim Smithers. Using Motor Actions for Location Recognition. 1992
Martin A. Snaith, Owen E. Holland. The Application of Temporal Difference Learning to the Neural Control of Quadruped Locomotion. 1992
John R. Koza. Evolution of Subsumption Using Genetic Programming. 1992
Jean-Louis Deneubourg, Guy Theraulaz, Ralph Beckers. Swarm-Made Architectures. 1992
Alberto Colorni, Marco Dorigo, Vittorio Maniezzo. Distributed Optimization by Ant Colonies. 1992
Andrew M. Assad, Norman H. Packard. Emergent Colonization in an Artificial Ecology. 1992
Gerardo Beni, Susan Hackwood. The Maximum Entropy Principle and Sensing in Swarm Intelligence. 1992
Alexis Drogoul, Jacques Ferber, Bruno Corbara, Dominique Fresneau. Behavioral Simulation Model for the Study of Emergent Social Structures. 1992
Karl Sims. Interactive Evolution of Dynamical Systems. 1992
Nicolas Meuleau. Simulating Co-Evolution with Mimetism. 1992
Christian Nottola, Frederic Leroy, Franck Davalo. Dynamics of Artificial Markets: Speculative Markets and Emerging "Common Sense" Knowledge. 1992
Simon Goss, Jean-Louis Deneubourg. Harvesting by a Group of Robots. 1992
Domenico Parisi, Stefano Nolfi, Federico Cecconi. Learning, Behavior, and Evolution. 1992
Hugues Bersini. Immune Network and Adaptive Control. 1992
Frank Hoffmeister, Thomas Back. Genetic Self-Learning. 1992
Heinz Muhlenbein. Darwin's Continent Cycle Theory and Its Simulation by the Prisoner's Dilemma. 1992
Melanie Mitchell, Stephanie Forrest, John Henry Holland. The Royal Road for Genetic Algorithms: Fitness Landscapes and GA Performance. 1992
Brad Fullmer, Risto Miikkulainen. Using Marker-Based Genetic Encoding of Neural Networks to Evolve Finite-State Behaviour. 1992
Thomas Back. Self-Adaptation in Genetic Algorithms. 1992
Hugo de Garis. Steerable GenNets: The Genetic Programming of Steerable Behaviors in GenNets. 1992
Antonio Rizzo, Neil Burgess. An Action Based Neural Network for Adaptive Control: The Tank Case Study. 1992
Bruno Gas, Rene Natowicz. A Model of Formal Neural Network for Non-Supervised Learning and Recognition of Temporal Sequences. 1992
Gilles Venturini. Characterizing the Adaptation Abilities of a Class of Genetic Based Machine Learning Algorithms. 1992
Pierre Bessiere. Genetic Algorithms Applied to Formal Neural Networks: Parallel Genetic Implementation of a Boltzmann Machine and Associated Robotic Experimentations. 1992
Barry McMullin. The Holland alpha-Universes Revisited. 1992
Robert J. Collins, David R. Jefferson. The Evolution of Sexual Selection and Female Choice. 1992
Filippo Menczer, Domenico Parisi. A Model for the Emergence of Sex in Evolving Networks: Adaptive Advantage or Random Drift?. 1992
Inman Harvey. Species Adaptation Genetic Algorithms: A Basis for a Continuing SAGA. 1992
Jakob Skipper. The Computer Zoo---Evolution in a Box. 1992
Jeffrey Horn. Measuring the Evolving Complexity of Stimulus-Response Organisms. 1992
Petr Kurka. Natural Selection in a Population of Automata. 1992
Stefan Helmreich. Historical and Epistemological Ground of von Neumann's Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata and Theory of Games. 1992
Jean-Luc Dormoy, Sylvie Kornman. Meta-Knowledge, Autonomy, and (Artificial) Evolution: Some Lessons Learnt So Far. 1992
R. Allen Gardner, Beatrix T. Gardner. Feedforward: The Ethological Basis of Animal Learning. 1992
Raymond C. Paton, H. S. Nwana, M. J. R. Shave, T. J. M. Bench-Capon. Computing at the Tissue/Organ Level (with Particular Reference to the Liver). 1992
Barbara Webb, Tim Smithers. The Connection between AI and Biology in the Study of Behaviour. 1992
Bruno Marchal. Amoeba, Planaria, and Dreaming Machines. 1992
Bernard Manderick. Selectionist Systems as Cognitive Systems. 1992
Robert Davidge. Looking at Life. 1992
Hugues Bersini. Animat's I. 1992
Claus Emmeche. Life as an Abstract Phenomenon: Is Artificial Life Possible?. 1992
John Stewart. Life = Cognition: The Epistemological and Ontological Significance of Artificial Life. 1992
Peter Cariani. Some Epistemological Implications of Devices Which Construct Their Own Sensors and Effectors. 1992
Mark A. Bedau. Philosophical Aspects of Artificial Life. 1992
Stephen Todd, William Latham. Artificial Life or Surreal Art?. 1992