Artificial Life, Volume 4

Volume 4, Number 1, Winter 1998

Highlights of the Alife VI Conference

Jeffrey O. Kephart, James E. Hanson, Jakka Sairamesh: Price and Niche Wars in a Free-Market Economy of Software Agents. 1-23 BibTeX
Jens Breyer, Jörg Ackermann, John S. McCaskill: Evolving Reaction-Diffusion Ecosystems with Self-Assembling Structures in Thin Films. 25-40 BibTeX
Christopher D. Rosin, Richard K. Belew, Garrett M. Morris, Arthur J. Olson, David S. Goodsell: Computational Coevolution of Antiviral Drug Resistance. 41-59 BibTeX
Linglan Edwards, Yun Peng, James A. Reggia: Computational Models for the Formation of Protocell Structures. 61-77 BibTeX
Chikara Furusawa, Kunihiko Kaneko: Emergence of Multicellular Organisms with Dynamic Differentiation and Spatial Pattern. 79-93 BibTeX
Henrik Hautop Lund, Barbara Webb, John Hallam: Physical and Temporal Scaling Considerations in a Robot Model of Cricket Calling Song Preference. 95-107 BibTeX
Takaya Arita, Yuhji Koyama: Evolution of Linguistic Diversity in a Simple Communication System. 109-124 BibTeX

Mark A. Bedau: Four Puzzles About Life. 125-140 BibTeX
Hiroaki Kitano, Shugo Hamahashi, Sean Luke: The Perfect C. elegans Project: An Initial Report. 141-156 BibTeX
R. J. V. Bertin, W. A. van de Grind: Phototaxic Foraging of the Archaepaddler, a Hypothetical Deep-Sea Species. 157-181 BibTeX
Christopher R. Stephens, I. Garcia Olmedo, J. Mora Vargas, Henri Waelbroeck: Self-Adaptation in Evolving Systems. 183-201 BibTeX
Peter Dittrich, Wolfgang Banzhaf: Self-Evolution in a Constructive Binary String System. 203-220 BibTeX

Book Review

Steen Rasmussen: Book Review: Nonlinear Dynamics, Mathematical Biology and Social Science by Joshua Epstein. 221-223 BibTeX

Von Neumann's Legacy: On Self-Replication

Moshe Sipper, Daniel Mange: Von Neumann's Quintessential Message: Genotype + Ribotype = Phenotype. 225-227 BibTeX
Pierre Marchal: John Von Neumann: The Founding Father of Artificial Life. 229-235 BibTeX
Moshe Sipper: Fifty Years of Research on Self-Replication: An Overview. 237-257 BibTeX
Gianluca Tempesti, Daniel Mange, André Stauffer: Self-Replicating and Self-Repairing Multicellular Automata. 259-282 BibTeX
James A. Reggia, Jason D. Lohn, Hui-Hsien Chou: Self-Replicating Structures: Evolution, Emergence and Computation. 283-302 BibTeX

Henrik Hautop Lund, Minoru Asada: Embodied Artificial Life - Editorial. 303-307 BibTeX
Valentino Braitenberg: Selection, the Impersonal Engineer. 309-310 BibTeX
Stefano Nolfi, Dario Floreano: Coevolving Predator and Prey Robots: Do ``Arms Races'' Arise in Artificial Evolution? 311-335 BibTeX
Pablo Funes, Jordan B. Pollack: Evolutionary Body Building: Adaptive Physical Designs for Robots. 337-357 BibTeX
Didier Keymeulen, Masaya Iwata, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Tetsuya Higuchi: Online Evolution for a Self-Adapting Robotic Navigation System Using Evolvable Hardware. 359-393 BibTeX