Advances in artificial life. 6th European conference, ECAL 2001, Prague, Czech Republic, September 10--14, 2001. Proceedings (Q5947951)

The articles of mathematical interest will be reviewed individually. The 1999 conference has been reviewed (see Zbl 0916.00019). Indexed articles: \textit{Adamatzky, Andrew}, Computing in nonlinear media: make waves, study collisions, 1-10 [Zbl 1011.68683] \textit{Dorigo, Marco}, Ant algorithms solve difficult optimization problems, 11-22 [Zbl 1011.68678] \textit{Husbands, Phil; Philippides, Andy; Smith, Tom; O'Shea, Michael}, The shifting network: volume signalling in real and robot nervous systems, 23-36 [Zbl 1011.68718] \textit{Kvasnička, V.; Pospíchal, J.; Kaláb, T.}, A study of replicators and hypercycles by typogenetics, 37-54 [Zbl 1016.92011] \textit{Wiedermann, Jiří; van Leeuwen, Jan}, Emergence of a super-Turing computational potential in artificial living systems. (Extended abstract), 55-65 [Zbl 1011.68503] \textit{Anchorena, Sergio O.; Cases, Blanca}, Eco-grammars to model biological systems: adding probabilities to agents, 66-75 [Zbl 1012.92028] \textit{Bedau, Mark A.}, Dynamics of the environment for adaptation in static resource models, 76-85 [Zbl 1011.68686] \textit{Bellas, F.; Lamas, A.; Duro, R. J.}, Adaptive behavior through a Darwinist machine, 86-89 [Zbl 1011.68675] \textit{Bünzli, Daniel C.; Capcarrere, Mathieu S.}, Fault-tolerant structures: Towards robust self-replication in a probabilistic environment, 90-99 [Zbl 1011.68506] \textit{Dittrich, Peter; Banzhaf, Wolfgang}, Survival of the unfittest? The seceder model and its fitness landscape, 100-109 [Zbl 1011.68519] \textit{Glotzmann, T.; Lange, H.; Hauhs, M.; Lamm, A.}, Evolving multi-agent networks in structured environments, 110-119 [Zbl 1011.68693] \textit{Mascaro, Steven; Korb, Kevin B.; Nicholson, Ann E.}, Suicide as an evolutionarily stable strategy, 120-132 [Zbl 1011.68518] \textit{McCormack, Jon}, Eden: An evolutionary sonic ecosystem, 133-142 [Zbl 1011.68515] \textit{Kadleček, David; Nahodil, Pavel}, New hybrid architecture in artificial life simulation, 143-146 [Zbl 1011.68704] \textit{Kadukova, Jana; Mihalo, Marian; Palko, Martin; Polak, Marek}, ``In silico'' experiments on heavy metal sorption by algal biomass, 147-150 [Zbl 1011.68698] \textit{Seth, Anil K.}, Spatially explicit models of forager interference, 151-160 [Zbl 1011.68710] \textit{Stow, Daniel; Roadknight, Chris}, Antigens, antibodies, and the world wide web, 161-165 [Zbl 1011.68679] \textit{Todd, Peter M.; Kirby, Simon}, I like what I know: how recognition-based decisions can structure the environment, 166-175 [Zbl 1011.68747] \textit{Baranda, Angel V.; Castellanos, Juan; Arroyo, Fernando; Luengo, Carmen}, Bio-language for computing with membranes, 176-185 [Zbl 1011.68502] \textit{Ono, Naoaki; Ikegami, Takashi}, Artificial chemistry: Computational studies on the emergence of self-reproducing units, 186-195 [Zbl 1011.68729] \textit{Speroni di Fenizio, Pietro; Banzhaf, Wolfgang}, Stability of metabolic and balanced organisations, 196-205 [Zbl 1011.68711] \textit{Speroni di Fenizio, Pietro; Dittrich, Peter; Banzhaf, Wolfgang}, Spontaneous formation of proto-cells in an universal artificial chemistry on a planar graph, 206-215 [Zbl 1011.68738] \textit{Aharonov, Ranit; Meilijson, Isaac; Ruppin, Eytan}, Understanding the agent's brain: A quantitative approach, 216-225 [Zbl 1011.68723] \textit{Bilotta, Eleonora; Pantano, Pietro}, Observations on complex multi-state CAs, 226-235 [Zbl 1011.68504] \textit{Kelemen, Eduard}, Artificial neural networks and artificial evolution as tools to study organization of spatial behavior in rats, 236-241 [Zbl 1011.68510] \textit{Kim, Jan T.}, transsys: A generic formalism for modelling regulatory networks in morphogenesis, 242-251 [Zbl 1011.68722] \textit{Niv, Yael; Joel, Daphna; Meilijson, Isaac; Ruppin, Eytan}, Evolution of reinforcement learning in uncertain environments: emergence of risk-aversion and matching, 252-261 [Zbl 1011.68731] \textit{Oliveira, Gina M. B.; de Oliveira, Pedro P. B.; Omar, N.}, Searching for one-dimensional cellular automata in the absence of a priori information, 262-271 [Zbl 1011.68505] \textit{Smith, Tom; Husbands, Phil; O'Shea, Michael}, Neutral networks and evolvability with complex genotype-phenotype mapping, 272-281 [Zbl 1011.68703] \textit{Stauffer, André; Sipper, Moshe}, Externally controllable and destructible self-replicating loops, 282-291 [Zbl 1011.68695] \textit{Tokura, Seiji; Ishiguro, Akio; Kawai, Hiroki; Eggenberger, Peter}, The effect of neuromodulations on the adaptability of evolved neurocontrollers, 292-295 [Zbl 1011.68717] \textit{Bălănescu, Tudor; Gheorghe, Marian; Holcombe, Mike; Ipate, Florentin}, Testing collaborative agents defined as stream X-machines with distributed grammars, 296-305 [Zbl 1011.68520] \textit{Ebner, Marc}, A three-dimensional environment for self-reproducing programs, 306-315 [Zbl 1011.68674] \textit{Ficici, Sevan G.; Pollack, Jordan B.}, Pareto optimality in coevolutionary learning, 316-325 [Zbl 1011.68507] \textit{Kubík, Aleš}, On emergence in evolutionary multiagent systems, 326-337 [Zbl 1011.68517] \textit{Larsen, Jesper Bach}, Division of labour in simulated ant colonies under spatial constraints, 338-348 [Zbl 1011.68685] \textit{Marshall, I. W.; Roadknight, C. M.}, Emergent organisation in colonies of simple automata, 349-356 [Zbl 1011.68687] \textit{Quinn, Matt}, Evolving communication without dedicated communication channels, 357-366 [Zbl 1011.68691] \textit{Quinn, Matt; Noble, Jason}, Modelling animal behaviour in contests: conventions for resource allocation, 367-376 [Zbl 1011.68701] \textit{Simão, Jorge; Todd, Peter M.}, A model of human mate choice with courtship that predicts population patterns, 377-380 [Zbl 1011.68673] \textit{Smith, Andrew D. M.}, Establishing communication systems without explicit meaning transmission, 381-390 [Zbl 1011.68688] \textit{Yamauchi, Hajime}, The difficulty of the Baldwinian account of linguistic innateness, 391-400 [Zbl 1011.68715] \textit{Bongard, Josh C.; Paul, Chandana}, Making evolution an offer it can't refuse: morphology and the extradimensional bypass, 401-412 [Zbl 1011.68742] \textit{Burtsev, Mikhail S.; Red'ko, Vladimir G.; Gusarev, Roman V.}, Model of evolutionary emergence of purposeful adaptive behavior. The role of motivation, 413-416 [Zbl 1011.68750] \textit{Channon, Alastair}, Passing the ALife test: activity statistics classify evolution in Geb as unbounded, 417-426 [Zbl 1011.68735] \textit{Jones, Stephen}, On the evolution of artificial consciousness, 427-431 [Zbl 1011.68705] \textit{Jung, Tobias; Dauscher, Peter; Uthmann, Thomas}, Some effects of individual learning on the evolution of sensors, 432-435 [Zbl 1011.68709] \textit{Lenaerts, T.; Defaweux, A.; Beyens, P.; Manderick, B.}, Transitions in a simple evolutionary model, 436-439 [Zbl 1011.68721] \textit{McMullin, Barry; Groß, Dominique}, Towards the implementation of evolving autopoietic artificial agents, 440-443 [Zbl 1011.68720] \textit{Sato, Yuji; Kawamoto, Masafumi; Chizaki, Motoi}, Verification of text transcription history by using evolutionary algorithms, 444-453 [Zbl 1011.68724] \textit{Schwardy, Eva}, Genetic algorithm as a result of phenomenological reduction of natural evolution, 454-457 [Zbl 1011.68697] \textit{Suzuki, Hideaki}, String rewriting grammar optimized using an evolvability measure, 458-468 [Zbl 1011.68712] \textit{Vardy, Andrew}, A visually-based evolvable control architecture for agents in interactive entertainment applications, 469-479 [Zbl 1011.68732] \textit{Watson, Richard A.; Pollack, Jordan B.}, Symbiotic composition and evolvability, 480-490 [Zbl 1011.68713] \textit{Balaam, Andy}, nBrains. A new type of robot brain, 491-494 [Zbl 1011.68702] \textit{Bird, Jon}, Can wheeled robots illuminate adaptive behaviour?, 495-498 [Zbl 1011.68682] \textit{Dahl, T. S.; Giraud-Carrier, C.}, Evolution, adaption, and behavioural holism in artificial intelligence, 499-508 [Zbl 1011.68689] \textit{Fujii, Akinobu; Ishiguro, Akio; Aoki, Takeshi; Eggenberger, Peter}, Evolving bipedal locomotion with a dynamically-rearranging neural network, 509-518 [Zbl 1011.68690] \textit{Kelly, Ian; Melhuish, Chris}, SlugBot: A robot predator, 519-528 [Zbl 1011.68707] \textit{Kim, DaeEun; Hallam, John C. T.}, Mobile robot control based on Boolean logic with internal memory, 529-538 [Zbl 1011.68700] \textit{Kumada, Yoichiro; Ueda, Kazuhiro}, Emergence of cooperative tactics by soccer agents with ability of prediction and learning, 539-542 [Zbl 1011.68509] \textit{Melhuish, Chris; Wilson, Matt; Sendova-Franks, Ana}, Patch sorting: multi-object clustering using minimalist robots, 543-552 [Zbl 1011.68706] \textit{Svatoš, Václav}, Behavioural formation management in robotic soccer, 553-562 [Zbl 1011.68681] \textit{Takahashi, Nobuyuki; Nagai, Takashi; Yokoi, Hiroshi; Kakazu, Yukinori}, Control system of flexible structure multi-cell robot using amoeboid self-organization mode, 563-572 [Zbl 1011.68753] \textit{Wessnitzer, Jan; Adamatzky, Andrew; Melhuish, Chris}, Towards self-organising structure formations: A decentralized approach, 573-581 [Zbl 1011.68719] \textit{Breazeal, Cynthia}, Affective interaction between humans and robots, 582-591 [Zbl 1011.68676] \textit{Brighton, Henry; Kirby, Simon}, The survival of the smallest: stability conditions for the cultural evolution of compositional language, 592-601 [Zbl 1011.68726] \textit{Bullock, Seth}, Smooth operator? Understanding and visualising mutation bias, 602-612 [Zbl 1011.68708] \textit{Edmonds, Ian R.}, The use of latent semantic indexing to identify evolutionary trajectories in behaviour space, 613-622 [Zbl 1011.68733] \textit{Mikami, Tsuyoshi; Wada, Mitsuo}, Data visualization method for growing self-organizing networks with ant clustering algorithm, 623-626 [Zbl 1011.68740] \textit{Neumann, Titus R.; Bülthoff, Heinrich H.}, Insect inspired visual control of translatory flight, 627-636 [Zbl 1011.68699] \textit{Smith, Kenny}, The importance of rapid cultural convergence in the evolution of learned symbolic communication, 637-640 [Zbl 1011.68734] \textit{Zuidema, Willem H.}, Emergent syntax: The unremitting value of computational modeling for understanding the origins of complex language, 641-644 [Zbl 1011.68741] \textit{D'Hondt, Ellie; D'Hondt, Theo}, Amorphous geometry, 645-648 [Zbl 1011.68677] \textit{Di Paolo, Ezequiel A.}, Artificial life and historical processes, 649-658 [Zbl 1011.68680] \textit{Dorin, Alan}, Aesthetic fitness and artificial evolution for the selection of imagery from the mythical infinite library, 659-668 [Zbl 1011.68727] \textit{Humphrys, Mark}, Distributing a mind on the internet: the world-wide-mind, 669-680 [Zbl 1011.68684] \textit{Jog, Ninad}, The dimensions of the cyber universe, 681-684 [Zbl 1011.68716] \textit{Komosinski, Maciej; Kubiak, Marek}, Taxonomy in Alife. Measures of similarity for complex artificial organisms, 685-694 [Zbl 1011.68714] \textit{Masumoto, Gen; Ikegami, Takashi}, The \(\lambda\)-game system: an approach to a meta-game, 695-699 [Zbl 1011.68508] \textit{Nomura, Tatsuya}, Formal description of autopoiesis based on the theory of category, 700-703 [Zbl 1011.68516] \textit{Polani, Daniel; Martinetz, Thomas; Kim, Jan}, An information-theoretic approach for the quantification of relevance, 704-713 [Zbl 1011.68514] \textit{Walshe, Ray; Humphrys, Mark}, First implementation of the world-wide-mind, 714-718 [Zbl 1011.68696] \textit{Wood, Rachel}, Evolving lives: the individual historical dimension in evolution, 719-722 [Zbl 1011.68692]