Literature

This page contains recommended literature. All entries are downloadable. Suggestion are welcome.

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Evolutionary Psychology

Dunbar, R. "The social brain hypothesis." Evolutionary Anthropology, 6, 178-190. . Evolutionary Anthropology, 6, 178-190, 1998.

Evans, D., de Back W. "Synthetic Evolutionary Psychology". (not yet published) 2003.

Hemelrijk, C. "Cooperation Without Genes, Games Or Cognition", Proceedings of Fourth European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL97).

 

Artificial Life

Pfeifer, R., Kunz, H-P. "Artificial Life" Course reader Artificial Life 2003, Universitat Zurich. Unfortunately only available as separate chapters on the linked website, look under heading "Script"

Yaeger, L. "Computational Genetics, Physiology, Metabolism, Neural Systems, Learning, Vision, and Behavior or PolyWorld: Life in a New Context" Artificial Life III, 1994. This description of the simulator PolyWorld is recommended because it shares a lot of features with the experiments we are doing woth Framsticks. Read esp. section 8 about behaviour.

Ray, T. "An Evolutionary Approach to Synthetic Biology: Zen and the Art of Creating Life" in Artificial Life, an overview. The MIT Press, 1995.

Forrest, S., Jones, T. "Modeling Complex Adaptive Systems with Echo", in Complex Systems: Mechanisms of Adaptation, Amsterdam, 1994.

Mitchell, M., Forrest, S. "Genetic Algorithms and Artificial Life" in Artificial Life 1993. This article is a good overview of the use of GA's in Alife uptill 1993. Espesically important for our purposes is section 4 on Ecosystems, and section 7 on Social Systems.

Reynolds, C. "Flocks, Herds, and Schools: A Distributed Behavioral Model." Computer Graphics, 21(4), ACM SIGGRAPH '87 Conference Proceedings, Anaheim, California, July 1987, pp. 25-34.

Sims, K. "Evolving Virtual Creatures." Computer Graphics, Siggraph '94 Proceedings, July 1994, pp.15-22.

Sims, K. "Evolving 3D Morphology and Behavior by Competition." Artificial Life IV Proceedings, ed.by Brooks & Maes, MIT Press, 1994, pp.28-39.

Tim Taylor. "Evolving Interaction in Artificial Systems: An historical overview and future directions". Presented at the Evolvability and Interaction Symposium, Queen Mary, University of London, UK, October 2003. Video summary (in ASF-format). Presentation sheets (in html-format)

 

Framsticks

Mandik, P., Synthetic Neuroethology. In: Metaphilosophy, 33 (1/2), January 2002. 11-29.

Mandik, P., Varieties of Representation in Evolved and Embodied Neural Networks. William Paterson University Cognitive Science Technical Report 2002-03.

Komosinski, M. "The Framsticks system: versatile simulator of 3D agents and their evolution." In: Kybernetes: The International Journal of Systems & Cybernetics, 32 (1/2), 2003. MCB University Press, 156-173.


Komosinski, M., Ulatowski, S. "Framsticks MANUAL " The Manual, important!

Cooperation

Dario Floreano. "Evolutionary and Physical Properties of Cooperation", Presented at the Evolvability and Interaction Symposium, Queen Mary, University of London, UK, October 2003. Full talk Audio (in MP3-format).

Robert Axelrod, "The Evolution of Strategies in the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma," 1987.