Artificial Life: Borrowing from Biology: 4th Australian Conference, ACAL 2009, Melbourne, Australia, December 1-4, 2009. Proceedings [1 ed.] 3642104266, 9783642104268

Table of contents :
Front Matter....Pages -
An Empirical Exploration of a Definition of Creative Novelty for Generative Art....Pages 1-10
A New Definition of Creativity ....Pages 11-21
Genetically Optimized Architectural Designs for Control of Pedestrian Crowds....Pages 22-31
Co-evolutionary Learning in the N-player Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma with a Structured Environment....Pages 32-42
Evolving Cooperation in the N-player Prisoner’s Dilemma: A Social Network Model....Pages 43-52
Using Misperception to Counteract Noise in the Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma....Pages 53-62
An Analysis and Evaluation of the Saving Capability and Feasibility of Backward-Chaining Evolutionary Algorithms....Pages 63-72
Evolutionary Intelligence and Communication in Societies of Virtually Embodied Agents....Pages 73-85
Testing Punctuated Equilibrium Theory Using Evolutionary Activity Statistics....Pages 86-95
Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Machine-Based Situation Assessment....Pages 96-105
Experiments with the Universal Constructor in the DigiHive Environment....Pages 106-115
Making a Self-feeding Structure by Assembly of Digital Organs....Pages 116-125
Towards Tailored Communication Networks in Assemblies of Artificial Cells....Pages 126-135
A Developmental System for Organic Form Synthesis....Pages 136-148
Layered Random Inference Networks....Pages 149-158
Modelling Hepatitis B Virus Antiviral Therapy and Drug Resistant Mutant Strains....Pages 159-168
Multivesicular Assemblies as Real-World Testbeds for Embryogenic Evolutionary Systems....Pages 169-178
Designing Adaptive Artificial Agents for an Economic Production and Conflict Model....Pages 179-190
Emergent Societal Effects of Crimino-Social Forces in an Animat Agent Model....Pages 191-200
A Heterogeneous Particle Swarm....Pages 201-210
An Analysis of Locust Swarms on Large Scale Global Optimization Problems....Pages 211-220
Continuous Swarm Surveillance via Distributed Priority Maps....Pages 221-231
Optimization in Fractal and Fractured Landscapes Using Locust Swarms....Pages 232-241
A Hybrid Extremal Optimisation Approach for the Bin Packing Problem....Pages 242-251
Feedback of Delayed Rewards in XCS for Environments with Aliasing States....Pages 252-261
Memetic Approaches for Optimizing Hidden Markov Models: A Case Study in Time Series Prediction....Pages 262-271
The Effects of Different Kinds of Move in Differential Evolution Searches....Pages 272-281
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