Artificial Life, Volume 6

Volume 6, Number 1, 2000 Winter

The Right Stuff: Appropriate Mathematics for Evolutionary and Developmental Biology

Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, Günter P. Wagner: The Right Stuff: Appropriate Mathematics for Evolutionary and Developmental Biology . 1-2
Jan Cupal, Stephan Kopp, Peter F. Stadler: RNA Shape Space Topology. 3-23
Max Shpak, Günter P. Wagner: Asymmetry of Configuration Space Induced by Unequal Crossover: Implications for Mathematical Theory of Evolutionary Innovation. 25-43
Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, John L. Rhodes: The Evolution and Understanding of Hierarchical Compleixity in Biology from an Algebraic Perspective. 45-67
Raffaele Calabretta, Stefano Nolfi, Domenico Parisi, Günter P. Wagner: Duplication of Modules Facilitates the Evolution of Functional Specialization. 69-84
Paulien Hogeweg: Shapes in the Shadow: Evolutionary Dynamica of Morphogensis. 85-101

Hideaki Suzuki: Evolution of Self-Reproducing Programs in a Core Propelled by a Parallel Protein Execution. 103-108
Peter D. Turney: A Simple Model of Unbounded Evolutionary Versatility as a Largest-Scale Trend in Organismal Evolution . 109-128
Tracy K. Teal, Charles E. Taylor: Effects of Compression on Language Evolution. 129-143
Jason Noble, Seth Bullock, Ezequiel A. Di Paolo: Artificial Life: Discipline or Method? Report on a Debate Held at Ecal '99. 145-148
Kyle Wagner: Cooperative Strategies and the Evolution of Communication. 149-179
Holly A. Yanco: BOOK REVIEW: Artificial Intelligence and Mobile Robots: Case Studies of Successful Robot System, edited by D. Kortenkamp, R. P. Bonasso, and R. Murphy. 181-183
Edward Theil: BOOK REVIEW: The Shape of Actions: What Machines and Humans Can Do, by Harry Collins and Martin Kusch. 185-187

J. S. Astor, Christophs Adami: A Developmental Model for the Evolution of Artificial Neural Networks. 189-218
Ricard V. Solé, Eric Bonabeau, Jordi Delgado, Pau Fernadndex, Jesús Marín: Pattern Formation and Optimization in Army Ant Raids. 219-226
Larry Bull, Owen Holland, Susan Blackmore: On Meme-Gene Coevolution. 227-235
Kam-Chuen Jim, C. Lee Giles: Talking Helps: Evolving Communicating Agents for the Predator-Prey Pursuit Problem. 237-254
Sven Koenig: 'From Animals to Animats 5': Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior. 255-258

Mark A. Bedau: Artificial Life VII: Looking Backwards, Looking Forwards. 261-264
Chikara Furusawa, Kunihiko Kaneko: Complex Organization in Multicellularity as a Necessity in EvolutionComplex Organization in Multicellularity as a Necessity in Evolution. 265-281
Hiroaki Takagi, Kunihiko Kaneko, Tetsuya Yomo: Evolution of Genetic Code through Isologous Diversification of Cellular States. 283-305
Bernard D. Reger, Karen M. Fleming, Vittorio Sanguineti, Simon Alford, Ferdinando A. Mussa-Ivaldi: Connecting Brains to Robots: An Artificial Body for Studying Computational Properties of Neural Tissues. 307-324
Carlo C. Maley, Stephanie Forrest: Exploring the Relationship Between Neutral and Selective Mutations in Cancer. 325-345
Barry McMullin: John von Neumann and the Evolutionary Growth of Complexity: Looking Backwards, Looking Forwards. 347-361
Mark A. Bedau, John S. McCaskill, Norman H. Packard, Steen Rasmussen, Christoph Adami, David G. Green, Takashi Ikegami, Kunihiko Kaneko, Thomas S. Ray: Open Problems in Artificial Life. 363-376