Artificial Life, Volume 8

Volume 8, Number 1, Winter 2002

• Elizaveta Pachepsky, Tim Taylor, Stephen Jones: Mutualism Promotes Diversity and Stability in a Simple Artificial Ecosystem. 5-24
• Henry Brighton: Compositional Syntax From Cultural Transmission. 25-54
• Leigh Tesfatsion: Agent-Based Computational Economics: Growing Economies From the Bottom Up. 55-82
• Eleonora Bilotta, Eduardo Reck Miranda, Pietro Pantano, Peter M. Todd: Artificial Life Models for Musical Applications: Workshop Report. 83-86
• Michael Wheeler, Seth Bullock, Ezequiel A. Di Paolo, Jason Noble, Mark A. Bedau, Philip Husbands, Simon Kirby, Anil K. Seth: The View From Elsewhere: Perspectives on ALife Modeling. 87-100
• Kathy Griffi: Book Review: Adventures in Modeling. 101-102

Volume 8, Number 2, Spring 2002

• Nicolas Meuleau, Marco Dorigo: Ant Colony Optimization and Stochastic Gradient Descent. 103-121
• Keith L. Downing: The Simulated Emergence of Distributed Environmental Control in Evolving Microcosm. 123-153
• Katsunobu Imai, Takahiro Hori, Kenichi Morita: Self-Reproduction in Three-Dimensional Reversible Cellular Space. 155-174
• André Stauffer, Moshe Sipper: An Interactive Self-Replicator Implemented in Hardware. 175-183
• Simon Kirby: Natural Language From Artificial Life. 185-215

Volume 8, Number 3, Summer 2002

• Gregory Hornby, Jordan B. Pollack: Creating High-Level Components with a Generative Representation for Body-Brain Evolution. 223-246
• Reiner Schulz, James A. Reggia: Predicting Nearest Agent Distances in Artificial Worlds. 247-264
• Orazio Miglino, Richard Walker: Genetic Redundancy in Evolving Populations of Simulated Robots. 265-278
• J. Stephen Lansing: "Artificial Societies" and the Social Sciences. 279-292
• Daniel Glaser: Creation: Life and How to Make It, by Steve Grand. 293-294

Volume 8, Number 4, Fall 2002

• Vladimir Kvasnicka, Jiri Pospichal: Emergence of Modularity in Genotype-Phenotype Mappings. 295-310
• Steve Munroe, Angelo Cangelosi: Learning and the Evolution of Language: The Role of Cultural Variation and Learning Costs in the Baldwin Effect. 311-339
• Tim J. Hutton: Evolvable Self-Replicating Molecules in an Artificial Chemistry. 341-356
• Sarita Thakoor, Javaan S. Chahl, Mandyam V. Srinivasan, L. Young, Frank Werblin, Butler Hine, Steven Zornetzer: Bioinspired Engineering of Exploration Systems for NASA and DoD. 357-369
• David Anderson, B. Jack Copeland: Artificial Life and the Chinese Room Argument. 371-378
• Claudio Mattiussi: Book Review: Digital Biology: The Creation of Life Inside Computers and How It Will Affect Us by Peter J. Bentley. 379-382