Charles Ofria

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  • Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA


According to our database1, Charles Ofria authored at least 113 papers between 1999 and 2023.

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2023
Matchmaker, matchmaker, make me a match: geometric, variational, and evolutionary implications of criteria for tag affinity.
Genet. Program. Evolvable Mach., June, 2023

Informed Down-Sampled Lexicase Selection: Identifying productive training cases for efficient problem solving.
CoRR, 2023

Tag Affinity Criteria Influence Adaptive Evolution.
Proceedings of the Companion Proceedings of the Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, 2023

2022
hstrat: a Python Package for phylogenetic inference on distributed digital evolution populations.
J. Open Source Softw., December, 2022

Best-Effort Communication Improves Performance and Scales Robustly on Conventional Hardware.
CoRR, 2022

A suite of diagnostic metrics for characterizing selection schemes.
CoRR, 2022

Using the Comparative Hybrid Approach to Disentangle the Role of Substrate Choice on the Evolution of Cognition.
Artif. Life, 2022

Hereditary stratigraphy: genome annotations to enable phylogenetic inference over distributed populations.
Proceedings of the GECCO '22: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Companion Volume, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, July 9, 2022

Tag-based module regulation for genetic programming.
Proceedings of the GECCO '22: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Companion Volume, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, July 9, 2022

Measuring the ability of lexicase selection to find obscure pathways to optimality.
Proceedings of the GECCO '22: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Companion Volume, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, July 9, 2022

2021
Tag-based regulation of modules in genetic programming improves context-dependent problem solving.
Genet. Program. Evolvable Mach., 2021

SignalGP-Lite: Event Driven Genetic Programming Library for Large-Scale Artificial Life Applications.
CoRR, 2021

An Exploration of Exploration: Measuring the ability of lexicase selection to find obscure pathways to optimality.
CoRR, 2021

Exploring Evolved Multicellular Life Histories in a Open-Ended Digital Evolution System.
CoRR, 2021

The Comparative Hybrid Approach to Investigate Cognition across Substrates.
Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Artificial Life, 2021

Conduit: a C++ library for best-effort high performance computing.
Proceedings of the GECCO '21: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2021

2020
Tag-based Genetic Regulation for Genetic Programming.
CoRR, 2020

The Surprising Creativity of Digital Evolution: A Collection of Anecdotes from the Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life Research Communities.
Artif. Life, 2020

Interpreting the Tape of Life: Ancestry-Based Analyses Provide Insights and Intuition about Evolutionary Dynamics.
Artif. Life, 2020

Rank epistasis: A new model for analyzing epistatic interactions in the absence of quantifiable fitness interactions.
Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Artificial Life, 2020

2019
Fluctuating environments select for short-term phenotypic variation leading to long-term exploration.
PLoS Comput. Biol., 2019

Toward Open-Ended Fraternal Transitions in Individuality.
Artif. Life, 2019

The MODES Toolbox: Measurements of Open-Ended Dynamics in Evolving Systems.
Artif. Life, 2019

Horizontal Gene Transfer Leads to Increased Task Acquisition and Genomic Modularity in Digital Organisms.
Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Artificial Life, 2019

Data Standards for Artificial Life Software.
Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Artificial Life, 2019

On Sexual Selection in the Presence of Multiple Costly Displays.
Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Artificial Life, 2019

Characterizing the Effects of Random Subsampling on Lexicase Selection.
Proceedings of the Genetic Programming Theory and Practice XVII [GPTP 2019, 2019

Tag-accessed memory for genetic programming.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion, 2019

Random subsampling improves performance in lexicase selection.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion, 2019

MABE 2.0: an introduction to MABE and a road map for the future of MABE development.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion, 2019

2018
What else is in an evolved name? Exploring evolvable specificity with SignalGP.
PeerJ Prepr., 2018

Evolving reactive agents with SignalGP.
PeerJ Prepr., 2018

Exploring genetic programming systems with MAP-Elites.
PeerJ Prepr., 2018

Quantifying the tape of life: Ancestry-based metrics provide insights and intuition about evolutionary dynamics.
PeerJ Prepr., 2018

Ecological theory provides insights about evolutionary computation.
PeerJ Prepr., 2018

Spatial Structure Can Decrease Symbiotic Cooperation.
Artif. Life, 2018

Signals in the Dark: What factors select for the evolution of cooperation controlled by quorum sensing?
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Artificial Life, 2018

Synthesizing Research on the Generation and Maintenance of Population Diversity.
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Artificial Life, 2018

Digital investigations on the evolution of prokaryote photosynthesis regulation: late-breaking abstract.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion, 2018

Learning an evolvable genotype-phenotype mapping.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2018

Evolving event-driven programs with SignalGP.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2018

Visualizing the tape of life: exploring evolutionary history with virtual reality.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion, 2018

Ecological theory provides insights about evolutionary computation.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion, 2018

2017
The genotype-phenotype map of an evolving digital organism.
PLoS Comput. Biol., 2017

Applying Ecological Principles to Genetic Programming.
Proceedings of the Genetic Programming Theory and Practice XV, 2017

Threshold for cooperation on irregular spatial networks.
Proceedings of the Fourteenth European Conference Artificial Life, 2017

Investigations into the evolutionary origin of navigation and learning.
Proceedings of the Fourteenth European Conference Artificial Life, 2017

Improved adaptation in exogenously and endogenously changing environments.
Proceedings of the Fourteenth European Conference Artificial Life, 2017

Gene duplications drive the evolution of complex traits and regulation.
Proceedings of the Fourteenth European Conference Artificial Life, 2017

Spatial resource heterogeneity creates local hotspots of evolutionary potential.
Proceedings of the Fourteenth European Conference Artificial Life, 2017

Sexual selection promotes ecological speciation in digital organisms.
Proceedings of the Fourteenth European Conference Artificial Life, 2017

2016
Open-Ended Evolution: Perspectives from the OEE Workshop in York.
Artif. Life, 2016

WebAL Comes of Age: A Review of the First 21 Years of Artificial Life on the Web.
Artif. Life, 2016

What Factors Drive the Evolution of Mutualism?
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2016

The Effects of Evolution and Spatial Structure on Diversity in Biological Reserves.
Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, 2016

The Evolution of Evolvability: Changing Environments Promote Rapid Adaptation in Digital Organisms.
Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, 2016

The Evolutionary Origins of Phenotypic Plasticity.
Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, 2016

The Prisoners Dilemma, Memory, and the Early Evolution of Intelligence.
Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, 2016

2015
Unraveling the genotype-phenotype map of evolving digital organisms.
Proceedings of the Thirteenth European Conference Artificial Life, 2015

2014
The evolution of kin inclusivity levels.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2014

There and back again: gene-processing hardware for the evolution and robotic deployment of robust navigation strategies.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2014

Causes vs Benefits in the Evolution of Prey Grouping.
Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, 2014

2013
Distributed Cooperative Caching in Social Wireless Networks.
IEEE Trans. Mob. Comput., 2013

Evolving Digital Ecological Networks.
PLoS Comput. Biol., 2013

Understanding Evolutionary Potential in Virtual CPU Instruction Set Architectures.
CoRR, 2013

2012
Finger-painting Fitness Landscapes: An Interactive Tool for Exploring Complex Evolutionary Dynamics.
Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, 2012

Evolutionary Potential is Maximized at Intermediate Diversity Levels.
Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, 2012

The Evolution of Temporal Polyethism.
Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, 2012

An ecology-based evolutionary algorithm to evolve solutions to complex problems.
Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, 2012

Digital Evolution Exhibits Surprising Robustness to Poor Design Decisions.
Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, 2012

2011
On the Performance of Indirect Encoding Across the Continuum of Regularity.
IEEE Trans. Evol. Comput., 2011

Rapid host-parasite coevolution drives the production and maintenance of diversity in digital organisms.
Proceedings of the 13th Annual Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2011

Modeling the evolutionary dynamics of plasmids in spatial populations.
Proceedings of the 13th Annual Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2011

Digital sex: Causes and consequences.
Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life: 20th Anniversary Edition, 2011

Clever creatures: Case studies of evolved digital organisms.
Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life: 20th Anniversary Edition, 2011

Selective pressures for accurate altruism targeting: evidence from digital evolution for difficult-to-test aspects of inclusive fitness theory.
Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life: 20th Anniversary Edition, 2011

2010
Evolution of division of labor in genetically homogenous groups.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2010

Investigating whether hyperNEAT produces modular neural networks.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2010

Digital evolution with avida.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2010

Early Evolution of Memory Usage in Digital Organisms.
Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, 2010

Social Structure and the Maintenance of Biodiversity.
Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, 2010

2009
Ecological approaches to diversity maintenance in evolutionary algorithms.
Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life, 2009

Cockroaches, drunkards, and climbers: Modeling the evolution of simple movement strategies using digital organisms.
Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life, 2009

Applying digital evolution to the design of self-adaptive software.
Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life, 2009

Problem decomposition using indirect reciprocity in evolved populations.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2009

The sensitivity of HyperNEAT to different geometric representations of a problem.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2009

The Evolution of Division of Labor.
Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life. Darwin Meets von Neumann, 2009

HybrID: A Hybridization of Indirect and Direct Encodings for Evolutionary Computation.
Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life. Darwin Meets von Neumann, 2009

Evolving coordinated quadruped gaits with the HyperNEAT generative encoding.
Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2009

2008
Natural Selection Fails to Optimize Mutation Rates for Long-Term Adaptation on Rugged Fitness Landscapes.
PLoS Comput. Biol., 2008

Harnessing Digital Evolution.
Computer, 2008

On the Gradual Evolution of Complexity and the Sudden Emergence of Complex Features.
Artif. Life, 2008

How a Generative Encoding Fares as Problem-Regularity Decreases.
Proceedings of the Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, 2008

Digital Evolution of Behavioral Models for Autonomic Systems.
Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Autonomic Computing, 2008

Autonomic Software Development Methodology Based on Darwinian Evolution.
Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Autonomic Computing, 2008

Cooperative network construction using digital germlines.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2008

On the evolution of motility and intelligent tactic response.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2008

How generative encodings fare on less regular problems.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2008

Selection for group-level efficiency leads to self-regulation of population size.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2008

2007
Evolution of Cooperative Information Gathering in Self-Replicating Digital Organisms.
Proceedings of the First International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems, 2007

Digitally Evolving Models for Dynamically Adaptive Systems.
Proceedings of the 2007 ICSE Workshop on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems, 2007

Using group selection to evolve leadership in populations of self-replicating digital organisms.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2007

Directed Evolution of Communication and Cooperation in Digital Organisms.
Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life, 9th European Conference, 2007

Investigating the Emergence of Phenotypic Plasticity in Evolving Digital Organisms.
Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life, 9th European Conference, 2007

Evolution of an Adaptive Sleep Response in Digital Organisms.
Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life, 9th European Conference, 2007

2004
Avida: A Software Platform for Research in Computational Evolutionary Biology.
Artif. Life, 2004

Using Avida to Test the Effects of Natural Selection on Phylogenetic Reconstruction Methods.
Artif. Life, 2004

2003
Selective pressures on genomes in molecular evolution
CoRR, 2003

The Effect of Natural Selection on Phylogeny Reconstruction Algorithms.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, 2003

2002
Design of evolvable computer languages.
IEEE Trans. Evol. Comput., 2002

2000
Evolution of biological complexity.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 2000

1999
Evolution of genetic organization in digital organisms
CoRR, 1999

Evolution of Differentiated Expression Patterns in Digital Organisms.
Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life, 5th European Conference, 1999


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