Tartarus and Fractal Gene Regulatory Networks with Inputs. - Payam Zahadat; Seraj D. Katebi (Adv. Complex Syst., 2008)

Sensor-Coupled Fractal Gene Regulatory Networks for Locomotion Control of a Modular Snake Robot. - Payam Zahadat; David Johan Christensen; Serajeddin Katebi; Kasper Støy (DARS, 2010)

Fractal Gene Regulatory Networks for Robust Locomotion Control of Modular Robots. - Payam Zahadat; David Johan Christensen; Ulrik Pagh Schultz; Serajeddin Katebi; Kasper Støy (SAB, 2010)

Evolving Reactive Controller for a Modular Robot: Benefits of the Property of State-Switching in Fractal Gene Regulatory Networks. - Payam Zahadat; Thomas Schmickl; Karl Crailsheim (SAB, 2012)

An alternative representation of Fractal Gene Regulatory Networks facilitating analysis and interpretation. - Payam Zahadat; Kasper Støy (Ann. Math. Artif. Intell., 2012)

EMANN - a model of emotions in an artificial neural network. - Ronald Thenius; Payam Zahadat; Thomas Schmickl (ECAL, 2013)

Social Inhibition Manages Division of Labour in Artificial Swarm Systems. - Payam Zahadat; Karl Crailsheim; Thomas Schmickl (ECAL, 2013)

Evolution of Spatial Pattern Formation by Autonomous Bio-Inspired Cellular Controllers. - Payam Zahadat; Thomas Schmickl; Karl Crailsheim (ECAL, 2013)

Wolfpack-inspired evolutionary algorithm and a reaction-diffusion-based controller are used for pattern formation. - Payam Zahadat; Thomas Schmickl (GECCO, 2014)

Social Adaptation of Robots for Modulating Self-Organization in Animal Societies. - Payam Zahadat; Michael Bodi; Ziad Salem; Frank Bonnet; Marcelo Elias de Oliveira; Francesco Mondada; Karlo Griparic; Tomislav Haus; Stjepan Bogdan; Rob Mills; Pedro Mariano; Luís Correia 001; et al. (SASO Workshops, 2014)

Generation of Diversity in a Reaction-Diffusion-Based Controller. - Payam Zahadat; Thomas Schmickl (Artif. Life, 2014)

Evolving Mixed Societies: A one-dimensional modelling approach. - Michael Bodi; Martina Szopek; Payam Zahadat; Thomas Schmickl (BICT, 2015)

Coordination of collective behaviours in spatially separated agents. - Rob Mills; Payam Zahadat; Fernando Silva 003; Damjan Mlikic; Pedro Mariano; Thomas Schmickl; Luís Correia 001 (ECAL, 2015)

Evolving Collective Behaviors With Diverse But Predictable Sensor States. - Payam Zahadat; Heiko Hamann; Thomas Schmickl (ECAL, 2015)

Evolving Controllers for Programmable Robots to Influence Non-programmable Lifeforms: A Casy Study. - Payam Zahadat; Thomas Schmickl (EvoApplications, 2015)

Evolving Diverse Collective Behaviors Independent of Swarm Density. - Payam Zahadat; Heiko Hamann; Thomas Schmickl (GECCO (Companion), 2015)

Potential of Heterogeneity in Collective Behaviors: A Case Study on Heterogeneous Swarms. - Daniela Kengyel; Heiko Hamann; Payam Zahadat; Gerald Radspieler; Franz Wotawa; Thomas Schmickl (PRIMA, 2015)

Flora Robotica - Mixed Societies of Symbiotic Robot-Plant Bio-Hybrids. - Heiko Hamann; Mostafa Wahby; Thomas Schmickl; Payam Zahadat; Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler; Kasper Støy; Sebastian Risi; Andrés Faiña; Frank Veenstra; Serge Kernbach; Igor Kuksin; Olga Kernbach; et al. (SSCI, 2015)

Self-Organized Construction with Continuous Building Material: Higher Flexibility Based on Braided Structures. - Mary Katherine Heinrich; Mostafa Wahby; Mohammad Divband Soorati; Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler; Payam Zahadat; Phil Ayres; Kasper Støy; Heiko Hamann (FAS*W@SASO/ICCAC, 2016)

An Evolutionary Robotics Approach to the Control of Plant Growth and Motion: Modeling Plants and Crossing the Reality Gap. - Mostafa Wahby; Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler; Mary Katherine Heinrich; Payam Zahadat; Heiko Hamann (SASO, 2016)

Vascular Morphogenesis Controller: A Distributed Controller for Growing Artificial Structures. - Payam Zahadat; Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler; Thomas Schmickl (FAS*W@SASO/ICCAC, 2016)

Division of labor in a swarm of autonomous underwater robots by improved partitioning social inhibition. - Payam Zahadat; Thomas Schmickl (Adapt. Behav., 2016)

Sooner than Expected: Hitting the Wall of Complexity in Evolution. - Thomas Schmickl; Payam Zahadat; Heiko Hamann (CoRR, 2016)

Collective Decision Making in a Swarm of Robots: How Robust the BEECLUST Algorithm Performs in Various Conditions. - Daniela Kengyel; Payam Zahadat; Thomas Kunzfeld; Thomas Schmickl (EAI Endorsed Trans. Serious Games, 2016)

Animal-guided evolutionary computation in honeybees and robots. - Pedro Mariano; Ziad Salem; Rob Mills; Payam Zahadat; Luís Correia 001; Thomas Schmickl (ECAL, 2017)

Development of morphology based on resource distribution: Finding the shortest path in a maze by vascular morphogenesis controller. - Payam Zahadat; Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler; Thomas Schmickl (ECAL, 2017)

Design choices for adapting bio-hybrid systems with evolutionary computation. - Pedro Mariano; Ziad Salem; Rob Mills; Payam Zahadat; Luís Correia 001; Thomas Schmickl (GECCO (Companion), 2017)

Vascular morphogenesis controller: a generative model for developing morphology of artificial structures. - Payam Zahadat; Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler; Thomas Schmickl (GECCO, 2017)

Flora robotica - An Architectural System Combining Living Natural Plants and Distributed Robots. - Heiko Hamann; Mohammad Divband Soorati; Mary Katherine Heinrich; Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler; Igor Kuksin; Frank Veenstra; Mostafa Wahby; Stig Anton Nielsen; Sebastian Risi; Tomasz Skrzypczak; Payam Zahadat; Przemyslaw Wojtaszek; et al. (CoRR, 2017)

Evolved Control of Natural Plants: Crossing the Reality Gap for User-Defined Steering of Growth and Motion. - Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler; Mostafa Wahby; Mary Katherine Heinrich; Heiko Hamann; Payam Zahadat; Phil Ayres; Thomas Schmickl (ACM Trans. Auton. Adapt. Syst., 2017)

Morphogenesis as a Collective Decision of Agents Competing for Limited Resource: A Plants Approach. - Payam Zahadat; Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler; Thomas Schmickl (ANTS Conference, 2018)

Adaptive Path Formation in Self-Assembling Robot Swarms by Tree-Like Vascular Morphogenesis. - Mohammad Divband Soorati; Payam Zahadat; Javad Ghofrani; Heiko Hamann (DARS, 2018)

A robot to shape your natural plant: the machine learning approach to model and control bio-hybrid systems. - Mostafa Wahby; Mary Katherine Heinrich; Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler; Payam Zahadat; Sebastian Risi; Phil Ayres; Thomas Schmickl; Heiko Hamann (GECCO, 2018)

Robust and Adaptive Robot Self-Assembly Based on Vascular Morphogenesis. - Mohammad Divband Soorati; Javad Ghofrani; Payam Zahadat; Heiko Hamann (IROS, 2018)

Locomotion as a Result of Displacement of Resources. - Payam Zahadat; Thomas Schmickl (ALIFE, 2018)

Introduction to WOSPP: Wave Oriented Swarm Programming Paradigm. - Joshua Cherian Varughese; Hannes Hornischer; Ronald Thenius; Payam Zahadat; Franz Wotawa; Thomas Schmickl (CoRR, 2018)

Artificial Plants - Vascular Morphogenesis Controller-guided growth of braided structures. - Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler; Joshua Cherian Varughese; Stig Anton Nielsen; David Andres Leon; Phil Ayres; Payam Zahadat; Thomas Schmickl (CoRR, 2018)

Self-Adaptation and Self-Healing Behaviors Via a Dynamic Distribution Process. - Payam Zahadat (FAS*W@SASO/ICAC, 2019)

Towards swarm level optimisation: the role of different movement patterns in swarm systems. - Daniela Kengyel; Payam Zahadat; Franz Wotawa; Thomas Schmickl (Int. J. Parallel Emergent Distributed Syst., 2019)

Toward a theory of collective resource distribution: a study of a dynamic morphogenesis controller. - Payam Zahadat; Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler (Swarm Intell., 2019)

Reactive or Stable: A Plant-inspired Approach for Organisation Morphogenesis. - Payam Zahadat; Ada Diaconescu (ALIFE, 2020)

Incentive for Self-Protection in a Collective System: a Swarm Robotics Case Study. - Payam Zahadat (ALIFE, 2021)

The Impact of Multi-scale Control Topology on Asset Distribution in Dynamic Environments. - Payam Zahadat; Ada Diaconescu (ACSOS-C, 2022)

Multi-Scale Asset Distribution Model for Dynamic Environments. - Payam Zahadat; Ada Diaconescu (CoRR, 2022)

Local Estimation vs Global Information: the Benefits of Slower Timescales. - Payam Zahadat (ACSOS-C, 2023)

Message from the Program Chairs: ACSOS-C 2024. - Christian Becker 001; Payam Zahadat (ACSOS-C, 2024)

Swarm-Inspired Controller: An Inference-Free Approach to Distributed Manipulation. - Nicolas Bessone; Kasper Støy; Payam Zahadat (ANTS, 2024)

Decentralized Control of Distributed Manipulators: An Information Diffusion Approach. - Nicolas Bessone; Payam Zahadat; Kasper Støy (AAMAS, 2024)

Neural Cellular Automaton for Decentralized Inference in Distributed Manipulation Systems. - Nicolas Bessone; Payam Zahadat; Kasper Støy (PAAMS, 2024)

The Value of Information in Multi-Scale Feedback Systems. - Louisa Jane Di Felice; Ada Diaconescu; Payam Zahadat; Patricia Mellodge (CoRR, 2025)