Richard A. Watson

PLoS Comput. Biol., 2020

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

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[DOI]

Artif. Life, 2020

2019

How adaptive plasticity evolves when selected against.

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[DOI]

PLoS Comput. Biol., 2019

2018

Deep Optimisation: Solving Combinatorial Optimisation Problems using Deep Neural Networks.

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[DOI]

CoRR, 2018

2017

How evolution learns to generalise: Using the principles of learning theory to understand the evolution of developmental organisation.

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[DOI]

PLoS Comput. Biol., 2017

Minimally Sufficient Conditions for the Evolution of Social Learning and the Emergence of Non-Genetic Evolutionary Systems.

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[DOI]

Miguel Gonzalez

Seth Bullock

Artif. Life, 2017

How to get more from your model: the role of constructive selection in estimation of distribution algorithms.

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[DOI]

J. R. Caldwell

Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2017

2015

The Evolution of Assortment with Multiple Simultaneous Games.

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[DOI]

Proceedings of the Thirteenth European Conference Artificial Life, 2015

2014

Transforming Evolutionary Search into Higher-Level Evolutionary Search by Capturing Problem Structure.

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[DOI]

Thomas Jansen

IEEE Trans. Evol. Comput., 2014

Inferring and Exploiting Problem Structure with Schema Grammar.

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[DOI]

Chris R. Cox

Proceedings of the Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - PPSN XIII, 2014

Solving building block problems using generative grammar.

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[DOI]

Chris R. Cox

Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2014

Ecosystem Memory Is Emergent from Local-Level Natural Selection.

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[DOI]

Daniel Power

Eörs Szathmáry

Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, 2014

Pre-Template Metabolic Replicators: Genotype-Phenotype Decoupling as a Route to Evolvability.

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[DOI]

William Hurndall

Markus Brede

Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, 2014

The Origin of Culture: Selective Conditions for Horizontal Information Transfer.

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[DOI]

Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, 2014

2013

Cooperation and the Division of Labour.

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[DOI]

Simon Tudge

Markus Brede

Proceedings of the Twelfth European Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems: Advances in Artificial Life, 2013

The Effects of Assortment on Population Structuring Traits on the Evolution of Cooperation.

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[DOI]

Adam Jackson

Proceedings of the Twelfth European Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems: Advances in Artificial Life, 2013

Multiple Life-History Stage Competition and its Effect on Coexistence.

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[DOI]

Proceedings of the Twelfth European Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems: Advances in Artificial Life, 2013

2012

The concurrent evolution of cooperation and the population structures that support it

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[DOI]

CoRR, 2012

Is Evolution by Natural Selection the Algorithm of Biological Evolution?

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[DOI]

Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, 2012

2011

Optimization in "self-modeling" complex adaptive systems.

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[DOI]

Complex., 2011

Global Adaptation in Networks of Selfish Components: Emergent Associative Memory at the System Scale.

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[DOI]

Artif. Life, 2011

"If You Can't Be With the One You Love, Love the One You're With": How Individual Habituation of Agent Interactions Improves Global Utility.

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[DOI]

Adam P. Davies

Jason Noble

Artif. Life, 2011

Transformations in the scale of behavior and the global optimization of constraints in adaptive networks.

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[DOI]

Adapt. Behav., 2011

The web as an adaptive network: coevolution of web behavior and web structure.

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[DOI]

Proceedings of the Web Science 2011, 2011

Transformations and multi-scale optimisation in biological adaptive networks.

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[DOI]

Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life: 20th Anniversary Edition, 2011

How to measure group selection in real-world populations.

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[DOI]

Christopher Heys

Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life: 20th Anniversary Edition, 2011

2010

Coevolutionary Dynamics of Interacting Species.

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[DOI]

Marc Ebner

Jason Alexander

Proceedings of the Applications of Evolutionary Computation, 2010

Adaptation without Natural Selection.

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[DOI]

Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, 2010

Associative Memory in Gene Regulation Networks.

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[DOI]

Adam P. Davies

Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, 2010

Systems Aikido - A Novel Approach to Managing Natural Systems.

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[DOI]

Alexander Kraaijeveld

Jeremy Webb

Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, 2010

Selection Pressures for a Theory-of-Mind Faculty in Artificial Agents.

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[DOI]

Jason Noble

Tom Hebbron

Johannes van der Horst

Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, 2010

2009

Can Selfish Symbioses Effect Higher-Level Selection?

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[DOI]

Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life. Darwin Meets von Neumann, 2009

Moderate Contact between Sub-populations Promotes Evolved Assortativity Enabling Group Selection.

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[DOI]

James R. Snowdon

Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life. Darwin Meets von Neumann, 2009

Evolution of Individual Group Size Preference Can Increase Group-Level Selection and Cooperation.

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[DOI]

Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life. Darwin Meets von Neumann, 2009

Symbiosis Enables the Evolution of Rare Complexes in Structured Environments.

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[DOI]

Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life. Darwin Meets von Neumann, 2009

2008

Can individual selection favour significant higher-level selection?

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[DOI]

Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, 2008

The group selection debate and ALife - weak altruism, strong altruism, and inclusive fitness.

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[DOI]

Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, 2008

The Efficacy of Group Selection is Increased by Coexistence Dynamics within Groups.

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[DOI]

Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, 2008

Mechanisms for the initiation of multicellularity in bacterial biofilms.

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[DOI]

Alexander Kraaijeveld

Tim Conibear

Zoe Bigg

Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, 2008

Adaptive units of selection can evolve complexes that are provably unevolvable under fixed units of selection.

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[DOI]

Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, 2008

Solving the division of labour problem using stigmergy and evolved heterogeneity.

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[DOI]

Emyr James

Jason Noble

Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, 2008

How epigenetic evolution can guide genetic evolution.

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[DOI]

Graeme Groom

Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, 2008

2007

A building-block royal road where crossover is provably essential.

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[DOI]

Thomas Jansen

Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2007

Preliminary investigations into the evolution of cooperative strategies in a minimally spatial model.

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[DOI]

Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2007

Variable discrimination of crossover versus mutation using parameterized modular structure.

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[DOI]

Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2007

Investigating the Evolution of Cooperative Behaviour in a Minimally Spatial Model.

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[DOI]

Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life, 9th European Conference, 2007

Individual Selection for Cooperative Group Formation.

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[DOI]

Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life, 9th European Conference, 2007

Symbiosis, Synergy and Modularity: Introducing the Reciprocal Synergy Symbiosis Algorithm.

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[DOI]

Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life, 9th European Conference, 2007

2006

Compositional Evolution - The Impact of Sex, Symbiosis, and Modularity on the Gradualist Framework of Evolution.

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[DOI]

The Vienna series in theoretical biology, MIT Press, ISBN: 978-0-262-23243-2, 2006

2005

Modular Interdependency in Complex Dynamical Systems.

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[DOI]

Artif. Life, 2005

A generator for hierarchical problems.

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[DOI]

Edwin D. de Jong

Dirk Thierens

Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2005

On the Unit of Selection in Sexual Populations.

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[DOI]

Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life, 8th European Conference, 2005

Genetic Assimilation and Canalisation in the Baldwin Effect.

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[DOI]

Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life, 8th European Conference, 2005

Multidimensional epistasis and the advantage of sex.

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[DOI]

John Wakeley

Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2005

On the Complexity of Hierarchical Problem Solving.

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Edwin D. de Jong

Dirk Thierens

Proceedings of the BNAIC 2005, 2005

2004

A Simple Two-Module Problem to Exemplify Building-Block Assembly Under Crossover.

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[DOI]

Proceedings of the Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, 2004

Hierarchical Genetic Algorithms.

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[DOI]

Edwin D. de Jong

Dirk Thierens

Proceedings of the Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, 2004

2002

Embodied Evolution: Distributing an evolutionary algorithm in a population of robots.

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[DOI]

Sevan G. Ficici

Robotics Auton. Syst., 2002

On the Utility of Redundant Encodings in Mutation-Based Evolutionary Search.

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[DOI]

Joshua D. Knowles

Proceedings of the Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, 2002

2001

Reducing Local Optima in Single-Objective Problems by Multi-objectivization.

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[DOI]

Joshua D. Knowles

David Corne

Proceedings of the Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization, 2001

Symbiotic Composition and Evolvability.

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[DOI]

Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life, 6th European Conference, 2001

2000

Symbiotic Combination as an Alternative to Sexual Recombination in Genetic Algorithms.

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[DOI]

Proceedings of the Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, 2000

Evolutionary Techniques in Physical Robotics.

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[DOI]

Proceedings of the Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware, 2000

Recombination Without Respect: Schema Combination and Disruption in Genetic Algorithm Grossover.

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Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO '00), 2000

Analysis of recombinative algorithms on a non-separable building-block problem.

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[DOI]

Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Foundations of Genetic Algorithms, 2000

Co-evolutionary dynamics on a deformable landscape.

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[DOI]

Marc Ebner

Jason Alexander

Proceedings of the 2000 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2000

1999

How Symbiosis Can Guide Evolution.

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[DOI]

Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life, 5th European Conference, 1999

Hierarchically consistent test problems for genetic algorithms.

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[DOI]

Proceedings of the 1999 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 1999

Embodied evolution: embodying an evolutionary algorithm in a population of robots.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

Sevan G. Ficiei

Proceedings of the 1999 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 1999

1998

Modeling Building-Block Interdependency.

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[DOI]

Gregory Hornby