Modeling Building-Block Interdependency. - Richard A. Watson; Gregory Hornby; Jordan B. Pollack (PPSN, 1998)

Embodied evolution: embodying an evolutionary algorithm in a population of robots. - Richard A. Watson; Sevan G. Ficiei; Jordan B. Pollack (CEC, 1999)

Hierarchically consistent test problems for genetic algorithms. - Richard A. Watson; Jordan B. Pollack (CEC, 1999)

How Symbiosis Can Guide Evolution. - Richard A. Watson; Jordan B. Pollack (ECAL, 1999)

Co-evolutionary dynamics on a deformable landscape. - Marc Ebner; Richard A. Watson; Jason Alexander (CEC, 2000)

Analysis of recombinative algorithms on a non-separable building-block problem. - Richard A. Watson (FOGA, 2000)

Recombination Without Respect: Schema Combination and Disruption in Genetic Algorithm Grossover. - Richard A. Watson; Jordan B. Pollack (GECCO, 2000)

Evolutionary Techniques in Physical Robotics. - Jordan B. Pollack; Hod Lipson; Sevan G. Ficici; Pablo Funes; Gregory Hornby; Richard A. Watson (ICES, 2000)

Symbiotic Combination as an Alternative to Sexual Recombination in Genetic Algorithms. - Richard A. Watson; Jordan B. Pollack (PPSN, 2000)

Symbiotic Composition and Evolvability. - Richard A. Watson; Jordan B. Pollack (ECAL, 2001)

Reducing Local Optima in Single-Objective Problems by Multi-objectivization. - Joshua D. Knowles; Richard A. Watson; David Corne (EMO, 2001)

On the Utility of Redundant Encodings in Mutation-Based Evolutionary Search. - Joshua D. Knowles; Richard A. Watson (PPSN, 2002)

Embodied Evolution: Distributing an evolutionary algorithm in a population of robots. - Richard A. Watson; Sevan G. Ficici; Jordan B. Pollack (Robotics Auton. Syst., 2002)

Hierarchical Genetic Algorithms. - Edwin D. de Jong; Dirk Thierens; Richard A. Watson (PPSN, 2004)

A Simple Two-Module Problem to Exemplify Building-Block Assembly Under Crossover. - Richard A. Watson (PPSN, 2004)

Multidimensional epistasis and the advantage of sex. - Richard A. Watson; John Wakeley (Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2005)

Genetic Assimilation and Canalisation in the Baldwin Effect. - Rob Mills; Richard A. Watson (ECAL, 2005)

On the Unit of Selection in Sexual Populations. - Richard A. Watson (ECAL, 2005)

On the complexity of hierarchical problem solving. - Edwin D. de Jong; Richard A. Watson; Dirk Thierens (GECCO, 2005)

A generator for hierarchical problems. - Edwin D. de Jong; Richard A. Watson; Dirk Thierens (GECCO Workshops, 2005)

Modular Interdependency in Complex Dynamical Systems. - Richard A. Watson; Jordan B. Pollack (Artif. Life, 2005)

Compositional Evolution - The Impact of Sex, Symbiosis, and Modularity on the Gradualist Framework of Evolution. - Richard A. Watson (MIT Press, 2006)

Symbiosis, Synergy and Modularity: Introducing the Reciprocal Synergy Symbiosis Algorithm. - Rob Mills; Richard A. Watson (ECAL, 2007)

Individual Selection for Cooperative Group Formation. - Simon T. Powers; Alexandra S. Penn; Richard A. Watson (ECAL, 2007)

Investigating the Evolution of Cooperative Behaviour in a Minimally Spatial Model. - Simon T. Powers; Richard A. Watson (ECAL, 2007)

Variable discrimination of crossover versus mutation using parameterized modular structure. - Rob Mills; Richard A. Watson (GECCO, 2007)

Preliminary investigations into the evolution of cooperative strategies in a minimally spatial model. - Simon T. Powers; Richard A. Watson (GECCO, 2007)

A building-block royal road where crossover is provably essential. - Richard A. Watson; Thomas Jansen 001 (GECCO, 2007)

How epigenetic evolution can guide genetic evolution. - Graeme Groom; Rob Mills; Richard A. Watson (ALIFE, 2008)

Solving the division of labour problem using stigmergy and evolved heterogeneity. - Emyr James; Jason Noble; Richard A. Watson (ALIFE, 2008)

Adaptive units of selection can evolve complexes that are provably unevolvable under fixed units of selection. - Rob Mills; Richard A. Watson (ALIFE, 2008)

Mechanisms for the initiation of multicellularity in bacterial biofilms. - Alexandra S. Penn; Richard A. Watson; Simon T. Powers; Jeremy Webb; Alexander Kraaijeveld; Tim Conibear; Zoe Bigg (ALIFE, 2008)

The Efficacy of Group Selection is Increased by Coexistence Dynamics within Groups. - Simon T. Powers; Alexandra S. Penn; Richard A. Watson (ALIFE, 2008)

The group selection debate and ALife - weak altruism, strong altruism, and inclusive fitness. - Simon T. Powers; Richard A. Watson (ALIFE, 2008)

Can individual selection favour significant higher-level selection? - Richard A. Watson; Rob Mills; Alexandra S. Penn; Simon T. Powers (ALIFE, 2008)

Symbiosis Enables the Evolution of Rare Complexes in Structured Environments. - Rob Mills; Richard A. Watson (ECAL (2), 2009)

Evolution of Individual Group Size Preference Can Increase Group-Level Selection and Cooperation. - Simon T. Powers; Richard A. Watson (ECAL (2), 2009)

Moderate Contact between Sub-populations Promotes Evolved Assortativity Enabling Group Selection. - James R. Snowdon; Simon T. Powers; Richard A. Watson (ECAL (2), 2009)

Can Selfish Symbioses Effect Higher-Level Selection? - Richard A. Watson; Niclas Palmius; Rob Mills; Simon T. Powers; Alexandra S. Penn (ECAL (2), 2009)

Selection Pressures for a Theory-of-Mind Faculty in Artificial Agents. - Jason Noble; Tom Hebbron; Johannes van der Horst; Rob Mills; Simon T. Powers; Richard A. Watson (ALIFE, 2010)

Systems Aikido - A Novel Approach to Managing Natural Systems. - Alexandra S. Penn; Richard A. Watson; Alexander Kraaijeveld; Jeremy Webb (ALIFE, 2010)

Associative Memory in Gene Regulation Networks. - Richard A. Watson; Christopher L. Buckley; Rob Mills; Adam P. Davies (ALIFE, 2010)

Adaptation without Natural Selection. - Richard A. Watson; Rob Mills; Christopher L. Buckley; Simon T. Powers; Alexandra S. Penn; Adam P. Davies; Jason Noble; Seth Bullock (ALIFE, 2010)

Coevolutionary Dynamics of Interacting Species. - Marc Ebner; Richard A. Watson; Jason Alexander (EvoApplications (1), 2010)

How to measure group selection in real-world populations. - Simon T. Powers; Christopher Heys; Richard A. Watson (ECAL, 2011)

Transformations and multi-scale optimisation in biological adaptive networks. - Richard A. Watson; Rob Mills; Christopher L. Buckley (ECAL, 2011)

The web as an adaptive network: coevolution of web behavior and web structure. - Connor McCabe; Richard A. Watson; Jane Prichard; Wendy Hall 001 (WebSci, 2011)

Transformations in the scale of behavior and the global optimization of constraints in adaptive networks. - Richard A. Watson; Rob Mills; Christopher L. Buckley (Adapt. Behav., 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. - Adam P. Davies; Richard A. Watson; Rob Mills; Christopher L. Buckley; Jason Noble (Artif. Life, 2011)

Global Adaptation in Networks of Selfish Components: Emergent Associative Memory at the System Scale. - Richard A. Watson; Rob Mills; Christopher L. Buckley (Artif. Life, 2011)

Optimization in "self-modeling" complex adaptive systems. - Richard A. Watson; Christopher L. Buckley; Rob Mills (Complex., 2011)

Is Evolution by Natural Selection the Algorithm of Biological Evolution? - Richard A. Watson (ALIFE, 2012)

The concurrent evolution of cooperation and the population structures that support it - Simon T. Powers; Alexandra S. Penn; Richard A. Watson (CoRR, 2012)

Multiple Life-History Stage Competition and its Effect on Coexistence. - Miguel Gonzalez 006; Richard A. Watson; Jason Noble; C. Patrick Doncaster (ECAL, 2013)

The Effects of Assortment on Population Structuring Traits on the Evolution of Cooperation. - Adam Jackson; Richard A. Watson (ECAL, 2013)

Cooperation and the Division of Labour. - Simon Tudge; Richard A. Watson; Markus Brede (ECAL, 2013)

The Origin of Culture: Selective Conditions for Horizontal Information Transfer. - Miguel Gonzalez 006; Richard A. Watson; Jason Noble; Seth Bullock (ALIFE, 2014)

Pre-Template Metabolic Replicators: Genotype-Phenotype Decoupling as a Route to Evolvability. - William Hurndall; Richard A. Watson; Markus Brede (ALIFE, 2014)

Ecosystem Memory Is Emergent from Local-Level Natural Selection. - Daniel Power; Eörs Szathmáry; Richard A. Watson (ALIFE, 2014)

Solving building block problems using generative grammar. - Chris R. Cox; Richard A. Watson (GECCO, 2014)

Inferring and Exploiting Problem Structure with Schema Grammar. - Chris R. Cox; Richard A. Watson (PPSN, 2014)

Transforming Evolutionary Search into Higher-Level Evolutionary Search by Capturing Problem Structure. - Rob Mills; Thomas Jansen 001; Richard A. Watson (IEEE Trans. Evol. Comput., 2014)

The Evolution of Assortment with Multiple Simultaneous Games. - Simon Tudge; Adam Jackson; Richard A. Watson; Markus Brede (ECAL, 2015)

How to get more from your model: the role of constructive selection in estimation of distribution algorithms. - J. R. Caldwell; Richard A. Watson (GECCO (Companion), 2017)

Minimally Sufficient Conditions for the Evolution of Social Learning and the Emergence of Non-Genetic Evolutionary Systems. - Miguel Gonzalez 006; Richard A. Watson; Seth Bullock (Artif. Life, 2017)

How evolution learns to generalise: Using the principles of learning theory to understand the evolution of developmental organisation. - Kostas Kouvaris; Jeff Clune; Loizos Kounios; Markus Brede; Richard A. Watson (PLoS Comput. Biol., 2017)

Deep Optimisation: Solving Combinatorial Optimisation Problems using Deep Neural Networks. - J. R. Caldwell; Richard A. Watson; Christoph Thies; Joshua D. Knowles (CoRR, 2018)

How adaptive plasticity evolves when selected against. - Alfredo Rago; Kostas Kouvaris; Tobias Uller; Richard A. Watson (PLoS Comput. Biol., 2019)

The Surprising Creativity of Digital Evolution: A Collection of Anecdotes from the Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life Research Communities. - Joel Lehman; Jeff Clune; Dusan Misevic; Christoph Adami; Lee Altenberg; Julie Beaulieu; Peter J. Bentley; Samuel Bernard; Guillaume Beslon; David M. Bryson; Nick Cheney; Patryk Chrabaszcz; et al. (Artif. Life, 2020)

How to fit in: The learning principles of cell differentiation. - Miguel Brun-Usan; Christoph Thies; Richard A. Watson (PLoS Comput. Biol., 2020)

Deep Optimisation: Multi-scale Evolution by Inducing and Searching in Deep Representations. - Jamie Caldwell; Joshua D. Knowles; Christoph Thies; Filip Kubacki; Richard A. Watson (EvoApplications, 2021)

Deep Optimisation: Transitioning the Scale of Evolutionary Search by Inducing and Searching in Deep Representations. - Jamie Caldwell; Joshua D. Knowles; Christoph Thies; Filip Kubacki; Richard A. Watson (SN Comput. Sci., 2022)

On Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in Heterogeneous Causal Graphs. - Richard A. Watson; Hengrui Cai; Xinming An; Samuel A. McLean; Rui Song 006 (ICML, 2023)

Emergent Collective Reproduction via Evolving Neuronal Flocks. - Nam H. Le; Richard A. Watson; Mike Levin; Chrys Buckley (CoRR, 2024)

Natural Induction: Spontaneous Adaptive Organisation without Natural Selection. - Christopher L. Buckley; Tim Lewens; Michael Levin 001; Beren Millidge; Alexander Tschantz; Richard A. Watson (Entropy, 2024)