Evolution, Complexity and Artificial Life

Part I. Research Issues

1. One Artefact: Many Phenomena
Domenico Parisi

2. Taming the Complexity of Natural and Artificial Evolutionary Dynamics
Riccardo Poli, Christopher R. Stephens

Part II. Biological Modeling

3. Models of Gene Regulation: Integrating Modern Knowledge into the Random Boolean Network Framework
Christian Darabos, Mario Giacobini, Jason H. Moore, Marco Tomassini

4. Attractors Perturbations in Biological Modelling: Avalanches and Cellular Differentiation
Marco Villani, Roberto Serra

5. Automatic Design of Boolean Networks for Modelling Cell Differentiation
Stefano Benedettini, Andrea Roli, Roberto Serra, Marco Villani

6. Towards the Engineering of Chemical Communication Between Semi-Synthetic and Natural Cells
Pasquale Stano, Giordano Rampioni, Luisa Damiano, Francesca D’Angelo, Paolo Carrara, Livia Leoni, Pier Luigi Luisi

Part III. Mind and Society

7. Cumulative Learning Through Intrinsic Reinforcements
Vieri G. Santucci, Gianluca Baldassarre, Marco Mirolli

8. Development of Categorisation Abilities in Evolving Embodied Agents: A Study of Internal Representations with External Social Inputs
Francesco Pugliese

9. Regulatory Traits: Cultural Influences on Cultural Evolution
Alberto Acerbi, Stefano Ghirlanda, Magnus Enquist

10. Building Up Serious Games with an Artificial Life Approach: Two Case Studies
Onofrio Gigliotta, Orazio Miglino, Massimiliano Schembri, Andrea Ferdinando

Part IV. Applications

11. The Effects of Multivalency and Kinetics in Nanoscale Search by Molecular Spiders
Oleg Semenov, Darko Stefanovic, Milan N. Stojanovic

12. Towards the Use of Genetic Programming for the Prediction of Survival in Cancer
Marco Giacobini, Paolo Provero, Leonardo Vanneschi, Giancarlo Mauri

13. A Neuro-Evolutionary Approach to Electrocardiographic Signal Classification
Antonia Azzini, Mauro Dragoni, Andrea G. B. Tettamanzi

14. Self-Organisation and Evolution for Trust-Adaptive Grid Computing Agents
Yvonne Bernard, Lukas Klejnowski, David Bluhm, Jörg Hähner, Christian Müller-Schloer

15. Honest vs Cheating Bots in PATROL-Based Real-Time Strategy MMOGs
Stefano Sebastio, Michele Amoretti, Jose Raul Murga, Marco Picone, Stefano Cagnoni

Part V. Evolution

16. Distribution Search on Evolutionary Many-Objective Optimization: Selection Mappings and Recombination Rate
Hernán Aguirre, Akira Oyama, Kiyoshi Tanaka

17. Concurrent Implementation Techniques Using Differential Evolution for Multi-Core CPUs: A Comparative Study Using Statistical Tests
Kiyoharu Tagawa

Keywords: Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics), Complexity, Computational Intelligence