This page contains links to PDF files for the papers written by students describing their term projects in John Koza’s course on artificial life (CS 425) in Spring 1994 quarter.
This volume is in the Mathematics and Computer Science Library in the Main Quad at Stanford University.
These papers are available in book form from the Stanford University Bookstore by calling 650-329-1217 or 800-533-2670 or by writing Stanford Bookstore, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-3079 USA. The E-Mail address of the bookstore for mail orders is mailorder@bookstore.stanford.edu. Be sure to refer to "Custom Publishing" when ordering these items to avoid confusion and to mention the ISBN number (or Stanford Bookstore order number), the exact title.
Evolution of Planning: Using Recursive Techniques in Genetic
Programming by Scott Brave |
1 |
Evolving Reusable Subroutines for Genetic Programming by Oliver Brock |
11 |
Single Populations v. Co-Evolution by James Davis |
20 |
Spontaneous Emergence of Multicellular Organisms from Unicellular
Ancestors by Gary Fehr |
28 |
Altruistic Ants by Mike Haberman |
34 |
Emulating Evolution in a Kolmogorov Predator-Trey Model with Genetic
Algorithm Extensions by Mark S. Hahn |
43 |
A Discrete Artificial Organic Chemistry and Search for Autocatalysis
by Saul Kato |
54 |
Taking Advantage of Diversity in Genetic Algorithms by Mark Klausner |
64 |
The Effect of the Interaction Fraction on Stable |
73 |
An Approach to Analyzing the Immune System with Genetic Algorithms by
David Kruckemyer |
81 |
Sufficient Parameters for Population Dynamics Simulations with
Adaptation by Gerald Luiz |
91 |
Hive: Development of a Language among Artificial Lifeforms by Daniel
Malmer |
99 |
Faster Neural Network Architectures from Genetic Algorithms by James
McNames |
108 |
MacBeth Meets A-Life by Christian L. Mogensen |
118 |
Evolving Metazoans in Echo by Stephen Ong |
129 |
Another Approach to the Synthesis of Life by Shan-Ng Pak |
136 |
A Study on the Emergence of Trade in Artificial Organisms by Rob
Powers |
146 |
The Evolution of Resistance to Crossover and Mutation in Genetic
Programming by Bradley Rhodes |
156 |
Evolving Stopping Rule Mating Strategies using Genetic Programming by
Steven Spitz |
163 |
The Genetic Coding of Behavioral Attributes in Cellular Automata by
Tim Stefanini |
172 |
Using Lamarckian Evolution to Increase the Effectiveness of Neural
Network Training with a Genetic Algorithm and Backpropagation by Stewart
Taylor |
181 |
Complexity and Survivability: The Price of Intelligence under Genetic
Pressure by Lawrence Waugh |
187 |
Appendix - Course Materials |
197 |
· The home page of Genetic Programming Inc. at www.genetic-programming.com.
· For information about the field of genetic programming in general, visit www.genetic-programming.org
· The home page of John R. Koza at Genetic Programming Inc. (including online versions of most papers) and the home page of John R. Koza at Stanford University
· For information about John Koza’s course on genetic algorithms and genetic programming at Stanford University
· Information about the 1992 book Genetic Programming: On the Programming of Computers by Means of Natural Selection, the 1994 book Genetic Programming II: Automatic Discovery of Reusable Programs, the 1999 book Genetic Programming III: Darwinian Invention and Problem Solving, and the 2003 book Genetic Programming IV: Routine Human-Competitive Machine Intelligence. Click here to read chapter 1 of Genetic Programming IV book in PDF format.
· For information on 3,198
papers (many on-line) on genetic programming (as of June 27, 2003) by over 900
authors, see William
Langdon’s bibliography on genetic programming.
· For information on the Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines journal published by Kluwer Academic Publishers
· For information on the Genetic Programming book series from Kluwer Academic Publishers, see the Call For Book Proposals
· For information about the
annual Genetic and
Evolutionary Computation (GECCO) conference (which includes the annual
GP conference) to be held on June 26–30, 2004 (Saturday – Wednesday) in Seattle
and its sponsoring organization, the International Society for Genetic and
Evolutionary Computation (ISGEC).
For information about the annual Euro-Genetic-Programming
Conference to be held on April 5-7, 2004 (Monday – Wednesday) at the
University of Coimbra in Coimbra Portugal. For information about the 2003
and 2004 Genetic
Programming Theory and Practice (GPTP) workshops held at the University
of Michigan in Ann Arbor. For information about Asia-Pacific
Workshop on Genetic Programming (ASPGP03) to be held in Canberra, Australia on December
8, 2003. For information about the annual NASA/DoD Conference on
Evolvable Hardware Conference (EH) to be held on June 24-26
(Thursday-Saturday), 2004 in Seattle.
Last updated on December 7, 2003