Artificial Life at Stanford 1994

(Book of Student Papers from John Koza's Course at Stanford on Artificial Life)


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
Long Term Patterns in ECHO systems and Markers for Determination of Final State by Todd Krein

 

 

 

 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.


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