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2020 – today
- 2024
- [j14]Christopher L. Buckley, Tim Lewens, Michael Levin, Beren Millidge, Alexander Tschantz, Richard A. Watson:
Natural Induction: Spontaneous Adaptive Organisation without Natural Selection. Entropy 26(9): 765 (2024) - [i5]Nam H. Le, Richard A. Watson, Mike Levin, Chrys Buckley:
Emergent Collective Reproduction via Evolving Neuronal Flocks. CoRR abs/2409.13254 (2024) - 2023
- [c59]Richard A. Watson, Hengrui Cai, Xinming An, Samuel A. McLean, Rui Song:
On Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in Heterogeneous Causal Graphs. ICML 2023: 36714-36747 - [i4]Richard A. Watson, Hengrui Cai, Xinming An, Samuel A. McLean, Rui Song:
On Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in Heterogeneous Causal Graphs. CoRR abs/2301.12383 (2023) - 2022
- [j13]Jamie Caldwell, Joshua D. Knowles, Christoph Thies, Filip Kubacki, Richard A. Watson:
Deep Optimisation: Transitioning the Scale of Evolutionary Search by Inducing and Searching in Deep Representations. SN Comput. Sci. 3(3): 253 (2022) - 2021
- [c58]Jamie Caldwell, Joshua D. Knowles, Christoph Thies, Filip Kubacki, Richard A. Watson:
Deep Optimisation: Multi-scale Evolution by Inducing and Searching in Deep Representations. EvoApplications 2021: 506-521 - 2020
- [j12]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, Antoine Cully, Stéphane Doncieux, Fred C. Dyer, Kai Olav Ellefsen, Robert Feldt, Stephan Fischer, Stephanie Forrest, Antoine Frénoy, Christian Gagné, Léni K. Le Goff, Laura M. Grabowski, Babak Hodjat, Frank Hutter, Laurent Keller, Carole Knibbe, Peter Krcah, Richard E. Lenski, Hod Lipson, Robert MacCurdy, Carlos Maestre, Risto Miikkulainen, Sara Mitri, David E. Moriarty, Jean-Baptiste Mouret, Anh Nguyen, Charles Ofria, Marc Parizeau, David P. Parsons, Robert T. Pennock, William F. Punch, Thomas S. Ray, Marc Schoenauer, Eric Schulte, Karl Sims, Kenneth O. Stanley, François Taddei, Danesh Tarapore, Simon Thibault, Richard A. Watson, Westley Weimer, Jason Yosinski:
The Surprising Creativity of Digital Evolution: A Collection of Anecdotes from the Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life Research Communities. Artif. Life 26(2): 274-306 (2020) - [j11]Miguel Brun-Usan, Christoph Thies, Richard A. Watson:
How to fit in: The learning principles of cell differentiation. PLoS Comput. Biol. 16(4) (2020)
2010 – 2019
- 2019
- [j10]Alfredo Rago, Kostas Kouvaris, Tobias Uller, Richard A. Watson:
How adaptive plasticity evolves when selected against. PLoS Comput. Biol. 15(3) (2019) - 2018
- [i3]Joel Lehman, Jeff Clune, Dusan Misevic, Christoph Adami, Lee Altenberg, Julie Beaulieu, Peter J. Bentley, Samuel Bernard, Guillaume Beslon, David M. Bryson, Patryk Chrabaszcz, Nick Cheney, Antoine Cully, Stéphane Doncieux, Fred C. Dyer, Kai Olav Ellefsen, Robert Feldt, Stephan Fischer, Stephanie Forrest, Antoine Frénoy, Christian Gagné, Leni K. Le Goff, Laura M. Grabowski, Babak Hodjat, Frank Hutter, Laurent Keller, Carole Knibbe, Peter Krcah, Richard E. Lenski, Hod Lipson, Robert MacCurdy, Carlos Maestre, Risto Miikkulainen, Sara Mitri, David E. Moriarty, Jean-Baptiste Mouret, Anh Nguyen, Charles Ofria, Marc Parizeau, David P. Parsons, Robert T. Pennock, William F. Punch, Thomas S. Ray, Marc Schoenauer, Eric Schulte, Karl Sims, Kenneth O. Stanley, François Taddei, Danesh Tarapore, Simon Thibault, Westley Weimer, Richard A. Watson, Jason Yosinski:
The Surprising Creativity of Digital Evolution: A Collection of Anecdotes from the Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life Research Communities. CoRR abs/1803.03453 (2018) - [i2]J. R. Caldwell, Richard A. Watson, Christoph Thies, Joshua D. Knowles:
Deep Optimisation: Solving Combinatorial Optimisation Problems using Deep Neural Networks. CoRR abs/1811.00784 (2018) - 2017
- [j9]Miguel Gonzalez, Richard A. Watson, Seth Bullock:
Minimally Sufficient Conditions for the Evolution of Social Learning and the Emergence of Non-Genetic Evolutionary Systems. Artif. Life 23(4) (2017) - [j8]Kostas Kouvaris, Jeff Clune, Loizos Kounios, Markus Brede, Richard A. Watson:
How evolution learns to generalise: Using the principles of learning theory to understand the evolution of developmental organisation. PLoS Comput. Biol. 13(4) (2017) - [c57]J. R. Caldwell, Richard A. Watson:
How to get more from your model: the role of constructive selection in estimation of distribution algorithms. GECCO (Companion) 2017: 101-102 - 2015
- [c56]Simon Tudge, Adam Jackson, Richard A. Watson, Markus Brede:
The Evolution of Assortment with Multiple Simultaneous Games. ECAL 2015: 279-285 - 2014
- [j7]Rob Mills, Thomas Jansen, Richard A. Watson:
Transforming Evolutionary Search into Higher-Level Evolutionary Search by Capturing Problem Structure. IEEE Trans. Evol. Comput. 18(5): 628-642 (2014) - [c55]Daniel Power, Eörs Szathmáry, Richard A. Watson:
Ecosystem Memory Is Emergent from Local-Level Natural Selection. ALIFE 2014: 87-88 - [c54]Miguel Gonzalez, Richard A. Watson, Jason Noble, Seth Bullock:
The Origin of Culture: Selective Conditions for Horizontal Information Transfer. ALIFE 2014: 408-414 - [c53]William Hurndall, Richard A. Watson, Markus Brede:
Pre-Template Metabolic Replicators: Genotype-Phenotype Decoupling as a Route to Evolvability. ALIFE 2014: 856-863 - [c52]Chris R. Cox, Richard A. Watson:
Solving building block problems using generative grammar. GECCO 2014: 341-348 - [c51]Chris R. Cox, Richard A. Watson:
Inferring and Exploiting Problem Structure with Schema Grammar. PPSN 2014: 404-413 - 2013
- [c50]Simon Tudge, Richard A. Watson, Markus Brede:
Cooperation and the Division of Labour. ECAL 2013: 1-8 - [c49]Miguel Gonzalez, Richard A. Watson, Jason Noble, C. Patrick Doncaster:
Multiple Life-History Stage Competition and its Effect on Coexistence. ECAL 2013: 167-174 - [c48]Adam Jackson, Richard A. Watson:
The Effects of Assortment on Population Structuring Traits on the Evolution of Cooperation. ECAL 2013: 356-363 - 2012
- [c47]Richard A. Watson:
Is Evolution by Natural Selection the Algorithm of Biological Evolution? ALIFE 2012 - [i1]Simon T. Powers, Alexandra S. Penn, Richard A. Watson:
The concurrent evolution of cooperation and the population structures that support it. CoRR abs/1208.0482 (2012) - 2011
- [j6]Richard A. Watson, Rob Mills, Christopher L. Buckley:
Transformations in the scale of behavior and the global optimization of constraints in adaptive networks. Adapt. Behav. 19(4): 227-249 (2011) - [j5]Richard A. Watson, Rob Mills, Christopher L. Buckley:
Global Adaptation in Networks of Selfish Components: Emergent Associative Memory at the System Scale. Artif. Life 17(3): 147-166 (2011) - [j4]Adam P. Davies, Richard A. Watson, Rob Mills, Christopher L. Buckley, Jason Noble:
"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. Artif. Life 17(3): 167-181 (2011) - [j3]Richard A. Watson, Christopher L. Buckley, Rob Mills:
Optimization in "self-modeling" complex adaptive systems. Complex. 16(5): 17-26 (2011) - [c46]Simon T. Powers, Christopher Heys, Richard A. Watson:
How to measure group selection in real-world populations. ECAL 2011: 672-679 - [c45]Richard A. Watson, Rob Mills, Christopher L. Buckley:
Transformations and multi-scale optimisation in biological adaptive networks. ECAL 2011: 854-855 - [c44]Connor McCabe, Richard A. Watson, Jane Prichard, Wendy Hall:
The web as an adaptive network: coevolution of web behavior and web structure. WebSci 2011: 22:1-22:7 - 2010
- [c43]Richard A. Watson, Rob Mills, Christopher L. Buckley, Simon T. Powers, Alexandra S. Penn, Adam P. Davies, Jason Noble, Seth Bullock:
Adaptation without Natural Selection. ALIFE 2010: 80-81 - [c42]Richard A. Watson, Christopher L. Buckley, Rob Mills, Adam P. Davies:
Associative Memory in Gene Regulation Networks. ALIFE 2010: 194-202 - [c41]Alexandra S. Penn, Richard A. Watson, Alexander Kraaijeveld, Jeremy Webb:
Systems Aikido - A Novel Approach to Managing Natural Systems. ALIFE 2010: 577-580 - [c40]Jason Noble, Tom Hebbron, Johannes van der Horst, Rob Mills, Simon T. Powers, Richard A. Watson:
Selection Pressures for a Theory-of-Mind Faculty in Artificial Agents. ALIFE 2010: 615 - [c39]Adam P. Davies, Richard A. Watson, Rob Mills, Christopher L. Buckley, Jason Noble:
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. ALIFE 2010: 659-666 - [c38]Marc Ebner, Richard A. Watson, Jason Alexander:
Coevolutionary Dynamics of Interacting Species. EvoApplications (1) 2010: 1-10 - [e1]Seth Bullock, Jason Noble, Richard A. Watson, Mark A. Bedau:
Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, ALIFE 2008, Winchester, United Kingdom, August 5-8, 2008. MIT Press 2010, ISBN 9780262287197 [contents]
2000 – 2009
- 2009
- [c37]Richard A. Watson, Niclas Palmius, Rob Mills, Simon T. Powers, Alexandra S. Penn:
Can Selfish Symbioses Effect Higher-Level Selection? ECAL (2) 2009: 27-36 - [c36]James R. Snowdon, Simon T. Powers, Richard A. Watson:
Moderate Contact between Sub-populations Promotes Evolved Assortativity Enabling Group Selection. ECAL (2) 2009: 45-52 - [c35]Simon T. Powers, Richard A. Watson:
Evolution of Individual Group Size Preference Can Increase Group-Level Selection and Cooperation. ECAL (2) 2009: 53-60 - [c34]Rob Mills, Richard A. Watson:
Symbiosis Enables the Evolution of Rare Complexes in Structured Environments. ECAL (2) 2009: 110-117 - 2008
- [c33]Simon T. Powers, Alexandra S. Penn, Richard A. Watson:
The Efficacy of Group Selection is Increased by Coexistence Dynamics within Groups. ALIFE 2008: 498-505 - [c32]Graeme Groom, Rob Mills, Richard A. Watson:
How epigenetic evolution can guide genetic evolution. ALIFE 2008: 772 - [c31]Emyr James, Jason Noble, Richard A. Watson:
Solving the division of labour problem using stigmergy and evolved heterogeneity. ALIFE 2008: 778 - [c30]Rob Mills, Richard A. Watson:
Adaptive units of selection can evolve complexes that are provably unevolvable under fixed units of selection. ALIFE 2008: 785 - [c29]Alexandra S. Penn, Richard A. Watson, Simon T. Powers, Jeremy Webb, Alexander Kraaijeveld, Tim Conibear, Zoe Bigg:
Mechanisms for the initiation of multicellularity in bacterial biofilms. ALIFE 2008: 794 - [c28]Simon T. Powers, Richard A. Watson:
The group selection debate and ALife - weak altruism, strong altruism, and inclusive fitness. ALIFE 2008: 796 - [c27]Richard A. Watson, Rob Mills, Alexandra S. Penn, Simon T. Powers:
Can individual selection favour significant higher-level selection? ALIFE 2008: 818 - 2007
- [c26]Simon T. Powers, Alexandra S. Penn, Richard A. Watson:
Individual Selection for Cooperative Group Formation. ECAL 2007: 585-594 - [c25]Simon T. Powers, Richard A. Watson:
Investigating the Evolution of Cooperative Behaviour in a Minimally Spatial Model. ECAL 2007: 605-614 - [c24]Rob Mills, Richard A. Watson:
Symbiosis, Synergy and Modularity: Introducing the Reciprocal Synergy Symbiosis Algorithm. ECAL 2007: 1192-1201 - [c23]Simon T. Powers, Richard A. Watson:
Preliminary investigations into the evolution of cooperative strategies in a minimally spatial model. GECCO 2007: 343 - [c22]Rob Mills, Richard A. Watson:
Variable discrimination of crossover versus mutation using parameterized modular structure. GECCO 2007: 1312-1319 - [c21]Richard A. Watson, Thomas Jansen:
A building-block royal road where crossover is provably essential. GECCO 2007: 1452-1459 - 2006
- [b1]Richard A. Watson:
Compositional Evolution - The Impact of Sex, Symbiosis, and Modularity on the Gradualist Framework of Evolution. The Vienna series in theoretical biology, MIT Press 2006, ISBN 978-0-262-23243-2, pp. I-XVI, 1-324 - 2005
- [j2]Richard A. Watson, Jordan B. Pollack:
Modular Interdependency in Complex Dynamical Systems. Artif. Life 11(4): 445-457 (2005) - [c20]Edwin D. de Jong, Richard A. Watson, Dirk Thierens:
On the Complexity of Hierarchical Problem Solving. BNAIC 2005: 339-340 - [c19]Richard A. Watson, John Wakeley:
Multidimensional epistasis and the advantage of sex. Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2005: 2792-2799 - [c18]Rob Mills, Richard A. Watson:
Genetic Assimilation and Canalisation in the Baldwin Effect. ECAL 2005: 353-362 - [c17]Richard A. Watson:
On the Unit of Selection in Sexual Populations. ECAL 2005: 895-905 - [c16]Edwin D. de Jong, Richard A. Watson, Dirk Thierens:
A generator for hierarchical problems. GECCO Workshops 2005: 321-326 - [c15]Edwin D. de Jong, Richard A. Watson, Dirk Thierens:
On the complexity of hierarchical problem solving. GECCO 2005: 1201-1208 - 2004
- [c14]Richard A. Watson:
A Simple Two-Module Problem to Exemplify Building-Block Assembly Under Crossover. PPSN 2004: 161-171 - [c13]Edwin D. de Jong, Dirk Thierens, Richard A. Watson:
Hierarchical Genetic Algorithms. PPSN 2004: 232-241 - 2002
- [j1]Richard A. Watson, Sevan G. Ficici, Jordan B. Pollack:
Embodied Evolution: Distributing an evolutionary algorithm in a population of robots. Robotics Auton. Syst. 39(1): 1-18 (2002) - [c12]Joshua D. Knowles, Richard A. Watson:
On the Utility of Redundant Encodings in Mutation-Based Evolutionary Search. PPSN 2002: 88-98 - 2001
- [c11]Richard A. Watson, Jordan B. Pollack:
Symbiotic Composition and Evolvability. ECAL 2001: 480-490 - [c10]Joshua D. Knowles, Richard A. Watson, David Corne:
Reducing Local Optima in Single-Objective Problems by Multi-objectivization. EMO 2001: 269-283 - 2000
- [c9]Marc Ebner, Richard A. Watson, Jason Alexander:
Co-evolutionary dynamics on a deformable landscape. CEC 2000: 1284-1291 - [c8]Richard A. Watson:
Analysis of recombinative algorithms on a non-separable building-block problem. FOGA 2000: 69-89 - [c7]Richard A. Watson, Jordan B. Pollack:
Recombination Without Respect: Schema Combination and Disruption in Genetic Algorithm Grossover. GECCO 2000: 112-119 - [c6]Jordan B. Pollack, Hod Lipson, Sevan G. Ficici, Pablo Funes, Gregory Hornby, Richard A. Watson:
Evolutionary Techniques in Physical Robotics. ICES 2000: 175-186 - [c5]Richard A. Watson, Jordan B. Pollack:
Symbiotic Combination as an Alternative to Sexual Recombination in Genetic Algorithms. PPSN 2000: 425-434
1990 – 1999
- 1999
- [c4]Richard A. Watson, Sevan G. Ficiei, Jordan B. Pollack:
Embodied evolution: embodying an evolutionary algorithm in a population of robots. CEC 1999: 335-342 - [c3]Richard A. Watson, Jordan B. Pollack:
Hierarchically consistent test problems for genetic algorithms. CEC 1999: 1406-1413 - [c2]Richard A. Watson, Jordan B. Pollack:
How Symbiosis Can Guide Evolution. ECAL 1999: 29-38 - 1998
- [c1]Richard A. Watson, Gregory Hornby, Jordan B. Pollack:
Modeling Building-Block Interdependency. PPSN 1998: 97-108
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