In nature, gene regulatory networks are a key mediator between the information stored in the
DNA of living organisms (their genotype) and the structural and behavioral expression this …

An introduction to the fundamental concepts of the emerging field of Artificial Chemistries,
covering both theory and practical applications. The field of Artificial Life (ALife) is now firmly …

Novelty search is an evolutionary search algorithm based on the superficially contradictory
idea that abandoning goal-focused fitness function altogether can lead to the discovery of …

Building a system that allows for pattern formation and morphogenesis is a first step towards
a biologically-inspired developmental-evolutionary approach to generate complex neural …

In this paper we extend our artificial life platform, called GReaNs (for Genetic Regulatory
evolving artificial Networks) to allow evolution of spiking neural networks performing simple …

This position article argues that the sciences of the artificial (artificial intelligence and
artificial life) have a special relationship to art that is absent from much of science. Just as art …

Most sensory stimuli are temporal in structure. How action potentials encode the information
incoming from sensory stimuli remains one of the central research questions in …

This article presents a lightweight platform for evolving two-dimensional artificial creatures.
The aim of providing such a platform is to reduce the barrier to entry for researchers …

All sensory stimuli are temporal in structure. How a pattern of action potentials encodes the
information received from the sensory stimuli is an important research question in …

Nervous systems of biological organisms use temporal patterns of spikes to encode sensory
input, but the mechanisms that underlie the recognition of such patterns are unclear. In the …