Scientific & Organizing Committee:
Mark A. Bedau (Reed College, USA)
Paul Marrow (British Telecom, UK)
Chrystopher L. Nehaniv (University of Hertfordshire, UK)
Thomas S. Ray (University of Okhlahoma, USA)
Invited Speakers:
Lee Altenberg (University of Hawaii, USA)
Günter P. Wagner (Yale University, USA)
Preface...............iii-iv
Chrystopher L. Nehaniv
Evolvability Checkpoints Against
Evolutionary Pathologies
...............1-4
Lee Altenberg
How to Explain the Evolution of Evolvability?
Mechanistic Congruence and Other Models ............... 5-6
Günter P. Wagner
The Evolution of Modularity in Genome Architecture ...............7-10
John W. Pepper
The Von Neumann Self-reproducing
Architecture, Genetic Relativism and
Evolvability
...............11-14
Barry McMullin
Evolvability of Machines and Tapes ...............15-18
Takashi Ikegami
Evolvability in Biology, Artifacts, and
Software Systems
...............19-22 [html]
Chrystopher L. Nehaniv
Evolvability, Culture and the Primate Social Brain
...............23-26 [html]
Kerstin Dautenhahn
A Paleontological Perspective on Designing
Adaptable Software Systems
...............27-36
Oliver Stiemerling and Armin B. Cremers
Evolvability and Static vs. Dynamic Fitness
...............37-40
Matthew R. Glickman and Katia Sycara
Some Representational and
Ecological Aspects of Evolvability
...............41-44
Tim Taylor
Three Evolvability Requirements for
Open-Ended Evolution
...............45
Alastair Channon
Evolvability in the Context of the Biosphere
...............46-51
Stephen Jones
Neutral Search Spaces for Artificial
Evolution: A Lesson from Life
...............52-59
Rob Shipman, Mark Shackleton, Marc Ebner, and Richard Watson
Recurrence of Evolutionary Genotypes as
an Indicator of Evolvability
...............60-61
Niles Lehman
A Note on Evolvability in Tierra
...............62-65
Yongguang Zhang and Katsunori Shimohara
Measuring Evolvability as the Rate of
Complexity Increase
...............66-68 [html]
Chrystopher L. Nehaniv
Evolvability Analysis: Distribution of Hyperblobs in a Variable-Length Protein
Genotype Space
...............[on-line only, not in hardcopy proceedings]
Hideaki Suzuki
* This comprises University of Hertfordshire Computer Science Department Technical Report 351, August 2000.