Animals to Animats is a conference. Its held every two years, at various locations
around the world. It brings together researchers from ethology, psychology,
ecology, artificial intelligence, artificial life, robotics, engineering, and
many other related fields, seeking to bind the disciplines together.
These books each hold the complete set of papers successfully chosen by the conference
in that year.
THE ANIMAT APPROACH
Simulation of Adaptive Behavior in Animats: Review and Prospect
Jean-Arcady Meyer and Agnes Guillot
The Animat Path to AI
Stewart W. Wilson
What It Means for Robot Behaviour to be Adaptive
David McFarland
Computational Neuroethology: A Provisional Manifesto
Dave Cliff
On the Feasibility of Computational Artificial Life--A Reply to
Critics
Harold C. Morris
The Animat and the Physician
Alexandre Parodi and Pierre Bonelli
Extended Classifiers for Simulation of Adaptive Behavior
Renaud Dumeur
PERCEPTION AND MOTOR CONTROL
Biomimetic Sonar Processing: From Dolphin Echolocation to Artificial Neural
Networks
H. L. Roitblat, P. W. B. Moore, P. E. Nachtigall, and R. H. Penner
Hierarchical Dishabituation of Visual Discrimination in Toads
DeLiang Wang and Michael A. Arbib
The Computational Hoverfly: A Study in Computational Neuroethology
Dave Cliff
Can Allied Reflexes Promote the Integration of a Robot's Behavior?
Philip Teitelbaum, Vivien C. Pellis, and Sergio M. Pellis
Coordination of Leg Movement in Walking Animals
Holk Cruse
A Biological Visuo-Motor System: How Dissimilar Maps Interact to Produce
Behavior
Gerhard Manteuffel
A Biological and Computational Stereo Vision
Stephen T. Barnard
Modeling and Simulation of Animals' Movements
Simon Benhamou and Pierre Bovet
COGNITIVE MAPS AND INTERNAL WORLD MODELS
Schemas for Prey-Catching in Frog and Toad
Michael A. Arbib and Alberto Cobas
Mapbuilding Using Self-Organising Networks in "Really Useful Robots"
Ulrich Nehmzow and Tim Smithers
The Contribution of Quantitative Models to The Long Distance Orientation
Problems
Marc Jamon
Navigating with a Rat Brain: A Neurobiologically-Inspired Model for Robot
Spatial Representation
Maja J. Mataric
Four Important Issues in Cognitive Mapping
W. K. Yeap and C. C. Handley
Attracting Similar Shapes Towards Each Other
Mitch R. Harris
MOITIVATION AND EMOTION
Ethological and Psychological Models of Motivation--Towards a Synthesis
Frederick Toates and Per Jensen
Pleasure: The Answer to Conflicting Motivations
Michel Cabanac
Machine Motivation
J. R. P. Halperin
A Possibility for Implementing Curiosity and Boredom in Model- Building
Neural Controllers
Juergen Schmidhuber
ACTION SELECTION AND BEHAVIORAL SEQUENCES
Instinct as an Inductive Bias for Learning Behavioral Sequences
Lashon B. Booker
A Bottom-Up Mechanism for Behavior Selection in an Artificial Creature
Pattie Maes
The Neural Basis of Behavioral Choice in an Artificial Insect
Randall D. Beer and Hillel J. Chiel
An Investigation of Two Mediation Strategies Suitable for Behavioural
Control in Animals and Animats
Martin Snaith and Owen Holland
Computer Simulation of an Animal Environment
Toby Tyrrell and John E. W. Mayhew
ONTOGENY AND LEARNING
Ontogeny of Preferences in Guppies (Poecilia reticulata) Exposed to Food
and Conspecifics
Pafrick W. Colgan,T. Lynne Jamieson, Janice E. Frame, and J. Terry Smith
Simulation Studies of Song Learning in Birds
James M. Williams and P. J. B. Slater
Reinforcement Learning Architectures for Animats
Richard S. Sutton
Self-Improving Reactive Agents: Case Studies of Reinforcement Learning
Frameworks
Long-Ji Lin
Exploring Adaptive Agency II: Simulating the Evolution of Associative
Learning
Peter M. Todd and Geoffrey F. Miller
Lookahead Planning and Latent Learning in a Classifier System
Rick L. Riolo
Learning Hill-Climbing Functions as a Strategy for Generating Behaviors
in a Mobile Robot
David Pierce and Benjamin Kuipers
Some Parallels Between Associative Learning and Object Classification
David R. Shanks
COLLECTIVE BEHAVIORS
Task Differentation in Polistes Wasp Colonies: A Model for Self- Organizing
Groups of Robots
Guy Theraulaz, Simon Goss, Jacques Gervet, and Jean- Louis Deneubourg
The Dynamics of Collective Sorting: Robot-Like Ants and Ant-Like Robots
J. L. Deneubourg, S. Goss, N. Franks, A. Sendova-Franks, C. Detrain, and
L. Chretien
EVOLUTION OF BEHAVIOR
Evolution and Co-Evolution of Computer Programs to Control Independently-Acting
Agents
John R. Koza
The Evolution of Information Gathering: Operationa1 Constraints
Cynthia Kurtz
Representations for Artificial Organisms
Robert J. Collins and David R. Jefferson
Evolving Organisms That Can Reach for Objects
Federico Cecconi and Domenico Parisi
The Artificial Evolution of Behaviour
Inman Harvey
The Rise of Interaction: Intrinsic Simulation Modeling of the Onset
of Interacting Behaviour
Fabio De Luigi and Vifforio Maniezzo
The Evolution of Behavior: Some Experiments
Jan Paredis
A Von Neumann Approach to a Genotype Explession in a Neural Animat
Dan Wood
ARCHITECTURES, ORGANIZATIONAL PRINCIPLES, AND FUNCTIONAL APPROACHES
Challenges for Complete Creature Architecture
Rodney A. Brooks
Cognitive Action Theory as a Control Architecture
H. L. Roitblat
Towards a Theory of Emergent Functionality
Luc Steels
Eight Principles for Building an Intelligent Robot.
David L. Waltz
Robot Ethology: A Proposal for the Research into Intelligent Autonomous
System 465
Uwe Schnepf
A Model of the Mechanisms Underlying Exploratory Behaviour
Liane M. Gabora and Patrick W. Colgan
The Causal Analysis of an Adaptive System: Sex- Ratio Decisions
as Observed in a Parasitic Wasp and Simulated by a Network Model
Marijke Vonk, Felix Putters, and Berend-Jan Velthuis
Evolution as Pattern Processing: TODO as Substrate for Evolution
P. Hogeweg and B. Hesper
Matching, Maximizing and Melioration as Alternative Descriptions
of Behaviour
Alasdair 1. Houston
An Adaptation Anomoly of a Genetic Algorithm
Yuval Davidor
Autonomous Agents, AI and Chaos Theory
George Kiss
Incrementing Intelligent Systems by Design
Brendan McGonigle
ANIMATS IN EDUCATION
Animal Simulations with *Logo: Massive Parallelism for the Masses
Mitchel Resnick
Lego Vehicles: A Technology for Studying Intelligent Systems
Jim Donnett and Tim Smithers