El. knyga: From Animals to Animats 6: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior

Preface THE ANIMAT APPROACH TO ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR From SAB94 to SAB2000: Whats New, Animat? 3(10) Agnes Guillot Jean-Arcady Meyer Elements of Viability Theory for Animat Design 13(10) Jean-Pierre Aubin On the Role of Morphology and Materials in Adaptive Behavior 23(10) Rolf Pfeifer On the Relation among Morphology, Material, and Control in Morpho-Functional Machines 33(8) Fumio Hara Rolf Pfeifer Experience-Dependent Perceptual Categorization in a Behaving Real-World Device 41(10) Jeffrey L. Krichmar James A. Snook Gerald M. Edelman Olaf Sporns The Epsilon State Count 51(10) Bram Bakker Michiel de Jong Connecting Brains to Robots: An Artificial Animal for the Study of Learning in Vertebrate Nervous Systems 61(12) Karen M. Fleming Bernard D. Reger Vittorio Sanguineti Simon Alford Ferdinando A. Mussa-Ivaldi PERCEPTION AND MOTOR CONTROL Designing Artificial Ears for Animat Echolocation 73(8) Jose M. Carmena DaeEun Kim C. T. Hallam Reactive Maze Solving with a Biologically-Inspired Wind Sensor 81(7) Tim Chapman Adam Hayes Mark Tilden Visual Tracking in Simulated Salamander Locomotion 88(10) Auke Jan Ijspeert Michael Arbib Adaptive Image Stabilization: A Need for Vision-Based Active Robotics Agents 98(7) Francesco Panerai Giorgio Metta Guilio Sandini Neural Oscillator Networks for Rhythmic Control of Animats 105(10) Artur M. Arsenio On ``Parts and ``Wholes of Adaptive Behavior: Functional Modularity and Diachronic Structure in Recurrent Neural Robot Controllers 115(10) Tom Ziemke Telerobotic Sheepdogs: How Useful Is Autonomous Behavior? 125(10) Myra Wilson Mark Neal Generating Interactive Robot Behavior: A Mathematical Approach 135(12) Rainer Menzner Axel Steinhage Wolfram Erlhagen ACTION SELECTION AND BEHAVIORAL SEQUENCES Hierarchy and Sequences vs. Full Parallelism in Action Selection 147(10) Joanna Bryson An Embodied Model of Action Selection Mechanisms in the Vertebrate Brain 157(10) Fernando Montes Gonzalez Tony J. Prescott Kevin Gurney Mark Humphries Peter Redgrave Learning to Integrate Reactive and Planning Behaviors for Construction 167(10) Gerald Chao Anand Panangadan Michael G. Dyer The Role of Behavioral Extinction in Animat Action Selection 177(12) Mark Witkowski INTERNAL WORLD MODELS FOR NAVIGATION Detecting Novel Features of an Environment Using Habituation 189(10) Stephen Marsland Ulrich Nehmzow Jonathan Shapiro Extraction and Inversion of Abstract Sensory Flow Representations 199(10) Fredrik Linaker Lars Niklasson Micronavigation 209(10) Maurizio Piaggio Antonio Sgorbissa Renato Zaccaria Computer Simulation of Long-Range Bird Navigation 219(9) Ulrich Nehmzow Roswitha Wiltschko Neural Network Approach to Path Integration for Homing Navigation 228(8) DaeEun Kim John C. T. Hallam Modeling Rodent Head-direction Cells and Place Cells for Spatial Learning in Bio-mimetic Robotics 236(10) Angelo Arleo Wulfram Gerstner Active Perception and Map Learning for Robot Navigation 246(10) David Filliat Jean-Arcady Meyer A Computational Model of Context Processing 256(10) Christian Balkenius Jan Moren From Navigation to Active Object Recognition 266(13) Sacha Lepretre Philippe Gaussier Jean-Pierre Cocquerez LEARNING Simulating Classical Conditioning Using a Neuro-Connector Net 279(8) Bridget Hallam First Cognitive Capabilities in the Anticipatory Classifier System 287(10) Wolfgang Stolzmann Martin V. Butz Joachim Hoffmann David E. Goldberg Obstacle Avoidance for a Distributed Autonomous Swimming Robot by Interaction-Based Learning 297(10) Daisuke Iijima Wenwei Yu Hiroshi Yokoi Yukinori Kakazu Evolutionary Design of Learning State Space for Small Airship Control 307(10) Keiko Motoyama Keiji Suzuki Masahito Yamamoto Azuma Ohuchi Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Bidding for Segmenting Action Sequences 317(8) Ron Sun Chad Sessions Partitioning in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning 325(8) Ron Sun Todd Peterson Adaptive Agents with Reinforcement Learning and Internal Memory 333(10) Pier Luca Lanzi Learning in Categorizable Environments 343(10) Josep M. Porta Enric Celaya imitation: Learning and Communication 353(10) Pierre Andry Sorin Moga Philippe Gaussier Arnaud Revel Jacqueline Nadel Utilising a Cerebellar Model for Mobile Robot Control in a Delayed Sensory Environment 363(10) David Collins Gordon Wyeth Observation and Imitation: Goal Sequence Learning in Neurally Controlled Construction Animats: VI-MAXSON 373(10) Frederick L. Crabbe Michael G. Dyer A Computational Model of Emotional Learning in the Amygdala 383(12) Jan Moren Christian Balkenius EVOLUTION Sexual Preferences: Dimension and Complexity 395(10) Patricio Lerena Visual Resolution Evolving to a Trade-Off Curve 405(8) Rens Kortmann Eric Postma Jaap van den Herik Evolving Visually-Guided Robots Able to Discriminate between Different Landmarks 413(7) Stefano Nolfi Davide Marocco Investigating Morphological Symmetry and Locomotive Efficiency Using Virtual Embodied Evolution 420(10) Josh C. Bongard Chandana Paul Further Experiments in the Evolution of Minimally Cognitive Behavior: From Perceiving Affordances to Selective Attention 430(10) Andrew C. Slocum Douglas C. Downey Randall D. Beer Homeostatic Adaptation to Inversion of the Visual Field and Other Sensorimotor Disruptions 440(10) Ezequiel A. Di Paolo Measuring Progress in Coevolutionary Competition 450(10) Pablo Funes Jordan B. Pollack Self-Adaptive Mutation in Classifier System Controllers 460(11) Larry Bull Jacob Hurst Andy Tomlinson COLLECTIVE BEHAVIORS Unorthodox Optimal Foraging Theory 471(10) Anil K. Seth Talk Is Cheap: Evolved Strategies for Communication and Action in Asymmetrical Contests 481(10) Jason Noble Go Ahead, Make My Day: Robot Conflict Resolution by Aggressive Competition 491(10) Richard R. Vaughan Kasper Stoy Gaurav S. Sukhatme Maja J. Mataric Using Information Theory Approach to Study the Communication System and Numerical Competence in Ants 501(6) Zhanna Reznikova Boris Ryabko Effective Learning Approach for Planning and Scheduling in Multi-Agent Domain 507(12) Sachiyo Arai Katia Sycara APPLIED ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR Issues of Robot-Human Interaction Dynamics in the Rehabilitation of Children with Autism 519(10) Kerstin Dautenhahn Iain Werry An Evolutionary Approach to Guiding Students in an Educational Game 529(10) Elizabeth Sklar Jordan Pollack Author Index 539