Growing Adaptive Machines
Combining Development and Learning in Artificial Neural Networks
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Branched Structure Formation in a Decentralized Flock of Wheeled Robots
Swarm robotics studies how a large number of relatively simple robots can accomplish various functions collectively and dynamically. Modular robotics concentrates on the design of specialized connected parts t...
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Open AccessA cell-based computational model of early embryogenesis coupling mechanical behaviour and gene regulation
The study of multicellular development is grounded in two complementary domains: cell biomechanics, which examines how physical forces shape the embryo, and genetic regulation and molecular signalling, which c...
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Open AccessAn integrated modelling framework from cells to organism based on a cohort of digital embryos
We conducted a quantitative comparison of develo** sea urchin embryos based on the analysis of five digital specimens obtained by automatic processing of in toto 3D+ time image data. These measurements served t...
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Defining and simulating open-ended novelty: requirements, guidelines, and challenges
The open-endedness of a system is often defined as a continual production of novelty. Here we pin down this concept more fully by defining several types of novelty that a system may exhibit, classified as vari...
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Open AccessA workflow to process 3D+time microscopy images of develo** organisms and reconstruct their cell lineage
The quantitative and systematic analysis of embryonic cell dynamics from in vivo 3D+time image data sets is a major challenge at the forefront of developmental biology. Despite recent breakthroughs in the microsc...
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Programming the Emergence in Morphogenetically Architected Complex Systems
Large sets of elements interacting locally and producing specific architectures reliably form a category that transcends the usual dividing line between biological and engineered systems. We propose to call them
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Artificial Neurogenesis: An Introduction and Selective Review
In this introduction and review—like in the book which follows—we explore the hypothesis that adaptive growth is a means of producing brain-like machines. The emulation of neural development can incorporate de...
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Evolutionary design of soft-bodied animats with decentralized control
We show how a biologically inspired model of multicellular development combined with a simulated evolutionary process can be used to design the morphologies and controllers of soft-bodied virtual animats. An a...
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A review of morphogenetic engineering
Generally, phenomena of spontaneous pattern formation are random and repetitive, whereas elaborate devices are the deterministic product of human design. Yet, biological organisms and collective insect constru...
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Advances in Embryomorphic Engineering
Generally, phenomena of spontaneous pattern formation are random and repetitive, whereas elaborate devices are the deterministic product of human design. Yet, biological organisms and collective insect constru...
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Gardening Cyber-Physical Systems
Today’s artefacts, from small devices to buildings and cities, are, or are becoming, cyber-physical socio-technical systems, with tightly interwoven material and computational parts. Currently, we have to labo...
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Morphogenetic Engineering: Reconciling Self-Organization and Architecture
Generally, phenomena of spontaneous pattern formation are random and repetitive, whereas elaborate devices are the deterministic product of human design. Yet, biological organisms and collective insect constru...
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Embryomorphic Engineering: Emergent Innovation Through Evolutionary Development
Embryomorphic Engineering, a particular instance of Morphogenetic Engineering, takes its inspiration directly from biological development to create new robotic, software or network architectures by decentralized ...
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The Self-Made Puzzle: Integrating Self-Assembly and Pattern Formation Under Non-Random Genetic Regulation
On the one hand, research in self-assembling systems, whether natural or artificial, has traditionally focused on pre-existing components endowed with fixed shapes. Biological development, by contrast, dynamicall...
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ANTS 2010 special issue
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Swarm Intelligence
7th International Conference, ANTS 2010, Brussels, Belgium, September 8-10, 2010. Proceedings
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IT Revolutions
First International ICST Conference, IT Revolutions 2008, Venice, Italy, December 17-19, 2008, Revised Selected Papers
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The Growing Canvas of Biological Development: Multiscale Pattern Generation on an Expanding Lattice of Gene Regulatory Nets
The spontaneous generation of an entire organism from a single cell is the epitome of a self-organizing, decentralized complex system. How do nonspatial gene interactions extend in 3-D space? In this work, I p...
