Number of items: 59.
2012
Weinreich, Daniel M., Sindi, Suzanne and Watson, Richard A. (2012) Finding the boundary between evolutionary basins of attraction, and implications for Wright’s fitness landscape analogy. [in special issue: Statistical Mechanics and the Dynamics of Evolution] Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment, . (In Press)
Penn, Alexandra, S., Conibear, Tim, C.R., Watson, Richard, A., Kraaijeveld, Alex, R. and Webb, Jeremy, S. (2012) Can Simpson's Paradox Explain Co-operation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilms? FEMS Immunology & Medical Microbiology
2011
Davies, Adam, Watson, Richard, Mills, Rob, Buckley, C. L. and Noble, Jason (2011) If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with: How Individual Habituation of Agent Interactions Improves Global Utility. Artificial Life, 17, (3), .
Powers, Simon T, Heys, Christopher and Watson, Richard A (2011) How to Measure Group Selection in Real-world Populations. In, Advances in Artificial Life, ECAL 2011. , MIT Press.
Watson, Richard A., Mills, Rob and Buckley, C. L. (2011) Global Adaptation in Networks of Selfish Components: Emergent Associative Memory at the System Scale. Artificial Life, 17, (3), .
McCabe, Connor, Watson, Richard, Prichard, Jane S. and Hall, Wendy (2011) The Web as an Adaptive Network: Coevolution of Web Behavior and Web Structure. In, Web Science Conference 2011, Koblenz , Germany, 14 - 17 Jun 2011. (Submitted)
Powers, Simon T., Penn, Alexandra S. and Watson, Richard A. (2011) The Concurrent Evolution of Cooperation and the Population Structures that Support it. Evolution, 65, (6), .
Watson, Richard A., Buckley, C. L. and Mills, Rob (2011) Optimisation in ‘Self-modelling’ Complex Adaptive Systems. Complexity, 16, (5), .
Watson, Richard A., Mills, Rob and Buckley, C. L. (2011) Transformations in the Scale of Behaviour and the Global Optimisation of Constraints in Adaptive Networks. Adaptive Behavior, 19, (4), .
Watson, Richard, Weinreich, Daniel M. and Wakeley, John (2011) Genome Structure and the Benefit of Sex. Evolution, 65, (2), .
Mills, Rob and Watson, Richard A. (2011) Multi-scale search, modular variation, and adaptive neighbourhoods. . (Submitted)
Mills, Rob, Watson, Richard A. and Buckley, Christopher L. (2011) Emergent associative memory as a local organising principle for global adaptation in adaptive networks. At Eighth International Conference on Complex Systems, Boston, MA, , .
2010
Davies, Adam, Watson, Richard, Mills, Rob, Buckley, C. L. and Noble, Jason (2010) If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with: How individual habituation of agent interactions improves global utility. In, Fellerman, Harold, Dörr, Mark, Hanczyc, Martin M., Ladegaard Laursen, Lone, Maurer, Sarah, Merkle, Daniel, Monnard, Pierre-Alain, Stoy, Kasper and Rasmussen, Steen (eds.) Artificial Life XII: Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems. , MIT Press.
Noble, Jason, Hebbron, Tom, Van Der Horst, Johannes, Mills, Rob, Powers, Simon T. and Watson, Richard (2010) Selection pressures for a theory-of-mind faculty in artificial agents. In, Fellerman, Harold, Dörr, Mark, Hanczyc, Martin M., Ladegaard Laursen, Lone, Maurer, Sarah, Merkle, Daniel, Monnard, Pierre-Alain, Stoy, Kasper and Rasmussen, Steen (eds.) Artificial Life XII: Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems. , MIT Press.
Watson, Richard, Mills, Rob, Buckley, C. L., Penn, Alexandra, Davies, Adam, Noble, Jason and Bullock, Seth (2010) Adaptation without natural selection. In, Fellerman, Harold, Dörr, Mark, Hanczyc, Martin M., Ladegaard Laursen, Lone, Maurer, Sarah, Merkle, Daniel, Monnard, Pierre-Alain, Stoy, Kasper and Rasmussen, Steen (eds.) Artificial Life XII: Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems. , MIT Press.
2009
Powers, Simon T, Mills, Rob, Penn, Alexandra S and Watson, Richard A (2009) Social Environment Construction Provides an Adaptive Explanation for New Levels of Individuality. At Levels of Selection and Individuality in Evolution: Conceptual Issues and the Role of Artificial Life Models, Budapest, Hungary, , .
Watson, Richard A., Buckley, C. L. and Mills, Rob (2009) Global Adaptation in Networks of Selfish Components: Emergent Associative Memory at the System Scale. (Submitted)
Watson, Richard, Palmius, Niclas, Mills, Robert, Powers, Simon T and Penn, Alexandra, Kampis, George and Szathmáry, Erös (eds.) (2009) Can Selfish Symbioses Effect Higher-level Selection? Proceedings of 10th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 2009)
Watson, Richard A., Buckley, C. L. and Mills, Rob (2009) The Effect of Hebbian Learning on Optimisation in Hopfield Networks.
Mills, Rob and Watson, Richard A., Kampis, George and Szathmáry, Erös (eds.) (2009) Symbiosis Enables the Evolution of Rare Complexes in Structured Environments. Proceedings of 10th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 2009), .
Powers, Simon T and Watson, Richard A (2009) Evolution of Individual Group Size Preference can Increase Group-level Selection and Cooperation. In, Advances in Artificial Life: Proceedings of the Tenth European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 2009). , Springer. (Submitted)
Snowdon, James, Powers, Simon T and Watson, Richard (2009) Moderate contact between sub-populations promotes evolved assortativity enabling group selection. At Proceedings of 10th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 2009) Springer.
2008
Watson, Richard A., Mills, Robert, Penn, Alexandra and Powers, Simon T (2008) Can individual selection favour significant higher-level selection? (abstract). At The Eleventh International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems (Alife XI), Winchester, UK, 05 - 08 Aug 2008. MIT Press, .
Mills, Rob and Watson, Richard A. (2008) Adaptive units of selection can evolve complexes that are provably unevolvable under fixed units of selection (abstract). In, Bullock, S., Noble, J., Watson, R. A. and Bedau, M. A. (eds.) Artificial Life XI: Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems. 11th International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems , MIT Press.
Powers, Simon T, Penn, Alexandra S and Watson, Richard A (2008) The Efficacy of Group Selection is Increased by Coexistence Dynamics within Groups. In, Bullock, Seth, Noble, Jason and Watson, Richard (eds.) Artificial Life XI: Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems. The Eleventh International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems , MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
Powers, Simon T. and Watson, Richard A. (2008) The Group Selection Debate and ALife: Weak Altruism, Strong Altruism, and Inclusive Fitness (abstract). In, Artificial Life XI: Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems. The Eleventh International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems (Alife XI) , MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
Bullock, S., Noble, J., Watson, R. and Bedau, M. (2008) Artificial Life XI: Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, MIT Press
Groom, Graeme, Mills, Rob and Watson, Richard A. (2008) How epigenetic evolution can guide genetic evolution (abstract). In, Bullock, Seth, Noble, Jason, Watson, Richard A. and Bedau, M. A. (eds.) Artificial Life XI: Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems. Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems , MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
James, E., Noble, J. and Watson, R. (2008) Solving the division of labour problem using stigmergy and evolved heterogeneity (abstract). In, Bullock, S., Noble, J., Watson, R. and Bedau, M. A. (eds.) Artificial Life XI: Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems. , MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
Penn, Alexandra S, Powers, Simon T, Conibear, Tim, Kraaijeveld, Alex, Watson, Richard, Bigg , Zoe and Webb, Jeremy (2008) Co-operation and Group structure in Bacterial Biofilms. At Society for General Microbiology, Autumn meeting., Trinity College, Dublin,
2007
Powers, Simon T., Penn, Alexandra S. and Watson, Richard A. (2007) Individual Selection for Cooperative Group Formation. In, e Costa, Fernando A., Rocha, Luis M., Costa, Ernesto, Harvey, Inman and Coutinho, António (eds.) Advances in Artificial Life: Proceedings of the Ninth European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 2007). the 9th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 2007) , Springer.
Mills, Rob and Watson, Richard A., Almeida e Costa, Fernando, Rocha, Luis M., Costa, Ernesto, Harvey, Inman and Coutinho, Antonio (eds.) (2007) Symbiosis, Synergy and Modularity: Introducing the Reciprocal Synergy Symbiosis Algorithm. Proceedings of 9th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 2007), .
Mills, Rob and Watson, Richard A., Thierens, Dirk and Lipson, Hod (eds.) (2007) Variable Discrimination of Crossover Versus Mutation Using Parameterized Modular Structure. Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2007), .
Watson, Richard A. and Jansen, Thomas, Thierens, Dirk and Lipson, Hod (eds.) (2007) A Building-Block Royal Road Where Crossover is Provably Essential. Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2007), .
Powers, Simon T. and Watson, Richard A. (2007) Investigating the Evolution of Cooperative Behaviour in a Minimally Spatial Model. In, e Costa, Fernando A., Rocha, Luis M., Costa, Ernesto, Harvey, Inman and Coutinho, António (eds.) Advances in Artificial Life : Proceedings of the Ninth European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 2007). the 9th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 2007) , Springer.
Powers, Simon T. and Watson, Richard A. (2007) Preliminary Investigations into the Evolution of Cooperative Strategies in a Minimally Spatial Model. At Proceedings of the 9th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation (GECCO 2007), London, 07 - 11 Jul 2007. ACM Press, .
2006
Watson, Richard A. (2006) Compositional Evolution: The impact of Sex, Symbiosis and Modularity on the Gradualist Framework of Evolution, MIT Press (Vienna series in theoretical biology, NA)
Dauscher, Peter, Polani, Daniel and Watson, Richard A., Rocha, M., Bedau, M., Floreano, D., Goldstone, R., Vespignani, A. and Yaeger, L. (eds.) (2006) A Simple Modularity Measure for Search Spaces based on Information Theory. Proceedings of Artificial Life X (ALife X)
Mills, Rob and Watson, R. A., Rocha, Luis M., Bedau, Mark, Floreano, Dario, Goldstone, Robert, Vespignani, Alessandro and Yaeger, Larry (eds.) (2006) On Crossing Fitness Valleys with the Baldwin Effect. Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, .
Watson, Richard A., Weinreich, Daniel and Wakeley, John (2006) Effects of intra-gene fitness interactions on the benefit of sexual recombination. Biochemical Society Transactions, 34, (4), .
2005
De Jong, Edwin, Watson, Richard A. and Thierens, Dirk (2005) On the Complexity of Hierarchical Problem Solving. Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2005)
Lenaerts, Tom, Chu, Dominique and Watson, Richard A. (2005) Dynamical Hierarchies. Artificial Life, 11, (4), .
Mills, Rob and Watson, Richard A., Capcarrere, Mathieu S., Freitas, Alex A., Bentley, Peter J., Johnson, Colin G. and Timmis, Jon (eds.) (2005) Genetic Assimilation and Canalisation in the Baldwin Effect. Proceedings of 8th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 2005), LNCS 3, .
Watson, Richard A. (2005) On the Unit of Selection in Sexual Populations. In Advances in Artificial Life, Eighth European Conference (ECAL 2005)
Watson, Richard A. and Pollack, Jordan B. (2005) Modular Interdependency in Complex Dynamical Systems. Artificial Life, 11, (4), .
Watson, Richard A. and Wakeley, John (2005) Multidimensional Epistasis and the Advantage of Sex. Proceedings of the 2005 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2005), 3, .
Weinreich, Daniel M., Watson, Richard A. and Chao, Lin (2005) Perspective:Sign Epistasis and Genetic Constraint on Evolutionary Trajectories. Evolution, 59, (6), .
2004
Pollack, Jordan B., Bedau, Mark, Husbands, Phil, Ikegami, Takashi and Watson, Richard A. (2004) Artificial Life IX: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, MIT Press
Watson, Richard A., Yao, Xin and al, et (eds.) (2004) A Simple Two-Module Problem to Exemplify Building-Block Assembly Under Crossover. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN-VIII), .
2002
Watson, Richard A. and Pollack, Jordan B. (2002) A Computational Model of Symbiotic Composition in Evolutionary Transitions. Biosystems, 69, (2-3), .
Watson, Richard A. (2002) Compositional Evolution: Interdisciplinary Investigations in Evolvability, Modularity, and Symbiosis. Brandeis University, MA. USA, Computer Science, Doctoral Thesis.
Watson, Richard A., Ficici, Sevan G. and Pollack, Jordan B. (2002) Embodied Evolution: Distributing an evolutionary algorithm in a population of robots. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 39, (1), .
2001
Noble, J. and Watson, R. A. (2001) Pareto coevolution: Using performance against coevolved opponents in a game as dimensions for Pareto selection. In, Spector, L., Goodman, E., Wu, A., Langdon, W. B., Voigt, H.-M., Gen, M., Sen, S., Dorigo, M., Pezeshk, S., Garzon, M. and Burke, E. (eds.) Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO-2001. , Morgan Kauffman.
Watson, Richard A. (2001) Analysis of Recombinative Algorithms on a Non-Separable Building-Block Problem. In, Martin, Worthy N. and Spears, William M. (eds.) Foundations of Genetic Algorithms, Volume 6. , Morgan Kaufmann.
Watson, Richard A. and Pollack, Jordan B., Spector, Lee (ed.) (2001) Coevolutionary Dynamics in a Minimal Substrate. Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2001), .
Watson, Richard A. and Pollack, Jordan B., Kelemen, Jozef and Sos, Petr (eds.) (2001) Symbiotic Composition and Evolvability. Proceedings of European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 2001), .
2000
Watson, Richard A., Reil, Torsten and Pollack, Jordan B., Bedau, M., McCaskill, J., Packard, N. and Rasmussen, S. (eds.) (2000) Mutualism, Parasitism, and Evolutionary Adaptation. Proceedings of Artificial Life VII (ALife VII), .
1999
Watson, Richard A. and Pollack, Jordan B., Floreano, Dario, Nicoud, Jean-Daniel and Mondada, Francesco (eds.) (1999) How Symbiosis Can Guide Evolution. Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Advances in Artificial Life (ECAL 1999), .
1998
Watson, Richard A., Hornby, Gregory S. and Pollack, Jordan B., Eiben, A. E., Back, T., Schoenauer, M. and Schweffel, H.-B. (eds.) (1998) Modeling Building Block Interdependency. Proceedings of Parallel Problem Solving from Nature V (PPSN V), .
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