days	readings	discussion leader	additional resources
unit I: overview of artificial life
tue-feb-2	class cancelled due to travel please read for next class: Karl Sims (1994). Evolving Virtual Creatures. Proceedings of SIGGRAPH'94, pp15-22.
tue-feb-9	Karl Sims (1994). Evolving Virtual Creatures. Proceedings of SIGGRAPH'94, p15-22, 1994. Hod Lipson and Jordan Pollack (2000). Automatic design and manufacture of robotic lifeforms. Nature, volume 406.		sklar lecture notes
tue-feb-16	Luc Steels (1995). The Artificial Life Roots of Artificial Intelligence. Artificial Life: An Overview. edited by Christopher G. Langton. publisher: MIT Press, pp75-110. Kyung-Joong Kim and Sung-Bae Cho (2006). A Comprehensive Overview of the Applications of Artificial Life, Journal of Artificial Life 12(1), pp153-182, MIT Press.		sklar slides
unit II: modeling from nature
tue-feb-23	Marco Dorigo, Vittorio Maniezzo and Alberto Colorni (1996). The Ant System: Optimization by a colony of cooperating agents. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics-Part B, volume 26, number 1, pp1-13. Craig W. Reynolds (1987). Flocks, Herds and Schools: A Distributed Behavioral Model. International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Systems, pp25-34.	Kammet
tue-mar-2	This is the paper that I meant to assign: Richard T. Vaughan, Kasper Stoy, Gaurav S. Sukhatme and Maja J. Mataric (2000). Blazing a trail: Insect-inspired resource transportation by a robot team Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS), pp 111-120. Tucker Balch, Zia Khan and Manuela Veloso (2001). Automatically Tracking and Analyzing the Behavior of Live Insect Colonies. Proceedings of AGENTS'01.	Yun	Pattie Maes (1995). Modeling Adaptive Autonomous Agents. Artificial Life: An Overview. edited by Christopher G. Langton. publisher: MIT Press, pp135-162. This was the paper posted originally---an interesting read, but not what i had intented: Barry Brian Werger and Maja Mataric (2000). Broadcast of Local Eligibility for Multi-Target Observation. Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS), pp347-356. This paper is a follow-up on the conversation we had in class about the formula on the 4th page of the Balch/Zhan/Veloso paper: Robert Collins, Alan Lipton, Takeo Kanade, Hironobu Fujiyoshi, David Duggins, Yanghai Tsin, David Tolliver, Nobuyoshi Enomoto, Osamu Hasegawa, Peter Burt and Lambert Wixson (2000). A System for Video Surveillance and Monitoring. Technical Report CMU-RI-TR-00-12, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University.
tue-mar-9	Cynthia Breazeal, Daphna Buchsbaum, Jesse Gray, David Gatenby and Bruce Blumberg (2005). Learning from and about others: towards using imitation to bootstrap the social understanding of others by robots. Artificial Life, volume 11, number 1-2, pp1-32. Madeleine Beekman, Gregory A. Sword, Stephen J. Simpson (2008). Biological Foundations of Swarm Intelligence. Swarm Intelligence: Introduction and Applications, Christian Blum and Daniel Merkle (editors), Springer-Verlag, pp3-41.	Friedman
unit III: artificial life in games and simulations
tue-mar-16	Steve Grand and Dave Cliff (1997). Creatures: Entertainment software agents with artificial life. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, volume 1, number 2. Pablo Funes, Elizabeth Sklar, Hugues Juille and Jordan Pollack (1998). Animal-Animat Coevolution: Using the Animal Population as Fitness Function. From Animals to Animats 5: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, MIT Press, pp525-533.	Wisniewska	Nicholas R. Jennings and Michael Wooldridge (1996). Software Agents. IEE Review volume 42, number 1, pp17-21.
tue-mar-23	Kenneth O. Stanley, Bobby D. Bryant and Risto Miikkulainen (2005). Real-Time Neuroevolution in the NERO Video Game. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation 9(6), pp653-668. Robert Stone, David White, Robert Guest and Benjamin Francis (2009). The Virtual Scylla: an exploration of "serious games", artificial life and simulation complexity. Journal of Virtual Reality 13(1), pp13-25. Springer.	Xu	John E. Laird and Michael van Lent (2001). Human-Level AI's Killer Application: Interactive Computer Games. AI Magazine 22(2), pp15-25.
tue-mar-30	no class (spring break)
tue-apr-6	no class (spring break)
tue-apr-13	NetLogo home page Uri Wilensky (2001). Modeling nature's emergent patterns with multi-agent languages. EuroLogo 2001, Linz, Austria. Elizabeth Sklar (2007). Software Review: NetLogo, a multiagent simulation environment. Journal of Artificial Life, volume 13, number 2, pp303-311. Steven F. Railsback, Steven L. Lytinen and Stephen K. Jackson (2006). Agent-based Simulation Platforms: Review and Development Recommendations. Simulation, volume 82, issue 9, pp609-623.	Rabby	NetLogo models from today's class: stupid.nlogo provoke.nlogo "StupidModel" (from Railsback et al paper) for all platforms: http://condor.depaul.edu/~slytinen/abm/StupidModel/
unit IV: evolutionary computation
tue-apr-20	Melanie Mitchell and Stephanie Forrest (1995). Genetic Algorithms and Artificial Life. Artificial Life: An Overview. edited by Christopher G. Langton. publisher: MIT Press, pp268-289. Melanie Mitchell, Stephanie Forrest, and John Holland (1992). The royal road for genetic algorithms: Fitness landscapes and GA performance. Proceedings of the First European Conference on Artificial Life. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press/Bradford Books.	Chu
tue-apr-27	John R. Koza (1991). Evolution and co-evolution of computer programs to control independently-acting agents. From Animals to Animats. Proceedings of the First International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior. MIT Press. D. B. Fogel, L. J. Fogel and V. W. Porto (1990). Evolving Neural Networks. Biological Cybernetics, volume 63, pp487-493.	Diky
tue-may-4	D. Cliff and G. F. Miller (1995). Tracking the red queen: Measurements of adaptive progress in coevolutionary simulations. Advances in Artificial Life: Proceedings of the Third European Conference on Artificial Life, pp200-218. Jordan B. Pollack and Alan D. Blair (1998). Co-Evolution in the Successful Learning of Backgammon Strategy. Machine Learning, volume 32, number 3, pp225-240.	Osisek
unit V: artificial societies: complexity, organization and self-organization
tue-may-11	class cancelled due to travel (I'll be at AAMAS 2010)
tue-may-18	Stephen Wolfram (1984). Cellular automata as models of complexity. Nature, volume 311, pp419-424. Vito Trianni, Stefano Nolfi and Marco Dorigo (2008). Evolution, Self-organization and Swarm Robotics. Swarm Intelligence: Introduction and Applications, Christian Blum and Daniel Merkle (editors), Springer-Verlag, pp164-191.	Carson	Mitchel Resnick (1994). Learning About Life. Artificial Life Journal, volume 1, number 1-2, pp229-241.
tue-may-25	DOUBLE MAKE-UP CLASS (TIME TBA) Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz, Aristid Lindenmayer and James Hanan (1988). Developmental Models of Herbaceous Plants for Computer Imagery Purposes. Computer Graphics, volume 22, number 4, August, pp141-150. Gregory Hornby and Jordan Pollack (2001). Evolving L-Systems To Generate Virtual Creatures. Computers and Graphics, volume 25, number 6, pp1041-1048. project demonstrations	Byrd