rule 110 : projects

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suggested projects

If you have an exciting project idea and you still need collaborators, just tell us upon registration and we will promote your project here. In case you haven't decided upon a special project yet, you may also join one of the projects after registration.

evolution and love
	*research question* how do memes and genes interact? does love make sense in terms of evolution? *project aim* we will consider different scientific models of love both as emotion [47] and as a story or meme [3]. in the simulation we'll try to model global effects of different mating patterns (monogamy, polygamy, loyalty etc.) but also the interaction of different 'love memes' and how they affect courtship, relationships and the upbringing of decendants. we are expecting to observe an interesting coevolution of the natural and cultural aspects of love [48] *recommended literature* love, sex and evolution [1], [2], [3] mating strategies [4], [5], [6] memetics [7], [8], [9] *related articles* simulation of memetic diffusion and evolution (Lindblad, Görnerup, Bigot) the role of mate choice in biocomputation: sexual selection as a process of search, optimization, and diversification (Miller) *online information* the psychology of love: Introduction (column at about.com) links on evolutionary theory and memetics (principia cybernetica web) theories of love (Kree's private homepage) *organisations and journals* journal of memetics - evolutionary models of information transmission international association for relationship research
dormancy and sleeping cycles
	research question what determines the sleeping patterns of animals? how do competition and predator-prey relationships affect them? *project aim* we want to simulate how competition of species yields 'niching in time' [46], observe different strategies like migration and hibernation, and find out which sleeping patterns occur in predator-prey systems. the evolution of dormancy strategies in plants under extreme environmental conditions is also worth exploration. *recommended literature* temporal dynamics of biological systems [10], [11], [12] chronobiology [13], [14] sleep [15], [16], hibernation [17], [18], and dormancy [19], [20] *related articles* artificial organisms that sleep (Mirolli, Parisi) plantworld: the evolution of plant dormancy in contrasting environments (Bentley) the nature of niching: genetic algorithms and the evolution of optimal, cooperative populations (Horn) *online information* das geheimnis des schlafs by A. Borbely (german only) how much do animals sleep *organisations and journals* european sleep research society international hibernation society
agents and small worlds
	*research question* how can agent systems establish a small world structure? which general properties are necessary for this achievement? *project aim* the aim of this project is to study networks emerging from agent systems and to derive a general concept on how to control their general network properties. It's also interesting to analyze how the network structure affects the agent system in return. (i.e. impact of a small world network on the flow of information in an agent system). *recommended literature* small worlds, graphs and networks [21], [22], [23], [24] random graphs, graph theory [25], [26], [27] graph rewriting [28], [29], [30] *related articles* emerging small-world referral networks in evolutionary labor markets (Tassier, Menczer) collective dynamics of small-world networks (Watts, Strogatz) network motifs: simple building blocks of complex networks (Alon et al.) *online information* the small world project links on multi agent sytems (aiii) graph transformation home *organisations and journals* center for computational analysis of social and organizational systems agentbased computational economics: growing societies from the bottom up
pattern formation and perception
	research question how can we design gene mappings that allow for the efficient evolution of arbitrary patterns/shapes/images? what can we learn from developmental biology and image compression techniques? how can we define fitness in terms of visual perception? *project aim* we will experiment with different gene mappings to produce interesting patterns. we may also try to model a predator-prey system, where the predators evolve some kind of perceptional grammar to spot their prey, while the prey species develops a mimicry pattern. by providing a background image of our choice we can force the prey to imitate arbitrary patterns! *recommended literature* pattern formation in nature [31], [32], [33] simulating natural growth of shape and pattern [34], [35], [36] evolutionary design [37], [38], [39] developmental biology [40], [41] shape perception and generation [42], [43], [44], [45] *articles on shape growth* evolving developmental programs for adaptation morphogenesis and self-repair (Miller) three ways to grow designs: A Comparison of Evolved Embryogenies for a Design Problem (Bentley) evolving morphologies of simulated 3d organisms based on differential gene expression (Eggenberger) the cell programming language (Agarwal) artificial embryology: the genetic programming of cellular differenciation (DeGaris) *articles on shape representation and perception* skeletal design of natural forms (Bloomenthal) a survey of shape analysis techniques (Loncaric) laws of organisation of perceptual forms (Wertheimer) visual predators select for crypticity and polymorphism in virtual prey (Bond, Kamil) *online information* structural information theory gestalt theory blue jays and virtual evolution *organisations and journals* society for developmental biology society for gestalt theory and its applications

recommended literature

(prices as of january 15th 2004)

*love, sex and evolution*
[1]		The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature Matt Ridley Perennial 2003, Penguin Books 1994
		10.47$ 16,21€
[2]		The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature Geoffrey Miller Anchor 2001
		10.50$ 13.20€
[3]		Love is a Story: A New Theory of Relationships Robert J. Steinberg Oxford University Press, 1998
		21.50$ 15.65€
*mating strategies*
[4]		The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating David M. Buss Basic Books 2003
		12.25$ 15.41€
[5]		Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray Helen Fisher Ballantine Books 1994
		11.16$ 10.71€*
[6]		Human Family Systems: An Evolutionary View Pierre L. van den Berghe Waveland Press 1990
		19.95$
*memetics*
[7]		Sense and Nonsense: Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behaviour Kevin N. Laland, Gillian R. Brown Oxford Press 2002
		29.95$ 29.20€
[8]		The Meme Machine Susan Blackmore Oxford Paperbacks 2000
		11.17$ 12.97€
[9]		The Selfish Gene Richard Dawkins Oxford Paperbacks 1990
		10.47$ 14.59€
*temporal dynamics of biological systems*
[10]		Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order Steven Strogatz Theia 2003
		$17.47 21.97€
[11]		The Geometry of Biological Time Arthur T. Winfree Springer Verlag 2001
		81.67$ 79.19€
[12]		From Clocks to Chaos: The Rhythms of Life Leon Glass, Michael C. MacKey Princeton Univ Press 1999
		28.95$*
*chronobiology*
[13]		The Living Clock: The Orchestrator of Biological Rhythms John D. Palmer Oxford Paperbacks 1990
		26.00$ 27.57€
[14]		Chronobiology: Biological Timekeeping Jay C. Dunlap, Jennifer J. Loros, Patricia J. Decoursey; Oxford Paperbacks 1990
		74.95$ 65.99€
*sleep*
[15]		Sleep and Rest in Animals Corine Lacrampe Oxford Paperbacks 1990
		17.47$ 21.97€
[16]		Ways Animals Sleep Suzanne Venino National Geographic Society 1983
		4.00$
*hibernation*
[17]		Life in the Cold: Eleventh International Hibernation Symposium Gerhard Heldmaier, M. Klingenspor Springer Verlag 2000
		149.00$ 187.20€
[18]		Winter: An ecological Handbook James C. Halfpenny, Roy Douglas Ozanne, Elizabeth Biesiot Johnson Books 1989
		11.87$
*dormancy*
[19]		Survival Strategies of Annual Desert Plants J. L. Cloudsley-Thimpson, Yitzchak Gutterman Springer 2002
		179.00$ 170.13€
[20]		Seeds: Ecology, Biogeography, and Evolution of Dormancy and Germination Carol Baskin, Jerry Baskin Academic Press 2001
		66.95$ 58.95€
*small worlds, graphs and networks*
[21]		Small Worlds: The Dynamics of Networks between Order and Randomness Duncan J. Watts Princton University Press 2003
		24.95$ 21.97€
[22]		Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age Duncan J. Watts W. W. Norton & Company 2003
		$27.95$ 24.61€
[23]		Evolution of Networks From Biological Nets to the Internet and Www J. F. F. Mendes, Serguei N. Dorogovtsev, A. F. Ioffe Wiley-Vch 2003
		$95.00 83.64€
[24]		Handbook of Graphs and Networks: From the Genome to the Internet Stefan Bornholdt, Heinz Georg Schuster Wiley-Vch 2002
		$105.00 99.00€
*random graphs, graph theory*
[25]		Random Graphs Bella Bollobas Cambridge University Press 2001
		47.00$ 39.62€
[26]		Modern Graph Theory Bella Bollobas Springer-Verlag 1998
		40.64$
[27]		Graphical Evolution an Introduction to the Theory of Random Graphs (Wiley Series in Discrete Mathematics) Edgar.M.Palmer Krieger Publishing Company 1985
		37.00$
*graph grammars, graph transformation*
[28]		Handbook of Grammars and Computing by Graph Transformation Grzegorz Rozenberg World Scientific Publishing Company 1997
		103.00$
[29]		Graph Grammars and Their Application to Computer Science (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1073) Janice Cuny, Hartmut Ehrig, Gregor Engels, Grzegorz Rozenberg Springer-Verlag 1996
		98.00$ 68.48€
[30]		Graph-Grammars and Their Application to Computer Science and Biology (Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 73) V. Claus, H. Ehrig, G. Rozenberg Springer-Verlag 1978
		59.92€
*pattern formation in nature*
[31]		The Self-Made Tapestry: Pattern Formation in Nature Philip Ball Oxford Press 2001
		13.97$ 17.57€
[32]		On Growth and Form: Spatio-temporal Pattern Formation in Biology M. A. J. Chaplain, G. D. Singh, J. C. McLachlan John Wiley & Sons 2000
		175.00$ 162.26€
[33]		Pattern Formation in the Physical and Biological Sciences H. Frederik Nijhout, Lynn Nadel Westview Press 1997
		$34.38
*simulating natural growth of shape and pattern*
[34]		The Algorithmic Beauty of Sea Shells Hans Meinhardt, D. R. Fowler, P. Prusinkiewicz Springer 2003
		49.95$ 53.45€
[35]		The Algorithmic Beauty of Seaweeds, Sponges and Corals Jaap A. Kaandorp, Janet E. Kubler Springer Verlag 2001
		54.95$ 58.80€
[36]		The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz, Aristid Lindenmayer Springer Verlag 2001
		53.45€
*evolutionary design*
[37]		On Growth, Form and Computers Sanjeev Kumar, Peter J. Bentley Academic Press2003
		99.95$ 88.00€
[38]		Creative Evolutionary Systems David Corne, Peter Bentley Morgan Kaufmann 2001
		69.95$ 61.59€
[39]		Evolutionary Design by Computers Peter Bentley Morgan Kaufmann 1999
		64.95$ 57.18€
*developmental biology*
[40]		Developmental Biology Scott F. Gilbert Sinauer Associates 2003
		107.95$ 61.65€
[41]		Principles of Development Lewis Wolpert et alter Oxford University Press 2002
		99.95$ 53.54€
*shape perception and generation*
[42]		Geometric Programming for Computer-Aided Design Alberto Paoluzzi, Valerio Pascucci, Michele Vicentino, Claudio Baldazzi John Wiley & Sons 2003
		115.00$ 101.24€
[43]		A Generative Theory of Shape Michael Leyton Oxford University Press 2002
		61.95$ 52,43€
[44]		Pattern Formation in Biology, Vision and Dynamics Alessandra Carbone, Mikhael Gromov, Przemsylaw Prusinkiewicz World Scientific Publishing Company 2000
		111.00$
[45]		Introduction to Implicit Surfaces Jules Bloomenthal Morgan Kaufmann Publishers 1997
		73.95$ 65,11€
*miscellaneous*
[46]		Niche Construction: The Neglected Process in Evolution F. John Odling-Smee, Kevin N. Laland, Marcus W. Feldman Princeton University Press 2003
		39.50$ 52.78€
[47]		Emotions and Life: Perspectives from Psychology, Biology, and Evolution Robert Plutchik American Psychological Association, 2002
		$41.97 52.78€
[48]		Coevolution: Genes, Culture, and Human Diversity William H. Durham Stanford University Press 1992
		32.95$ 29.01€

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