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Ezequiel A. Di Paolo

Reader in Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems

Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics (CCNR)
Centre for Research in Cognitive Science (COGS)
Department of Informatics
University of Sussex
Brighton, BN1 9QH, UK

Tel: (+44) 1273 877763
Fax: (+44) 1273 877873
E-mail: ezequiel (AT) sussex.ac.uk


NEWS

  • I'm the new Editor-in-Chief of the journal Adaptive Behavior after Peter Todd decided to step down following 7 years of tremendous steering. More news to come soon.

  • Di Paolo, E. A. (forthcoming) Extended life Topoi. Final draft.

  • Di Paolo, E. A. (2009) Overcoming autopoiesis: a enactive detour on the way from life to society. In Magalhaes, R., and Sanchez, R. (Eds) Autopoiesis in Organizations and Information Systems, Elsevier.

  • Grespan, L., Froese, T., Di Paolo, E. A., Seth, A. K., Spiers, A., and Bigge, W. (2008). Investigating the role of movement in the constitution of spatial perception using the Enactive Torch. Enactive08 5th International Conference on Enactive Interfaces, 19 - 21 November, Pisa, Italy.

  • Research pages are now (finally) undergoing a major update.

  • I have co-organized a Workshop on Agency in Artificial and Natural Systems (with Takashi Ikegami, Jun Tani and Marieke Rohde), 11-12 July, 2008, Kyoto, Japan, and a Workshop on Enactive Approaches to Social Cognition (with Steve Torrance, Hanne De Jaegher and Tom Froese), 31 August - 1 September, Battle, UK.

  • Egbert, M. and Di Paolo, E. A.(2008). Mechanisms of adaptation to periodic environmental change. Epigenetics Robotics 2008, July 30 - 31, Brighton, UK.

  • Di Paolo, E. A.(2008). Life in time: The missing temporal dimension in autopoiesis (Abstract). In S. Bullock, J. Noble, R. A. Watson, and M. A. Bedau (Eds.) Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Artificial Life, Alife XI, Winchester, UK, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

  • Rohde, M. and Di Paolo, E. A.(2008). Evolutionary robotics models in the interdisciplinary study of embodied time perception (Abstract). In S. Bullock, J. Noble, R. A. Watson, and M. A. Bedau (Eds.) Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Artificial Life, Alife XI, Winchester, UK, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

  • Barandiaran, X. and Di Paolo, E. A.(2008). Artificial mental life (Abstract). In S. Bullock, J. Noble, R. A. Watson, and M. A. Bedau (Eds.) Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Artificial Life, Alife XI, Winchester, UK, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

  • Vargas, P., Di Paolo, E. A. and Husbands, P. (2008). A study of GasNets spatial embedding in a delayed response task. In S. Bullock, J. Noble, R. A. Watson, and M. A. Bedau (Eds.) Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Artificial Life, Alife XI, Winchester, UK, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

  • Di Paolo, E. A. (2008) A mind of many. Commentary on target article by E. von Glasersfeld. Constructivist Foundations, 3(2): 89 - 91.

  • Vickerstaff, R. and Di Paolo, E. A. (2008) Regarding compass response functions for modeling path integration. Adaptive Behavior 16(4):275-276.

  • Buckley, C., Fine, P. Bullock, S. and Di Paolo, E. A. (2008). Monostable controllers for adaptive behaviour. In From Animats to Animals 10, The Tenth International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, Osaka, Japan, July 7-10, 2008.

  • Fernandez-Leon, J. and Di Paolo, E. A. (2008). Neural noise induces the evolution of robust behaviour by avoiding non-functional bifurcations. In From Animats to Animals 10, The Tenth International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, Osaka, Japan, July 7-10, 2008.

  • Froese, T. and Di Paolo, E. A. (2008). Stability of coordination requires mutuality of interaction in a model of embodied agents. In From Animats to Animals 10, The Tenth International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, Osaka, Japan, July 7-10, 2008.

  • Iizuka, H. and Di Paolo, E. A. (2008). Extended homeostatic adaptation: Improving the link between internal and behavioural stability. In From Animats to Animals 10, The Tenth International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, Osaka, Japan, July 7-10, 2008.

  • Rohde, M. and Di Paolo, E. A. (2008). Embodiment and perceptual crossing in 2D: A comparative evolutionary robotics study. In From Animats to Animals 10, The Tenth International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, Osaka, Japan, July 7-10, 2008.

  • Froese, T. and Di Paolo, E. A. (2008). An enactive approach to social cognition: Detection of social contingency or stability of interaction dynamics? In euCognition Fourth Six-Monthly Meeting, 10-11 January 2008, Venice. (Winner of best paper competition).

  • Hu, X-B., Di Paolo E. A. and Barnett, L. (2008). Ripple-spreading model and genetic algorithm for random complex networks: Preliminary study. In The World Congress on Computer Intelligence (WCCI2008), Hong Kong, China, 01-06 June 2008.

  • Hu, X., Di Paolo, E. A. and S. F. Wu (2008) A comprehensive fuzzy-rule-based self-adaptive genetic algorithm Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics, 1(1):94:109.

  • De Jaegher, H. and Di Paolo, E. A. (2008) Making sense in participation: An enactive approach to social cognition. In F. Morganti, A. Carassa, and G. Riva (eds) Enacting Intersubjectivity: A cognitive and social perspective to the study of interactions, IOS Press: Amsterdam, in press.

  • McDonald-Gibson, J., Dyke, J., Di Paolo, E. A., and Harvey, I. (2008) Environmental regulation can arise under minimal assumptions. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 251(4):653 - 666.

  • Hu, X., and Di Paolo, E. A. (2009) An Efficient Genetic Algorithm with Uniform Crossover for Air Traffic Control. Computers and Operations Research, 36, 245-259.

  • Hu, X., and Di Paolo, E. A. (2008) Binary representation based genetic algorithm for aircraft arrival sequencing and scheduling. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 9, 301-310.

  • Di Paolo, E. A., Rohde, M. and De Jaegher, H., (2008) Horizons for the Enactive Mind: Values, Social Interaction, and Play. In J. Stewart, O. Gapenne and E. A. Di Paolo (eds), Enaction: Towards a New Paradigm for Cognitive Science, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

  • Di Paolo, E. A., and Iizuka, H., (2008) How (not) to model autonomous behaviour BioSystems, 91: 409 - 423, Special issue on Modelling Autonomy.

  • Di Paolo, E. A., Rohde, M. and Iizuka, H. (2008) Sensitivity to social contingency or stability of interaction? Modelling the dynamics of perceptual crossing New Ideas in Psychology , 26: 278 - 294, Special issue on Dynamics and Psychology.

  • Bird, J., and Di Paolo, E. A., (2008) Gordon Pask and his maverick machines. In P. Husbands, M. Wheeler, O. Holland (eds), The Mechanization of Mind in History, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

  • Hu, X., and Di Paolo, E. A. (2008). An efficient genetic algorithm with uniform crossover for the multi-objective airport gate assignment problem, in K. C. Tan, C. K. Goh and Y. S. Ong (eds) Multi-Objective Memetic Algorithms, Springer-Verlag, in press.

  • Hu, X., and Di Paolo, E. A. (2008). Genetic algorithms for the airport gate assignment problem: Linkage, representation and uniform crossover in Y.P. Chen and M.H. Lim (eds) Linkage in Evolutionary Computation, Springer-Verlag, in press.