| | Preface |
| | The Animat Approach to Adaptive Behavior |
| 1 | | From SAB90 to SAB94: Four Years of Animat Research
by Jean-Arcady Meyer and Agnès Guillot |
| 2 | | Mechanism and Process in Animal Behavior: Models of
Animals, Animals as Models
by Herbert L. Roitblat |
| 3 | | Coherent Behavior from Many Adaptive Processes
by Rodney A. Brooks |
| 4 | | Stability in Adaptation and Learning
by Jean-Jacques E. Slotine |
| | Perception and Motor Control |
| 5 | | Modeling the Role of Cerebellum in Prism Adaptation
by Michael A. Arbib, Nicolas Schweighofer and W. T. Thach |
| 6 | | Robotic Experiments in Cricket Phonotaxis
by Barbara Webb |
| 7 | | How to Watch Your Step: Biological Evidence and an Initial
Model
by Patrick R. Green |
| 8 | | On Why Better Robots Make it Harder
by Tim Smithers |
| 9 | | Insect Vision and Olfaction: Different Neural Architectures
for Different Kinds of Sensory Signal?
by d. Osorio, Wayne M. Getz and Jürgen Rybak |
| 10 | | The Interval Reduction Strategy for Monitoring Cupcake
Problems
by Paul R. Cohen, Marc S. Atkin and Eric A. Hansen |
| 11 | | Visual Control of Altitude and Speed in a Flying
Agent
by Fabrizio Mura and Nicolas Franceschini |
| | Action Selection and Behavioral Sequences |
| 12 | | What Is Cognitive and What Is Not
Cognitive?
by Frederick Toates |
| 13 | | Action-Selection in Hamsterdam: Lessons from
Ethology
by Bruce Blumberg |
| 14 | | Behavioral Dynamics of Escape and Avoidance: A Neural
Network Approach
by Nestor A. Schmajuk |
| 15 | | Organizing an Animat's Behavioural Repertoires Using
Kohonen Feature Maps
by Nigel Ball |
| 16 | | Action Selection for Robots in Dynamic Environments through
Inter-behaviour Bidding
by Michael K. Sahota |
| | Motivation and Emotion |
| 17 | | An Hierarchical Classifier System Implementing a
Motivationally Autonomous Animat
by Jean-Yves Donnart and Jean-Arcady Meyer |
| 18 | | Using Second Order Neural Connections for Motivation of
Behavioral Choices
by Gregory M. Werner |
| | Internal World Models and Cognitive Processes |
| 19 | | Spatial Learning and Representation in Animats
by Tony J. Prescott |
| 20 | | Location Recognition in Rats and Robots
by William D. Smart and John Hallam |
| 21 | | Emergent Functionality in Human Infants
by Julie C. Rutkowska |
| 22 | | Connectionist Environment Modelling in a Real Robot
by William Chesters and Gillian Hayes |
| 23 | | A Hybrid Architecture for Learning Continuous Environmental
Models in Maze Problems
by A. G. Pipe, T. C. Fogarty and A. Winfield |
| 24 | | A Place Navigation Algorithm Based on Elementary Computing
Procedures and Associative Memories
by Simon Benhamou, Pierre Bovet and Bruno Poucet |
| 25 | | Self-Organizing Topographic Maps and Motor Planning
by Pietro Morasso and Vittorio Sanguineti |
| 26 | | The Effect of Memory Length on the Foraging Behavior of a
Lizard
by Sharoni Shafir and Jonathan Roughgarden |
| | Characterization of Environments |
| 27 | | The Blind Breeding the Blind: Adaptive Behavior without
Looking
by Peter M. Todd, Stewart W. Wilson, Anil B. Somayaji and
Holly A. Yanco |
| 28 | | Memoryless Policies: Theoretical Limitations and Practical
Results
by Michael L. Littman |
| | Learning |
| 29 | | A Comparison of Q-Learning and Classifier Systems
by Marco Dorigo and Hugues Bersini |
| 30 | | Paying Attention to What's Important: Using Focus of
Attention to Improve Unsupervised Learning
by Leonard N. Foner and Pattie Maes |
| 31 | | Learning Efficient Reactive Behavioral Sequences from Basic
Reflexes in a Goal-Directed Autonomous Robot
by José del R. Millá |
| 32 | | The Importance of Leaky Levels for Behavior-Based
AI
by Gregory M. Saunders, John F. Kolen and Jordan
B. Pollack |
| 33 | | A Topological Neural Map for On-line Learning: Emergence of
Obstacle Avoidance in a Mobile Robot
by Philippe Gaussier and Stephane Zrehen |
| 34 | | Reinforcement Tuning of Action Synthesis and Selection in a
'Virtual Frog'
by Simon Giszter |
| 35 | | Achieving Rapid Adaptations in Robots by Means of External
Tuition
by Ulrich Nehmzow and Brendan McGonigle |
| 36 | | Two-Link-Robot Brachiation with Connectionist
Q-Learning
by Fuminori Saito and Toshio Fukuda |
| 37 | | An Architecture for Learning to Behave
by Ahsley M. Aitken |
| 38 | | Reinforcement Learning for Homeostatic Endogenous
Variables
by Hugues Bersini |
| 39 | | An Architecture for Representing and Learning Behaviors by
Trial and Error
by Pascal Blanchet |
| 40 | | A Distributed Adaptive Control System for a Quadruped
Mobile Robot
by Bruce L. Digney and M. M. Gupta |
| 41 | | Reinforcement Learning with Dynamic Covering of
State-Action Space: Partitioning Q-Learning
by Rémi Munos and Jocelyn Patinel |
| 42 | | The Five Neuron Trick: Using Classical Conditioning to
Learn How to Seek Light
by Tom Scutt |
| 43 | | Adaptation in Dynamic Environments through a Minimal
Probability of Exploration
by Gilles Venturini |
| | Evolution |
| 44 | | Integrating Reactive, Sequential, and Learning Behavior
Using Dynamical Neural Networks
by Brian Yamauchi and Randall Beer |
| 45 | | Seeing The Light: Artificial Evolution, Real Vision
by Inman Harvey, Phil Husbands and Dave Cliff |
| 46 | | Evolution of Corridor Following Behavior in a Noisy
World
by Craig W. Reynolds |
| 47 | | Protean Behavior in Dynamic Games: Arguments for the
Co-Evolution of Pursuit-Evasion Tactics
by Geoffrey F. Miller and Dave Cliff |
| 48 | | Automatic Creation of an Autonomous Agent: Genetic
Evolution of a Neural-Network Driven Robot
by Dario Floreano and Francesco Mondada |
| 49 | | The Effect of Parasitism on the Evolution of a
Communication Protocol in an Artificial Life Simulation
by Phil Robbins |
| | Collective Behavior |
| 50 | | Towards Robot Cooperation
by David McFarland |
| 51 | | A Case Study in the Behavior-Oriented Design of Autonomous
Agents
by Luc Steels |
| 52 | | Learning to Behave Socially
by Maja J. Mataric |
| 53 | | Signalling and Territorial Aggression: An Investigation by
Means of Synthetic Behavioural Ecology
by Peter de Bourcier and Michael Wheeler |
| 54 | | Integration of Reactive and Telerobotic Control in
Multi-agent Robotic Systems
by Ronald C. Arkin and Khaled S. Ali |
| 55 | | MINIMEME: Of Life and Death in the Noosphere
by Stéphane Bura |
| 56 | | Learning Coordinated Motions in a Competition for Food
between Ant Colonies
by Masao Kubo and Yukinori Kakazu |
| | Applied Adaptive Behavior |
| 57 | | Emergent Colonization and Graph Partitioning
by Pascale Kuntz and Dominique Snyers |
| 58 | | Diversity and Adaptation in Populations of Clustering
Ants
by Erik D. Lumer and Baldo Faieta |
| | Author Index |