Richard A. Watson

80 papers A* 1A 13B 5C 18Journal 19Unranked 23

Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2024	J	`jnl`	Emergent Collective Reproduction via Evolving Neuronal Flocks. CoRR Nam H. Le, Richard A. Watson, Mike Levin, Chrys Buckley
2024	J	`jnl`	Natural Induction: Spontaneous Adaptive Organisation without Natural Selection. Entropy Christopher L. Buckley, Tim Lewens, Michael Levin, Beren Millidge, Alexander Tschantz, Richard A. Watson
2023	A*	`conf`	On Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in Heterogeneous Causal Graphs. ICML Richard A. Watson, Hengrui Cai, Xinming An, Samuel A. McLean, Rui Song
2023	J	`jnl`	On Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in Heterogeneous Causal Graphs. CoRR Richard A. Watson, Hengrui Cai, Xinming An, Samuel A. McLean, Rui Song
2022	J	`jnl`	Deep Optimisation: Transitioning the Scale of Evolutionary Search by Inducing and Searching in Deep Representations. SN Comput. Sci. Jamie Caldwell, Joshua D. Knowles, Christoph Thies, Filip Kubacki, Richard A. Watson
2021	B	`conf`	Deep Optimisation: Multi-scale Evolution by Inducing and Searching in Deep Representations. EvoApplications Jamie Caldwell, Joshua D. Knowles, Christoph Thies, Filip Kubacki, Richard A. Watson
2020	J	`jnl`	How to fit in: The learning principles of cell differentiation. PLoS Comput. Biol. Miguel Brun-Usan, Christoph Thies, Richard A. Watson
2020	J	`jnl`	The Surprising Creativity of Digital Evolution: A Collection of Anecdotes from the Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life Research Communities. Artif. Life Joel Lehman, Jeff Clune, Dusan Misevic, Christoph Adami, Lee Altenberg, Julie Beaulieu, Peter J. Bentley, Samuel Bernard, Guillaume Beslon, David M. Bryson, Nick Cheney, Patryk Chrabaszcz, Antoine Cully, Stéphane Doncieux, Fred C. Dyer, Kai Olav Ellefsen, Robert Feldt, Stephan Fischer, Stephanie Forrest, Antoine Frénoy, Christian Gagné, Léni K. Le Goff, Laura M. Grabowski, Babak Hodjat, Frank Hutter, Laurent Keller, Carole Knibbe, Peter Krcah, Richard E. Lenski, Hod Lipson, Robert MacCurdy, Carlos Maestre, Risto Miikkulainen, Sara Mitri, David E. Moriarty, Jean-Baptiste Mouret, Anh Nguyen, Charles Ofria, Marc Parizeau, David P. Parsons, Robert T. Pennock, William F. Punch, Thomas S. Ray, Marc Schoenauer, Eric Schulte, Karl Sims, Kenneth O. Stanley, François Taddei, Danesh Tarapore, Simon Thibault, Richard A. Watson, Westley Weimer, Jason Yosinski
2019	J	`jnl`	How adaptive plasticity evolves when selected against. PLoS Comput. Biol. Alfredo Rago, Kostas Kouvaris, Tobias Uller, Richard A. Watson
2018	J	`jnl`	Deep Optimisation: Solving Combinatorial Optimisation Problems using Deep Neural Networks. CoRR J. R. Caldwell, Richard A. Watson, Christoph Thies, Joshua D. Knowles
2018	J	`jnl`	The Surprising Creativity of Digital Evolution: A Collection of Anecdotes from the Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life Research Communities. CoRR Joel Lehman, Jeff Clune, Dusan Misevic, Christoph Adami, Lee Altenberg, Julie Beaulieu, Peter J. Bentley, Samuel Bernard, Guillaume Beslon, David M. Bryson, Patryk Chrabaszcz, Nick Cheney, Antoine Cully, Stéphane Doncieux, Fred C. Dyer, Kai Olav Ellefsen, Robert Feldt, Stephan Fischer, Stephanie Forrest, Antoine Frénoy, Christian Gagné, Leni K. Le Goff, Laura M. Grabowski, Babak Hodjat, Frank Hutter, Laurent Keller, Carole Knibbe, Peter Krcah, Richard E. Lenski, Hod Lipson, Robert MacCurdy, Carlos Maestre, Risto Miikkulainen, Sara Mitri, David E. Moriarty, Jean-Baptiste Mouret, Anh Nguyen, Charles Ofria, Marc Parizeau, David P. Parsons, Robert T. Pennock, William F. Punch, Thomas S. Ray, Marc Schoenauer, Eric Schulte, Karl Sims, Kenneth O. Stanley, François Taddei, Danesh Tarapore, Simon Thibault, Westley Weimer, Richard A. Watson, Jason Yosinski
2017	J	`jnl`	How evolution learns to generalise: Using the principles of learning theory to understand the evolution of developmental organisation. PLoS Comput. Biol. Kostas Kouvaris, Jeff Clune, Loizos Kounios, Markus Brede, Richard A. Watson
2017	—	`conf`	How to get more from your model: the role of constructive selection in estimation of distribution algorithms. GECCO (Companion) J. R. Caldwell, Richard A. Watson
2017	J	`jnl`	Minimally Sufficient Conditions for the Evolution of Social Learning and the Emergence of Non-Genetic Evolutionary Systems. Artif. Life Miguel Gonzalez, Richard A. Watson, Seth Bullock
2015	—	`conf`	The Evolution of Assortment with Multiple Simultaneous Games. ECAL Simon Tudge, Adam Jackson, Richard A. Watson, Markus Brede
2014	C	`conf`	Ecosystem Memory Is Emergent from Local-Level Natural Selection. ALIFE Daniel Power, Eörs Szathmáry, Richard A. Watson
2014	A	`conf`	Inferring and Exploiting Problem Structure with Schema Grammar. PPSN Chris R. Cox, Richard A. Watson
2014	C	`conf`	Pre-Template Metabolic Replicators: Genotype-Phenotype Decoupling as a Route to Evolvability. ALIFE William Hurndall, Richard A. Watson, Markus Brede
2014	A	`conf`	Solving building block problems using generative grammar. GECCO Chris R. Cox, Richard A. Watson
2014	C	`conf`	The Origin of Culture: Selective Conditions for Horizontal Information Transfer. ALIFE Miguel Gonzalez, Richard A. Watson, Jason Noble, Seth Bullock
2014	J	`jnl`	Transforming Evolutionary Search into Higher-Level Evolutionary Search by Capturing Problem Structure. IEEE Trans. Evol. Comput. Rob Mills, Thomas Jansen, Richard A. Watson
2013	—	`conf`	Cooperation and the Division of Labour. ECAL Simon Tudge, Richard A. Watson, Markus Brede
2013	—	`conf`	Multiple Life-History Stage Competition and its Effect on Coexistence. ECAL Miguel Gonzalez, Richard A. Watson, Jason Noble, C. Patrick Doncaster
2013	—	`conf`	The Effects of Assortment on Population Structuring Traits on the Evolution of Cooperation. ECAL Adam Jackson, Richard A. Watson
2012	C	`conf`	Is Evolution by Natural Selection the Algorithm of Biological Evolution? ALIFE Richard A. Watson
2012	J	`jnl`	The concurrent evolution of cooperation and the population structures that support it CoRR Simon T. Powers, Alexandra S. Penn, Richard A. Watson
2011	J	`jnl`	"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. Artif. Life Adam P. Davies, Richard A. Watson, Rob Mills, Christopher L. Buckley, Jason Noble
2011	J	`jnl`	Global Adaptation in Networks of Selfish Components: Emergent Associative Memory at the System Scale. Artif. Life Richard A. Watson, Rob Mills, Christopher L. Buckley
2011	—	`conf`	How to measure group selection in real-world populations. ECAL Simon T. Powers, Christopher Heys, Richard A. Watson
2011	J	`jnl`	Optimization in "self-modeling" complex adaptive systems. Complex. Richard A. Watson, Christopher L. Buckley, Rob Mills
2011	—	`conf`	The web as an adaptive network: coevolution of web behavior and web structure. WebSci Connor McCabe, Richard A. Watson, Jane Prichard, Wendy Hall
2011	—	`conf`	Transformations and multi-scale optimisation in biological adaptive networks. ECAL Richard A. Watson, Rob Mills, Christopher L. Buckley
2011	J	`jnl`	Transformations in the scale of behavior and the global optimization of constraints in adaptive networks. Adapt. Behav. Richard A. Watson, Rob Mills, Christopher L. Buckley
2010	C	`conf`	Adaptation without Natural Selection. ALIFE Richard A. Watson, Rob Mills, Christopher L. Buckley, Simon T. Powers, Alexandra S. Penn, Adam P. Davies, Jason Noble, Seth Bullock
2010	C	`conf`	Associative Memory in Gene Regulation Networks. ALIFE Richard A. Watson, Christopher L. Buckley, Rob Mills, Adam P. Davies
2010	—	`conf`	Coevolutionary Dynamics of Interacting Species. EvoApplications (1) Marc Ebner, Richard A. Watson, Jason Alexander
2010	C	`conf`	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. ALIFE Adam P. Davies, Richard A. Watson, Rob Mills, Christopher L. Buckley, Jason Noble
2010	C	`ed.`	Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, ALIFE 2008, Winchester, United Kingdom, August 5-8, 2008 ALIFE Seth Bullock, Jason Noble, Richard A. Watson, Mark A. Bedau
2010	C	`conf`	Selection Pressures for a Theory-of-Mind Faculty in Artificial Agents. ALIFE Jason Noble, Tom Hebbron, Johannes van der Horst, Rob Mills, Simon T. Powers, Richard A. Watson
2010	C	`conf`	Systems Aikido - A Novel Approach to Managing Natural Systems. ALIFE Alexandra S. Penn, Richard A. Watson, Alexander Kraaijeveld, Jeremy Webb
2009	—	`conf`	Can Selfish Symbioses Effect Higher-Level Selection? ECAL (2) Richard A. Watson, Niclas Palmius, Rob Mills, Simon T. Powers, Alexandra S. Penn
2009	—	`conf`	Evolution of Individual Group Size Preference Can Increase Group-Level Selection and Cooperation. ECAL (2) Simon T. Powers, Richard A. Watson
2009	—	`conf`	Moderate Contact between Sub-populations Promotes Evolved Assortativity Enabling Group Selection. ECAL (2) James R. Snowdon, Simon T. Powers, Richard A. Watson
2009	—	`conf`	Symbiosis Enables the Evolution of Rare Complexes in Structured Environments. ECAL (2) Rob Mills, Richard A. Watson
2008	C	`conf`	Adaptive units of selection can evolve complexes that are provably unevolvable under fixed units of selection. ALIFE Rob Mills, Richard A. Watson
2008	C	`conf`	Can individual selection favour significant higher-level selection? ALIFE Richard A. Watson, Rob Mills, Alexandra S. Penn, Simon T. Powers
2008	C	`conf`	How epigenetic evolution can guide genetic evolution. ALIFE Graeme Groom, Rob Mills, Richard A. Watson
2008	C	`conf`	Mechanisms for the initiation of multicellularity in bacterial biofilms. ALIFE Alexandra S. Penn, Richard A. Watson, Simon T. Powers, Jeremy Webb, Alexander Kraaijeveld, Tim Conibear, Zoe Bigg
2008	C	`conf`	Solving the division of labour problem using stigmergy and evolved heterogeneity. ALIFE Emyr James, Jason Noble, Richard A. Watson
2008	C	`conf`	The Efficacy of Group Selection is Increased by Coexistence Dynamics within Groups. ALIFE Simon T. Powers, Alexandra S. Penn, Richard A. Watson
2008	C	`conf`	The group selection debate and ALife - weak altruism, strong altruism, and inclusive fitness. ALIFE Simon T. Powers, Richard A. Watson
2007	A	`conf`	A building-block royal road where crossover is provably essential. GECCO Richard A. Watson, Thomas Jansen
2007	—	`conf`	Individual Selection for Cooperative Group Formation. ECAL Simon T. Powers, Alexandra S. Penn, Richard A. Watson
2007	—	`conf`	Investigating the Evolution of Cooperative Behaviour in a Minimally Spatial Model. ECAL Simon T. Powers, Richard A. Watson
2007	A	`conf`	Preliminary investigations into the evolution of cooperative strategies in a minimally spatial model. GECCO Simon T. Powers, Richard A. Watson
2007	—	`conf`	Symbiosis, Synergy and Modularity: Introducing the Reciprocal Synergy Symbiosis Algorithm. ECAL Rob Mills, Richard A. Watson
2007	A	`conf`	Variable discrimination of crossover versus mutation using parameterized modular structure. GECCO Rob Mills, Richard A. Watson
2006	—	`book`	Compositional Evolution - The Impact of Sex, Symbiosis, and Modularity on the Gradualist Framework of Evolution. Richard A. Watson
2005	—	`conf`	A generator for hierarchical problems. GECCO Workshops Edwin D. de Jong, Richard A. Watson, Dirk Thierens
2005	—	`conf`	Genetic Assimilation and Canalisation in the Baldwin Effect. ECAL Rob Mills, Richard A. Watson
2005	J	`jnl`	Modular Interdependency in Complex Dynamical Systems. Artif. Life Richard A. Watson, Jordan B. Pollack
2005	B	`conf`	Multidimensional epistasis and the advantage of sex. Congress on Evolutionary Computation Richard A. Watson, John Wakeley
2005	—	`conf`	On the Complexity of Hierarchical Problem Solving. BNAIC Edwin D. de Jong, Richard A. Watson, Dirk Thierens
2005	—	`conf`	On the Unit of Selection in Sexual Populations. ECAL Richard A. Watson
2005	A	`conf`	On the complexity of hierarchical problem solving. GECCO Edwin D. de Jong, Richard A. Watson, Dirk Thierens
2004	A	`conf`	A Simple Two-Module Problem to Exemplify Building-Block Assembly Under Crossover. PPSN Richard A. Watson
2004	A	`conf`	Hierarchical Genetic Algorithms. PPSN Edwin D. de Jong, Dirk Thierens, Richard A. Watson
2002	J	`jnl`	Embodied Evolution: Distributing an evolutionary algorithm in a population of robots. Robotics Auton. Syst. Richard A. Watson, Sevan G. Ficici, Jordan B. Pollack
2002	A	`conf`	On the Utility of Redundant Encodings in Mutation-Based Evolutionary Search. PPSN Joshua D. Knowles, Richard A. Watson
2001	C	`conf`	Reducing Local Optima in Single-Objective Problems by Multi-objectivization. EMO Joshua D. Knowles, Richard A. Watson, David Corne
2001	—	`conf`	Symbiotic Composition and Evolvability. ECAL Richard A. Watson, Jordan B. Pollack
2000	A	`conf`	Analysis of recombinative algorithms on a non-separable building-block problem. FOGA Richard A. Watson
2000	B	`conf`	Co-evolutionary dynamics on a deformable landscape. CEC Marc Ebner, Richard A. Watson, Jason Alexander
2000	—	`conf`	Evolutionary Techniques in Physical Robotics. ICES Jordan B. Pollack, Hod Lipson, Sevan G. Ficici, Pablo Funes, Gregory Hornby, Richard A. Watson
2000	A	`conf`	Recombination Without Respect: Schema Combination and Disruption in Genetic Algorithm Grossover. GECCO Richard A. Watson, Jordan B. Pollack
2000	A	`conf`	Symbiotic Combination as an Alternative to Sexual Recombination in Genetic Algorithms. PPSN Richard A. Watson, Jordan B. Pollack
1999	B	`conf`	Embodied evolution: embodying an evolutionary algorithm in a population of robots. CEC Richard A. Watson, Sevan G. Ficiei, Jordan B. Pollack
1999	B	`conf`	Hierarchically consistent test problems for genetic algorithms. CEC Richard A. Watson, Jordan B. Pollack
1999	—	`conf`	How Symbiosis Can Guide Evolution. ECAL Richard A. Watson, Jordan B. Pollack
1998	A	`conf`	Modeling Building-Block Interdependency. PPSN Richard A. Watson, Gregory Hornby, Jordan B. Pollack