Note: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 2801 -- Advances in Artificial Life -- Copyright -- Preface -- Organization -- Table of Contents -- A Universal Framework for Self-Replication -- Generic Properties of Chemical Networks: Artificial Chemistry Based on Graph Rewriting -- How to Program Artificial Chemistries -- Artificial Life as an Aid to Astrobiology: Testing Life Seeking Techniques -- Molecularly Accessible Permutations -- Simulating Evolution's First Steps -- Cellular Evolution in a 3D Lattice Artificial Chemistry -- Evolution of Rewriting Rule Sets Using String-Based Tierra -- Models for the Conservation of Genetic Information with String-Based Artificial Chemistry -- Interaction Based Evolution of Self-Replicating Loop Structures -- Architectural Design for the Survival Optimization of Panicking Fleeing Victims -- Meta-evolutionary Game Dynamics for Mathematical Modelling of Rules Dynamics -- Preventing Bluff Agent Invasions in Honest Societies -- Effects of Group Composition and Level of Selection in the Evolution of Cooperation in Artificial Ants -- Effects of Learning to Interact on the Evolution of Social Behavior of Agents in Continuous Predators-Prey Pursuit Problem -- War and Peace among Artificial Nations - A Model and Simulation Based on a Two-Layered Multi-agent System -- Developmental Neural Networks for Agents -- Revisiting Idiotypic Immune Networks -- Production of Gliders by Collisions in Rule 110 -- A Computational Model of Neocortical-Hippocampal Cooperation and Its Application to Self-Localization -- Fascinating Rhythms by Chaotic Hopfield Networks -- Solving a Delayed Response Task with Spiking and McCulloch-Pitts Agents -- First Steps in Evolving Path Integration in Simulation -- On the Dynamics of an Artificial Regulatory Network -- Evolution and Growth of Virtual Plants. , Evolvability of the Genotype-Phenotype Relation in Populations of Self-Replicating Digital Organisms in a Tierra-Like System -- An Evolutionary Approach to Damage Recovery of Robot Motion with Muscles -- Evolving Developmental Programs for Adaptation, Morphogenesis, and Self-Repair -- Evolving Embodied Genetic Regulatory Network-Driven Control Systems -- Evolution of Fault-Tolerant Self-Replicating Structures -- Evolving the Ability of Limited Growth and Self-Repair for Artificial Embryos -- Caring versus Sharing: How to Maintain Engagement and Diversity in Coevolving Populations -- Culture and the Baldwin Effect -- Evolutionary Network Minimization: Adaptive Implicit Pruning of Successful Agents -- Population Dynamics under Spatially and Temporally Heterogenous Resource Limitations in Multi-Agent Networks -- Adaptive Coupling and Intersubjectivity in Simulated Turn-Taking Behaviour -- Distributed Genetic Algorithm: Learning by Direct Exchange of Chromosomes -- An Approach to Describe the Tierra Instruction Set Using Microopcrations: The First Result -- Critical Values in Asynchronous Random Boolean Networks -- Artificial Organisms That Sleep -- Visualizing Evolutionary Dynamics of Self-Replicators Using Graph-Based Genealogy -- The Baldwin Effect Revisited: Three Steps Characterized by the Quantitative Evolution of Phenotypic Plasticity -- Does the Red Queen Reign in the Kingdom of Digital Organisms? -- Conditions for Stable Vowel Systems in a Population -- Piep Piep Piep - Ich Hab' Dich Lieb1 : Rhythm as an Indicator of Mate Quality -- Evolving Agent Societies with VUScape -- Why Synonymy Is Rare: Fitness Is in the Speaker -- A Noisy Way to Evolve Signaling Behaviour -- Language Games with Mixed Populations -- Artificial Agents and Natural Determiners -- Coevolution of Birdsong Grammar without Imitation. , Systemic Architecture for Audio Signal Processing -- Semantic Generalisation and the Inference of Meaning -- Language Evolution in Populations: Extending the Iterated Learning Model -- Learning Biases for the Evolution of Linguistic Structure: An Associative Network Model -- The Learning and Emergence of Mildly Context Sensitive Languages -- THSim v3.2: The Talking Heads Simulation Tool -- Grounded Lexicon Formation without Explicit Reference Transfer: Who's Talking to Who? -- Optimal Communication in a Noisy and Heterogeneous Environment -- A Clustering Algorithm Based on the Ants Self-Assembly Behavior -- A Multi-agent Based Approach to Modelling and Rendering of 3D Tree Bark Textures -- Measuring the Dynamics of Artificial Evolution1 -- Pattern Recognition in a Bucket -- Discovering Clusters in Spatial Data Using Swarm Intelligence -- When Can We Call a System Self-Organizing? -- Contextual Random Boolean Networks -- Representation of Genotype and Phenotype in a Coherent Framework Based on Extended L-Systems -- Integrated-Adaptive Genetic Algorithms -- Simulating the Evolution of Ant Behaviour in Evaluating Nest Sites -- Evolving Evolutionary Algorithms Using Multi Expression Programming -- Modelling Artificial Ecosystem Selection: A Preliminary Investigation -- Measuring Self-Organization via Observers -- General Framework for Evolutionary Activity -- Developing and Testing Methods for Microarray Data Analysis Using an Artificial Life Framework -- Approaching Virtual Organism by PheGe -- Robustness to Damage of Biological and Synthetic Networks -- An Agent-Based Approach to Routing in Communications Networks with Swarm Intelligence -- Biomorphs Implemented as a Data and Signals Cellular Automaton -- Analyzing the Performance of "Winner-Take-All" and "Voting-Based" Action Selection Policies within the Two-Resource Problem. , Are There Representations in Embodied Evolved Agents? Taking Measures -- Evolving Fractal Gene Regulatory Networks for Robot Control -- Explorations of Task-Dependent Visual Morphologies in Competitive Co-evolutionary Experiments -- Optimal Morphology of a Biologically-Inspired Whisker Array on an Obstacle-Avoiding Robot -- Phase Transitions in Self-Organising Sensor Networks -- Artificial Metabolism: Towards True Energetic Autonomy in Artificial Life -- An Imitation Game for Emerging Action Categories -- Multi-agent Model of Biological Swarming -- Visually Guided Physically Simulated Agents with Evolved Morphologies -- The Robot in the Swarm: An Investigation into Agent Embodiment within Virtual Robotic Swarms -- Building a Hybrid Society of Mind Using Components from Ten Different Authors -- Requirements for Getting a Robot to Grow up -- Coevolving Communication and Cooperation for Lattice Formation Tasks -- Evolving Aggregation Behaviors in a Swarm of Robots -- Low-Level Visual Homing -- Controlling a Simulated Khepera with an XCS Classifier System with Memory -- Collective Decision-Making and Behaviour Transitions in Distributed Ad Hoc Wireless Networks of Mobile Robots: Target-Hunting -- Author Index.