Progress in Artificial Life [electronic resource] : Third Australian Conference, ACAL 2007 Gold Coast, Australia, December 4-6, 2007 Proceedings /

Heuristics I -- Alternative Solution Representations for the Job Shop Scheduling Problem in Ant Colony Optimisation -- Analyzing the Role of “Smart” Start Points in Coarse Search-Greedy Search -- Concealed Contributors to Result Quality — The Search Process of Ant Colony System -- Ants Guide Future Pilots -- Complex Systems I -- Information Transfer by Particles in Cellular Automata -- An Artificial Development Model for Cell Pattern Generation -- Rounds Effect in Evolutionary Games -- Modelling Architectural Visual Experience Using Non-linear Dimensionality Reduction -- An Evolutionary Benefit from Misperception in Foraging Behaviour -- Simulated Evolution of Discourse with Coupled Recurrent Networks -- How Different Hierarchical Relationships Impact Evolution -- A Dual Phase Evolution Model of Adaptive Radiation in Landscapes -- Biological Systems I -- Directed Evolution of an Artificial Cell Lineage -- An Integrated QAP-Based Approach to Visualize Patterns of Gene Expression Similarity -- Complement-Based Self-Replicated, Self-Assembled Systems (CBSRSAS) -- Self-maintained Movements of Droplets with Convection Flow -- Structural Circuits and Attractors in Kauffman Networks -- The Effects of Learning on the Roles of Chance, History and Adaptation in Evolving Neural Networks -- Unsupervised Acoustic Classification of Bird Species Using Hierarchical Self-organizing Maps -- The Prisoner’s Dilemma with Image Scoring on Networks: How Does a Player’s Strategy Depend on Its Place in the Social Network? -- Heuristics II -- Population-Based Ant Colony Optimisation for Multi-objective Function Optimisation -- Mechanisms for Evolutionary Reincarnation -- An Evolutionary Algorithm with Spatially Distributed Surrogates for Multiobjective Optimization -- Examining Dissimilarity Scaling in AntColony Approaches to Data Clustering -- Complex Systems II -- A Framework for the Co-evolution of Genes, Proteins and a Genetic Code Within an Artificial Chemistry Reaction Set -- In-Formation Flocking: An Approach to Data Visualization Using Multi-agent Formation Behavior -- A Principled Approach to Swarm-Based Wall-Building -- Pattern Extraction Improves Automata-Based Syntax Analysis in Songbirds -- Heuristics III -- A Modified Strategy for the Constriction Factor in Particle Swarm Optimization -- A Differential Evolution Variant of NSGA II for Real World Multiobjective Optimization -- Investigating a Hybrid Metaheuristic for Job Shop Rescheduling -- Enhancements to Extremal Optimisation for Generalised Assignment -- Biological Systems II -- Identification of Marker Genes Discriminating the Pathological Stages in Ovarian Carcinoma by Using Support Vector Machine and Systems Biology -- Ancestral DNA Sequence Reconstruction Using Recursive Genetic Algorithms.