Joel Lehman and Kenneth O. Stanley (2008)
Exploiting Open-Endedness to Solve Problems Through the Search for Novelty
To appear in: Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Artificial Life (ALIFE XI). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008 (8 pages)

Note: This paper is accompanied with version 1.0 of the Novelty Search C++ software found here.

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David B. D'Ambrosio and Kenneth O. Stanley (2008)
Generative Encoding for Multiagent Learning
In: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2008). New York, NY: ACM, 2008 (8 pages)

Winner of the Best Paper Award in Generative and Developmental Systems at GECCO-2008

Note: This paper is accompanied with a set of videos at http://eplex.cs.ucf.edu/multiagenthyperneat

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Jason Gauci and Kenneth O. Stanley (2008)
A Case Study on the Critical Role of Geometric Regularity in Machine Learning
Proceedings of the Twenty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2008). Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press, 2008 (6 pages)

Note: This paper is accompanied with version 2.4 of the HyperNEAT software found here.

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Jimmy Secretan, Nicholas Beato, David B. D'Ambrosio, Adelein Rodriguez, Adam Campbell and Kenneth O. Stanley (2008)
Picbreeder: Evolving Pictures Collaboratively Online
In: Proceedings of the Computer Human Interaction Conference (CHI 2008). New York, NY: ACM, 2008 (10 pages)

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Amy K. Hoover, Michael P. Rosario, and Kenneth O. Stanley (2008)
Scaffolding for Interactively Evolving Novel Drum Tracks for Existing Songs
In: Proceedings of the Sixth European Workshop on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design (EvoMUSART 2008). New York, NY: Springer, 2008 (10 pages)

Winner of the Best Paper Award at EvoMUSART 2008

Note: This paper is accompanied with a set of musical samples at http://eplex.cs.ucf.edu/neatdrummer

Note: The official Springer-Verlag version of this article is available at:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/e460174k81226827/

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