Erin J. Hastings, Ratan K. Guha, and Kenneth O. Stanley (2009)
Automatic Content Generation in the Galactic Arms Race Video Game
In: IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games, volume 1, number 4, pages 245-263, New York: IEEE Press, 2009. (Manuscript 19 pages)

Note: IEEE Official Version available here.

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Erin J. Hastings, Ratan Guha, and Kenneth O. Stanley (2009)
Evolving Content in the Galactic Arms Race Video Game
In: Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games(CIG'09). Piscataway, NJ:IEEE (8 pages)

Winner of the Best Paper Award at the 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games

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Erin J. Hastings, Ratan K. Guha, and Kenneth O. Stanley (2009)
Demonstrating Automatic Content Generation in the Galactic Arms Race Video Game

In: Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment Conference Demonstration Program (AIIDE’09). Menlo Park, CA:AAAI (2 pages)

Please note: This paper is a short 2-page description of a demonstration that will be given at AIIDE'09.  Please see other papers on GAR for complete treatments.

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Sebastian Risi, Sandy D. Vanderbleek, Charles E. Hughes and Kenneth O. Stanley (2009)
How Novelty Search Escapes the Deceptive Trap of Learning to Learn

In: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2009). New York, NY:ACM (8 pages)

Winner of the Best Paper Award in the Artificial Life, Evolutionary Robotics, Adaptive Behavior, Evolvable Hardware Track at GECCO-2009

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Erin J. Hastings, Ratan K. Guha, and Kenneth O. Stanley (2009)
Interactive Evolution of Particle Systems for Computer Graphics and Animation
In: IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, New York: IEEE Press, 2009. (Manuscript 15 pages)

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Amy K. Hoover and Kenneth O. Stanley (2009)
Exploiting Functional Relationships in Musical Composition
In: Connection Science Special Issue on Music, Brain, & Cognition. Abington, UK: Taylor & Francis, 2009 (Manuscript 33 pages)

Note: This paper is accompanied with a set of musical samples at http://eplex.cs.ucf.edu/neatmusic
Note: This is a preprint of the article accepted in Connection Science © 2009 Taylor & Francis. The journal version of the article is available online at informaworldTM at
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a911513244~db=all?jumptype=alert&alerttype=author,email

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Kenneth O. Stanley, David B. D'Ambrosio, and Jason Gauci (2009)
A Hypercube-Based Encoding for Evolving Large-Scale Neural Networks
To appear in: Artificial Life journal 15(2): pages 185–212. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009 (Manuscript 39 pages)

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