Phillip Verbancsics and Kenneth O. Stanley (2010)
Constraining Connectivity to Encourage Modularity in HyperNEAT
University of Central Florida Dept. of EECS Technical Report CS-TR-10-10 (31 pages).

Please note: This technical report is no longer available because it has been superseded by the conference paper "Constraining Connectivity to Encourage Modularity in HyperNEAT " (above) 

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Jason Gauci and Kenneth O. Stanley (2010)
Indirect Encoding of Neural Networks for Scalable Go
In:  Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving From Nature (PPSN-2010). New York, NY: Springer (10 pages)

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Brian G. Woolley and Kenneth O. Stanley (2010)
Evolving a Single Scalable Controller for an Octopus Arm with a Variable Number of Segments

In: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving From Nature (PPSN-2010). New York, NY: Springer (10 pages)

Note: This article is accompanied by videos at http://eplex.cs.ucf.edu/octopusArm.

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Phillip Verbancsics and Kenneth O. Stanley (2010)
Evolving Static Representations for Task Transfer
In: Journal of Machine Learning Research 11:  pages 1737-1769. Brookline, MA: Microtome
Publishing (33 pages).

Note: This article is accompanied by videos at http://eplex.cs.ucf.edu/hyperneat-keepaway.html.

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Sebastian Risi, Charles E. Hughes, and Kenneth O. Stanley (2010) 
Evolving Plastic Neural Networks with Novelty Search
In: Adaptive Behavior journal 18(6), pages 470–491, London: SAGE, 2010. Manuscript 41 pages.

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Erin J. Hastings and Kenneth O. Stanley (2010)
Interactive Genetic Engineering of Evolved Video Game Content
In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Procedural Content Generation in Games (PCG) at the 5th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG-2010). New York, NY: ACM (4 pages)

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Sebastian Risi and Kenneth O. Stanley (2010)
Indirectly Encoding Neural Plasticity as a Pattern of Local Rules
In: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB 2010). New York, NY: Springer (11 pages)

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Joel Lehman, and Kenneth O. Stanley (2010)
Efficiently Evolving Programs through the Search for Novelty
In: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2010). New York, NY:ACM (8 pages)

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Joel Lehman, and Kenneth O. Stanley (2010)
Revising the Evolutionary Computation Abstraction: Minimal Criteria Novelty Search
In: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2010). New York, NY:ACM (8 pages)

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Phillip Verbancsics and Kenneth O. Stanley (2010)
Transfer Learning through Indirect Encoding
In: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2010). New York, NY:ACM (8 pages)

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Sebastian Risi, Joel Lehman, and Kenneth O. Stanley (2010)
Evolving the Placement and Density of Neurons in the HyperNEAT Substrate
In: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2010). New York, NY:ACM (8 pages)

Winner of the Best Paper Award in Generative and Developmental Systems at GECCO-2010

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David B. D’Ambrosio, Joel Lehman, Sebastian Risi, and Kenneth O. Stanley (2010)
Evolving Policy Geometry for Scalable Multiagent Learning
In: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-2010). (8 pages)

Note: This paper is accompanied with a set of videos at http://eplex.cs.ucf.edu/mahnaamas2010.html

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Greg Dubbin and Kenneth O. Stanley (2010)
Learning to Dance through Interactive Evolution
In: Proceedings of the Eighth European Event on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design (EvoMUSART 2010). New York, NY: Springer, 2010 (10 pages)

Note: This paper is accompanied with a set of videos at http://eplex.cs.ucf.edu/dance-evolution-videos.html

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Jason Gauci and Kenneth O. Stanley (2010)
Autonomous Evolution of Topographic Regularities in Artificial Neural Networks
In: Neural Computation journal 22(7), pages 1860-1898. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010 (Manuscript 38 pages)

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