2012 Publications
Sebastian Risi, Joel Lehman, David B. D'Ambrosio, Ryan Hall and Kenneth O. Stanley (2012)
Combining Search-based Procedural Content Generation and Social Gaming in the Petalz Video Game
In: Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment Conference (AIIDE 2012). Menlo Park, CA:AAAI (6 pages).
Brian G. Woolley and Kenneth O. Stanley (2012)
Exploring Promising Stepping Stones by Combining Novelty Search with Interactive Evolution.
In: ArXiv e-prints. E-print no. 1207.6682, submitted July 2012 (15 pages).
Andrea Soltoggio and Kenneth O. Stanley (2012)
From Modulated Hebbian Plasticity to Simple Behavior Learning through Noise and Weight Saturation
In: Neural Networks journal, Vol. 34, October 2012, pp. 28–41. New York, NY: Elsevier, 2012 (manuscript 17 pages).
Note: Official Elsevier version is at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2012.06.005.
Videos and source code are at http://andrea.soltoggio.net/rec-sat.
David B. D'Ambrosio, Skyler Goodell, Joel Lehman, Sebastian Risi, and Kenneth O. Stanley (2012)
Multirobot Behavior Synchronization through Direct Neural Network Communication
In: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications (ICIRA-2012). New York, NY: Springer-Verlag, 2012 (12 pages).
Best Paper Award Finalist at ICIRA 2012
Note: This paper is accompanied with a set of video demos at http://eplex.cs.ucf.edu/demos/hive-brain-patrol.
The final publication is available at http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-33515-0_59.
Joel Lehman, Sebastian Risi, and Kenneth O. Stanley (2012)
On the Benefits of Divergent Search for Evolved Representations
In: Proceedings of the EvoNet 2012 Workshop at the Thirteenth International Conference on Artificial Life (ALIFE XIII). (4 pages).
Sebastian Risi and Kenneth O. Stanley (2012)
An Enhanced Hypercube-Based Encoding for Evolving the Placement, Density and Connectivity of Neurons
In: Artificial Life journal. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2012 (Manuscript 54 pages)
Sebastian Risi and Kenneth O. Stanley (2012)
A Unified Approach to Evolving Plasticity and Neural Geometry
In: Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2012). Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, 2012 (8 pages).
Winner of the Best Student Paper Award at IJCNN-2012
Joel Lehman and Kenneth O. Stanley (2012)
Beyond Open-endedness: Quantifying Impressiveness
In: Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Artificial Life (ALIFE XIII). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2012 (8 pages).
Joel Lehman, Sebastian Risi, David B. D'Ambrosio, and Kenneth O. Stanley (2012)
Rewarding Reactivity to Evolve Robust Controllers without Multiple Trials or Noise
In: Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Artificial Life (ALIFE XIII). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2012 (8 pages).
Amy K. Hoover, Paul A. Szerlip, Marie E. Norton, Trevor A. Brindle, Zachary Merritt, and Kenneth O. Stanley (2012)
Generating a Complete Multipart Musical Composition from a Single Monophonic Melody with Functional Scaffolding
In: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC-2012, Dublin, Ireland).
Note: This paper is accompanied with a set of musical samples at http://eplex.cs.ucf.edu/fsmc/iccc2012/.