Richard A. Watson

Orcid: 0000-0002-2521-8255

According to our database1, Richard A. Watson authored at least 75 papers between 1998 and 2024.

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2024
Natural Induction: Spontaneous Adaptive Organisation without Natural Selection.
Entropy, September, 2024

Emergent Collective Reproduction via Evolving Neuronal Flocks.
CoRR, 2024

2023
On Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in Heterogeneous Causal Graphs.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning, 2023

2022
Deep Optimisation: Transitioning the Scale of Evolutionary Search by Inducing and Searching in Deep Representations.
SN Comput. Sci., 2022

2021
Deep Optimisation: Multi-scale Evolution by Inducing and Searching in Deep Representations.
Proceedings of the Applications of Evolutionary Computation, 2021

2020
How to fit in: The learning principles of cell differentiation.
PLoS Comput. Biol., 2020

The Surprising Creativity of Digital Evolution: A Collection of Anecdotes from the Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life Research Communities.
Artif. Life, 2020

2019
How adaptive plasticity evolves when selected against.
PLoS Comput. Biol., 2019

2018
Deep Optimisation: Solving Combinatorial Optimisation Problems using Deep Neural Networks.
CoRR, 2018

2017
How evolution learns to generalise: Using the principles of learning theory to understand the evolution of developmental organisation.
PLoS Comput. Biol., 2017

Minimally Sufficient Conditions for the Evolution of Social Learning and the Emergence of Non-Genetic Evolutionary Systems.
Artif. Life, 2017

How to get more from your model: the role of constructive selection in estimation of distribution algorithms.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2017

2015
The Evolution of Assortment with Multiple Simultaneous Games.
Proceedings of the Thirteenth European Conference Artificial Life, 2015

2014
Transforming Evolutionary Search into Higher-Level Evolutionary Search by Capturing Problem Structure.
IEEE Trans. Evol. Comput., 2014

Inferring and Exploiting Problem Structure with Schema Grammar.
Proceedings of the Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - PPSN XIII, 2014

Solving building block problems using generative grammar.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2014

Ecosystem Memory Is Emergent from Local-Level Natural Selection.
Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, 2014

Pre-Template Metabolic Replicators: Genotype-Phenotype Decoupling as a Route to Evolvability.
Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, 2014

The Origin of Culture: Selective Conditions for Horizontal Information Transfer.
Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, 2014

2013
Cooperation and the Division of Labour.
Proceedings of the Twelfth European Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems: Advances in Artificial Life, 2013

The Effects of Assortment on Population Structuring Traits on the Evolution of Cooperation.
Proceedings of the Twelfth European Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems: Advances in Artificial Life, 2013

Multiple Life-History Stage Competition and its Effect on Coexistence.
Proceedings of the Twelfth European Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems: Advances in Artificial Life, 2013

2012
The concurrent evolution of cooperation and the population structures that support it
CoRR, 2012

Is Evolution by Natural Selection the Algorithm of Biological Evolution?
Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, 2012

2011
Optimization in "self-modeling" complex adaptive systems.
Complex., 2011

Global Adaptation in Networks of Selfish Components: Emergent Associative Memory at the System Scale.
Artif. Life, 2011

"If You Can't Be With the One You Love, Love the One You're With": How Individual Habituation of Agent Interactions Improves Global Utility.
Artif. Life, 2011

Transformations in the scale of behavior and the global optimization of constraints in adaptive networks.
Adapt. Behav., 2011

The web as an adaptive network: coevolution of web behavior and web structure.
Proceedings of the Web Science 2011, 2011

Transformations and multi-scale optimisation in biological adaptive networks.
Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life: 20th Anniversary Edition, 2011

How to measure group selection in real-world populations.
Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life: 20th Anniversary Edition, 2011

2010
Coevolutionary Dynamics of Interacting Species.
Proceedings of the Applications of Evolutionary Computation, 2010

Adaptation without Natural Selection.
Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, 2010

Associative Memory in Gene Regulation Networks.
Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, 2010

Systems Aikido - A Novel Approach to Managing Natural Systems.
Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, 2010

Selection Pressures for a Theory-of-Mind Faculty in Artificial Agents.
Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, 2010

2009
Can Selfish Symbioses Effect Higher-Level Selection?
Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life. Darwin Meets von Neumann, 2009

Moderate Contact between Sub-populations Promotes Evolved Assortativity Enabling Group Selection.
Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life. Darwin Meets von Neumann, 2009

Evolution of Individual Group Size Preference Can Increase Group-Level Selection and Cooperation.
Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life. Darwin Meets von Neumann, 2009

Symbiosis Enables the Evolution of Rare Complexes in Structured Environments.
Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life. Darwin Meets von Neumann, 2009

2008
Can individual selection favour significant higher-level selection?
Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, 2008

The group selection debate and ALife - weak altruism, strong altruism, and inclusive fitness.
Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, 2008

The Efficacy of Group Selection is Increased by Coexistence Dynamics within Groups.
Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, 2008

Mechanisms for the initiation of multicellularity in bacterial biofilms.
Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, 2008

Adaptive units of selection can evolve complexes that are provably unevolvable under fixed units of selection.
Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, 2008

Solving the division of labour problem using stigmergy and evolved heterogeneity.
Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, 2008

How epigenetic evolution can guide genetic evolution.
Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, 2008

2007
A building-block royal road where crossover is provably essential.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2007

Preliminary investigations into the evolution of cooperative strategies in a minimally spatial model.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2007

Variable discrimination of crossover versus mutation using parameterized modular structure.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2007

Investigating the Evolution of Cooperative Behaviour in a Minimally Spatial Model.
Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life, 9th European Conference, 2007

Individual Selection for Cooperative Group Formation.
Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life, 9th European Conference, 2007

Symbiosis, Synergy and Modularity: Introducing the Reciprocal Synergy Symbiosis Algorithm.
Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life, 9th European Conference, 2007

2006
Compositional Evolution - The Impact of Sex, Symbiosis, and Modularity on the Gradualist Framework of Evolution.
The Vienna series in theoretical biology, MIT Press, ISBN: 978-0-262-23243-2, 2006

2005
Modular Interdependency in Complex Dynamical Systems.
Artif. Life, 2005

A generator for hierarchical problems.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2005

On the complexity of hierarchical problem solving.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2005

On the Unit of Selection in Sexual Populations.
Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life, 8th European Conference, 2005

Genetic Assimilation and Canalisation in the Baldwin Effect.
Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life, 8th European Conference, 2005

Multidimensional epistasis and the advantage of sex.
Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2005

2004
A Simple Two-Module Problem to Exemplify Building-Block Assembly Under Crossover.
Proceedings of the Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, 2004

Hierarchical Genetic Algorithms.
Proceedings of the Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, 2004

2002
Embodied Evolution: Distributing an evolutionary algorithm in a population of robots.
Robotics Auton. Syst., 2002

On the Utility of Redundant Encodings in Mutation-Based Evolutionary Search.
Proceedings of the Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, 2002

2001
Reducing Local Optima in Single-Objective Problems by Multi-objectivization.
Proceedings of the Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization, 2001

Symbiotic Composition and Evolvability.
Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life, 6th European Conference, 2001

2000
Symbiotic Combination as an Alternative to Sexual Recombination in Genetic Algorithms.
Proceedings of the Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, 2000

Evolutionary Techniques in Physical Robotics.
Proceedings of the Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware, 2000

Recombination Without Respect: Schema Combination and Disruption in Genetic Algorithm Grossover.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO '00), 2000

Analysis of recombinative algorithms on a non-separable building-block problem.
Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Foundations of Genetic Algorithms, 2000

Co-evolutionary dynamics on a deformable landscape.
Proceedings of the 2000 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2000

1999
How Symbiosis Can Guide Evolution.
Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life, 5th European Conference, 1999

Hierarchically consistent test problems for genetic algorithms.
Proceedings of the 1999 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 1999

Embodied evolution: embodying an evolutionary algorithm in a population of robots.
Proceedings of the 1999 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 1999

1998
Modeling Building-Block Interdependency.
Proceedings of the Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, 1998


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