ALIFE WORKSHOP: FALL SCHEDULE OF TOPICS AND MODERATORS
  (NOTE:  Held in Room 468D, Heady Hall, unless otherwise indicated)
FROM: Leigh Tesfatsion (s1.tes@isumvs.iastate.edu)
DATE: REVISED 9 October 1993

September 17:  Bro's article, ``Intelligence without Representation,''
               moderated by Mark Smucker
September 24:  Intro to Evolutionary Algorithms, Stephanie Forrest
               article, moderated by Leigh Tesfatsion
October 1:     Selection from Roger Penrose's bo, _Where Lies the
               Physics of Mind?_, moderated by Bill Robinson
October 8:     Genetic Algorithms as Optimizers, John Holland, "Intro"
               to his bo, and the Hillis _Alife II_ article, moderators
               Dan Ashlock and Mark Smucker
October 15:    Genetic Algorithms as Optimizers for Nonlinear Programming
(368A Heady)   and Integer Programming Problems, Selections from L. Davis,
               _Handbo of Genetic Algorithms_, moderated by Tim Maifeld.
October 22:    Biological Models of Population Change, Readings?,
               moderators Ann Stanley (and Ed Pollak?).
October 29:    Intro to Artificial Neural Nets, Hinton's _AI_ article
               "Connectionist Learning Procedures," moderated by
               Vasant Honavar.
November 5:    Genetic Programming, Koza's _Alife II_ article,
               moderated by Vasant Honavar.
November 12:   Evolution of Strategies for Multiagent Environments,
               Greffenstette article from _Adaptive Behavior_,
               moderated by Leigh Tesfatsion and Gerry Sheble.
November 19:   Edge of Chaos, _Alife II_ and _Physica D_ articles by Chris
               Langton, (not on workshop reading list), moderated by Jack
               Lutz and Jim Lathrop
November 26:   Thanksgiving Break
December 3:    Interactions Between Learning and Evolution, Ackley and
               Littman _Alife II_ article, moderator Veronica Dark
December 10:   Collins and Jefferson _Alife II_ article on "AntFarm:
               Towards Simulated Evolution," moderator Bill Grayhack