TO: Alife Workshop Participants
FROM: Leigh Tesfatsion
DATE: 21 April 1995

ALIFE WORKSHOP: SPRING SCHEDULE OF TOPICS AND MODERATORS
(Held F, 11:10-12:30, 468D Heady Hall, unless otherwise indicated)

February 3: "Using Genetic Algorithms to Obtain Exact Answers to
  Optimization Problems," Moderated by DAN ASHLOCK (Math), Hand-Out

February 10: "Building Platforms for Alife Simulations I," Moderated
 by LEIGH TESFATSION (Econ), Reading:  Selections from "SimBioSys:
  A Class Framework for Evolutionary Simulations," by D. McFadzean.

February 17: "Building Platforms for Alife Simulations II:  The
  Incorporation of Learning ," Moderated by VASANT HONAVAR
  (Comp Sci), no reading.

February 24: "Simulation and Lab Experiments with Trade Mechanisms,"
  Moderated by STEVE GJERSTAD (Econ), Reading: "A Behavioral Theory
  of Price Formation in Double Auctions," by S. Gjerstad and J. Dickhaut

March 3: "Simulation and Lab Experiments with Trade Mechanisms
  (continuation of previous workshop)," Moderated by STEVE GJERSTAD.

March 10: "Langton's CellAnts," Moderated by MARK ANDERSON (Comp
   Sci), Reading: Scientific American 7/94, pp. 104-107.

March 17:      Spring Vacation

March 24: "Computational Models of Learning," Moderated by JIM LATHROP (Comp
  Sci), Reading: L. G. Valiant, "A Theory of the Learnable," Communications
  of the ACM, 27, Nov 1984.

March 31: "A Trade Network Game with Preferential Partner Selection,"
   Moderated by LEIGH TESFATSION (Econ), Reading: Abstract and intro
   from ISU Economic Report 36, same title.

April 7: "Using Genetic Algorithms to Evolve Stable Molecular Forms,"
   Moderated by DAVID DEAVEN (Physics), no reading.

April 14: "Computational Models of Learning," Moderated by JIM LATHROP
   (continuation Session from March 24).

April 21: "Altruisim in the Evolution of Communication," Moderated by
  Jennifer Freeman (CS), Reading of same title by Ackley and Litterman,
  _Alife IV_, MIT Press, pp. 40-48.

April 28: "Models of Evolution," Moderated by DAN ASHLOCK (Math), reading:
  Chapter 2 and 4 from the draft of his book of same title.

May 5:  "Alife Animation: 3D Simbots and/or Karl Sims' Creatures,"
   Moderated by JOHN WALKER (Visualization Lab), Reading: TBA
            
May 12:  Final Exam Period, No Workshop