Evolutionary Technology: A Causal Approach          
-- work in progress --
(copyright Eötvös University, Hungary; JAIST, Japan; and Harvard University, USA)
The main attraction on this page is a REPAST based evolution simulation developed in cooperation with Laszlo Gulyas.
The current version is EvoTech_V-v5.0.9. (2004. August 11.) You can dowload it here.
To run it, you will need to install REPAST and JBuilder Personal (free).
Problem Statement
Can you evolve multiple species in a developing ecosystem so that they will perform an increasing range of
different tasks? Evolutionary algorithms (and their likes) cannot do this. We try an alternative sugggestion:
"deep" or "fat" causal interactions that change selection forces recursively.

Theory Papers
Kampis, G. (2002a): A Causal Model of Evolution, Proceedigs of SEAL 02 (4th
    Asia-Pacific Conference on Simulated Evolution And Learning),Singapore, pp. 836—840.
    http://www.jaist.ac.jp/~g-kampis/SEAL02/A_Causal_Model_of_Evolution.htm
Kampis, G. (2002b): Towards an Evolutionary Technology (Japanese, in press).
    English version: http://www.jaist.ac.jp/~g-kampis/EvoTech/Towards.html
Kampis, G. (2003): Causal Depth and the Modal View of Causality,
    IUHPS/DLMPS World Conference, Oviedo, Spain, August 8-13 2003.
    Section B.1 Methodology: Explanation, Causality, and Laws,
    http://www.jaist.ac.jp/~g-kampis/Oviedo/CausalDepth.html

Technical (and Semi-Technical) Papers
Kampis, G. and Gulyas, L. (2003): Causal Structures in Embodied Systems, ERCIM News 53,
    http://www.ercim.org/publication/Ercim_News/enw53/kampis.html
Kampis, G. and Gulyas, L. (2004a): Sustained Evolution from Changing Interaction,
    Alife IX, Boston, accepted as oral presentation.
    http://hps.elte.hu/~gk/EvoTech/Sustained.pdf
    http://hps.elte.hu/~gk/EvoTech/Boston.ppt
Kampis, G. anbd Gulyas, L (2004b): Emergence out of Interaction: A Phenotype Based Model
    of Species Evolution, IWES '04, accepted.
    http://hps.elte.hu/~gk/EvoTech/IWES.pdf
Gulyas, L. (2004): Summary Report of EvoTech_V-v5.0.8, Technical Report,
   Eötvös University, http://hps.elte.hu/~gk/EvoTech/Summary.pdf




George Kampis    g-kampis@jaist.ac.jp                  kampis@hps.elte.hu
Laszlo Gulyas       gulya@latte.harvard.edu        gulya@omega.ailab.sztaki.hu