Complete Publication List

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Submitted

Phattanasri, P., Chiel, H.J. and Beer, R.D. (submitted). The dynamics of associative learning in evolved model circuits. Submitted.

In Press

Beer, R.D. (in press). Parameter space structure of continuous-time recurrent neural networks. To appear in Neural Computation. The supplementary Mathematica notebook can be downloaded here.

Seys, C.W. and Beer, R.D. (in press). Effect of encoding on the evolvability of an embodied neural network. To appear in GECCO 2006 Workshop Proceedings, Workshop on Complexity through Development and Self-Organizing Representations.

Beer, R.D. (in press). Beyond control: The dynamics of brain-body-environment interaction in motor systems. To appear in D. Sternad (Ed.), Progress in Motor Control V: A Multidisciplinary Perspective. Springer.

Synder, V.A., Sutton, G.P., Neustadter, D.M., Beer, R.D., and Chiel, H.J. (in press). Mechanical reconfiguration mediates swallowing and rejection in Aplysia californica. To appear in J. Comp. Physiol. A.

Kier, R.J., Ames, J.C., Beer, R.D. and Harrison, R. (in press). Design and implementation of multipattern generators in analog VLSI. To appear in IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks.

2006

Drennan, B. and Beer, R.D. (2006). Evolution of repressilators using a biologically-motivated model of gene expression. In L.M. Rocha, L.S. Yeager, M.A. Bedau, D. Floreano, R.L. Goldstone and A. Vespignani (Eds.), Artificial Life X: Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems (pp. 22-27).

Psujek, S., Ames, J. and Beer, R.D. (2006). Connection and coordination: The interplay between architecture and dynamics in evolved model pattern generators. Neural Computation 18:729-747.

2004

Sutton, G.P., Mangan, E.V., Neustadter, D.M., Beer, R.D., Crago, P.E. and Chiel, H.J. (2004). Neural control exploits changing mechanical advantage and context dependence to generate different feeding responses in Aplysia. Biological Cybernetics 91:333-345.

Sutton, G.P., Macknin, J.B., Gartman, S.S., Sunny, G.P., Beer, R.D., Crago, P.E., Neustadter, D.M. and Chiel, H.J. (2004). Passive hinge forces in the feeding apparatus of Aplysia aid retraction during biting but not swallowing. J. Comp. Physiol. A. 190:510-514.

Beer, R.D. (2004). Autopoiesis and cognition in the game of Life. Artificial Life 10(3):309-326.

Drennan, B. and Beer, R.D. (2004). A model for exploring genetic control of artificial amoebae. In J. Pollack, M. Bedau, P. Husbands, T. Ikegami and R. Watson (Eds.) Artificial Life IX: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems (pp. 381-386). MIT Press.

Psujek, S.T. and Beer, R.D. (2004). Phenotypic variability in canalized developmental systems. In J. Pollack, M. Bedau, P. Husbands, T. Ikegami and R. Watson (Eds.) Artificial Life IX: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems (pp. 415-420). MIT Press.

Goldenberg, E., Garcowski, J. and Beer, R.D. (2004). May we have your attention: Analysis of a selective attention task. In S. Schaal, A. Ijspeert, A. Billard, S. Vijayakumar, J. Hallam and J.-A. Meyer (Eds.), From Animals to Animats 8: Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (pp. 49-56). MIT Press.

Seys, C.W. and Beer, R.D. (2004). Evolving walking: The anatomy of an evolutionary search. In S. Schaal, A. Ijspeert, A. Billard, S. Vijayakumar, J. Hallam and J.-A. Meyer (Eds.), From Animals to Animats 8: Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (pp. 357-363). MIT Press.

Kier, R.J., Harrison, R.R. and Beer, R.D. (2004). An MDAC synapse for analog neural networks. In Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE Symposium on Circuits and Systems (pp. 752-755), Vancouver, May 23-26, 2004.

2003

Beer, R.D. (2003). Arches and stones in cognitive architecture. Adaptive Behavior 11(4):299-305.

Beer, R.D. (2003). The dynamics of active categorical perception in an evolved model agent (with commentary and response). Adaptive Behavior 11(4):209-243.

Beer, R.D. and Chiel, H.J. (2003). Locomotion, invertebrate. In M.A. Arbib (Ed.), The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks, 2nd Edition (pp. 646-649). MIT Press.

2002

Mathayomchan, B. and Beer, R.D. (2002). Center-crossing recurrent neural networks for the evolution of rhythmic behavior. Neural Computation 14:2043-2051.

Fife, A., Laksanacharoen, S., Quinn, R.D., Beer, R.D. and Ritzmann, R.E. (2002). The evolution of neural network controllers for the targeted swing of a cockroach-like robot. In Proceedings of the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Honolulu, HI, May 12-17, 2002.

Birch, M.C., Quinn, R.D., Hahm, G., Phillips, S.M., Drennan, B.T., Fife, A.J., Beer, R.D., Yu, X.Y., Garverick, S.L., Laksanacharoen, S., Pollack, A.J. and Ritzmann, R.E. (2002). Cricket-based robots. IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine 9(4):20-30.

2001

Chiel, H.J. and Beer, R.D. (2001). Neural networks and behavior. In Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. Nature Publishing Group [www.els.net].

2000

Beer, R.D. (2000). Dynamical approaches to cognitive science. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 4(3):91-99.

Calvitti, A. and Beer, R.D. (2000). Analysis of a distributed model of leg coordination. I. Individual coordination mechanisms. Biological Cybernetics 82:197-206.

Slocum, A.C., Downey, D.C. and Beer, R.D. (2000). Further experiments in the evolution of minimally cognitive behavior: From perceiving affordances to selective attention. In J. Meyer, A. Berthoz, D. Floreano, H. Roitblat and S. Wilson (Eds.), From Animals to Animats 6: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (pp. 430-439). MIT Press.

Beer, R.D. (2000). Environmental influences and intrinsic dynamics in adaptive behavior. In H. Ritter, H. Cruse and J. Dean (Eds.), Prerational Intelligence: Adaptive Behavior and Intelligent Systems Without Symbols and Logic, Vol. 2. (pp. 259-264). Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Birch, M.C., Quinn, R.Q, Hahm, G., Phillips, S.M., Drennan, B., Fife, A., Verma, H., and Beer, R.D. (2000). Design of a cricket microrobot. In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (pp. 1109-1114).

Chiel, H.J. and Beer, R.D. (2000). Biomechanical studies clarify pattern generator circuits (A commentary on "Biomechanics of hydroskeletons: Studies of crawling in the medicinal leech" by Kristan et al.). In J. Winters and P. Crago (Eds.), Biomechanics and Neural Control of Posture and Movement (pp. 218-220). Springer.

Beer, R.D. and Chiel, H.J. (2000). Neural control and biomechanics in the locomotion of insects and robots (A commentary on "A simple neural network for the control of a six-legged walking system" by Cruse et al.). In J. Winters and P. Crago (Eds.), Biomechanics and Neural Control of Posture and Movement (pp. 240-242). Springer.

1999

Beer, R.D., Chiel, H.J. and Gallagher, J.C. (1999). Evolution and analysis of model CPGs for walking II. General principles and individual variability. J. Computational Neuroscience 7(2):119-147.

Chiel, H.J., Beer, R.D. and Gallagher, J.C. (1999). Evolution and analysis of model CPGs for walking I. Dynamical modules. J. Computational Neuroscience 7:(2):99-118.

Beer, R.D., Chiel, H.J. and Drushel, R.F. (1999). Using autonomous robotics to teach science and engineering. Communications of the ACM 42(6):85-92.

Gallagher, J.C. and Beer, R.D. (1999). Evolution and analysis of dynamical neural networks for agents integrating vision, locomotion and short-term memory. In Banzhaf, Daida, Eiben, Garzon, Honavar, and Smith (Eds.),Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-99) (pp. 1273-1280), held July 14-17, 1999 in Orlando, Florida.

1998

Beer, R.D. (1998). Framing the debate between computational and dynamical approaches to cognitive science (commentary on "The dynamical hypothesis in cognitive science" by Tim van Gelder). Behavioral and Brain Sciences 21(5):630.

Beer, R.D., Chiel, H.J., Quinn, R.D. and Ritzmann, R.E. (1998). Biorobotic approaches to the study of motor systems. Current Opinion in Neurobiology 8:777-782.

1997

Chiel, H.J. and Beer, R.D. (1997). The brain has a body: Adaptive behavior emerges from interactions of nervous system, body and environment. Trends in Neurosciences 20:553-557.

Beer, R.D. (1997). The dynamics of adaptive behavior: A research program. Robotics and Autonomous Systems 20:257-289.

Beer, R.D., Quinn, R.D., Chiel, H.J., and Ritzmann, R.E. (1997). Biologically-inspired approaches to robotics. Communications of the ACM 40(3):30-38.

1996

Gallagher, J.C., Beer, R.D, Espenschied, K.S. and Quinn, R.D. (1996). Application of evolved locomotion controllers to a hexapod robot. Robotics and Autonomous Systems 19:95-103.

Espenschied, K.S., Quinn, R.D., Beer, R.D. and Chiel, H.J. (1996). Biologically-based distributed control and local reflexes improve rough terrain locomotion in a hexapod robot. Robotics and Autonomous Systems. 18:59-64

Beer, R.D. (1996). Toward the evolution of dynamical neural networks for minimally cognitive behavior. In P. Maes, M. Mataric, J. Meyer, J. Pollack and S. Wilson (Eds.), From animals to animats 4: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (pp. 421-429). MIT Press.

Dellaert, F. and Beer, R.D. (1996). A developmental model for the evolution of complete autonomous agents. In P. Maes, M. Mataric, J. Meyer, J. Pollack and S. Wilson (Eds.), From animals to animats 4: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (pp. 393-401). MIT Press.

Yamauchi, B. and Beer, R.D. (1996). Spatial learning for navigation in dynamic environments. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics-Part B 26(3):496-505.

1995

Beer, R.D. (1995). On the dynamics of small continuous-time recurrent neural networks. Adaptive Behavior 3(4):471-511.

Beer, R.D. (1995). A dynamical systems perspective on agent-environment interaction. Artificial Intelligence 72:173-215.

Beer, R.D. (1995). Computational and dynamical languages for autonomous agents. In R. Port and T. van Gelder (Eds.), Mind as Motion: Explorations in the Dynamics of Cognition (pp. 121-147). MIT Press.

Beer, R.D. and Chiel, H.J. (1995). Locomotion, invertebrate. In M.A. Arbib (Ed.), The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks (pp. 553-556). MIT Press.

Beer, R.D., Ritzmann, R.E. and Chiel, H.J. (1995). Models of the neural basis of insect behavior. In S. Zornetzer, J. Davis, C. Lau and T. McKenna (Eds.), An Introduction to Neural and Electronic Networks, Second Edition (pp. 165-184). Academic Press.

1994

Yamauchi, B. and Beer, R.D. (1994). Sequential behavior and learning in evolved dynamical neural networks. Adaptive Behavior 2(3):219-246.

Dellaert, F. and Beer, R.D. (1994). Toward an evolvable model of development for autonomous agent synthesis. In R. Brooks and P. Maes (Eds.), Proceedings of Artificial Life IV (pp. 246-257). MIT Press.

Yamauchi, B. and Beer, R.D. (1994). Integrating reactive, sequential and learning behavior using dynamical neural networks. In D. Cliff, P. Husbands, J. Meyer and S. Wilson (Eds.), From Animals to Animats 3: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB 94) (pp. 382-391). MIT Press.

Espenschied, K.S., Quinn, R.D., Chiel, H.J. and Beer, R.D. (1994). Biologically-inspired hexapod robot control. Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Robotics and Manufacturing (ISRAM 94), Maui, HI, TSI Press.

1993

Espenschied, K.S., Quinn, R.D., Chiel, H.J. and Beer, R.D. (1993). Leg coordination mechanisms in stick insect applied to hexapod robot locomotion. Adaptive Behavior 1(4):455-467.

Beer, R.D., Ritzmann, R.E. and McKenna, T., Eds. (1993). Biological Neural Networks in Invertebrate Neuroethology and Robotics. Academic Press.

Gallagher, J.G. and Beer, R.D. (1993). A qualitative dynamical analysis of evolved locomotion controllers. In J. Meyer, H. Roitblat and S. Wilson (Eds.), From Animals to Animats 2: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (pp. 71-80). MIT Press.

Beer, R.D. (1993). Compile-time type prediction and type-checking for Common Lisp programs. In L. Sterling (Ed.), Intelligent Systems (pp. 127-142). Plenum Press.

Beer, R.D. and Chiel, H.J. (1993). Simulations of cockroach locomotion and escape. In R.D. Beer, R.E. Ritzmann and T. McKenna (Eds.), Biological Neural Networks in Invertebrate Neuroethology and Robotics (pp. 267-285). Academic Press.

Chiel, H.J. and Beer, R.D. (1993). Neural and peripheral dynamics as determinants of patterned motor behavior. In D. Gardner (Ed.), The Neurobiology of Neural Networks (pp. 137-164). MIT Press.

Beer, R.D. (1993). Editorial on the state of research in adaptive behavior. Adaptive Behavior 2(1):1-3.

Yamauchi, B. and Beer, R.D. (1993). Escaping static and cyclic behavior in autonomous agents. Proceedings of the Second European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 93), Brussels, Belgium.

1992

Beer, R.D. and Gallagher, J.C. (1992). Evolving dynamical neural networks for adaptive behavior. Adaptive Behavior 1(1):91-122.

Beer, R.D., Chiel, H.J., Quinn, R.D., Espenschied, K. and Larsson, P. (1992). A distributed neural network architecture for hexapod robot locomotion. Neural Computation 4(3):356-365.

Chiel, H.J., Beer, R.D., Quinn, R.D. and Espenschied, K. (1992). Robustness of a distributed neural network controller for a hexapod robot. IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation 8(3):293-303.

1991

Beer, R.D., Chiel, H.J and Sterling, L.S. (1991). An artificial insect. American Scientist 79:444-452.

Beer, R.D., Kacmarcik, G.J., Ritzmann, R.E. and Chiel, H.J. (1991). A model of distributed sensorimotor control in the cockroach escape turn. In R.P. Lippman, J. Moody and D.S. Touretzky (Eds.), Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 3 (pp. 507-513). Morgan Kaufmann.

Beer, R.D. and Chiel, H.J. (1991). The neural basis of behavioral choice in an artificial insect. In J. Meyer and S. Wilson (Eds.), From Animals to Animats: Proceedings of the Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (pp. 247-254). MIT Press.

Chiel, H.J. and Beer, R.D. (1991). Simulation of adaptive behavior. Current Opinion in Neurobiology 1(4):605-609.

1990

Beer, R.D. (1990). Intelligence as Adaptive Behavior: An Experiment in Computational Neuroethology. Academic Press.

Beer, R.D., Chiel, H.J., and Sterling, L.S. (1990). A biological perspective on autonomous agent design. Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems 6:169-186.

Beer, R.D. and Chiel, H.J. (1990). Neural implementation of motivated behavior: Feeding in an artificial insect. In D.S. Touretzky (Ed.), Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 2 (pp. 44-51). Morgan Kaufmann.

Before 1990

Sterling, L. and Beer, R.D. (1989). Meta-interpreters for expert system construction. Journal of Logic Programming 6:163-178.

Chiel, H.J. and Beer, R.D. (1989). A lesion study of a heterogeneous artificial neural network for hexapod locomotion. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (pp. 407-414). Washington, DC.

Beer, R.D., Chiel, H.J., and Sterling, L.S. (1989). Heterogeneous neural networks for adaptive behavior in dynamic environments. In D.S. Touretzky (Ed.), Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 1 (pp. 577-585). Morgan Kaufmann.

Beer, R.D. (1987). Preliminary report on a practical type inference system for Common Lisp. Lisp Pointers 1(2): 5-11.

Sterling, L.S. and Beer, R.D. (1986). Incremental flavor-mixing of meta-interpreters for expert system construction. Proceedings of the Third IEEE Symposium on Logic Programming (pp. 20-27). Salt Lake City, Utah.

Schaefer, P.R., Bozma, I.H., and Beer, R.D. (1986). Knowledge-based validity maintenance for production systems. Proceedings of Fifth National Conference of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (pp. 918-922). Philadelphia, PA.

Schaefer, P.R., Bozma, I.H., and Beer, R.D. (1985). Extended production rules for validity maintenance. Proceedings of the Second Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications (pp. 613-617).

Beer, R.D. (1983). LISP: Basically speaking, Part III. 80 Micro, May, pp. 306-316.

Beer, R.D. (1983). LISP: Basically speaking, Part II. 80 Micro, April, pp. 254-261.

Beer, R.D. (1983). LISP: Basically speaking, Part I. 80 Micro, March, pp. 176-186.