Richard A. Watson

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 1998-2023
Publications (10 Years): 11

Top Topics

Natural Selection

Evolutionary Search

Top Venues

PLoS Comput. Biol.

Publications

Richard A. Watson, Hengrui Cai, Xinming An, Samuel A. McLean, Rui Song
On Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in Heterogeneous Causal Graphs. ICML (2023)
Jamie Caldwell, Joshua D. Knowles, Christoph Thies, Filip Kubacki, Richard A. Watson
Deep Optimisation: Transitioning the Scale of Evolutionary Search by Inducing and Searching in Deep Representations. SN Comput. Sci. 3 (3) (2022)
Jamie Caldwell, Joshua D. Knowles, Christoph Thies, Filip Kubacki, Richard A. Watson
Deep Optimisation: Multi-scale Evolution by Inducing and Searching in Deep Representations. EvoApplications (2021)
Miguel Brun-Usan, Christoph Thies, Richard A. Watson
How to fit in: The learning principles of cell differentiation. PLoS Comput. Biol. 16 (4) (2020)
Joel Lehman, Jeff Clune, Dusan Misevic, Christoph Adami, Lee Altenberg, Julie Beaulieu, Peter J. Bentley, Samuel Bernard, Guillaume Beslon, David M. Bryson, Nick Cheney, Patryk Chrabaszcz, Antoine Cully, Stéphane Doncieux, Fred C. Dyer, Kai Olav Ellefsen, Robert Feldt, Stephan Fischer, Stephanie Forrest, Antoine Frénoy, Christian Gagné, Léni K. Le Goff, Laura M. Grabowski, Babak Hodjat, Frank Hutter, Laurent Keller, Carole Knibbe, Peter Krcah, Richard E. Lenski, Hod Lipson, Robert MacCurdy, Carlos Maestre, Risto Miikkulainen, Sara Mitri, David E. Moriarty, Jean-Baptiste Mouret, Anh Nguyen, Charles Ofria, Marc Parizeau, David P. Parsons, Robert T. Pennock, William F. Punch, Thomas S. Ray, Marc Schoenauer, Eric Schulte, Karl Sims, Kenneth O. Stanley, François Taddei, Danesh Tarapore, Simon Thibault, Richard A. Watson, Westley Weimer, Jason Yosinski
The Surprising Creativity of Digital Evolution: A Collection of Anecdotes from the Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life Research Communities. Artif. Life 26 (2) (2020)
Alfredo Rago, Kostas Kouvaris, Tobias Uller, Richard A. Watson
How adaptive plasticity evolves when selected against. PLoS Comput. Biol. 15 (3) (2019)
Joel Lehman, Jeff Clune, Dusan Misevic, Christoph Adami, Lee Altenberg, Julie Beaulieu, Peter J. Bentley, Samuel Bernard, Guillaume Beslon, David M. Bryson, Patryk Chrabaszcz, Nick Cheney, Antoine Cully, Stéphane Doncieux, Fred C. Dyer, Kai Olav Ellefsen, Robert Feldt, Stephan Fischer, Stephanie Forrest, Antoine Frénoy, Christian Gagné, Leni K. Le Goff, Laura M. Grabowski, Babak Hodjat, Frank Hutter, Laurent Keller, Carole Knibbe, Peter Krcah, Richard E. Lenski, Hod Lipson, Robert MacCurdy, Carlos Maestre, Risto Miikkulainen, Sara Mitri, David E. Moriarty, Jean-Baptiste Mouret, Anh Nguyen, Charles Ofria, Marc Parizeau, David P. Parsons, Robert T. Pennock, William F. Punch, Thomas S. Ray, Marc Schoenauer, Eric Schulte, Karl Sims, Kenneth O. Stanley, François Taddei, Danesh Tarapore, Simon Thibault, Westley Weimer, Richard A. Watson, Jason Yosinski
The Surprising Creativity of Digital Evolution: A Collection of Anecdotes from the Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life Research Communities. CoRR (2018)
J. R. Caldwell, Richard A. Watson, Christoph Thies, Joshua D. Knowles
Deep Optimisation: Solving Combinatorial Optimisation Problems using Deep Neural Networks. CoRR (2018)
Kostas Kouvaris, Jeff Clune, Loizos Kounios, Markus Brede, Richard A. Watson
How evolution learns to generalise: Using the principles of learning theory to understand the evolution of developmental organisation. PLoS Comput. Biol. 13 (4) (2017)
J. R. Caldwell, Richard A. Watson
How to get more from your model: the role of constructive selection in estimation of distribution algorithms. GECCO (Companion) (2017)
Miguel Gonzalez, Richard A. Watson, Seth Bullock
Minimally Sufficient Conditions for the Evolution of Social Learning and the Emergence of Non-Genetic Evolutionary Systems. Artif. Life 23 (4) (2017)
Simon Tudge, Adam Jackson, Richard A. Watson, Markus Brede
The Evolution of Assortment with Multiple Simultaneous Games. ECAL (2015)
Daniel Power, Eörs Szathmáry, Richard A. Watson
Ecosystem Memory Is Emergent from Local-Level Natural Selection. ALIFE (2014)
Chris R. Cox, Richard A. Watson
Inferring and Exploiting Problem Structure with Schema Grammar. PPSN (2014)
William Hurndall, Richard A. Watson, Markus Brede
Pre-Template Metabolic Replicators: Genotype-Phenotype Decoupling as a Route to Evolvability. ALIFE (2014)
Chris R. Cox, Richard A. Watson
Solving building block problems using generative grammar. GECCO (2014)
Miguel Gonzalez, Richard A. Watson, Jason Noble, Seth Bullock
The Origin of Culture: Selective Conditions for Horizontal Information Transfer. ALIFE (2014)
Rob Mills, Thomas Jansen, Richard A. Watson
Transforming Evolutionary Search into Higher-Level Evolutionary Search by Capturing Problem Structure. IEEE Trans. Evol. Comput. 18 (5) (2014)
Adam Jackson, Richard A. Watson
The Effects of Assortment on Population Structuring Traits on the Evolution of Cooperation. ECAL (2013)
Miguel Gonzalez, Richard A. Watson, Jason Noble, C. Patrick Doncaster
Multiple Life-History Stage Competition and its Effect on Coexistence. ECAL (2013)
Simon Tudge, Richard A. Watson, Markus Brede
Cooperation and the Division of Labour. ECAL (2013)
Richard A. Watson
Is Evolution by Natural Selection the Algorithm of Biological Evolution? ALIFE (2012)
Simon T. Powers, Alexandra S. Penn, Richard A. Watson
The concurrent evolution of cooperation and the population structures that support it CoRR (2012)
Richard A. Watson, Christopher L. Buckley, Rob Mills
Optimization in "self-modeling" complex adaptive systems. Complex. 16 (5) (2011)
Adam P. Davies, Richard A. Watson, Rob Mills, Christopher L. Buckley, Jason Noble
"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 17 (3) (2011)
Richard A. Watson, Rob Mills, Christopher L. Buckley
Transformations in the scale of behavior and the global optimization of constraints in adaptive networks. Adapt. Behav. 19 (4) (2011)
Simon T. Powers, Christopher Heys, Richard A. Watson
How to measure group selection in real-world populations. ECAL (2011)
Richard A. Watson, Rob Mills, Christopher L. Buckley
Global Adaptation in Networks of Selfish Components: Emergent Associative Memory at the System Scale. Artif. Life 17 (3) (2011)
Connor McCabe, Richard A. Watson, Jane Prichard, Wendy Hall
The web as an adaptive network: coevolution of web behavior and web structure. WebSci (2011)
Richard A. Watson, Rob Mills, Christopher L. Buckley
Transformations and multi-scale optimisation in biological adaptive networks. ECAL (2011)
Richard A. Watson, Rob Mills, Christopher L. Buckley, Simon T. Powers, Alexandra S. Penn, Adam P. Davies, Jason Noble, Seth Bullock
Adaptation without Natural Selection. ALIFE (2010)
Marc Ebner, Richard A. Watson, Jason Alexander
Coevolutionary Dynamics of Interacting Species. EvoApplications (1) (2010)
Alexandra S. Penn, Richard A. Watson, Alexander Kraaijeveld, Jeremy Webb
Systems Aikido - A Novel Approach to Managing Natural Systems. ALIFE (2010)
Jason Noble, Tom Hebbron, Johannes van der Horst, Rob Mills, Simon T. Powers, Richard A. Watson
Selection Pressures for a Theory-of-Mind Faculty in Artificial Agents. ALIFE (2010)
Adam P. Davies, Richard A. Watson, Rob Mills, Christopher L. Buckley, Jason Noble
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. ALIFE (2010)
Richard A. Watson, Christopher L. Buckley, Rob Mills, Adam P. Davies
Associative Memory in Gene Regulation Networks. ALIFE (2010)
Richard A. Watson, Niclas Palmius, Rob Mills, Simon T. Powers, Alexandra S. Penn
Can Selfish Symbioses Effect Higher-Level Selection? ECAL (2) (2009)
Simon T. Powers, Richard A. Watson
Evolution of Individual Group Size Preference Can Increase Group-Level Selection and Cooperation. ECAL (2) (2009)
James R. Snowdon, Simon T. Powers, Richard A. Watson
Moderate Contact between Sub-populations Promotes Evolved Assortativity Enabling Group Selection. ECAL (2) (2009)
Rob Mills, Richard A. Watson
Symbiosis Enables the Evolution of Rare Complexes in Structured Environments. ECAL (2) (2009)
Richard A. Watson, Rob Mills, Alexandra S. Penn, Simon T. Powers
Can individual selection favour significant higher-level selection? ALIFE (2008)
Alexandra S. Penn, Richard A. Watson, Simon T. Powers, Jeremy Webb, Alexander Kraaijeveld, Tim Conibear, Zoe Bigg
Mechanisms for the initiation of multicellularity in bacterial biofilms. ALIFE (2008)
Emyr James, Jason Noble, Richard A. Watson
Solving the division of labour problem using stigmergy and evolved heterogeneity. ALIFE (2008)
Simon T. Powers, Alexandra S. Penn, Richard A. Watson
The Efficacy of Group Selection is Increased by Coexistence Dynamics within Groups. ALIFE (2008)
Simon T. Powers, Richard A. Watson
The group selection debate and ALife - weak altruism, strong altruism, and inclusive fitness. ALIFE (2008)
Rob Mills, Richard A. Watson
Adaptive units of selection can evolve complexes that are provably unevolvable under fixed units of selection. ALIFE (2008)
Graeme Groom, Rob Mills, Richard A. Watson
How epigenetic evolution can guide genetic evolution. ALIFE (2008)
Richard A. Watson, Thomas Jansen
A building-block royal road where crossover is provably essential. GECCO (2007)
Simon T. Powers, Alexandra S. Penn, Richard A. Watson
Individual Selection for Cooperative Group Formation. ECAL (2007)
Simon T. Powers, Richard A. Watson
Investigating the Evolution of Cooperative Behaviour in a Minimally Spatial Model. ECAL (2007)
Rob Mills, Richard A. Watson
Variable discrimination of crossover versus mutation using parameterized modular structure. GECCO (2007)
Rob Mills, Richard A. Watson
Symbiosis, Synergy and Modularity: Introducing the Reciprocal Synergy Symbiosis Algorithm. ECAL (2007)
Simon T. Powers, Richard A. Watson
Preliminary investigations into the evolution of cooperative strategies in a minimally spatial model. GECCO (2007)
Edwin D. de Jong, Richard A. Watson, Dirk Thierens
A generator for hierarchical problems. GECCO Workshops (2005)
Edwin D. de Jong, Richard A. Watson, Dirk Thierens
On the Complexity of Hierarchical Problem Solving. BNAIC (2005)
Rob Mills, Richard A. Watson
Genetic Assimilation and Canalisation in the Baldwin Effect. ECAL (2005)
Richard A. Watson
On the Unit of Selection in Sexual Populations. ECAL (2005)
Richard A. Watson, Jordan B. Pollack
Modular Interdependency in Complex Dynamical Systems. Artif. Life 11 (4) (2005)
Richard A. Watson, John Wakeley
Multidimensional epistasis and the advantage of sex. Congress on Evolutionary Computation (2005)
Edwin D. de Jong, Richard A. Watson, Dirk Thierens
On the complexity of hierarchical problem solving. GECCO (2005)
Edwin D. de Jong, Dirk Thierens, Richard A. Watson
Hierarchical Genetic Algorithms. PPSN (2004)
Richard A. Watson
A Simple Two-Module Problem to Exemplify Building-Block Assembly Under Crossover. PPSN (2004)
Richard A. Watson, Sevan G. Ficici, Jordan B. Pollack
Embodied Evolution: Distributing an evolutionary algorithm in a population of robots. Robotics Auton. Syst. 39 (1) (2002)
Joshua D. Knowles, Richard A. Watson
On the Utility of Redundant Encodings in Mutation-Based Evolutionary Search. PPSN (2002)
Joshua D. Knowles, Richard A. Watson, David Corne
Reducing Local Optima in Single-Objective Problems by Multi-objectivization. EMO (2001)
Richard A. Watson, Jordan B. Pollack
Symbiotic Composition and Evolvability. ECAL (2001)
Jordan B. Pollack, Hod Lipson, Sevan G. Ficici, Pablo Funes, Gregory Hornby, Richard A. Watson
Evolutionary Techniques in Physical Robotics. ICES (2000)
Richard A. Watson, Jordan B. Pollack
Symbiotic Combination as an Alternative to Sexual Recombination in Genetic Algorithms. PPSN (2000)
Marc Ebner, Richard A. Watson, Jason Alexander
Co-evolutionary dynamics on a deformable landscape. CEC (2000)
Richard A. Watson, Jordan B. Pollack
Recombination Without Respect: Schema Combination and Disruption in Genetic Algorithm Grossover. GECCO (2000)
Richard A. Watson
Analysis of recombinative algorithms on a non-separable building-block problem. FOGA (2000)
Richard A. Watson, Jordan B. Pollack
Hierarchically consistent test problems for genetic algorithms. CEC (1999)
Richard A. Watson, Jordan B. Pollack
How Symbiosis Can Guide Evolution. ECAL (1999)
Richard A. Watson, Sevan G. Ficiei, Jordan B. Pollack
Embodied evolution: embodying an evolutionary algorithm in a population of robots. CEC (1999)
Richard A. Watson, Gregory Hornby, Jordan B. Pollack
Modeling Building-Block Interdependency. PPSN (1998)