Elpida Tzafestas : Selected publications

Journals

• E.S.Tzafestas. Fluidity, adaptivity and self-organization, Commentary on Clancy Blair "How similar are fluid cognition and general intelligence", Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 29(2):140-141, 2006.
  (Fluidity.pdf, 2 pages, 86K)
  
  
• E.S.Tzafestas. Regulation problems in explorer agents, Cybernetics and Systems, 36:339-377, 2005.
  (Explorers.pdf, 39 pages, 1350K)
  
  
• E.S.Tzafestas. Aging agents, Artificial Life and Robotics, 5:46-57, 2001.
  (Aging.pdf, 12 pages, 2505K)
  
  
• E.S.Tzafestas. Compromising algorithmicity and plasticity in autonomous agent control systems : The motivated, social cell, Journal of Intelligent Systems, 9(2):135-176, 1999.
  (IntSysJ99.pdf, 48 pages, 212K)
  
  
• E.S.Tzafestas. Reactive robots in the service of production management, Journal of Intelligent Robotic Systems, 21(1998):179-191.
  (Jirsta98.pdf, 12 pages, 55K)
  
  
• A.Benos & E.Tzafestas. Alternative distributed models for the comparative study of stock market phenomena, Information Sciences, 99(3-4):137-157, July 1997.
  (InfoSciJ97.pdf, 13 pages, 95K)
  

Conferences

• E.S.Tzafestas. On Modeling Proto-Imitation in a Pre-Associative Babel, Proceedings “From Animals to Animats, Simulation of Adaptive Behavior” (SAB 2008), Osaka, Japan, July 2008.
  (SAB2008.pdf, 11 pages, 233K)
  
  
• E.S.Tzafestas. Emergence of social networks in systems with attraction, Conference “Interacting Agents, Complexity and Inter-Disciplinary Applications” (IACIA 2007), satellite of European Conference on Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany, October 2007.
  (IACIA2007.pdf, 6 pages, 276K)
  
  
• E.S.Tzafestas. Selection for attraction, Proceedings of the Workshop “Extending the Darwinian Framework: New levels of selection and inheritance”, Workshop at the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL), Lisbon, September 2007.
  (ECAL2007.pdf, 10 pages, 200K)
  
  
• E.S.Tzafestas. Attraction and cooperation in space, Proceedings 2007 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2007), Singapore, September 2007.
  (CEC2007.pdf, 8 pages, 207K)
  
  
• E.S.Tzafestas. Attraction and cooperation in noisy environments: Individuals and groups, Proceedings International Conference on Economic Science with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents (ESHIA 2007), Fairfax, VA, June 2007.
  (ESHIA2007.pdf, 10 pages, 50K)
  
  
• E.S.Tzafestas. Measures of Developing Stability and Perturbations in Ecologies of Semantic Web Services, Fachgespräch (Round Table & Workshop) on Performance Modelling for Self-Organizing Systems (PMSOS 2006), Passau, Germany, September 2006.
  (PMSOS2006.pdf, 4 pages, 33K)
  
  
• E.S.Tzafestas. MOnDrianULOR: Exploring the interaction between harmonic division and coloring, Proceedings of the 1st Art+Math=X Conference, Boulder, CO, June 2005.
  (Mondrianulor.pdf, 5 pages, 164K)
  
  
• E.S.Tzafestas. Adaptation réflexive: Contrôleur de comportement et structure évolutive, Actes Journées de Rochebrune 2000, Rochebrune, France, January 2005.
  (Rochebrune2005.pdf, 13 pages, 211K)
  
  
• E.S.Tzafestas. Integrating drawing tools with behavioral modeling in digital painting, Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop "Bridging the gap : Bringing together new media artists and multimedia technologists", Los Angeles, CA, November 2000.
  (ACMNewMediaArts.pdf, 4 pages, 46K)
  
  
• E.S.Tzafestas. Experiences from the Development and Use of Simulation Software for Complex Systems Education, Proceedings of the World Conference on the WWW and internet (WebNet-2000), San Antonio, TX, November 2000.
  (Webnet2000.pdf, 9 pages, 156K)
  
  
• E.S.Tzafestas. Spatial games with adaptive tit-for-tats, Proceedings of the 6th "Parallel Problem Solving from Nature" (PPSN-VI), pp. 507-516, Paris, September 2000.
  (PPSN2000.pdf, 10 pages, 115K)
  
  
• E.S.Tzafestas. Toward adaptive cooperative behavior, From Animals to animats : Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB-2000), Vol. 2, pp. 334-340, Paris, September 2000.
  (SAB2000.pdf, 7 pages, 85K)
  
  
• E.S.Tzafestas. Number series as an expression model, Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Bridges Conference : Mathematical Connections in Art, Math and Music, pp. 153-160, Winfield, Kansas, August 2000.
  (BRIDGES2000.pdf, 8 pages, 110K)
  
  
• E.S.Tzafestas. Quand la complexité se trouve dans la graphique : Un outil pédagogique pour la vie artificielle, Actes Journées de Rochebrune 2000, Rochebrune, France, January 2000.
  (Rochebrune2000.pdf, 12 pages, 108K)
  
  
• E.S.Tzafestas. Tom Thumb robots revisited : Self-regulation as the basis of behavior, Proceedings 1998 International Conference on Artificial Life (ALIFE-VI), San Diego, CA, June 1998.
  (ALife98.pdf, 5 pages, 182K)
  
  
• E.S.Tzafestas. A study on self-organization in a production environment, Selected papers from EURISCON '98 : Advances in Manufacturing (Decision, Design and Information Technology), Springer Verlag, 1999.
  (Euriscon98.pdf, 8 pages, 42K)
  

Report

• E.S.Tzafestas. Beyond cooperation and competition : Explorations with a quantitative tit-for-tat model, LAFORIA Research Report 95/34, December 1995.
  (Laforia95-34.pdf, 24 pages, 127K)
  

Thesis

• French abstract (ThesisAbstractFr.pdf, 2 pages, 85K)
• English abstract (ThesisAbstractEn.pdf, 2 pages, 86K)
• Thesis (Thesis.pdf, 266 pages, 1060K)