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A. Abi-Haidar, J. Kaur, A. Maguitman, P. Radivojac, A. Retchsteiner, K. Verspoor, Z. Wang, and L.M. Rocha [2008]. Uncovering protein interaction in abstracts and text using a novel linear model and word proximity networks". Genome Biology. In Press.

L.M. Rocha [2007]."Reality is Stranger than Fiction: What can Artificial Life do about Advances in Biology?". Invited presentation for the "Biocomplexity" discussion section at the 9th European Conference on Artificial Life, September 12, 2007 in Lisbon, Portugal.

Almeida e Costa, F., L.M. Rocha, E. Costa, I. Harvey, A. Coutinho (Eds.) [2007]. Advances in Artificial Life: Proceedings of the 2007 European Conference on Artificial Life. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), 4648. Springer-Verlag.

L.M. Rocha and J. Kaur [2007]."Genotype Editing and the Evolution of Regulation and Memory". Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Artificial Life. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), 4648: 63-73 (Springer-Verlag).

A. Abi-Haidar, J. Kaur, A. Maguitman, P. Radivojac, A. Retchsteiner, K. Verspoor, Z. Wang, and L.M. Rocha [2007]."Uncovering Protein-Protein Interactions in the Bibliome". Proceedings of the Second BioCreative Challenge Evaluation Workshop (ISBN 84-933255-6-2), pp.247-255.

C. Huang, J. Kaur, A. Maguitman, L.M. Rocha[2007]."Agent-Based Model of Genotype Editing". Evolutionary Computation, 15(3): 253-89.

Rechtsteiner, A., Luinstra, J., Rocha, L.M., Strauss, C.E., [2006]. "Use of Text Mining for Protein Structure Prediction and Functional Annotation in Lack of Sequence Homology". In: Joint BioLINK and Bio-Ontologies Meeting 2006 (ISMB Special Interest Group).

Rocha, L.M., L. Yaeger, M. Bedau, D. Floreano, R. Goldstone, and A. Vespignani (Eds.) [2006]. Artificial Life 10: Tenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems. MIT Press.

Rocha, L.M., A. Maguitman, C. Huang, J. Kaur, and S. Narayanan. [2006].""An Evolutionary Model of Genotype Editing". In: Artificial Life 10: Tenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living SystemsL.M.Rocha, L. Yaeger, M. Bedau, D. Floreano, R. Goldstone, and A. Vespignani (Eds.). MIT Press, pp. 105-111.

Maguitman, A. G., Rechtsteiner, A., Verspoor, K., Strauss, C.E., Rocha, L.M. [2006]. "Large-Scale Testing Of Bibliome Informatics Using Pfam Protein Families". In: Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing11:76-87.

Rocha, L.M., T. Simas, A. Rechtsteiner, M. DiGiacomo, R. Luce [2005]. "MyLibrary@LANL: Proximity and Semi-metric Networks for a Collaborative and Recommender Web Service". In: Proc. 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'05), IEEE Press, pp. 565-571.

Huang, Chien-Feng and Luis M. Rocha [2005]. "Tracking Extrema in Dynamic Environments using a Coevolutionary Agent-based Model of Genotype Edition". In: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference: GECCO 2005. ACM Press, pp. 545-552.

Verspoor, K., J. Cohn, C. Joslyn, S. Mniszewski, A. Rechtsteiner, L.M. Rocha, T. Simas [2005]. "Protein Annotation as Term Categorization in the Gene Ontology using Word Proximity Networks". BMC Bioinformatics, 6(Suppl 1):S20. doi:10.1186/1471-2105-6-S1-S20

Almeida e Costa, F. and Rocha, Luis M. (Eds.) [2005]. Special Issue on Embodied and Situated Cognition. Artificial Life. 11 (1-2).

Almeida e Costa, F. and Rocha, Luis M. [2005]. "Embodied and Situated Cognition". Artificial Life. 11 (1-2), pp. 5 - 11

Rocha, Luis M. and W. Hordijk [2005]. "Material Representations: From the Genetic Code to the Evolution of Cellular Automata". Artificial Life. 11 (1-2), pp. 189 - 214

Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Artificial Life

A. Abi-Haidar, J. Kaur, A. Maguitman, P. Radivojac, A. Retchsteiner, K. Verspoor, Z. Wang, and L.M. Rocha [2008]. Uncovering protein interaction in abstracts and text using a novel linear model and word proximity networks". Genome Biology. In Press.

L.M. Rocha [2007]."Reality is Stranger than Fiction: What can Artificial Life do about Advances in Biology?". Invited presentation for the "Biocomplexity" discussion section at the 9th European Conference on Artificial Life, September 12, 2007 in Lisbon, Portugal.

Almeida e Costa, F., L.M. Rocha, E. Costa, I. Harvey, A. Coutinho (Eds.) [2007]. Advances in Artificial Life: Proceedings of the 2007 European Conference on Artificial Life. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), 4648. Springer-Verlag.

L.M. Rocha and J. Kaur [2007]."Genotype Editing and the Evolution of Regulation and Memory". Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Artificial Life. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), 4648: 63-73 (Springer-Verlag).

A. Abi-Haidar, J. Kaur, A. Maguitman, P. Radivojac, A. Retchsteiner, K. Verspoor, Z. Wang, and L.M. Rocha [2007]."Uncovering Protein-Protein Interactions in the Bibliome". Proceedings of the Second BioCreative Challenge Evaluation Workshop (ISBN 84-933255-6-2), pp.247-255.

C. Huang, J. Kaur, A. Maguitman, L.M. Rocha[2007]."Agent-Based Model of Genotype Editing". Evolutionary Computation, 15(3): 253-89..

Rechtsteiner, A., Luinstra, J., Rocha, L.M., Strauss, C.E., [2006]. "Use of Text Mining for Protein Structure Prediction and Functional Annotation in Lack of Sequence Homology". In: Joint BioLINK and Bio-Ontologies Meeting 2006 (ISMB Special Interest Group).In Press.

Rocha, L.M., L. Yaeger, M. Bedau, D. Floreano, R. Goldstone, and A. Vespignani (Eds.) [2006]. Artificial Life 10: Tenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems. MIT Press.

Rocha, L.M., A. Maguitman, C. Huang, J. Kaur, and S. Narayanan. [2006].""An Evolutionary Model of Genotype Editing". In: Artificial Life 10: Tenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living SystemsL.M.Rocha, L. Yaeger, M. Bedau, D. Floreano, R. Goldstone, and A. Vespignani (Eds.). MIT Press, pp. 105-111.

Maguitman, A. G., Rechtsteiner, A., Verspoor, K., Strauss, C.E., Rocha, L.M. [2006]. "Large-Scale Testing Of Bibliome Informatics Using Pfam Protein Families". In: Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing11:76-87.

Almeida e Costa, F. and Rocha, Luis M. (Eds.) [2005]. Special Issue on Embodied and Situated Cognition. Artificial Life. 11 (1-2).

Almeida e Costa, F. and Rocha, Luis M. [2005]. "Embodied and Situated Cognition". Artificial Life. 11 (1-2), pp. 5 - 11

Huang, Chien-Feng and Luis M. Rocha [2005]. "Tracking Extrema in Dynamic Environments using a Coevolutionary Agent-based Model of Genotype Edition". In: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference: GECCO 2005. ACM Press, pp. 545-552.

Rocha, Luis M. and W. Hordijk [2005]. "Material Representations: From the Genetic Code to the Evolution of Cellular Automata". Artificial Life. 11 (1-2), pp. 189 - 214

Verspoor, K., J. Cohn, C. Joslyn, S. Mniszewski, A. Rechtsteiner, L.M. Rocha, T. Simas [2005]. "Protein Annotation as Term Categorization in the Gene Ontology using Word Proximity Networks". BMC Bioinformatics, 6(Suppl 1):S20. doi:10.1186/1471-2105-6-S1-S20

Rechtsteiner, A., Rocha, L.M., Strauss, C.E.,[2005]. "Clustering of Protein Families in Literature Keyword Space" (pdf). Proceedings of the 9th Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB 2005). Boston, MA, 2005.

Challacombe, J,, A. Rechtsteiner, G. Gottardo, L.M. Rocha, E.P. Brown, T. Shenk, M. Altherr, T. Brettin [2004]. "Evaluation of the host transcriptional response to human cytomegalovirus infection". Physiol. Genomics (April 6, 2004). 10.1152/physiolgenomics.00155.2003.

Huang, Chien-Feng and Luis M. Rocha [2004]. "A Systematic Study of Genetic Algorithms with Genotype Editing". In: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation: GECCO 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 3102, pp.1233 - 1245. Springer-Verlag.

Rocha, Luis M. and Chien-feng Huang [2004]. "The Role of RNA Editing in Dynamic Environments". In: Ninth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems (ALIFE9). MIT Press, pp. 489-494

Rocha, Luis M. and A. Rechtsteiner [2004]. "Review of Bioinformatics for Geneticists." Clinical Chemistry. CLINCHEM/2003/020909. In Press.

Rocha, Luis M. [2004]. "Evolving Memory: Logical Tasks for Cellular Automata". Ninth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems (ALIFE9). Boston, Massachusetts, September 12-15th 2004.

Verspoor, K., J. Cohn, C. Joslyn, S. Mniszewski, A. Rechtsteiner, L.M. Rocha, T. Simas [2004]. "Protein Annotation as Term Categorization in the Gene Ontology". EMBO Workshop: A critical assessment of text mining methods in molecular biology, Granada, Spain, March 28-31, 2004. Los Alamos National Laboratory Internal Report Number: LAUR 04-1460.

Rechtsteiner, A. and L.M. Rocha [2004]. "MeSH Key Terms for Validation and Annotation of Gene Expression Clusters" (pdf). Proceedings of the Eight Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB 2004), San Diego, CA, March 2004. A. Gramada and Philip E. Bourne (Eds). pp. 212-213.

Wall, Michael E., Andreas Rechtesteiner, and Luis M. Rocha [2003]. "Singular Value Decomposition and Principal Component Analysis ". In: A Practical Approach to Microarray Data Analysis. D. P. Berrar, W. Dubitzky, and M. Granzow (Eds.). Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 91-109.

Rechtsteiner, A., R. Gottardo, L.M. Rocha, and M.E. Wall [2003]. "Singular Value Decomposition for Analysis of Gene Expression" (pdf). Currents in Computational Molecular Biology. Proceedings of the The Seventh Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB 2003), Berlin, April 10-13, 2003. R. Spang, P.Beziat and M. Vingron (Eds).pp. 275-276

Rechtsteiner, A., R. Gottardo, L.M. Rocha, M.E. Wall and T. Brettin [2003]. "Three Algorithms for Filtering and Analysis of Gene Expression Data". Poster at Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 2003.

Huang, Chien-Feng and Luis M. Rocha [2003]. "Exploration of RNA Editing and Design of Robust Genetic Algorithms". 2003 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), Canberra, Australia, December 2003. R.Sarker et al (Eds). IEEE Press, pp. 2799-2806.

Rocha Luis M. [2003]. "Extraction and Semi-metric Analysis of Social and Biological Networks". Poster at Networks: Structure, Dynamics and Function, May 12 - 16, 2003, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.

Rocha, Luis M. and Andreas Rechtsteiner [2003]. "Fast Cheap and Synthetic Oracle (FACSO): Proximity Measures to capture Expert Knowledge in the Bibliome". Poster at Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 2003.

Rocha, Luis M. [2002]. "Semi-metric Behavior in Document Networks and its Application to Recommendation Systems". In: Soft Computing Agents: A New Perspective for Dynamic Information Systems. V. Loia (Ed.) International Series Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications. IOS Press, pp. 137-163.

Rocha, Luis M. [2002]. "Combination of Evidence in Recommendation Systems Characterized by Distance Functions". In: Proceedings of the 2002 World Congress on Computational Intelligence: FUZZ-IEEE'02. Honolulu, Hawaii, May 2002. IEEE Press, pp. 203-208. LAUR 02-154.

Rocha, Luis M. [2001]. "Integrative Technology for Bioinformatics". Los Alamos National Laboratory Internal Report LAUR 01-6859.

Rocha, Luis M. (Ed.)[2001]. The Physics and Evolution of Symbols and Codes. BioSystems Vol. 60, No. 1-3. Editorial: Biosystems Vol. 60, pp. 1-4.

Rocha, Luis M. [2001]. "Evolution with material symbol systems". Biosystems. Vol. 60, pp. 95-121.

Rocha, Luis M. and Johan Bollen [2001]. "Biologically Motivated Distributed Designs for Adaptive Knowledge Management". In: Design Principles for the Immune System and other Distributed Autonomous Systems. L. Segel and I. Cohen (Eds.) Santa Fe Institute Series in the Sciences of Complexity. Oxford University Press, pp. 305-334.

Joslyn, Cliff and Luis M. Rocha [2000]. "Towards Semiotic Agent-Based Models of  Socio-Technical Organizations." Proc. AI, Simulation and Planning in High Autonomy Systems (AIS 2000) Conference, Tucson, Arizona, USA. ed. HS Sarjoughian et al., pp. 70-79

Rocha, Luis M. [2000]. "Syntactic autonomy, cellular automata, and RNA editing: or why self-organization needs symbols to evolve and how it might evolve them". In: Closure: Emergent Organizations and Their Dynamics. Chandler J.L.R. and G, Van de Vijver (Eds.) Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. Vol. 901, pp 207-223.

Rocha, Luis M. [1999]. "Complex Systems Modeling: Using Metaphors From Nature in Simulation and Scientific Models". BITS: Computer and Communications News. Computing, Information, and Communications Division. Los Alamos National Laboratory. November 1999.

Rocha, Luis M. [1999]. From Artificial Life to Semiotic Agent Models: Review and Research Directions. Los Alamos National Laboratory Internal Report. LAUR-99-5475.

Rocha, Luis M. [1998]." Selected Self-Organization and the Semiotics of Evolutionary Systems." In: Evolutionary Systems: The Biological and Epistemological Perspectives on Selection and Self- Organization. S. Salthe, G. Van de Vijver, and M. Delpos (eds.). Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 341-358.

Rocha, Luis M. and Cliff Joslyn [1998]." "Simulations of Evolving Embodied Semiosis: Emergent Semantics in Artificial Environments" Simulation Series; Vol. 30, (2), pp. 233-238.

Rocha, Luis M. [1998]." Syntactic Autonomy." In: Proceedings of the Joint Conference on the Science and Technology of Intelligent Systems (ISIC/CIRA/ISAS 98). National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD.. IEEE Press, pp. 706-711.

Rocha, Luis M. [1998]." Where is the progress?. " Cybernetics and Human Knowing. Vol.5, No. 4, pp. 86-90.

Rocha, Luis M. [1997]." Evidence Sets and Contextual Genetic Algorithms: Exploring Uncertainty, Context, and Embodiment in Cognitive and Biological Systems. PhD Dissertation. State University of New York at Binghamton.

Rocha, Luis M. [1996]." Eigenbehavior and symbols." In: Systems Research Vol. 13, No 3, pp. 371-384

Rocha, Luis M. (Ed.) [1995]. Self-Reference in Biological and Cognitive Systems. Special issue of Communication and Cognition - Artificial Intelligence. Vol. 12, nos. 1-2.

Rocha, Luis M. [1995]. Lecture Notes for the course Introduction to Artificial Life (SSIE-504).

Rocha, Luis M. [1995]." Contextual Genetic Algorithms: Evolving Developmental Rules ." In: Advances in Artificial Life . F. Moran, A.Moreno, J.J. Merelo, and P. Chacon (Eds.). Series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer-Verlag. pp. 368-382.

Embodied Cognition, Bio-inspired computing, and Complex Networks

L.M. Rocha [2007]."Reality is Stranger than Fiction: What can Artificial Life do about Advances in Biology?". Invited presentation for the "Biocomplexity" discussion section at the 9th European Conference on Artificial Life, September 12, 2007 in Lisbon, Portugal.

Almeida e Costa, F., L.M. Rocha, E. Costa, I. Harvey, A. Coutinho (Eds.) [2007]. Advances in Artificial Life: Proceedings of the 2007 European Conference on Artificial Life. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), 4648. Springer-Verlag.

L.M. Rocha and J. Kaur [2007]."Genotype Editing and the Evolution of Regulation and Memory". Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Artificial Life. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), 4648: 63-73 (Springer-Verlag).

C. Huang, J. Kaur, A. Maguitman, L.M. Rocha[2007]."Agent-Based Model of Genotype Editing". Evolutionary Computation, 15(3): 253-89..

Almeida e Costa, F. and Rocha, Luis M. (Eds.) [2005]. Special Issue on Embodied and Situated Cognition. Artificial Life. 11 (1-2).

Almeida e Costa, F. and Rocha, Luis M. [2005]. "Embodied and Situated Cognition". Artificial Life. 11 (1-2), pp. 5 - 11

Rocha, Luis M. and W. Hordijk [2005]. "Material Representations: From the Genetic Code to the Evolution of Cellular Automata". Artificial Life. 11 (1-2), pp. 189 - 214

Rocha, L.M., T. Simas, A. Rechtsteiner, M. DiGiacomo, R. Luce [2005]. "MyLibrary@LANL: Proximity and Semi-metric Networks for a Collaborative and Recommender Web Service". In: Proc. 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'05), IEEE Press. IEEE Press, pp. 565-571.

Rocha, L.M. [2003]. "Automatic Conversation Driven by Uncertainty Reduction and Combination of Evidence for Recommendation Agents ". In: Systematic Organization of Information in Fuzzy Systems. NATO Science Series. P. Melo-Pinto, H.N. Teodorescu and T. Fukuda (Eds.) IOS Press, pp 249-265.

Rocha Luis M. [2003]. "Extraction and Semi-metric Analysis of Social and Biological Networks". Poster at Networks: Structure, Dynamics and Function, May 12 - 16, 2003, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.

Rocha, Luis M. [2002]. "Semi-metric Behavior in Document Networks and its Application to Recommendation Systems". In: Soft Computing Agents: A New Perspective for Dynamic Information Systems. V. Loia (Ed.) International Series Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications. IOS Press, pp. 137-163.

Rocha, Luis M. [2002]. "Combination of Evidence in Recommendation Systems Characterized by Distance Functions". In: Proceedings of the 2002 World Congress on Computational Intelligence: FUZZ-IEEE'02. Honolulu, Hawaii, May 2002. IEEE Press, pp. 203-208. LAUR 02-154.

Rocha, Luis M. [2001]. "TalkMine: a Soft Computing Approach to Adaptive Knowledge Recommendation". In: Soft Computing Agents: New Trends for Designing Autonomous Systems. Vincenzo Loia and Salvatore Sessa (Eds.). Series on Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing. Physica-Verlag, Springer, pp. 89-116

Rocha, Luis M. [2001]. "Adaptive Webs for Heterarchies with Diverse Communities of Users". Paper prepared for the workshop From Intelligent Networks to the Global Brain: Evolutionary Social Organization through Knowledge Technology, Brussels, July 3-5, 2001. LAUR 005173..

Rocha, Luis M. and Johan Bollen [2001]. "Biologically Motivated Distributed Designs for Adaptive Knowledge Management". In: Design Principles for the Immune System and other Distributed Autonomous Systems. L. Segel and I. Cohen (Eds.) Santa Fe Institute Series in the Sciences of Complexity. Oxford University Press, pp. 305-334.

Rocha, Luis M. [2001]. "Adaptive Recommendation and Open-Ended Semiosis". Kybernetes. Vol. 30, No. 5-6.

Bollen, Johan, Luis M. Rocha [2000]. "An Adaptive Systems Approach to the Implementation and Evaluation of Digital Library Recommendation Systems." In: Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: 4th European Conference, ECDL 2000. Lectures Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, pp.356-359.

Bollen, Johan, Hebert Van de Sompel, and Luis M. Rocha [1999]. "Mining associative relations from website logs and their application to context-dependent retrieval using spreading activation" (adobe pdf). Workshop on Organizing Web Space (WOWS), ACM Digital Libraries 99, August 1999, Berkeley, California.

Rocha, Luis M. [1999]. "TalkMine and the Adaptive Recommendation Project". In: the Proceedings of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) - Digital Libraries 99. U.C. Berkely, August 1999. pp. 242-243.

Johnson, Norman, Steen Rasmussen, Cliff Joslyn, Luis Rocha, Steven Smith, and Marianna Kantor [1998] " Symbiotic intelligence: self-organizing knowledge on distributed networks, driven by human interaction"(postscript), (pdf). Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Artificial Life, C. Adami, R. K. Belew, H. Kitano, C. E. Taylor (Eds.), MIT Press, pp. 403-407.

Rocha, Luis M. and Cliff Joslyn [1998]." "Simulations of Evolving Embodied Semiosis: Emergent Semantics in Artificial Environments" Simulation Series; Vol. 30, (2), pp. 233-238.

Uncertainty and Generalized Information Theory

A. Abi-Haidar, J. Kaur, A. Maguitman, P. Radivojac, A. Retchsteiner, K. Verspoor, Z. Wang, and L.M. Rocha [2008]. Uncovering protein interaction in abstracts and text using a novel linear model and word proximity networks". Genome Biology. In Press.

A. Abi-Haidar, J. Kaur, A. Maguitman, P. Radivojac, A. Retchsteiner, K. Verspoor, Z. Wang, and L.M. Rocha [2007]."Uncovering Protein-Protein Interactions in the Bibliome". Proceedings of the Second BioCreative Challenge Evaluation Workshop (ISBN 84-933255-6-2), pp.247-255.

Maguitman, A. G., Rechtsteiner, A., Verspoor, K., Strauss, C.E., Rocha, L.M. [2006]. "Large-Scale Testing Of Bibliome Informatics Using Pfam Protein Families". In: Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing11:76-87.

Rocha, L.M., T. Simas, A. Rechtsteiner, M. DiGiacomo, R. Luce [2005]. "MyLibrary@LANL: Proximity and Semi-metric Networks for a Collaborative and Recommender Web Service". In: Proc. 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'05), IEEE Press. IEEE Press, pp. 565-571.

Rocha, L.M. [2003]. "Automatic Conversation Driven by Uncertainty Reduction and Combination of Evidence for Recommendation Agents ". In: Systematic Organization of Information in Fuzzy Systems. NATO Science Series. P. Melo-Pinto, H.N. Teodorescu and T. Fukuda (Eds.) IOS Press, pp 249-265.

Rocha, Luis M. [2002]. "Semi-metric Behavior in Document Networks and its Application to Recommendation Systems". In: Soft Computing Agents: A New Perspective for Dynamic Information Systems. V. Loia (Ed.) International Series Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications. IOS Press. pp. 137-163.

Rocha, Luis M. [2002]. "Combination of Evidence in Recommendation Systems Characterized by Distance Functions". In: Proceedings of the 2002 World Congress on Computational Intelligence: FUZZ-IEEE'02. Honolulu, Hawaii, May 2002. IEEE Press, pp. 203-208. LAUR 02-154.

Rocha, Luis M. [2001]. "TalkMine: a Soft Computing Approach to Adaptive Knowledge Recommendation". In: Soft Computing Agents: New Trends for Designing Autonomous Systems. Vincenzo Loia and Salvatore Sessa (Eds.). Series on Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing. Physica-Verlag, Springer, pp. 89-116

Rocha, Luis M. [2001]. "Adaptive Recommendation and Open-Ended Semiosis". Kybernetes. Vol. 30, No. 5-6.

Rocha, Luis M. [1999]." Evidence Sets: Modeling Subjective Categories." In: International Journal of General Systems. Vol. 27, pp. 457-494.

Joslyn, Cliff and Luis Rocha [1997]."Towards a Formal Taxonomy of Hybrid Uncertainty Representations" (pdf) . Information Sciences. In Press.

Rocha, Luis M. [1997]." Relative Uncertainty and Evidence Sets: A Constructivist Framework." In: International Journal of General Systems. Vol. 26 (1-2), pp. 35-61.

Rocha, Luis M. [1997]." Evidence Sets: Contextual Categories " In: Proceedings of the meeting on Control Mechanisms for Complex Systems, Physical Science Laboratory, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, January 1997. M. Coombs (ed.). NMSU Press, pp. 339-357.

Rocha, Luis M. [1997]." Evidence Sets and Contextual Genetic Algorithms: Exploring Uncertainty, Context, and Embodiment in Cognitive and Biological Systems. PhD Dissertation. State University of New York at Binghamton.

Rocha, Luis M., V. Kreinovich, and R. Kearfott[1996]." Computing Uncertainty in Interval Based Sets." In: Applications of Interval Computation. R.B. Kearfott and V. Kreinovich (Eds.). Kluwer Academic Press. pp. 337-380.

Rocha, Luis M. [1996]." Relative Uncertainty: Measuring Uncertainty in Discrete and Nondiscrete Domains. " In: Proceedings of the NAFIPS'96. Michael Smith et al (Eds.) U.C. Berkeley. IEEE Press, pp. 551-555.

Henry, C. and Luis M. Rocha [1996]." Language Theory: Consensual Selection of Dynamics ." In: Cybernetics and Systems: An International Journal. Vol. 27, pp. 541-553.

Rocha, Luis M. [1995]." Interval Based Evidence Sets ." In: Proceedings of the ISUMA-NAFIPS'95. B. Ayyub (Ed.). IEEE Press. pp.624-629.

Rocha, Luis M. [1994]." Cognitive Categorization revisited: extending interval valued fuzzy sets as simulation tools for concept combination ." In: Proceedings of the 1994 International Conference of NAFIPS/IFIS/NASA. IEEE Press. pp 400-404.

Rocha, Luis M. [1991]." Fuzzification of Conversation Theory (pdf). In: Principia Cybernetica Conference, Free University of Brussels, Brussels, June 1991. Ed. Francis Heylighen.

Other

Varela F., E. Thompson and E. Rosch [1998]. A Mente Corporea: Ciencia Cognitiva e Experiencia Humana.. Editora Piaget. Translation and Scientific Editing by Luis M. Rocha from the original "The Embodied Mind".

Rocha, Luis M. [1997]." Obituary for Professor Gordon Pask ." In: International Journal of General Systems Vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 219-222.

Calls for Papers

Current

9th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 07), September 10-14, 2007, Lisbon, Portugal

Multi-Agents for modelling Complex Systems (MA4CS), Satellite Conference of the European Conference on Complex Systems (ECCS'07), Dresden, Germany, October 5-6, 2007

Recent Past

The 10th International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems (Alife X), June 3-7, 2006, School of Informatics, Indiana University, Bloomington

European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 2005), Monday 5th to Friday 9th September 2005 University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent (UK). Includes the Active agents and their environments as dynamical systems Workshop

12th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal, 05 to 08 December, 2005. 2nd Portuguese Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Algorithms (ALEA 2005)

Genetic and Evolutionary Computation COnference (GECCO 2005), Washington, DC, June 25 - 29, 2005.

Agent-Based Simulation 5, Lisbon, Portugal, 3-5 May 2004.

Genetic Regulatory Networks: Theory and Practice, Canberra, Australia, 8th - 12th December 2003.

Oeiras Mathematical and Computational Biology Workshop, June 20, 2003, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência.

International interdisciplinary seminar on new robotics, evolution and embodied cognition. Lisbon, Portugal, November 12-15, 2002. Special Issue of Artificial Life.

Media Pieces

On Facebook, Scholars Link Up With Data, New York Times, December 17, 2007. A description of work pursued with Eliot Smith.

Tecendo Redes Para A Biologia Computacional, Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian Newsletter, September 2007

Luis Rocha: FLAD and the Portuguese Scientists in America, Ciencia Hoje, October 1, 2006

Aposta na investigação em Portugal, Correio da Manha, June 22, 2006

IGC e FLAD criam laboratório de biologia computacional, Ciencia Hoje, June 22, 2006

Biologia Computacional: Parceria luso-americana para co-laboratório, Lusa News Agency, June 21, 2006

Interview (asf) given to Complexity Digest at the Alife X Conference.

IU to showcase AI technology. Indiana Daily Student: Thursday, June 1, 2006

The facts of Artificial Life. Research at Indiana University: Thursday, June 1, 2006

Luis Rocha, deFrente: May 29, 2006

Indiana noteworthy, Indystar.com: May 22, 2006

Integrating artificial life simulation with synthetic biology, Laboratorytalk: May 22, 2006

Integrating artificial life simulation with synthetic biology, School of Informatics Press Release: May 22, 2006

Integrating artificial life simulation with synthetic biology, biohealthmathematics.com: May 19, 2006

Scientists to Get ‘Alife’ at International Conference. Techpoint, March 15, 2006

Luís Rocha preside a conferência sobre duas décadas de Vida Artificial, Ciencia Hoje, March 15, 2006 Portugal

Artificial life conference set for June, IU Home pages, March 10, 2006

Scientists to Get ‘Alife’ at International Conference, Press Release, February 2006.

Interview (asf video) given to Complexity Digest at the Artificial Life 9 Conference, Boston, MA, 04/09/12-15.

Mentes Lusas. in Expresso, Portugal, July 2004.

Video piece from the 2010 program of the Portuguese National Television channel RTP2, November, 2002. For faster and slower connections

Newspaper article "Insetos, neurônios e sistema imunológico. Esses são os modelos das redes do futuro" in O Estado de Sao Paulo, September 16, 2002. There is also a piece about the Global Brain and Adaptive Webs where my work is mentioned, as well as a translation of the Washignton Post article below.

Newspaper article "Web May Hold the Key to Achieving Artificial Intelligence" in The Washington Post, September 6, 2002; Page A01. Pretty much the same article as"Creating a smarter computer" in the MSNBC web site.

Newspaper article "O português de Los Alamos" in Expresso, Portugal, August 31, 2002. Larger version of the article in the reporter's web site.

Newspaper article "Nova robótica apresenta-se em Lisboa" in Expresso, Portugal, August 17, 2002.

Interview (real video) given to Complexity Digest at the NECSI Complex Systems Conference.

Magazine article "Evolution and scientific literature: towards a decentralized adaptive web" in Nature: WebDebates, 2001.


For more information contact Luis Rocha at rocha@indiana.edu. Check the Web Design Credits, for due credit.
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