Table of Contents

Preface xi
Acknowledgments xiii
1 Evolutionary Systems 1
2 Cellular Systems 101
3 Neural Systems 163
4 Developmental Systems 269
5 Immune Systems 335
6 Behavioral Systems 399
7 Collective Systems 515
Conclusion 585
References 587
Index 651

About the Author

Dario Floreano is Director of the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL). He is the coauthor of Evolutionary Robotics and Bio-Inspired Artificial Intelligence (both published by the MIT Press).

Claudio Mattiussi is an independent researcher. His research interests include computational intelligence, probabilistic engineering, and the consistent numerical formulation of physical field problems.