JCB 2003 Josh Bongard

    Morphology, Evolution & Cognition Laboratory

    Assistant Professor

    Department of Computer Science

    University of Vermont

    329 Votey Hall, Burlington, VT 05405

    Tel: (802) 656-4665; Cell: (802) 578-4445; Fax: (802) 656-0696

    Curriculum Vitae: PDF

    josh.bongard@uvm.edu
    New Research Teaching Media Publications The Zoo PhD Thesis MSc Thesis Misc
    Publications
    Papers dealing with the Estimation-Exploration Algorithm
    Papers dealing with Artificial Ontogeny
    Papers dealing with the Legion System
    Other papers
    Books
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    		 Pfeifer R. and Bongard J. (2006b) How the Body Shapes the Way We Think: A New View of Intelligence, MIT Press, November. (Read the book review by H. Kitano in Nature, 447: 381-382, or A.A. Ghazanfar & H.K. Turesson in Nature Neuroscience, 11(1): 3)

    Miscellaneous
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    		 Bongard, J. (2009). Biologically inspired computing. IEEE Computer, 42(4): 95-98.
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    		 Bongard, J. (2008). Probabilistic Robotics Book Review. Artificial Life, 14(2): 227-229.
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    [PDF]    		 Conduit, R., Adami, C., Lipson, H., Zykov, V. and Bongard, J. (2007). To sleep, perchance to dream. Science, 315: 1219-1220.

    Journal Articles

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    		 Bongard J. C. (2009). Accelerating self-modeling in cooperative robot teams. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 13(2): 321-332.

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    		 Bongard J. and Lipson H.(2007). Automated reverse engineering of nonlinear dynamical systems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104(24): 9943-9948.

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    		 Bongard, J., Zykov, V., Lipson, H. (2006). Resilient machines through continuous self-modeling. Science, 314: 1118-1121. (More information about this project can be found here; a Perspective article on this work by C. Adami can be found here).
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    		 Kouchmeshky, B., Aquino, W., Lipson, H., and Bongard, J. C. (2006). Coevolutionary strategy for structural damage identification using minimal physical testing. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 69(5): 1085-1107.
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    		 Bongard J. and Lipson H. (2005) Active coevolutionary learning of deterministic finite automata, Journal of Machine Learning Research, 6(Oct): 1651-1678.
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    		 Bongard J. and Lipson H. (2005) Nonlinear system identification using coevolution of models and tests, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 9(4): 361-384.
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    [PDF]     		Pfeifer, R., F. Iida and J. Bongard (2005) New Robotics: Design Principles for Intelligent Systems, Artificial Life, Special Issue on New Robotics, Evolution and Embodied Cognition, 11(1-2): 99-120.
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    [PDF]     		Bongard, J. C. and R. Pfeifer (2003) Evolving Complete Agents Using Artificial Ontogeny, in Hara, F. and R. Pfeifer, (eds.), Morpho-functional Machines: The New Species (Designing Embodied Intelligence) Springer-Verlag, pp. 237-258.

    Refereed Conference Publications

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    		Kaipa, K., Bongard, J. C., Meltzoff A. N. (2009) Combined Structure and Motion Extraction from Visual Data Using Evolutionary Active Learning 2009 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2009), Montreal Canada.

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    		Auerbach, J., Bongard, J. C. (2009) Evolution of Functional Specialization in a Morphologically Homogeneous Robot. 2009 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2009), Montreal Canada. [Video1] [Video2]

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    		Auerbach, J., Bongard, J. C. (2009) How Robot Morphology and Training Order Affect the Learning of Multiple Behaviors. 2009 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2009), Trondeim, Norway. [Video1] [Video2] [Video3] [Video4] [Video5]
    [PDF] Bongard, J. (2008) Behavior Chaining: Incremental Behavior Integration for Evolutionary Robotics, Artificial Life XI, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. [Source Code] [Video1] [Video2]
    [PDF] Bongard, J. (2007) Synthesizing Physically-Realistic Environmental Models from Robot Exploration, Advances in Artificial Life: 9th European Conference, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 806-815.
    [PDF] Bongard, J. (2007) Action-Selection and Crossover Strategies for Self-Modeling Machines, Proceedings of the 9th Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, ACM Press, New York, NY, pp. 198-205.
    [PDF] Bongard, J. (2007) Exploiting Multiple Robots to Accelerate Self-Modeling, Proceedings of the 9th Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, ACM Press, New York, NY, pp. 214-221.
    [PDF] Lipson, H., Bongard, J., Zykov, V., Malone, E. (2006) Evolutionary Robotics for Legged Machines: From Simulation to Physical Reality, Proceedings of the 9th Intl. Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems, University of Tokyo, Japan, 11-18.
    [PDF] Bongard, J. C., Zykov, V. and H. Lipson (2006) Automated Synthesis of Body Schema using Multiple Sensor Modalities, in Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems (ALIFEX), pp. 220-226.
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    [PDF]     		Bongard J. and Lipson H. (2005) Reinventing the Wheel: Experiments in Evolutionary Geometry, Late Breaking Papers of the 2005 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, June 2005, Washington DC.
    [PDF] Bongard J. and Lipson H. (2005c) `Managed Challenge' Alleviates Disengagement in Co-evolutionary System Identification, Proceedings of the 2005 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, June 2005, Washington DC, pp. 531-538.
    [PDF] White P., Zykov V., Bongard J., and Lipson H. (2005) Three Dimensional Stochastic Reconfiguration of Modular Robots, Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp. 161-168.
    [PDF] Zykov, V., J. Bongard and H. Lipson (2005) Co-evolutionary Variance Can Guide Physical Testing in Evolutionary System Identification, The 2005 NASA/DoD Conference on Evolvable Hardware, June 2005, Washington D.C., USA, pp. 213-220.
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    		 Lipson, H. and J. Bongard (2004) An Exploration-Estimation Algorithm for Synthesis and Analysis of Engineering Systems Using Minimal Physical Testing, in Proceedings of the 2004 ASME Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computer and Information in Engineering Conference, Salt Lake City, UT.
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    [MPG]     		Zykov, V., Bongard, J. C. and H. Lipson (2004) Evolving Dynamics Gaits on a Physical Robot, in Late Breaking Papers for the 2004 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), Seattle, WA.
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    [PDF]     		Bongard, J. C. and H. Lipson (2004) Once More Unto the Breach: Co-evolving a Robot and its Simulator, in Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems (ALIFE9), pp. 57-62.
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    [PDF]     		Bongard, J. C. and H. Lipson (2004) Automated Robot Function Recovery after Unanticipated Failure or Environmental Change using a Minimum of Hardware Trials, in Proceedings of the NASA/DoD Conference on Evolvable Hardware, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 169-176.
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    [PDF]     		Bongard, J. C. and H. Lipson (2004) Automating Genetic Network Inference with Minimal Physical Experimentation Using Coevolution, in Proceedings of the 2004 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), Springer, pp. 333-345.
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    [AVI]     		Bongard, J. C. and H. Lipson (2004) Automated Damage Diagnosis and Recovery for Remote Robotics, in Proceedings of the 2004 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Omnipress, pp. 3545-3550.
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    [PDF]     		Bongard, J. C. (2002) Evolved Sensor Fusion and Dissociation in an Embodied Agent, in Proceedings of the EPSRC/BBSRC International Workshop Biologically-Inspired Robotics: The Legacy of W. Grey Walter, pp. 102-109.
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    [PDF]     		Frutiger, D. R., J. C. Bongard and F. Iida (2002) Iterative Product Engineering: Evolutionary Robot Design, in Bidaud, P. and F. B. Amar (eds.), Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots, Professional Engineering Publishing, pp. 619-629.
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    [PDF]     		Bongard, J. C. and R. Pfeifer (2002) A Method for Isolating Morphological Effects on Evolved Behaviour, in Hallam, B., Floreano, D. et al (eds.), Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behaviour (SAB2002), MIT Press, pp. 305-311.
    [PS] Bongard, J. C. and R. Pfeifer (2002) Relating Neural Network Performance to Morphological Differences in Embodied Agents, in Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston, USA.
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    [PDF]     		Bongard, J. C. (2002) Evolving Modular Genetic Regulatory Networks, in Proceedings of the IEEE 2002 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC2002), IEEE Press, pp. 1872-1877.
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    [PDF]     		Paul, C. and J. C. Bongard (2001) The Road Less Travelled: Morphology in the Optimization of Biped Robot Locomotion, in Proceedings of The IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2001), Hawaii, USA.
    [PS] Bongard, J. C. and C. Paul (2001) Making Evolution an Offer It Can't Refuse: Morphology and the Extradimensional Bypass, in J. Keleman and P. Sosik (eds.), Proceedings of the Sixth European Conference on Artificial Life, Prague, CZ, pp. 401-412. [Presentation available in PDF]
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    [PDF]     		Bongard, J. C. and R. Pfeifer (2001) Repeated Structure and Dissociation of Genotypic and Phenotypic Complexity in Artificial Ontogeny, in Spector, L. et al (eds.), Proceedings of The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO-2001. San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann publishers, pp. 829-836.
    [PS] Bongard, J. C. and C. Paul (2000) Investigating Morphological Symmetry and Locomotive Efficiency using Virtual Embodied Evolution, in J.-A. Meyer et al (eds.), From Animals to Animats: The Sixth International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behaviour, pp. 420-429
    [PS] Bongard, J. C. (2000) Reducing Collective Behavioural Complexity through Heterogeneity, in M. Bedau et al (eds.), Artificial Life VII: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference, (MIT Press) , pp. 327-336 [Presentation available in PDF]
    [PS] Bongard, J. C. (2000) The Legion System: A Novel Approach to Evolving Heterogeneity for Collective Problem Solving, in R. Poli, W. Banzhaf et al (eds.), Genetic Programming: Third European Conference, pp. 25-37. (Springer-Verlag) [Presentation available in PDF]
    [PS] Bongard, J. C. (1999) Coevolutionary Dynamics of a Multi-Population Genetic Programming System, in Floreano, D., J.-D. Nicoud and F. Mondada (eds.), Proceedings of the Fifth European Conference on Artificial Life, pp. 316-321. (Springer-Verlag)

    Workshop and Minimally-Refereed Publications

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    		Bongard, J. C. (2009) A Riddle Wrapped In a Mystery. IEEE Newsletter of the Autonomous Mental Development Technical Committee, 6(2): 6.

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    		Lu, Z., Bongard, J. C. (2009) Exploiting Multiple Classifier Types with Active Learning 2009 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2009), Montreal Canada.

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    		Bongard, J. C. (2009) The Impact of Jointly Evolving Robot Morphology and Control on Adaptation Rate. 2009 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2009), Montreal Canada.

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    		 Bongard, J. (2008) Embodied cognition: the other morphology. The Neuromorphic Engineer, DOI: 10.2417/1200812.1420.

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    		 Lu, Z., Rughani, A. I., Tranmer, B. I., Bongard, J. (2008). Informative Sampling for Large Unbalanced Data Sets. 4th Workshop on Medical Applications of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation at GECCO 2008.
    [N/A] Lungarella, M., Iida, F., Bongard, J. and Pfeifer, R. (2008) AI in the 21st century -- with historical reflections, Proceedings of the 50th Anniversary Summit of Artificial Intelligence, pp. 1-8.