Publications
Cognitive Science
Downing, K. (2007). Neuroscientific Implications for Situated and Embodied Artificial Inteligence. Connection Science (in press).
Downing, K. (2005). The Predictive Basis of Situated and Embodied Artificial Intelligence. Proceedings of the 7th Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2005), Washington, D.C.
Downing, K. (2004). Development and the Baldwin Effect. Artificial Life , 10(1), pp. 39-64.
Downing, K. (2004). Artificial life and natural intelligence. Proceedings of the 6th Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2004), , Seattle, WA., pp. 81-92.
Artificial Life
Downing, K. (2003). Gaia in the Machine: The Artificial Life Approach. In Scientists Debate Gaia: The Next Century , MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Downing, K. (2002). The Simulated Emergence of Distributed Environmental Control in Evolving Microcosms. Artificial Life , 6(2), pp. 123-153.
Downing, K. (2001) Modular Designer Chemistries for Artificial Life. Proceedings of the 3nd Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2001) , San Francisco, California.
Downing, K. (2000) Exploring Gaia theory: Artificial life on a planetary scale. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Artificial Life, Portland, Oregon.
Downing, K. & Zvirinsky, P. (1999) The Simulated Evolution of Biochemical guilds: Reconciling Gaia Theory and Natural Selection. Artificial Life 5(4), pp. 291-318
Downing, K. (1998) Using evolutionary computational techniques in environmental modelling. Environmental Modelling & Software, Elsevier Publishers. Vol. 13, pp. 519-528.
Downing, K. (1997) EUZONE: Simulating the Evolution of Aquatic Ecosystems. Artificial Life, vol 3(4), pp. 307-333.
Downing, K. and M. Reed (1996) Object-oriented migration modelling for biological impact assessment. Ecological Modelling, Elsevier Publishers, vol 93, pp. 203-219.
Evolutionary Computation
Downing, K. (2003). Developmental models for emergent computation. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Evolvable Systems (ICES-2003) , Trondheim, Norway., pp. 105-116.
Downing, K. (2001). Reinforced Genetic Programming. Genetic Programming & Evolvable Machines, 2(3), pp. 259-288.
Downing, K. (2001) Adaptive Genetic Programs via Reinforcement Learning. Proceedings of the 3nd Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2001) , San Francisco, California.
Downing, K. (1998), Combining genetic programming and genetic algorithms for ecological simulation. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Genetic Programming, Madison, Wisconsin.
Downing, K. (1997) The emergence of insect protrandry: a "natural" evolutionary computation application. Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Evolutionary Computation, Indianapolis, Indiana.
Downing, K. (1997) The emergence of emergence distributions: using genetic algorithms to test biological theories. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Genetic Algorithms, East Lansing, Michigan.
Artificial Intelligence
Downing, K. (1993) Physiological applications of consistency-based diagnosis. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Journal. vol 5, pp. 65-82.
Downing, K. (1992). Consistency-based diagnosis in physiological domains. Proceedings of the 10th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 558-563.
Downing, K. (1992). Analyzing genetic regulatory systems via focused envisionment. Proceedings of the 6th Annual Qualitative Physics Workshop, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Downing, K. (1992) A qualitative teleological approach to cardiovascular physiology. Recent Advances in Qualitative Physics, (P. Struss and B. Faltings eds.), MIT Press.
Downing, K. Fickas, S. (1991) A qualitative modeling tool for specification criticism. Conceptual Modelling, Databases, and CASE: An integrated view of information systems development (ed. Peri Loucopoulos), Ablex Publishers.
Downing, K. (1990). The use of teleology in the qualitative evaluation and explanation of circulatory systems. Doctoral Thesis, Tech report # 90-13, The University of Oregon.
Downing, K. (1990) The qualitative criticism of circulatory models via bipartite teleological analysis. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Journal, vol. 2, pp. 149-171.
Downing, K. and J. Shrager (1988) Causes to clauses: managing assumptions in qualitative medical diagnosis. International Journal of AI in Engineering, vol. 3(4), pp. 192-199.
Downing, K. (1987). Diagnostic improvement through qualitative sensitivity analysis and aggregation. Proceedings of the 6th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 789-793.
