Charles Ofria

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Charles Ofria is affiliated with the following schools: Stony Brook University, California Institute of Technology, Michigan State University, Keck Graduate Institute

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According to Wikipedia, Dr. Charles A. Ofria is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan State University, the director of the Digital Evolution Lab there, and Director of the BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action. He is the son of the late Charles Ofria, who developed the first fully integrated shop management program for the automotive repair industry. Ofria attended Stuyvesant High School and graduated from Ward Melville High School in 1991. He obtained a B.S. in Computer Science, Pure Mathematics, and Applied Mathematics from Stony Brook University in 1994, and a Ph.D. in Computation and Neural Systems from the California Institute of Technology in 1999. Ofria's research focuses on the interplay between computer science and Darwinian evolution.

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Charles Ofria's Published Works

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The evolutionary origin of complex features (2003) (714)
PERSPECTIVE:EVOLUTION AND DETECTION OF GENETIC ROBUSTNESS (2003) (637)
Evolution of digital organisms at high mutation rates leads to survival of the flattest (2001) (629)
Evolution of Biological Complexity (2000) (506)
Avida: A Software Platform for Research in Computational Evolutionary Biology (2004) (394)
Genome complexity, robustness and genetic interactions in digital organisms (1999) (300)
Evolving coordinated quadruped gaits with the HyperNEAT generative encoding (2009) (204)
Balancing Robustness and Evolvability (2006) (198)
The Surprising Creativity of Digital Evolution: A Collection of Anecdotes from the Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life Research Communities (2018) (191)
On the Performance of Indirect Encoding Across the Continuum of Regularity (2011) (157)
Adaptive Radiation from Resource Competition in Digital Organisms (2004) (129)
Natural Selection Fails to Optimize Mutation Rates for Long-Term Adaptation on Rugged Fitness Landscapes (2008) (128)
Sexual reproduction reshapes the genetic architecture of digital organisms (2006) (124)
EVOLUTION AND DETECTION OF GENETIC ROBUSTNESS (2003) (123)
Distributed Cooperative Caching in Social Wireless Networks (2013) (107)
Open-Ended Evolution: Perspectives from the OEE Workshop in York (2016) (104)
Task-switching costs promote the evolution of division of labor and shifts in individuality (2012) (102)
Coevolution Drives the Emergence of Complex Traits and Promotes Evolvability (2014) (93)
Experiments on the role of deleterious mutations as stepping stones in adaptive evolution (2013) (83)
EFFECTS OF POPULATION SIZE AND MUTATION RATE ON THE EVOLUTION OF MUTATIONAL ROBUSTNESS (2007) (71)
Selective pressures on genomes in molecular evolution (2003) (61)
The sensitivity of HyperNEAT to different geometric representations of a problem (2009) (60)
Investigating whether hyperNEAT produces modular neural networks (2010) (58)
The Evolutionary Origin of Somatic Cells under the Dirty Work Hypothesis (2014) (52)
Ecological Specialization and Adaptive Decay in Digital Organisms (2006) (51)
Design of evolvable computer languages (2002) (48)
Harnessing Digital Evolution (2008) (46)
Evolution of stable ecosystems in populations of digital organisms (2002) (41)
Evolving Digital Ecological Networks (2013) (40)
Digital Evolution of Behavioral Models for Autonomic Systems (2008) (37)
How a Generative Encoding Fares as Problem-Regularity Decreases (2008) (35)
HybrID: A Hybridization of Indirect and Direct Encodings for Evolutionary Computation (2009) (35)
Selective Press Extinctions, but Not Random Pulse Extinctions, Cause Delayed Ecological Recovery in Communities of Digital Organisms (2009) (33)
Selective pressures for accurate altruism targeting: evidence from digital evolution for difficult-to-test aspects of inclusive fitness theory (2011) (33)
RUNAWAY SEXUAL SELECTION LEADS TO GOOD GENES (2013) (31)
The evolutionary origin of complex (2003) (29)
Evolution of genetic organization in digital organisms (1999) (28)
Experiments with digital organisms on the origin and maintenance of sex in changing environments. (2010) (27)
The genotype-phenotype map of an evolving digital organism (2017) (27)
Random subsampling improves performance in lexicase selection (2019) (27)
Historical and contingent factors affect re‐evolution of a complex feature lost during mass extinction in communities of digital organisms (2008) (26)
PERSPECTIVE: EVOLUTION AND DETECTION OF GENETIC ROBUSTNESS (2003) (25)
Digitally Evolving Models for Dynamically Adaptive Systems (2007) (24)
Using group selection to evolve leadership in populations of self-replicating digital organisms (2007) (24)
On the Gradual Evolution of Complexity and the Sudden Emergence of Complex Features (2008) (23)
Investigating the Emergence of Phenotypic Plasticity in Evolving Digital Organisms (2007) (22)
Fluctuating environments select for short-term phenotypic variation leading to long-term exploration (2018) (22)
Early Evolution of Memory Usage in Digital Organisms (2010) (21)
Rapid host-parasite coevolution drives the production and maintenance of diversity in digital organisms (2011) (21)
Ontogeny Tends to Recapitulate Phylogeny in Digital Organisms (2012) (20)
Directed Evolution of Communication and Cooperation in Digital Organisms (2007) (20)
A Comparison of the Effects of Random and Selective Mass Extinctions on Erosion of Evolutionary History in Communities of Digital Organisms (2012) (19)
Kin-Selection : The Rise and Fall of Kin-Cheaters (2004) (19)
Cooperative network construction using digital germlines (2008) (18)
Exploring genetic programming systems with MAP-Elites (2018) (18)
Ecological approaches to diversity maintenance in evolutionary algorithms (2009) (18)
Evolving event-driven programs with SignalGP (2018) (17)
Ecological theory provides insights about evolutionary computation (2018) (16)
Using Avida to Test the Effects of Natural Selection on Phylogenetic Reconstruction Methods (2004) (15)
Evolution of an Adaptive Sleep Response in Digital Organisms (2007) (15)
An ecology-based evolutionary algorithm to evolve solutions to complex problems (2012) (15)
Evolution of Differentiated Expression Patterns in Digital Organisms (1999) (15)
Evolution of Cooperative Information Gathering in Self-Replicating Digital Organisms (2007) (14)
The Evolution of Division of Labor (2009) (14)
The Evolution of Evolvability: Changing Environments Promote Rapid Adaptation in Digital Organisms (2016) (13)
Tag-accessed memory for genetic programming (2019) (13)
Evolution of division of labor in genetically homogenous groups (2010) (13)
WebAL Comes of Age: A Review of the First 21 Years of Artificial Life on the Web (2016) (12)
Avida (2009) (12)
The MODES Toolbox: Measurements of Open-Ended Dynamics in Evolving Systems (2018) (11)
The Evolution of Temporal Polyethism (2012) (11)
The effect of natural selection on the performance of maximum parsimony (2007) (11)
What’s holding artificial life back from open-ended evolution? (2015) (11)
Characterizing the Effects of Random Subsampling on Lexicase Selection (2019) (11)
Evolutionary dynamics, epistatic interactions, and biological information. (2010) (11)
The Evolutionary Origins of Phenotypic Plasticity (2016) (11)
Evolutionary Potential is Maximized at Intermediate Diversity Levels (2012) (11)
The Evolutionary Origin of Associative Learning (2020) (10)
Gene duplications drive the evolution of complex traits and regulation (2017) (10)
Causes vs Benefits in the Evolution of Prey Grouping (2014) (9)
On the evolution of motility and intelligent tactic response (2008) (9)
A Case Study of the De Novo Evolution of a Complex Odometric Behavior in Digital Organisms (2013) (9)
Understanding Evolutionary Potential in Virtual CPU Instruction Set Architectures (2013) (9)
Measuring the ability of lexicase selection to find obscure pathways to optimality (2021) (9)
The Effect of Conflicting Pressures on the Evolution of Division of Labor (2014) (9)
Clever creatures: Case studies of evolved digital organisms (2011) (9)
Toward Open-Ended Fraternal Transitions in Individuality (2018) (8)
Conduit (2021) (8)
Evolution of Leader Election in Populations of Self-Replicating Digital Organisms (1996) (8)
Interpreting the Tape of Life: Ancestry-Based Analyses Provide Insights and Intuition about Evolutionary Dynamics (2020) (8)
Cockroaches, drunkards, and climbers: Modeling the evolution of simple movement strategies using digital organisms (2009) (7)
Adaptive phenotypic plasticity stabilizes evolution in fluctuating environments (2021) (7)
Spatial resource heterogeneity increases diversity and evolutionary potential (2017) (7)
Suicidal selection: Programmed cell death can evolve in unicellular organisms due solely to kin selection (2019) (7)
Autonomic Software Development Methodology Based on Darwinian Evolution (2008) (7)
What else is in an evolved name? Exploring evolvable specificity with SignalGP (2018) (7)
Learning an evolvable genotype-phenotype mapping (2018) (7)
Genetically integrated traits and rugged adaptive landscapes in digital organisms (2015) (6)
Modeling the evolutionary dynamics of plasmids in spatial populations (2011) (6)
Applying Ecological Principles to Genetic Programming (2017) (6)
Tag-based regulation of modules in genetic programming improves context-dependent problem solving (2020) (6)
Behavioral Strategy Chases Promote the Evolution of Prey Intelligence* (2013) (6)
Improved adaptation in exogenously and endogenously changing environments (2017) (5)
Applying digital evolution to the design of self-adaptive software (2009) (5)
Evolving artificial neural networks with generative encodings inspired by developmental biology (2010) (5)
The Effect of Natural Selection on Phylogeny Reconstruction Algorithms (2003) (5)
Avida: Evolution Experiments with Self-Replicating Computer Programs (2005) (5)
The Effects of Evolution and Spatial Structure on Diversity in Biological Reserves (2016) (5)
Spatial resource heterogeneity creates local hotspots of evolutionary potential (2017) (4)
Digital Evolution Exhibits Surprising Robustness to Poor Design Decisions (2012) (4)
A suite of diagnostic metrics for characterizing selection schemes (2022) (4)
Social Structure and the Maintenance of Biodiversity (2010) (4)
Digital Evolution for Ecology Research: A Review (2021) (4)
Quantifying the tape of life: Ancestry-based metrics provide insights and intuition about evolutionary dynamics (2018) (4)
Exploring Evolved Multicellular Life Histories in a Open-Ended Digital Evolution System (2021) (3)
The Prisoners Dilemma, Memory, and the Early Evolution of Intelligence (2016) (3)
MABE 2.0: an introduction to MABE and a road map for the future of MABE development (2019) (3)
Spatial Structure Can Decrease Symbiotic Cooperation (2018) (3)
The evolution of kin inclusivity levels (2014) (3)
On Sexual Selection in the Presence of Multiple Costly Displays (2019) (3)
Informed Down-Sampled Lexicase Selection: Identifying productive training cases for efficient problem solving (2023) (3)
The Comparative Hybrid Approach to Investigate Cognition across Substrates (2021) (3)
Evolution of genetic codes (1999) (2)
Problem decomposition using indirect reciprocity in evolved populations (2009) (2)
Selection for group-level efficiency leads to self-regulation of population size (2008) (2)
Digital evolution with avida (2010) (2)
Finger-painting Fitness Landscapes: An Interactive Tool for Exploring Complex Evolutionary Dynamics (2012) (2)
Visualizing the tape of life: exploring evolutionary history with virtual reality (2018) (2)
Applying Digital Evolution to the Development of Self-Adaptive ULS Systems (2007) (2)
The Boundedness Illusion: Asymptotic projections from early evolution underestimate evolutionary potential (2018) (2)
Data Standards for Artificial Life Software (2019) (2)
Using the Comparative Hybrid Approach to Disentangle the Role of Substrate Choice on the Evolution of Cognition (2022) (1)
DR AF T Toward Open-Ended Fraternal Transitions in Individuality (2018) (1)
Horizontal Gene Transfer Leads to Increased Task Acquisition and Genomic Modularity in Digital Organisms (2019) (1)
Harnessing Digital Evolution Digital Petri Dish (2008) (1)
Evolving reactive agents with SignalGP (2018) (1)
The evolutionary potential of populations on complex fitness landscapes (2012) (1)
Tag-based module regulation for genetic programming (2022) (1)
Signals in the Dark: What factors select for the evolution of cooperation controlled by quorum sensing? (2018) (1)
There and back again: gene-processing hardware for the evolution and robotic deployment of robust navigation strategies (2014) (1)
Hereditary stratigraphy: genome annotations to enable phylogenetic inference over distributed populations (2022) (1)
Identifying Necessary Components for Open-Ended Evolution (2016) (1)
Sexual selection promotes ecological speciation in digital organisms (2017) (1)
Digital sex: Causes and consequences (2011) (1)
Arms Races and Strategy Chases Promote the Evolution of Prey Intelligence (2013) (1)
Matchmaker, matchmaker, make me a match: geometric, variational, and evolutionary implications of criteria for tag affinity (2021) (1)
The evolutionary origins of memory use in navigation (2009) (1)
How the footprint of history shapes the evolution of digital organisms (2021) (1)
Evolving Signal-driven Digital Organisms with SignalGP (2019) (0)
Understanding Fraternal Transitions in Individuality (2018) (0)
Conduit: a C++ library for best-effort high performance computing (2021) (0)
Genetically integrated traits and rugged adaptive landscapes in digital organisms (2015) (0)
Measuring Biological Complexity in Digital Organisms (2019) (0)
The evolution of adaptive phenotypic plasticity stabilizes populations against environmental fluctuations (2022) (0)
The Boundedness Illusion: Projections from early evolution can underestimate evolutionary potential (2018) (0)
Major Transitions in Digital Evolution* (2020) (0)
Best-Effort Communication Improves Performance and Scales Robustly on Conventional Hardware (2022) (0)
Unraveling the genotype-phenotype map of evolving digital organisms (2015) (0)
What Factors Drive the Evolution of Mutualism? (2016) (0)
The Evolution of Biological Complexity in Digital Organisms (2013) (0)
Reviewers for Volume 21 (2008) (0)
How generative encodings fare on less regular problems (2008) (0)
Division of labor promotes the entrenchment of multicellularity (2023) (0)
The Evolution of Genetic Robustness for Cellular Cooperation in Early Multicellular Organisms (2022) (0)
Chapter 1 Exploring Genetic Programming Systems with MAP-Elites (2019) (0)
Investigations into the evolutionary origin of navigation and learning (2017) (0)
Synthesizing Research on the Generation and Maintenance of Population Diversity (2018) (0)
Tag-based Genetic Regulation for Genetic Programming (2020) (0)
Phage (co)evolution along a parasitism-mutualism continuum (2014) (0)
New MSU Research Sheds Light on How We Become Altruistic (2010) (0)
Analyzing biological complexity with digital organisms (2005) (0)
Editorial: Digital evolution: Insights for biologists (2022) (0)
Digital investigations on the evolution of prokaryote photosynthesis regulation: late-breaking abstract (2018) (0)
fitness theory from digital evolution for difficult-to-test aspects of inclusive Selective pressures for accurate altruism targeting : evidence (2010) (0)
On the evolution of mutation bias in digital organisms (2011) (0)
Rank epistasis: A new model for analyzing epistatic interactions in the absence of quantifiable fitness interactions (2020) (0)
SignalGP-Lite: Event Driven Genetic Programming Library for Large-Scale Artificial Life Applications (2021) (0)
Threshold for cooperation on irregular spatial networks (2017) (0)
The evolution of division of labor in digital organisms (2011) (0)
Supporting Online Material for (2004) (0)
hstrat: a Python Package for phylogenetic inference on distributed digital evolution populations (2022) (0)
Reviewers of Volume 12 (2006) (0)
Reviewers for volume 17 (1993) (0)

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