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1 Evolutionary Systems

• Natural and Artificial Evolution [ppt] [pdf]
• Evolutionary Electronics [ppt] [pdf]

2 Cellular Systems [ppt] [pdf]

3 Neural Systems

• Biological and Artificial Neural Networks [ppt] [pdf]
• Evolution of Artificial Neural Networks [ppt] [pdf]

4 Developmental Systems [ppt] [pdf]

5 Immune Systems [ppt] [pdf]

6 Behavioral Systems

• Evolutionary Robotics [ppt] [pdf]
• Behavior-based Robotics [ppt] [pdf]
• Bio-mimetic Robot Control [ppt] [pdf]

7 Collective Systems

• Coevolution [ppt] [pdf]
• Swarm Intelligence [ppt] [pdf]
• Swarm Robotics [ppt] [pdf]