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Selected publications

Many of these and other publications are available in my GoogleScholar page.
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E.S.Tzafestas. “Evolution of Attraction for Cooperation”, Proceedings of the XVI International Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation (WIVACE 2023), Venice, Italy, September 2023. Editor link

E.S.Tzafestas. “On the adaptive value of mood and mood contagion”, in L. Cañamero et al. (Eds.): SAB 2022 (From Animals to Animats 16), September 2022, LNAI 13499, pp. 205–216. Editor link

E.S.Tzafestas. “Cultural Innovation Triggers Inequality in a Sharing Economy”, Proceedings of the XVI International Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation (WIVACE 2022), Gaeta, Italy, September 2022. Editor link

E.S.Tzafestas. “Relation between the Public and the Private and Evolution of Food Sharing”, Proceedings of the Social Simulation Conference (SSC 2022), Milano, Italy, September 2022. Editor link

E.S.Tzafestas. “First selectively imitate responses, then associate with function”, Frontiers in Psychology, section Cognitive Science, August 2021, Volume 12, Article 560653. Journal link

E.S.Tzafestas. “Self-organization of power at will” (Commentary on George Ainslie’s article “Willpower with and without effort”, 44:e30), Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 44:e55, 2021. Journal link

E.S.Tzafestas. “Influence of Schooling Structure on Epidemic Spread and Implications for Policy”, Proceedings of the European Conference on Complex Systems (CCS 2019), Satellite Session on “Challenges in Epidemiological Modelling”, Singapore, October 2019. Workshop link

E.S.Tzafestas. “Thesis marketplace, social inequality and personal achievements”, Proceedings of the European Conference on Complex Systems (CCS 2019), Satellite Session on “Self-Organization and Complexity in Social System”, Singapore, October 2019. Workshop link

E.S. Tzafestas. “Evolution of Generosity and Its Infrastructure in Self-organizing Cooperative Societies”, in Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation, 13th Italian Workshop, WIVACE 2018 (by S. Cagnoni, M. Mordonini, R. Pecori, A. Roli and M. Villani, Eds.), pp. 57-71, Springer Series on Communications in Computer and Information Science, 2019. Editor link

E.Tzafestas. “Rationality and sociality: What can we learn from some models”, Hellenic Conference on History and Philosophy of Science, Athens, December 2018 (in hellenic).

E.S.Tzafestas. “Peace of mind: Interplay of Rational Cooperative Behavior with Emotional and Personality Features”, Proceedings of the Social Simulation Conference (SSC 2018), Stockholm, Sweden, August 2018. Paper

E.S.Tzafestas. “From Proto-Imitation to Proto-Association”, Proceedings of the Workshop on Social cognition in humans and robots (SocSMCs 2018), Hamburg, Germany, September 2018.

E.S.Tzafestas. “Influence of Word of Mouth Interactions vs. Mass Media Effects on Opinion Formation and Accuracy”, Proceedings of the European Conference on Complex Systems (CCS 2018), Thessaloniki, Greece, September 2018.

G. Mitkidis, G. Dede, E.S.Tzafestas. “Modified Schelling segregational modeling of multiethnic societies and migration”, Proceedings of the European Conference on Complex Systems (CCS 2018), Thessaloniki, Greece, September 2018.

E.S.Tzafestas. “Which machine, which (natural) science?”, Noesis (Journal of the Hellenic Society of Cognitive Science), commentary to target article “Mind as machine: Theory, neuroimaging and phenomenology in cognitive science” by A. Protopapas, Vol. 8, pp. 129-142, 2015. (in hellenic)

E.S.Tzafestas. “Cultures of war and inequality”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Behavioral, Economic, and Socio-Cultural Computing (BESC 2015), Nanjing, China, October 2015. Editor link

E.S.Tzafestas. “Socio-cognitive influences on social stratification”, in Advances in Computational Social Science (by S.H. Chen, T. Terano, R. Yamamoto and C.C. Tai, Eds.), pp. 225-244, Springer, 2014. Editor link

I. Vagias, E.S. Tzafestas. “Complex evolutionary pathways in interacting linguistic communities”, in Advances in Computational Social Science (by S.H. Chen, T. Terano, R. Yamamoto and C.C. Tai, Eds.), pp. 205-224, Springer, 2014. Editor link

E.S.Tzafestas. Editorial and Interviews of Jacques Pitrat and Aaron Sloman, The Reasoner, 6(1):1-2, January 2012. Freely available online.

E.S.Tzafestas. “Knowing me, knowing you: On the relevance of a mind reading test for general testing of intelligence”, Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the UK Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB), York, UK, April 2011, AISB Press.

E.S.Tzafestas. “Cultural diversity dynamics”, Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life, Paris, France, April 2011. doi:10.1109/alife.2011.5954669

E.S.Tzafestas. “Modeling hormonally dependent genetic networks”, Proceedings of the Triennial Meeting of the European Society for Mathematical and Theoretical Biology, Krakow, Poland, June 2011.

E.S.Tzafestas. “Modeling meta-cultures”, Proceedings of the 7th European Social Simulation Conference, Montpellier, France, September 2011.

E.S.Tzafestas. “Effects of Partner Selection on the Emergence of Cultural Divides in Mixed Populations”, Proceedings of the Workshop on Emergent Properties in Natural and Artificial Complex Systems (EPNACS 2011), European Complex Systems Conference, Vienna, September 2011.

E.S.Tzafestas. “Spaces of imitation”, Proceedings of the World Congress on Nature and Biologically-Inspired Computing (NABIC 2009), Coimbatore, India, December 2009, IEEE Computer Society Press.

E.Tzafestas. “Reactive components of (proto-) social behavior”, International Workshop on Challenges and Visions in the Social Sciences, ETH, Zurich, August 2008.

E.S.Tzafestas. “On modeling proto-imitation in a pre-associative Babel”, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB 2008), Osaka, Japan, July 2008, Springer LNCS 1917.

E.S.Tzafestas. “Attraction and cooperation in space”, Proceedings 2007 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2007), Singapore, September 2007.

E.S.Tzafestas. “Emergence of social networks in systems with attraction”, Proceedings of the Conference “Interacting Agents, Complexity and Inter-Disciplinary Applications” (IACIA 2007), satellite of European Conference on Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany, October 2007.

E.S.Tzafestas. “Fluidity, adaptivity and self-organization” (Commentary on Clancey Blair’s article “How similar are fluid cognition and general intelligence? …”), Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 29(2):140-141, 2006.

E.Tzafestas., G.Rigatos, C.Garagunis. “Distributed groundwater resources management and monitoring”, in “Sharing knowledge across the mediterranean area: Toward a partnership for sustainable management of resources and the prevention of catastrophes”, Vol. 12, NATO Security through Science Series: Human and societal dynamics (P.Faugeras, A.Hoummada and R.Klappisch, Eds.), October 2006. Version française: “Gestion et surveillance distribuée de ressources d’eau”, Bulletin de l’Association Française pour l’Avancement des Sciences, No. 2006-2/3, 2006.

E.S.Tzafestas. “Adaptation réflexive : Contrôleur de comportement et structure évolutive”, Actes des Journées de Rochebrune 2005, Rochebrune, France, January 2005.

E.S.Tzafestas. “MONDRIANULOR : Exploring the interaction between harmonic division and coloring”, Proceedings Art+Math=X Conference, Boulder, Colorado, June 2005.

E.S.Tzafestas. “Regulation problems in explorer agents”, Cybernetics and Systems, 36(5):339-377, 2005.

E.S.Tzafestas. “Aging agents”, Artificial Life And Robotics, 5:46-57, 2001.

E.S.Tzafestas. “Number Series as an Expression Model”, pp. 153-160, Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Bridges Conference : Mathematical Connections in Art, Music and Science, Winfield, Kansas, August 2000.

E.S.Tzafestas. “Toward Adaptive Cooperative Behavior”, pp. 334-340, From Animals to Animats : Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB-2000), Vol. 2, Paris, September 2000.

E.S.Tzafestas. “Spatial games with adaptive tit-for-tats”, pp. 507-516, Proceedings of the 6th “Parallel Problem Solving from Nature” Conference (PPSN-VI), Paris, September 2000, Springer LNCS 1917.

E.S.Tzafestas. “Integrating Drawing Tools with Behavioral Modeling in Digital Painting”, Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop “Bridging the Gap : Bringing Together New Media Artists and Multimedia Technologists”, Los Angeles, CA, November 2000, ACM Press.

E.S.Tzafestas. “Compromising algorithmicity and plasticity in autonomous agent control systems: The autonomous cell”, Journal of Intelligent Systems, 9(2):135-176, 1999.

E.S.Tzafestas. “Tom Thumb Robots Revisited: Self-Regulation as the Basis of Behavior”, pp. 457-461, Proceedings 1998 International Conference on Artificial Life (ALIFE-VI), San Diego, CA, June 1998, MIT Press.

E.S.Tzafestas. “Reactive robots in the service of production management”, Journal of Intelligent Robotic Systems, 21(1998):179-191.

A.Benos, E.Tzafestas. “Alternative distributed models for the comparative study of stock market phenomena”, Information Sciences, 99(3-4):137-157, July 1997.

E.S.Tzafestas. “De la machine à vapeur à Beethoven en passant par les robots autonomes”, LAFORIA Research Report 93/16, May 1993, 42p.