Paper Ideas For Journal Club

MAM: something controversial we can argue about

• https://sandwalk.blogspot.com/2009/09/how-bad-papers-get-published-in-good.html
• https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/978-0-262-33936-0-ch073
  • Journal club’d 5/31/19
• Chen, CL Philip, et al. “I-Ching divination evolutionary algorithm and its convergence analysis.” IEEE transactions on cybernetics 47.1 (2016): 2-13.

Artificial Chemistries

• Watson, I., Sebald, A., & Stepney, S. (2019). A Meta-Atom Based Sub-Symbolic Artificial Chemistry. The 2019 Conference on Artificial Life, 127–134. https://doi.org/10.1162/isal_a_00151

Division of Labor

• Radeva, T., Dornhaus, A., Lynch, N., Nagpal, R. & Su, H.-H. Costs of task allocation with local feedback: Effects of colony size and extra workers in social insects and other multi-agent systems. PLoS Comput Biol 13, e1005904 (2017).
  • A paper on the costs of task allocation in the context of eusocial colonies
  • Suggested by - Alex Lalejini

Education

• Compeau, P. (2019). Establishing a computational biology flipped classroom. PLOS Computational Biology, 15(5), e1006764. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006764
  • Journal club’d 6/7/2019
• Carde, Q., Foley, M., Knibbe, C., Parsons, D. P., Rouzaud-Cornabas, J., & Beslon, G. (2019). How to reduce a genome? ALife as a tool to teach the scientific method to school pupils. The 2019 Conference on Artificial Life, 497–504. https://doi.org/10.1162/isal_a_00211

Long-term Evolution Experiments

• Langdon, W. B., & Banzhaf, W. (2019). Continuous Long-Term Evolution of Genetic Programming. The 2019 Conference on Artificial Life, 388–395. https://doi.org/10.1162/isal_a_00191

Origins of Life

• Joyce, G. F. The antiquity of RNA-based evolution. Nature 418, 214–221 (2002).
  • A 2002 review of the ‘RNA world’ hypothesis
  • Journal club’d 5/24/19

Sustainability

• Steffen, W., Richardson, K., Rockstrom, J., Cornell, S. E., Fetzer, I., Bennett, E. M., … Sorlin, S. (2015). Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet. Science, 347(6223), 1259855–1259855. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1259855
• Fellermann, H., Penn, A. S., Füchslin, R. M., Bacardit, J., & Goñi-Moreno, A. (2019). Towards Low-Carbon Conferencing: Acceptance of Virtual Conferencing Solutions and Other Sustainability Measures in the ALIFE Community. The 2019 Conference on Artificial Life, 21–27. https://doi.org/10.1162/isal_a_00133

Genetic Programming

• Topic: Autoconstructive Evolution

Writing

• Novelist Cormac McCarthy’s tips on how to write a great science paper

Misc Ideas for Journal Club

• Mentoring pow-wow (recurring)
• Brainstorming sessions
• Tutorials (e.g., HPCC workflow, citation management, literature review strategies)
• Conference season - work session for papers w/snacks (@ coffee shop)
• Classic papers