I.Tanev and K.Shimohara, XML-based Genetic Programming Framework: Design Philosophy, Implementation and Applications (Invited Talk), Proceedings of the International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics (AROB-2010), February 4-6, 2010, Beppu, Japan, pp.21-24

I.Tanev and K.Shimohara, Evolution of Active Sensing for Wall-Following Navigation of Snake-Like Robot, SICE Journal of Control, Measurement, and System Integration (SICE JCMSI), Vol.2, No.4, July 2009, pp.222-228

I.Tanev and K.Shimohara, Nature Inspired Design of Autonomous Driving Agent - Realtime Localization, Mapping and Avoidance of Obstacle Based on Motion Parallax, Proceedings of the 13the International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems 2009 (KES 2009), September 28-30, 2009, Santiago, Chile, pp.752-760

I.Tanev and K.Yuta, Epigenetic Programming: Genetic Programming Incorporating Epigenetic Learning through Modification of Histones, Information Sciences, Special Issue on Genetic and Evolutionary Computing, No.178, 2008, pp.4469-4481, Elsevier

I.Tanev and K.Shimohara Evolution of Agent, Remotely Operating a Scale Model of a Car through a Latent Video Feedback, Journal of Intelligent Robotic Systems, No.52, pp. 263-283, Springer, 2008

I.Tanev and K.Shimohara, Co-evolution of Sensing Morphology and Locomotion Control of Simulated Snakebot, Proceedings of SICE Annual Conference 2008, August 20-22, 2008, University Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan, pp.1502-1505

J.T. Lizier, M.Prokopenko, I.Tanev and A.Y. Zomaya, Emergence of Glider-like Structures in a Modular Robotic System, Artificial Life XI, The Eleventh International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, 5th - 8th August 2008, Winchester, UK, pp.366-373

I.Tanev and K.Shimohara, Co-evolution of Active Sensing and Locomotion Gaits of Simulated Snake-like Robot, Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO-2008), July 12-16, 2008, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, pp.257-264

I.Tanev, H. Yamazaki, T.Hiroyasu and K.Shimohara, Evolution of General Driving Rules of a Driving Agent, in M. Asada et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB'08), LNAI 5040, 2008, pp.488-498, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

H. Yamazaki, I.Tanev, T.Hiroyasu and K.Shimohara, On the Generality of the Evolved Driving Rules of an Agent Operating a Model of a Car, Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCCI 2008), IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computations (CEC 2008), pp.4139-4146, 2008

I.Tanev and K.Shimohara, Towards Human Competitive Driving of Scale Model of a Car, SIGEVOlution, Volume 2, Issue 4, Winter 2007, pp.14-26

I.Tanev, Genetic Programming Incorporating Biased Mutation via Learning Probabilistic Context-sensitive Grammar for Evolution and Adaptation of Snakebot, Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, Vol.8, Number 1, 2007, pp.39-59, Springer Science+Business Media Inc.

I.Tanev, Learning Mutation Strategies for Evolution and Adaptation of a Simulated Snakebot, Advances in Applied Self-organizing Systems, M.Prokopenko(Ed.), pp.105-126, Springer, 2007, ISBN: 978-1-84628-981-1

I.Tanev and K.Shimohara, Evolution of Human Competitive Driving Agent Operating a Scale Model of a Car, Proceedings of SICE Annual Conference 2007, Sept. 17-20, 2007, Kagawa University, Japan, pp.1582-1587

I.Tanev and K.Shimohara, Interactive Learning of Consensus Sequences in Genetic Programming for Evolution of Snake-like Robot, Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2007), Sep.25-28, 2007, Singapore, pp.3662-3670

I.Tanev and K.Shimohara, On Human Competitiveness of the Evolved Agent Operating a Scale Model of a Car, Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2007), Sep.25-28, 2007, Singapore, pp.3646-3653

I.Tanev and K.Shimohara, XGP: XML-based Genetic Programming Framework, Proceedings of the 34th Symposium of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE) on Intelligent Systems, pp.183-188, March 15-16, 2007, Doshisha University, Japan

I.Tanev, T.Ray, and K.Shimohara, Exploring the Analogy in the Emergent Properties of Locomotion Gaits of Snakebot Adapted to Challenging Terrain and Partial Damage, Journal of the Institute of Systems, Control, and Information Engineers (ISCI), Vol.19, No.6, 2006, pp.220-232

I.Tanev, T.Ray and K.Shimohara, On the Analogy of the Emergent Properties of Evolved Locomotion Gaits of Simulated Snakebot, Mobile Robotics: Towards New Applications, A.Lazinica(Ed.), pp.559-578, Advanced Robotics Systems and pro literatur Verlag, 2006

I.Tanev, M.Joachimczak and K.Shimohara, Evolution and Adaptation of an Agent Driving a Scale Model of a Car with Obstacle Avoidance Capabilities, in S. Nolfi et al. (Eds.): From Animals to Animats 9: The Ninth International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB 2006), LNAI 4095, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pp.619-630

I.Tanev, S.Prudent, and K.Shimohara, Hyperheuristic Genetic Representation of Evolvable Human Relations Networks, Proceedings of the First World Congress on Social Simulation (WCSS'06), August 21-25, 2006, Kyoto, Japan, Vol.2, pp.411-418

I.Tanev, M.Joachimczak and K.Shimohara, Evolution of Driving Agent, Remotely Operating a Scale Model of a Car with Obstacle Avoidance Capabilities, Proceedings of the 8th annual conference on genetic and evolutionary computation (GECCO-2006), July 8-12, 2006, Seattle, USA, ACM Press, New York, pp.1785 - 1792

I.Tanev, Emergent Generality of Adapted Locomotion Gaits of Simulated Snake-like Robot, in P.Collet et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP-2006), 10-12 April, 2006, Budapest, Hungary, LNCS 3905, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pp.85-96

M. Prokopenko, V. Gerasimov, and I. Tanev, Evolving Spatiotemporal Coordination in a Modular Robotic System, in Nolfi, S., Baldassarre, G., Calabretta R., Hallam, J. C. T., Marocco, D., Meyer J.-A., Miglino, O., and Parisi, D., eds. From Animals to Animats 9: 9th International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB 2006), Rome, Italy, Springer, Lecture notes in computer science, Vol. 4095, 2006, pp.558-569

M. Prokopenko, V. Gerasimov, and I. Tanev, Measuring Spatiotemporal Coordination in a Modular Robotic System, in Artificial Life X: Proceedings of The 10th International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, Bloomington IN, USA., eds. Rocha, L.M., Yaeger, L.S., Bedau, M.A., Floreano, D., Goldstone, R.L., Vespignani, A., 2006.

I.Tanev, Interactive Learning of Mutation Strategies in Genetic Programming, Proceedings of the 5th Joint Symposium between Chonnam National University and Doshisha University, pp.83-87, August 1, 2006, Chonnam University, Kwangju, Korea

I.Tanev, M.Brzozowski and K.Shimohara, Evolution, Generality and Robustness of Emerged Social Behavior in Continuous Predators-prey Pursuit Problem, Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, Vol.6, Number 3, 2005, pp.301-318, Springer Science+Business Media Inc.

I.Tanev, T.Ray and A.Buller, Automated Evolutionary Design, Robustness and Adaptation of Sidewinding Locomotion of Simulated Snake-like Robot, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Vol.21, Number 4, August 2005, pp.632-645

I.Tanev and T.Ray, Evolution of Sidewinding Locomotion of Simulated Limbless, Wheelless Robots, Artificial Life and Robotics, an International Journal, Vol.9, 2005, pp.117 - 122, Springer-Verlag

I.Tanev and K.Shimohara, Implications of the Ability to Learn Simple Actions on the Efficiency of Evolution of Social Behavior of Agents, Artificial Life and Robotics, an International Journal, Vol.9, Number 1, 2005, pp.58-62, Springer-Verlag

I.Tanev, T.Uozumi and Y.Morotome, Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithm-based Real-world Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Problem: Application Service Provider Approach, Applied Soft Computing, 5 (2005), pp.87-100, Elsevier

I.Tanev, T.Ray and A.Buller, Evolution, Robustness and Adaptation of Sidewinding Locomotion of Simulated Snake-like Robot, Evolvable Machines: Theory & Practice, Series: Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, Vol. 161, Nedjah, Nadia; de Macedo Mourelle, Luiza (Eds.), 2005, pp.21-41, Springer, ISBN: 3-540-22905-1

I.Tanev, M.Joachimczak, H.Hemmi and K.Shimohara, Evolution of the Driving Styles of Anticipatory Agent Remotely Operating a Scaled Model of Racing Car, Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC-2005), Edinburgh, UK, September 2-5, 2005, pp.1891-1898
Best paper award nominee
The agent/car package presented in this work is a winner of the 2005 IEEE CEC computer-controlled car racing competition

I.Tanev, Learned Mutation Strategies in Genetic Programming for Evolution and Adaptation of Simulated Snakebot, in H.-G.Beyer et al (Eds.): Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO-2005, June 25-29, 2005, Washington, DC, USA, 687-694

I.Tanev, Emergent Intelligent Properties of Evolving and Adapting Snake-like Robot's Locomotion, in Ajith Abraham, Yasuhiko Dote, Takeshi Furuhashi, Mario Koppen, Azuma Ohuchi, Yukio Ohsawa, editors, Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Soft Computing as Transdisciplinary Science and Technology (WSTST), May 25-27, 2005, Muroran, Japan, 641-652

I.Tanev, Incorporating Learning Probabilistic Context-sensitive Grammar in Genetic Programming for Efficient Evolution and Adaptation of Snakebot, in M. Keijzer et al. (Eds.): Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP-2005), LNCS 3447, pp.155 - 166, 30 March - 1 April 2005, Lausanne, Switzerland
Best paper award nominee

I.Tanev, M.Joachimczak, H.Hemmi and K.Shimohara, Evolving Driving Agent for Remote Control of Scaled Model of a Car, Late Breaking Paper, in Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2005): CD-ROM of Workshop Proceedings, Tutorials, Late Breaking Papers and Evolutionary Computations in Industry Track Presentations, June 25-29, 2005, Washington, DC, USA

I.Tanev, Learning Mutation Strategies in Genetic Programming and their Implications on Evolution, Adaptation and Robustness of Snakebot, Program and Abstracts of the 7th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Evolutionary Studies, p.41, 26-29 August 2005, Sendai, Japan

I.Tanev, DOM/XML-Based Portable Genetic Representation of Morphology, Behavior and Communication Abilities of Evolvable Agents, Artificial Life and Robotics, an International Journal, Vol.8, Number 1, 2004, pp.52-56, Springer-Verlag

I.Tanev, T.Uozumi and D.Akhmetov, Component Object Based Single System Image for Dependable Implementation of Genetic Programming on Clusters, Special Issue on: Dependable Distributed Systems (Guest Editors: Alan D. George and Patricia D. Hough), Cluster Computing, Vol. 7, No. 4, October 2004, pp.347-356, Kluwer Academic Publishers

I.Tanev, T.Ray and A.Buller, Evolution, Robustness and Adaptation of Sidewinding Locomotion of Simulated Snake-like Robot, Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2004). June 26-30, 2004, Seattle, USA, 627-639

I.Tanev, Implications of Incorporating Learning Probabilistic Context-sensitive Grammar in Genetic Programming on Evolvability of Adaptive Locomotion Gaits of Snakebot, Workshop on Evolvability in Evolutionary Computations, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2004). June 27, 2004, Seattle, USA. In GECCO-2004 CD-ROM of Workshop Proceedings, Tutorials, Late Breaking Papers and Evolutionary Computations in Industry Track Presentations

I.Tanev and K.Yuta, Implications of Epigenetic Learning via Modification of Histones on Performance of Genetic Programming, Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2004), June 26-30, 2004, Seattle, USA, 213-224

I.Tanev, T.Ray and A.Buller, Evolutionary Design, Robustness and Adaptation of Sidewinding Locomotion of Simulated Limbless Wheelless Robot, Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC-2004), Portland, Oregon, USA, June 20-23, 2004, 2312-2319
Best paper award nominee

I.Tanev, Evolutionary Algorithms for Intelligent Software Design, Proceedings of the 2004 Sino-Japanese Symposium of Kansei and Artificial Life, July 3-4, 2004, Beijing, China, 60-66

I.Tanev, Steering the Mutation Operation in GP through Learning Probabilistic Context Sensitive Grammar, Proceedings of the 4th Joint Symposium between Chonnam National University and Doshisha University, July 30, 2004, Doshisha University, Kyotanabe, Japan, pp.31-32

I.Tanev and K.Shimohara, On the Emergence of Social Behavior from Implicit, Proximity Defined Interactions in Predators-prey Pursuit Problem, Proceedings of the 48th Annual Conference of the Institute of Systems, Control and Information Engineers, May 19-21, 2004, Kyoto, Japan, 639-640

I.Tanev and T.Ray, Evolution of Sidewinding Locomotion of Simulated Limbless, Wheelless Robots, Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics (AROB'04), Beppu, Japan, January 28-30 2004, 472-475

I.Tanev and K.Shimohara, Implications of the Ability to Learn Simple Actions on the Efficiency of Evolution of Social Behavior of Agents, Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics (AROB'04), Beppu, Japan, January 28-30 2004, 53-56

I.Tanev, DOM/XML-Based Portable Genetic Representation of Morphology, Behavior and Communication Abilities of Evolvable Agents, Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics (AROB'03), Beppu, Japan, 24-26 January 2003,185-188

Ivan Tanev, Electronic Message Filtering System and Computer Program, Reg.No: 2003-385511, ATR, Kyoto, Japan, 14 November 2003. Status: Filed

Ivan Tanev, Andrzej Buller and Katsunori Shimohara, Electroactive-Polymer-and-Stiff-Fluid-based Robot Actuator, Reg.No: 2004-080643, ATR, Kyoto, Japan, 19 March 2004. Status: Filed

Ivan Tanev and Katsunori Shimohara, Real-time Visual Pictogram Language Dictionary, Reg.No: 2004-080644, ATR, Kyoto, Japan, 19 March 2004. Status: Filed

Andrzej Buller and Ivan Tanev, Modular Snake-shaped Automated Rescuer (MSAR), Reg.No: 2004-088899, ATR, Kyoto, Japan, 25 March 2004. Status: Filed

I.Tanev and M.Brozozowski, The Effect of Explicit Communications on the Generality and Robustness of Evolved Team of Agents in Predator-Prey Problem, Sung-Bae Cho, Hoai Xuan Nguen, Yin Shan, editors, Proceedings of the First Asia-Pacific Workshop on Genetic Programming (ASPGP03), Canberra, Australia, December 8 2003, 31-37

I.Tanev and K.Yuta, Epigenetic Programming: an Approach of Embedding Epigenetic Learning via Modification of Histones in Genetic Programming, Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC-2003), Canberra, Australia, December 8-12 2003, 2580-2587

I.Tanev and K.Shimohara, Effects of Learning to Interact on the Evolution of Social Behavior of Agents in Continuous Predators-prey Pursuit Problem, Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 2003), Dortmund, Germany, 14-17 September 2003, 138-145

I.Tanev, and K.Shimohara, On Role of Implicit Interaction and Explicit Communications in Emergence of Social Behavior in Continuous Predators-prey Pursuit Problem, Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2003), Chicago, USA, July 12-16 2003, Vol 1, 74-85

I.Tanev, T.Uozumi, and K.Ono, Scalable Architecture for Parallel Distributed Implementation of Genetic Programming on Network of Workstations, Journal of System Architecture, special issue on evolutionary computing, 47, 2001, pp.557-572, Elsevier Science

I.Tanev, T.Uozumi, and K.Ono, DCOM-based Parallel Distributed Implementation of Genetic Programming, Parallel and Distributed Computing Practices, special issue on distributed object oriented systems, edited by Maria Cobb, Vol.3 No.1, 2000, pp.77-88, Nova Science Publishers

I.Tanev, Software Simulation System for Parallel Heterogeneous Shared Memory Prolog-interpreter, Automatics and Informatics, No.1/2, 1996, pp.44-51 (in Bulgarian)

I.Tanev, T.Uozumi and Y.Morotome, An Application Service Provider Approach for Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithm-based Real-world Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Problem, W.B.Langdon, E.Cantu-Paz, K.Mathias, R. Roy, D.Davis, R. Poli, K.Balakrishnan, V. Honavar, G. Rudolph, J. Wegener, L. Bull, M. A. Potter, A.C. Schultz, J. F. Miller, E. Burke, and N.Jonoska, editors. Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2002), New York, 9-13 July 2002, pp.1219-1226. Morgan Kaufmann

I.Tanev, T.Uozumi and Y.Morotome, Priority Dispatching Rules-based Genetic Representation For Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithm For Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Problem, GECCO 2002: Proceedings of the Bird of a Feather Workshops, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, New York, 10 July 2002, Morgan Kaufmann

I.Tanev, T.Uozumi, and D.Akhmetov, Component Object Based Single System Image Middleware for Metacomputer Implementation of Genetic Programming on Clusters, Proceedings of the ICCS (1) 2001, pp.284-293, May 28-30, 2001, San Francisco, CA, USA

I.Tanev, T.Uozumi, and K.Ono, Parallel Genetic Programming: Component Object-based Distributed Collaborative Approach, Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN-15), pp.129-136, January 31 - February 2, 2001, Beppu City, Japan

I.Tanev, T.Uozumi, and K.Ono, Parallel Implementation of Genetic Programming on Clusters, Late-Breaking Papers at the 2000 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2000), edited by D.E.Goldberg and J.R. Koza, pp. 388-396, July 8-12, 2000, Las Vegas, NV

I.Tanev, T.Uozumi, and K.Ono, Effect of Batching on Performance Characteristics of DCOM-based Distributed Implementation of Genetic Programming, PerETTA-2000: Proceedings of International Conference on Performance Evaluation: Theory, Techniques and Applications, pp.32-37, September 21-22, 2000, University of Aizu, Aizu Wakamatsu City, Fukushima, Japan

I.Tanev, Mutual Exclusion Mechanism for Shared Resource Accessing in LAN Environment, Proceedings of the Seventh National Conference on Modern Tendencies in Applicable and Fundamental Sciences, pp. 172-181, 6-7 June, 1996, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria (in Bulgarian)
Best paper award winner

I.Tanev and K. Ono, The Role of Asymmetry for the Valveless Generation of Blood Circulation (abstract), Proceedings of the 15th Forum of Science and Technology of Fluctuations, p.25, 17-18 November, 2000, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

I.Tanev, K. Ono, T. Kenner, M. Moser, B. Noordergraaf, The Role of Asymmetry for the Transport Function of the Circulation (abstract), EuroMech Colloquium 385, pp.50-51, 20-24 April, 1999, Graz, Austria