| 1997 | - | The synthetic modeling of language origins - Steels | :: | 123 |
| 1999 | - | The evolution of language - Nowak,Krakauer | :: | 93 |
| 2002 | - | Learning, Bottlenecks and the Evolution of Recursive Syntax - Kirby | :: | 86 |
| 1992 | - | Evolution of Communication in Artificial Organisms - Werner,Dyer | :: | 82 |
| 2000 | - | Syntax without Natural Selection: How compositionality emerges from vocabulary in a population of learners - Kirby | :: | 81 |
| 1997 | - | Grounding adaptive language games in robotic agents - Steels,Vogt | :: | 74 |
| 1996 | - | Self-organizing vocabularies - Steels | :: | 67 |
| 1996 | - | Emergent Adaptive Lexicons - Steels | :: | 56 |
| 2002 | - | Crucial Factors in the Origins of Word-Meaning - Steels,Kaplan,McIntyre,Van Looveren | :: | 51 |
| 1999 | - | The evolutionary language game - Nowak,Plotkin,Krakauer | :: | 51 |
| 1998 | - | Synthesising the Origins of Language and Meaning Using Co-evolution, Self-organisation and Level formation - Steels | :: | 49 |
| 1995 | - | A self-organizing spatial vocabulary - Steels | :: | 46 |
| 1993 | - | Synthetic Ethology and the Evolution of Cooperative Communication - MacLennan,Burghardt | :: | 40 |
| 1996 | - | Emergence of net-grammar in communicating agents - Hashimoto,Ikegami | :: | 39 |
| 1994 | - | Altruism in the evolution of communication - Ackley,Littman | :: | 39 |
| 1998 | - | Stochasticity as a source of innovation in language games - Steels,Kaplan | :: | 30 |
| 2002 | - | Bootstrapping grounded word semantics - Steels,Kaplan | :: | 29 |
| 1998 | - | Spontaneous Lexicon Change - Steels,Kaplan | :: | 22 |
| 2005 | - | The emergence of compositional structures in perceptually grounded language games - Vogt | :: | 20 |
| 1999 | - | The Spontaneous Self-organization of an Adaptive Language - Steels | :: | 17 |
| 1996 | - | The Evolution of communication schemes over continuous channels - Saunders,Pollack | :: | 17 |
| 1998 | - | Language evolution without natural selection: From vocabulary to syntax in a population of learners - Kirby | :: | 15 |
| 2000 | - | Lexicon Grounding on Mobile Robots - Vogt | :: | 14 |
| 1997 | - | Too many love songs: Sexual selection and the evolution of communication - Werner,Todd | :: | 13 |
| 1996 | - | On simulating the evolution of communication - Noble,Cliff | :: | 12 |
| 2000 | - | Autonomous Formation of Concepts and Communication - de Jong | :: | 11 |
| 1998 | - | Evolution of Linguistic Diversity in a Simple Communication System - Arita,Koyama | :: | 11 |
| 2002 | - | Computer Simulation: A New Scientific Approach to the Study of Language Evolution - Cangelosi,Parisi | :: | 10 |
| 1995 | - | Evolution of Symbolic Grammar Systems - Hashimoto,Ikegami | :: | 9 |
| 1997 | - | The origins of syntax in visually grounded robotic agents - Steels | :: | 7 |
| 1999 | - | Autonomous Concept Formation - de Jong | :: | 6 |
| 1996 | - | Function, Selection and Innateness: the Emergence of Language Universals - Kirby | :: | 6 |
| 2003 | - | The Evolution of Communication Systems by Adaptive Agents - Steels | :: | 5 |
| 1998 | - | A New Approach to Class Formation in Multi-Agent Simulations of Language Evolution - Kaplan | :: | 5 |
| 2003 | - | A Distributed Learning Algorithm for Communication Development - de Jong,Steels | :: | 5 |
| 2000 | - | Evolution of Communication with a Spatialized Genetic Algorithm - Grim,Kokalis,Tafti,Kilb | :: | 5 |
| 1998 | - | The Development of a Lexicon Based on Behavior - de Jong | :: | 4 |
| 1994 | - | The Evolution of Communication in Adaptive Agents - Saunders,Pollack | :: | 3 |
| 1994 | - | Evolution of Two Symbol Signals by Simulated Organisms - Crumpton | :: | 3 |
| 2002 | - | Toward Automated Evolution of Agent Communication Languages - Gmytrasiewicz,Summers,Gopal | :: | 3 |
| 1998 | - | Emergence of Grammatical Conventions in an Agent Population Using a Simplified Tree Adjoining Grammar - Allexandre,Popescu-Belis | :: | 3 |
| 2003 | - | Computer Models of the Evolution of Language and Languages - Livingstone | :: | 2 |
| 1998 | - | Evolution of linguistic diversity in a simple communication system - Arita,Koyama | :: | 2 |
| 2002 | - | Learning to communicate: The emergence of signaling in spatialized arrays of neural nets - Grim,Denis,Kokalis | :: | 2 |
| 1999 | - | The Emergence of Communication through Synthetic Evolution - MacLennan | :: | 2 |
| 2002 | - | Language Evolution In Artificial Systems - Curran,O'Riordan | :: | 1 |
| 1997 | - | Simulated Evolution of Language and Language Processors - Beaver | :: | 1 |
| 2006 | - | The Emergence of Communication by Evolving Dynamical Systems - Wischmann,Pasemann | :: | 1 |
| 2002 | - | The View From Elsewhere: Perspectives on ALife Modeling - Wheeler,Bullock,Paolo,Noble,Bedau,Husbands,Kirby,Seth | :: | |
| 2004 | - | Imitation Is Not Enough for Lexicon Learning - Fleischer,Shapiro | :: | |
| 2007 | - | Evolving compositionality in evolutionary language games - Fontanari,Perlovsky | :: | |
| 2006 | - | Evolving Distributed Representations for Language with Self-Organizing Maps - Levy,Kirby | :: | |
| 2004 | - | Secret Agents: Synthetic Approaches to Language Evolution - Thomforde | :: | |
| 2006 | - | Adaptive Value Within Natural Language Discourse - Best | :: | |
| 1994 | - | The Greek Miracle: An Artificial Life Simulation of the Effects of Literacy on the Dynamics of Communication - Digh | :: | |
| 1999 | - | From Artificial Life to Semiotic Agent Models: Review and Research Directions - Rocha | :: | |