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Head of Neuromorphic cognitive systems lab at NRC "Kurchatov Institute"
2005-2012: Research scientist at the department of Nonlinear Dynamics, Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics of Russia Academy of Sciences (KIAM RAS).
2007-2013: Senior research scientist at the department of Sytems development of P.K.Anokhin Institute of Normal Physiology of Russian Academy of Medical Sciences.

:o: PUBLICATONS
:o:Komarov, M.A., Osipov G.V., Burtsev M.S. (2010) Adaptive functional systems: Learning with chaos. Chaos 20(4), 045119.
:o: Burtsev, M. (2008). Basic principles of adaptive learning through variation and selection. In S. Bullock, J. Noble, R. Watson, and M. A. Bedau (eds.) Artificial Life XI: Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, pp. 88-93. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. [BibTeX]
:o: Krivenko, S., Burtsev, M. "Simulation of the Evolution of Aging: Effects of Aggression and Kin-Recognition", In F. Almeida e Costa et al. (eds.): ECAL 2007, LNAI 4648, pp. 84-92, 2007
:o: Red'ko V.G. , Anokhin K.V., Burtsev M.S., Manolov A.I., Mosalov O.P., Nepomnyashchikh V.A., Prokhorov D.V. "Project "Animat Brain": Designing the Animat Control System on the Basis of the Functional Systems Theory " In Butz et al. (Eds.), Anticipatory Behavior in Adaptive Learning Systems, LNAI 4520, Springer Verlag. 2007. pp. 94-107.
:o: Burtsev M., Turchin P. " Evolution of cooperative strategies from first principles", Nature 440, 1041-1044 (20 April 2006)
:o: Burtsev, M.S. "Artificial Life Meets Anthropology: A Case of Aggression in Primitive Societies", 8th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 2005) [pdf]
:o: Burtsev, M.S. "Tracking the Trajectories of Evolution" // Artificial Life, 2004. Vol. 10, Iss. 4. P.397-411.
:o: Burtsev, M. and Korotaev, A. "Evolutionary Agent-Based Model of Pre-State Warfare Patterns: Cross-Cultural Tests", World Cultures 15: 17-38, 2004
:o: Red'ko V.G., Prokhorov D.V., Burtsev M.S. Theory of Functional Systems, Adaptive Critics and Neural Networks // Proceedings of IJCNN 2004. p. 1787-1792.
:o: Burtsev, M.S. "Measuring the Dynamics of Artificial Evolution", 7th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2003) [pdf]
:o: M. S. Burtsev, R. V. Gusarev, V. G. Red’ko, "Investigation of Mechanisms of Goal-Oriented Adaptive Control", Journal of Computer and System Sciences International, Vol. 41, No. 6, 2002 [abstract]
:o: Software agents evolve purpose, Technology Research News, January 2, 2002 (www.trnmag.com)
:o: Burtsev, M.S., Red'ko, V.G., Gusarev, R.V., "Alife Model of Evolutionary Emergence of Purposeful Adaptive Behavior" J. Kelemen, P. Sosik (Eds.): Advances in Artificial Life, proceedings of 6th European Conference, ECAL 2001, Prague, Czech Republic.[abstract, pdf]
:o: M.S. Burtsev, R.V. Gusarev, V.G. Red'ko "Neural network model of evolutionary emergence of purposeful adaptive behaviour", Proceedings of the third conference "Neuroinformatics", Moscow, 2001. PP. 153-160. (In Russian)
:o: M.S. Burtsev, R.V. Gusarev, V.G. Red'ko "Model of evolutionary emergence of purposeful adaptive behaviour. 1. The case of two needs"// Preprint of the KIAM RAS, 2000, N 43. (In Russian).
:o: V.G. Red'ko, M.S. Burtsev, R.V. Gusarev "Problem of modelling of evolutionary emergence of intelligence", Proceedings of the conference "Biosphere and Humanity", Obninsk, MRSC RAMS, 2000. PP. 123-128. (In Russian).

:o: PHILOSOPHY
:o: Principia Cybernetica Project
:o: Evolution, Cybernetics and Philosophical Theory of Knowledge. Mikhail Burtsev.