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ECAL2007
9th European Conference on Artificial Life
Program
Workshops and Tutorials - Monday
Room 1 Room 10
Room 2 Room 8 Room 11 Room 12 Room 13 Room 16
Time Luís de Freitas Amadeo de Souza-
Eugénio de Andrade Glicínia Quartin Cottinelli Telmo Daciano da Costa Amália Rodrigues Vianna da Motta
Branco Cardoso
Daisyworld.
Extending the Dynamical
The Emergence of Exploring the Liquid and Dynamics of
Darwinian Approaches to
Social Behaviour: mechanisms of Social Learning in Reaction Theory for Learning Behavior
09:00 - 10:30 Framework: new Development: Music-AL
from cooperation to planetary Embodied Agents Artificial Chemistry and
levels of selection beyond the
language homeostasis (LRTAC) Neuromodulation
and inheritance metaphor
(DEMPH)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
Eldan Goldenberg,
Alexandra Penn, Markus Waibel, Sara Alberto Acerbi, Eduardo Izquierdo- Alfredo Pereira, Eduardo Reck
James Dyke and
11:00 - 12:30 Hywel Williams, Mitri, Julien Hubert, Davide Marocco, Hideaki Susuki Torres, Chris Adam Sheya, Rachel Miranda, João
Inman Harvey
Crisantha Fernando Danesh Tarapor Paul Vogt Buckley, Seth Bullock, Wood Martins, Qijun Zhang
Andrew Philippides
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
Emergent Control
in Embodied-
Simulation of
Complex Adaptive Situated Agents
14:00 - 15:30 Collective
Economic Systems using Recurrent
Intelligence (SCI)
Neural Networks
(ECESA)
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:00 Seth Bullock, Dave Martijn Schut Jorge Simão
Cliff, Dan Ladley
17:00 - 17:45
17:45 - 18:00 Break
Opening Ceremony
including Keynote
18:00 - 19:30 Lecture by Dario
Floreano (see main
program for details)
Room 4
Vitorino Nemésio and
Terrace
19:30 - 21:00
Welcome Cocktail
Party
Emergent Control in Embodied-Situated
Extending the Darwinian Framework: new
Social Learning in Embodied Agents Agents using Recurrent Neural Networks
levels of selection and inheritance
(ECESA)
The Emergence of Social Behaviour: from Liquid and Reaction Theory for Artificial Dynamical Approaches to Development:
cooperation to language Chemistry (LRTAC) beyond the metaphor
Daisyworld. Exploring the mechanisms of
Simulation of Collective Intelligence (SCI) Music-AL
planetary homeostasis (DEMPH)
Dynamics of Learning Behavior and Opening Ceremony (see main program for
Complex Adaptive Economic Systems
Neuromodulation details) and Welcome Cocktail Party
Monday
09:00 - 17:45 Workshops and Tutorials (see separate program)
17:45 - 18:00 Break
18:00 - 18:30 Opening Ceremony
18:30 - 19:30 Opening Keynote Lecture by Dario Floreano Evolution of altruistic cooperation and communication in robot societies
19:30 - 21:00 Welcome Party
Workshops and Tutorials (see separate Workshops and Tutorials Program)
Keynote Lectures
Special Events
Tuesday
07:45 - 08:45 Registration
08:45 - 09:45 Keynote Lecture by Randall D. Beer The Dynamics of Brain-Body-Environment Systems: A Status Report
09:45 - 10:05 Measuring Autonomy by Multivariate Autoregressive Modelling Anil Seth
10:05 - 10:25 An Analysis of Behavioral Attractor Dynamics Alberto Montebelli, Carlos Herrera, Tom Ziemke
10:25 - 10:45 Coffee Break
10:45 - 11:05 The Dynamics of Associative Learning in an Evolved Situated Agent Eduardo Izquierdo, Inman Harvey
11:05 - 11:25 New Models for Old Questions: Evolutionary Robotics and the 'A not B' error Rachel Wood, Ezequiel Di Paolo
11:25 - 11:45 Adapting to Your Body Peter Fine, Ezequiel Di Paolo, Eduardo Izquierdo
11:45 - 12:05 Improving Agent Localisation Through Stereotypical Motion Bart Baddeley, Andrew Philippides
12:05 - 12:45 Poster Pitch
12:45 - 14:15 Lunch
14:15 - 15:15 Keynote lecture by Rudolf Bannasch Morphological intelligence in bionic applications
15:15 - 15:35 Near-Optimal Mobile Robot Recharging With The Rate-Maximizing Forager Jens Wawerla, Richard Vaughan
15:35 - 15:55 Evolving Virtual Neuronal Morphologies: a case study in Genetic L-Systems Programming Benjamin Torben-Nielsen
15:55 - 16:55 Poster Session and Coffee Break
16:55 - 17:15 Evolution of Neural Networks for Active Control of Tethered Airfoils Allister Furey, Inman Harvey
Feathered Flyer: Integrating Morphological Computation and Sensory Reflexes into a Physically Simulated Flapping-Wing Robot for Robust Flight Manoeuvre YoonSik
17:15 - 17:35
Shim, Phil Husbands
17:35 - 17:55 Synthesizing Physically-Realistic Environmental Models from Robot Exploration Josh Bongard
17:55 - 18:15 Guided Self-organisation for Autonomous Robot Development Georg Martius, J. Michael Herrmann, Ralf Der
18:15 - 19:30 Panel Discussion
Keynote Lectures
Talks
Posters
Panel Discussion
Wednesday
Keynote Lecture by António Coutinho Purposeless diversity and degeneracy of molecular "recognition" are the solution to the unknown: each individual immune system is a fractal of
08:45 - 09:45
evolution
09:45 - 10:05 Simulation Model for Functionalized Vesicles: Lipid-Peptide Integration in Minimal Protocells Kepa Ruiz-Mirazo, Fabio Mavelli
10:05 - 10:25 Formulating Membrane Dynamics with the Reaction of Surface Objects Kazuto Tominaga, Tooru Watanabe, Maki Suzuki
10:25 - 10:45 Coffee Break
10:45 - 11:05 A Computational System for Investigating Chemotaxis-Based Cell Aggregation Manolya Eyiyurekli, Peter Lelkes, David Breen
11:05 - 11:25 Multi-Level Selection in the Emergence of Language Systematicity Luc Steels, Remi van Trijp, Pieter Wellens
11:25 - 11:45 Multi-Level Selectional Stalemate in a Simple Artificial Chemistry Barry McMullin, Ciaran Kelly, Darragh O'Brien
11:45 - 12:05 Spatial Embedding and Complexity: The Small-World is Not Enough Christopher L. Buckley, Seth Bullock
12:05 - 12:45 Poster Pitch
12:45 - 14:15 Lunch
14:15 - 15:15 Keynote Lecture by Janet Wiles Complex Systems from DNA to development
15:15 - 15:35 Information-Cloning of Scale-free Networks Mahendra Piraveenan, Mikhail Prokopenko, Albert Zomaya
15:35 - 15:55 Networks regulating networks: The effects of constraints on topological evolution Francisco C. Santos, Hugues Bersini, Tom Lenaerts
15:55 - 16:55 Poster Session and Coffee Break
16:55 - 17:15 Developmental Neural Heterogeneity through Coarse-Coding Regulation Jekanthan Thangavelautham, Gabriele M.T. D'Eleuterio
17:15 - 17:35 Evolution of One-dimensional Cellular Automata by 1/f Noise Shigeru Ninagawa
17:35 - 18:50 Panel Discussion
18:50 - 19:00 Break
19:00 - 20:00 EU-FET Initiatives Workshop David N. Guedj
21:30 Alife Music Concert - Concert Hall, Instituto Franco-Português, Avenida Luis Bivar
Keynote Lectures
Talks
Posters
Panel Discussion
Special Events
Workshops and Tutorials
Thursday
08:45 - 09:45 Keynote lecture by Peter Todd Minding the environment in simulations of cognition
09:45 - 10:05 A Multi-Level Selection Model for the Emergence of Social Norms Francisco C. Santos, Fabio A. C. C. Chalub, Jorge M. Pacheco
10:05 - 10:25 Evolutionary Dilemmas in a Social Network Leslie Luthi, Enea Pestalacci, Marco Tomassini
10:25 - 10:45 Coffee Break
10:45 - 11:05 The role of collective reproduction in evolution John Bryden
11:05 - 11:25 Efficient Multi-Foraging in Swarm Robotics Alexandre Campo, Marco Dorigo
11:25 - 11:45 Social Facilitation on the Development of Foraging Behaviors in a Population of Autonomous Robots Alberto Acerbi, Davide Marocco, Stefano Nolfi
11:45 - 12:05 Exogenous Fault Detection in a Collective Robotic Task Anders Lyhne Christensen, Rehan O'Grady, Mauro Birattari, Marco Dorigo
12:05 - 12:45 Poster Pitch
12:45 - 14:15 Lunch
14:15 - 15:15 Keynote Lecture by Ezequiel Di Paolo Escape from pervasive individualism: Why should embodied cognition seriously study the collective dynamics of social interaction?
15:15 - 15:35 From Solitary to Collective Behaviours: Decision Making and Cooperation Vito Trianni, Christos Ampatzis, Anders Lyhne Christensen, Elio Tuci, Marco Dorigo, Stefano Nolfi
15:35 - 15:55 Individual Selection for Cooperative Group Formation Simon Powers, Alexandra Penn, Richard Watson
15:55 - 16:55 Poster Session and Coffee Break
16:55 - 17:15 From the Outside-In: Embodied Attention in Toddlers Linda Smith, Chen Yu, Alfredo Pereira
17:15 - 17:35 Evolution of Acoustic Communication Between Two Cooperating Robots Elio Tuci, Christos Ampatzis
17:35 - 17:55 Group size effects on the emergence of compositional structures in language Paul Vogt
17:55 - 18:15 Community Detection in Complex Networks using Collaborative Evolutionary Algorithms Anca Gog, D. Dumitrescu, Béat Hirsbrunner
18:15 - 19:30 Panel Discussion
Banquet
Keynote Lectures
Talks
Posters
Panel Discussion
Special Events
Friday
08:45 - 09:45 Keynote Lecture by Ricard V. Solé Synthetic protocell biology: from reproduction to computation
Comparing ACO Algorithms for Solving the Bi-Criteria Military Pathfinding Problem Antonio Mora, Juan Julián Merelo, Cristian Millán, Juan Torrecillas, Juan Luís Jiménez
09:45 - 10:05
Laredo, Pedro A. Castillo
10:05 - 10:25 Increasing complexity can increase stability in a self-regulating ecosystem James Dyke, Jamie McDonald-Gibson, Ezequiel Di-Paolo, Inman Harvey
10:25 - 10:45 Coffee Break
10:45 - 11:05 Niche Differentiation and Coexistence in a Multi-Resource Ecosystem with Competition Walter de Back, László Guylás, George Kampis
11:05 - 11:25 Entropy Production in Ecosystems Nathaniel Virgo, Inman Harvey
11:25 - 12:05 Poster Pitch
12:05 - 13:00 Poster Session
13:00 - 14:15 Lunch
14:15 - 14.45 Talk by Brian Goodwin Title TBA [this talk opens the special session on Artificial Life and Biology ]
14.45 - 16.00 Special session on Artificial Life and Biology and closing remarks
Social Event at Lisbon Castle
Keynote Lectures
Talks
Posters
Panel Discussion
Special Events