Each talk will be for 20 minutes, including Q&As and transitions.
Tuesday April 16th:
10:25pm Opening Remarks (Lyrebird, Level 3)
10:30-11:30am: IEEE ALIFE Keynote 1: Katie Bentley "Artificial Life in the Fight Against Cancer" (Lyrebird, Level 3)
(Lunch meeting: IEEE CIS ECTC Artificial Life and Complex Adaptive Systems Task Force meeting) (Canary II, Level 4)
1:40-3:00pm: Session 1: Chemical, Cellular & Evolutionary Dynamics (Pelican, Level 4)
Chair: Katie Bentley, Co-Chair: Chrystopher Nehaniv
1:40-2:00 |
Nathaniel Virgo, Tom Froese and Takashi Ikegami |
The Positive Role of Parasites in the Origins of Life |
2:00-2:20 |
Moritz Buck, Deniz Saltukoglu, Melanie Boerries, Matias Simons and Hauke Busch |
A Distributed Stochastic Perception-Action Loop Model of Cell Motility |
2:20-2:40 |
Dominique Chu |
Evolving Parameters for a Noisy Bio-System |
2:40-3:00 |
Jean Marie Dembele and Hiroki Sayama |
A Deterministic Agent-Particle Model for Cellular Diffusion, Aggregation and Self-Organization |
Poster |
Janardan Misra |
Observing Evolution in Artificial Life Studies: Algorithmic Considerations |
Wednesday April 17th:
8:30-10:10am: Session 2: Algorithms & Methodologies (Pelican, Level 4)Chair: Mikhail Prokopenko, Co-Chair: Chrystopher Nehaniv
8:30-8:50 |
Jeffrey Schmidt and Hiroki Sayama |
Designing and Evaluating Algorithms for Automated Discovery of Adaptive Network Models Based on Generative Network Automata |
8:50-9:10 |
Hiroki Sayama and Shelley Dionne |
Using Evolutionary Computation as Models/Tools for Human Decision Making and Creativity Research |
9:10-9:30 |
Joseph Lizier, Benjamin Flecker and Paul Williams |
Towards a Synergy-based Approach to Measuring Information Modification |
9:30-9:50 |
Tiago Baptista and Ernesto Costa |
Step Evolution: Improving the Performance of Open-Ended Evolution Simulations |
9:50-10:10 |
Yoshihiko Kayama |
Network Representation of the Game of Life and Self-Organized Criticality |
10:40am-12:20pm: Session 3: Perception, Behavior & Interaction (Pelican, Level 4)
Chair: Joseph Lizier, Co-Chair: Hiroki Sayama
10:40-11:00 |
Norihiro Maruyama, Mizuki Oka and Takashi Ikegami |
Creating Space-Time Affordances via an Autonomous Sensor Network |
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11:00-11:20 |
Tarek Ababsa, Noureddine Djedi, Yves Duthen and Sylvain Cussat Blanc |
Decentralized Approach to Evolve the Structure of Metamorphic Robots |
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11:20-11:40 |
Erandi Lakshika, Michael Barlow and Adam Easton |
Co-evolving Semi-competitive Interactions of Sheepdog Herding Behaviors Utilizing a Simple Rule-based Multi Agent Framework |
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11:40-12:00 |
Kheng Lee Koay, Gabriella Lakatos, Dag Sverre Syrdal, Marta Gacsi, Boroka Bereczky, Kerstin Dautenhahn, Adam Miklosi and Michael Walters |
Hey! There Is Someone at Your Door. A Hearing Robot using Visual Communication Signals of Hearing Dogs to Communicate Intent |
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12:00-12:20 |
Konstantinos Theofilis, Chrystopher Nehaniv and Kerstin Dautenhahn |
Exploring Music as Communicative Gesture: A Drumming Implementation for a Humanoid Robot |
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(Lunch break)
1:40-3:20pm: Session 4: Ecological & Social Dynamics (Pelican, Level 4)Chair: Terry Bossomaier, Co-Chair: Hiroki Sayama
1:40-2:00 |
Gary Greenfield |
On Simulating Seed Foraging by Red Harvester Ants |
2:00-2:20 |
Matthias Scheutz, Max Smiley and Boyd Sunny |
Exploring Male Spatial Placement Strategies in a Biologically Plausible Mating Task |
2:20-2:40 |
Domenico Parisi and Giovanni Carmantini |
Robots That Specialize and Make Exchanges |
2:40-3:00 |
Corrado Grappiolo, Julian Togelius and Georgios N. Yannakakis |
Artificial Evolution for the Detection of Group Identities in Complex Artificial Societies |
3:00-3:20 |
Keita Nishimoto, Reiji Suzuki and Takaya Arita |
Social Particle Swarm: Explosive Particle Dynamics Based on Cooperative/Defective Forces |
3:30-4:30pm: IEEE ALIFE Keynote 2: Mikhail Prokopenko "Information Dynamics at the Edge of Chaos" (Lyrebird, Level 3)
4:30-5:30pm: IEEE SSCI Keynote: Chrystopher Nehaniv "Interaction and Experience in Enactive Intelligence and Humanoid Robotics" (Lyrebird, Level 3)
5:30pm Closing Remarks (including IEEE ALIFE Best Paper/Best Student Paper Awards Announcement) (Lyrebird, Level 3)