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Alife 9 Conference Schedule PDF
Sunday 12th September
8:30 Registration Desk Opens
9:30-12:30 Workshops/Tutorials A
2:00-5:00 Workshops/Tutorials
B
6:00-6:50 Invited Speaker: Stephen Wolfram, Wolfram
Research
A New Kind of Science and the Future of Artificial Life
7:00-9:00 Opening Reception
Monday 13th September
8:00 AM Registration Desk opens
8:45-9:00 Opening Remarks
9:00-10:00 Invited Speaker: George M. Whitesides, Harvard
Emergence in Synthetic Systems
10:00-10:30: Coffee
10:30-12:30: Development, evolution and self-organization
10:30. Tim Taylor, University of Edinburgh, Redrawing
the Boundary between Organism and Environment (Page 268)
10:45. George Kampis & Gulyas Laszlo, Eotvos University,
Sustained Evolution from Changing Interaction (Page 328))
11:00. Matthew Bardeen, Sussex University, The value
of death: A lesson from Daisyworld (Page 292)
11:15. Chrisantha Fernando & Ezequiel Di Paolo,
Sussex University, The Chemoton: A Model for the Formation of
Long RNA Templates (Page 1)
11:30. Efstathios Mytilinaios, David Marcus, Mark Desnoyer
& Hod Lipson, Cornell University, Designed and Evolved
Blueprints For Physical Self-Replicating Machines (Page
15)
11:45. Barry Drennan & Randall Beer, Case Western
Reserve University, A Model for Exploring Genetic Control of
Artificial Amoebae (Page 381)
12:00. Paul Dwight Kuo & Wolfgang Banzhaf , Memorial
University of Newfoundland, Small World and Scale-Free Network
Topologies in an Artificial Regulatory Network (Page 404)
12:15. Keisuke Suzuki & Takashi Ikegami, University
of Tokyo, Self-repairing and Mobility of a Simple Cell
(Page 421)
12:30-14:00: Lunch
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14:00-15:30. Robotic Studies |
14:00-15:30 Evolution and Adaptation I |
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14:00. Emmet Spier, Sussex University, Behavioural Categorisation:
Behaviour makes up for bad vision (Page 133) |
14:00. Dusan Misevic, Richard Lenski & Charles Ofria,
Michigan State University, Sexual reproduction and Muller's ratchet
in digital organisms (Page 340) |
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14:30. Eric Vaughan, Ezequiel Di Paolo & Inman Harvey,
Sussex University, The Evolution of Control and Adaptation
in a 3D Powered Passive Dynamic Walker (Page 139) |
14:30. Sherri Goings, Jeff Clune, Charles Ofria & Robert
T. Pennock, Michigan State University, Kin Selection: The
Rise and Fall of Kin-Cheaters (Page 303)
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15:00. Thomas Howsman, Daniel ONeil & Michael Craft, Dynamic
Concepts/NASA, A Stigmergic Cooperative Multi-Robot Control Architecture
(Page 88) |
15:00. Wei Huang, Charles Ofria & Eric Torng, Michigan
State University, Measuring Biological Complexity in Digital
Organisms (Page 315)
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15:30-16:00: Coffee
16:00-17:00: Poster Elevator Pitches
(1 minute oral presentations)
Tuesday 14th September
9:00-10:00: Invited Speaker: Satoshi Murata, Tokyo
Institute of Technology.
Self-Reconfigurable Robot --- A Platform of Evolutionary Robotics
10:00-10:30. Coffee
10:30-12:30. Robot and Agent Studies
10:30. Josh Bongard & Hod Lipson, Cornell University,
Once More Unto the Breach: Co-evolving a Robot and its Simulator
(Page 57)
10:45. Ian Macinnes & Ezequiel Di Paolo, Sussex
University, Crawling Out of the Simulation: Evolving Real Robot
Morphologies Using Cheap, Reusable Modules (Page 94)
11:00. Evan Malone & Hod Lipson, Cornell University,
Functional Freeform Fabrication for Physical Artificial Life
(Page 100)
11:15. Thomas Buehrmann & Ezequiel Di Paolo, Sussex
University, Closing the loop: Evolving a model-free visually
guided robot arm (Page 63)
11:30. Yoon Sik Shim, Sun Jeong Kim & Chang Hun Kim,
Korea University, Evolving Flying Creatures with Path Following
Behaviors (Page 125)
11:45. Gentaro Morimoto & Takashi Ikegami, University
of Tokyo, Evolution of Plastic Sensory-motor Coupling and Dynamical
Categorization (Page 188)
12:00. Terry Van Belle & David Ackley, University
of New Mexico, Imitation and Inequity in Avoiding the Tragedy
of the Commons (Page 274)
12:45. Jason Noble & Manuel de Pinedo, Leeds University,
Mechanistic and ecological explanations in agent-based models
of cognition (Page 528)
12:30-14:00: Lunch
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14:00-15:30. Evolution and Adaptation II |
14:00-15:30 Artificial Chemistry I |
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14:00. Eduardo Izquierdo-Torres, Sussex University, The
Role of Nearly Neutral Mutations in the Evolution of Dynamical
Neural Networks (Page 322) |
14:00. Barak Shenhav, Ran Kafri & Doron Lancet , The
Weizmann Institute, Graded Artificial Chemistry in Restricted
Boundaries (Page 501) |
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14:30. Reiji Suzuki & Takaya Arita, Nagoya University,
Drastic Changes in Roles of Learning in the Course of Evolution
(Page 369) |
14:30. Chris Salzberg, Hiroki Sayama & Takashi Ikegami,
Tokyo University, A Tangled Hierarchy of Graph- Constructing
Graphs (Page 495) |
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15:00. Alexandra Penn & Inman Harvey, Sussex University,
The Role of Non-Genetic Change in the heritability, Variation
and Response to Selection of Artificially-Selected Ecosystems
(Page 352)
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15:00. Juan-Carlos Letelier, Jorge Soto-Andrade, Flavio Guíñez-Abarzúa,
Athel Cornish-Bowden & María-Luz Cárdenas,
Universidad de Chile, Metabolic closure in (M,R) Systems
(Page 450) |
15:30-16:00: Coffee
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16:00-17:30. Games and Automata |
16:00-17:30 Language, Cognition & Information |
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16:00. Patrick Grim, Evan Selinger, William Braynen, Robert
Rosenberger, Randy Au, Nancy Louie & John Connolly
SUNY and Rochester Inst. Tech., Reducing Prejudice: A Spatialized
Game-Theoretic Model for the Contact Hypothesis (Page 244) |
16:00. Luc Steels, Sony/Univeristy of Brussels, Analogies
between Genome and Language Evolution (Page 200)
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16:30. Pablo Funes, Belinda Orme & Eric Bonabeau,
Icosystem Corp., Shaping collective behavior: an exploratory
design approach (Page 232) |
16:30. Elhanan Borenstein & Eytan Ruppin, Tel Aviv
University, Evolving Imitating Agents and the Emergence of a
Neural Mirror System (Page 146) |
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17:00. Tim Taylor, Edinburgh University, Niche Construction
and the Evolution of Complexity (Page 375)
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17:00. Alexander Klyubin, Daniel Polani & Chrystopher
Nehaniv, University of Hertfordshire, Tracking Information
Flow through the Environment: Simple Cases of Stigmergy (Page
563) |
6:30-10:30PM Evening: Poster Gala
Reception
Wednesday 15th September
9:00-10:00. Invited Speaker: Eors Szathmary, University
of Budapest
Origin and Evolution of Various Genetic Systems
10:00-10:30. Coffee.
10:30-12:30. Chemistry, Automata and Communication
10:30. Barak Naveh, Moshe Sipper, Doron Lancet & Barak
Shenhav, Ben-Gurian University, Lipidia: An Artificial Chemistry
of Self-Replicating Assemblies of Lipid-like Molecules (Page
466)
10:45. Duraid Madina & Takashi Ikegami, Univ. New
South Wales, Univ. Tokyo, Cellular Formation in a 3D Molecular
Dynamics System with Chemistry (Page 461)
11:00. Hugues Bersini, Universite Libre de Bruxelles,
Whatever emerges should be intrinsically useful (Page 226)
11:15. Chris Salzberg, Antony Antony & Hiroki Sayama
, University Tokyo, University Amsterdam, Complex genetic
evolution of self-replicating loops (Page 262)
11:30. Andrew Wuensche, Self-reproduction by glider
collisions: the beehive rule (Page 286)
11:45. Daniel Roggen, Yann Thoma & Eduardo Sanchez,
EPFL, An Evolving and Developing Cellular Electronic Circuit
(Page 33)
12:00. Edgar E. Vallejo & Charles E. Taylor, Tecnologico
de Monterrey, UCLA, The Effects of Learning on the Evolution
of Saussurean Communication (Page 208)
12:15. Kazutoshi Sasahara & Takashi Ikegami, Tokyo
University, Song Grammars as Complex Sexual Displays (Page 194)
12:30-14:00: Lunch
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14:00-15:30. Evolution and Adaptation III |
14:00-15:30 Artificial Chemistry II |
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14:00 Inman Harvey, Sussex University, Homeostasis and
Rein Control: From Daisyworld to Active Perception (Page
309) |
14:00. Alan Hampton & Christoph Adami, CalTech, Evolution
of robust developmental neural networks (Page 438) |
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14:30. Russell Standish, University of New South
Wales,Ecolab, Webworld and self-organisation (Page 358) |
14:30. Tim Hutton, UCL, Functional Self-Reproducing Cell
in a Two-Dimensional Artificial Chemistry (Page 444) |
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15:00. Josh Mitteldorf, Temple University, Chaotic
Population Dynamics and the Evolution of Aging (Page 346)
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15:00. Kristian Lindgren, Anders Eriksson & Karl-Erik
Eriksson, Chalmers University, Flows of information in spatially
extended chemical dynamics (Page 456) |
15:30-16:30: Coffee and Farewell
16:00 ISAL Board Meeting |
