Program

		Friday, Aug. 20th	Saturday, Aug. 21th	Sunday, Aug. 22th	Monday, Aug. 23th	Tuesday, Aug. 24th
08:00		Registration	Registration	Registration	Registration
08:30
08:45		Opening	Keynote	Keynote	Keynote
09:00
		Keynote
09:30			Plenum	Plenum	Plenum
10:00		Plenum: H. Lipson	Coffee	Coffee	Coffee
10:30		Coffee	Parallel Sessions:	Parallel Sessions:	Parallel Sessions:
11:00		Parallel Sessions:	CompNets II	Bottomup Cells I	SysBiol II
			OrigLife I	BioChemIT I	EvolDyn IV
11:30		ChemAssem I	IntelLearn II	Robotics I	Phil I
		CompNets I	EmEng	EvolDyn I	MiniCog I
12:00		TheoComp I	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
		SocTecSys
12:30		Lunch
	Satellite
13:00	Workshops
13:30			Parallel Sessions:	Parallel Sessions:	Parallel Sessions:
			CompNets III	Bottomup Cells II	EvolDyn V
14:00		Parallel Sessions:	OrigLife II	BioChemIT II	AChem
			Ecol	Robotics II	Phil II
14:30		ChemAssem II	IntelLearn II	EvolDyn II	MiniCog II	Living Technology
		IntelLearn I	CollectInt I	CollectInt II		Workshop
15:00		TheoComp II	Coffee	Coffee	Closing
		SocTecSys II
15:30		Posters	Panel Discssion	Parallel	Satellite Workshops
				Sessions:
16:00				SysBiol I
				Robotics III
16:30				EvolDyn III
				TheoComp III
17:00		Satellite Workshop /Posters	Satellite Workshops/ Posters
17:30				Transportation to
	Registration			Hotels
18:00
18:30				Excursion
				&
19:00				Conf. Dinner
20:00
21:00

 

 

 

 

AChem - Artificial Chemistries (Wolfgang Banzhaf) 

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AChem I (chair: Wolfgang Banzhaf)

62        A. Faulconbridge, S. Stepney, J. Miller and L. Caves: RBN-World: The hunt for a rich AChem

54        A. Nellis and S. Stepney: Automatically moving between levels in Artificial Chemistries

88        L. Yamamoto and W. Banzhaf: Catalytic Search in Dynamic Environments

48        P. Gerlee and T. Lundh: Rock-Scissor-Paper dynamics in a digital ecology

 

BioChemIT - Biological and Chemical Information Processing and Production (John McCaskill)  

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BioChemIT I

34        B. Gil: "Doctor in a cell": vision and accomplishments

127      M. Heymann, K. Harrington, J. Pollack and S. Fraden: En route to signal inversion in chemical computing

53        U. Tangen: The emergence of replication in a digital evolution system using a secondary structure approach

158      S. Dijk, D. Polani and C. Nehaniv: What do You Want to do Today? Relevant-Information Bookkeeping in Goal-Oriented Behaviour

 

BioChemIT II

177      A. Goni-Moreno and M. Amos: Engineered microbial communication for population-level behaviour

5          N. Zabet, A. Hone and D. Chu: Design principles of transcriptional logic circuits

105      R. Watson, C. Buckley, R. Mills and A. Davies: Associative memory in gene regulation networks

174      M. Joachimczak and B. Wrobel: Processing Signals with Evolving Artificial Gene Regulatory Networks

 

BottomUpCells  - Bottomup Synthetic Cells (Pierre-Alain Monnard)

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ButtomUpCells I  (chair: P.A. Monnard):

117      S. Maurer, A. Albertsen, J. Cape, J. Boncella, S. Rasmussen, H. Ziock, P. Monnard and L. Spencer: Designing a protocell: Attempt at a systemic design linking information, metabolism and container

201      H. Fellermann and S. Rasmussen: Physically grounded simulations of a self-replicating chemical aggregate

163      P. Stano and P. Luisi: Synthetic (Constructive) Biology: From Vesicles Self-Reproduction to Semi-Synthetic Minimal Cells

168      F. Mavelli: Ribocell Modeling

 

ButtopUpCells II (chair: P.A. Monnard):

104      B. Shirt-Ediss, F. Mavelli and K. Ruiz-Mirazo: To Burst or Not To Burst: Osmotic Regulation in a Protocell Model - Through Precursor Mechano-Sensitive Channels

20        N. Ichihashi, Y. Bansyo, T. Matsuura and T. Yomo: Constructing an artificial self-replication system of genetic information from RNA and proteins

22        T. Ishida: Simulation of self-reproduction phenomenon of cells in two-dimensional cellular automata

41        J. Shin and v. noireaux: Approach to synthetic cell with a cell-free system

 

ChemAssem - Chemical Self-Assembly and Complexity (Jerzy Maselko)  

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ChemAssem I (chair: Jerzy Maselko)

89        J. Maselko: Self-assembly and self- construction

7          R. Plasson, A. Brandenburg, L. Jullien and H. Bersini: Autocatalyses

4          H. Cleaves: Spontaneous Assembly of Cell-Like Structures from Likely Prebiotic Materials: Problems and Prospects

149      M. Doerr, P. Löffler and P. Monnard: Possible role of ice in the synthesis of polymeric compounds

 

ChemAssem II

3          G. Ashkenasy: Light induced Replication and Selection in Peptide Networks

11        A. Fontana: Devo co-evolution of shape and metabolism in a virtual organ

19        S. Hickinbotham, E. Clark, S. Stepney, T. Clarke, A. Nellis, M. Pay and P. Young: Diversity from a monoculture: effects of mutation-on-copy in a string-based artificial chemistry

164      H. Sayama: Swarm Chemistry Evolving

 

CollectInt - Collective Intelligence (Johan Bollen) 

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CollIectInt I  (chair: Johan Bollen or Carlos Gershensen):

17        N. Gessler: Fostering Creative Emergences in Artificial Cultures

61        J. Peronard: The Human Use of Living Technology: Toward a Cultural Understanding of Robots

114      T. Buecheler, J. Sieg, R. Füchslin and R. Pfeifer: Crowdsourcing, Open Innovation and Collective Intelligence in the Scientific Method: A Research Agenda and Operational Framework

185      S. Sadat and R. Vaughan: SO-LOST: An Ant-Trail Algorithm for Multi-Robot Navigation with Active Interference Reduction

 

CollectInt II (chair: Johan Bollen):

58        S. Bullock and M. Kerby: Multi-modal swarm construction

91        C. Salge and D. Polani: From Infotaxis to Boids-like Swarm Behaviour

81        S. Tsuda and J. Jones: The Emergence of Complex Oscillatory Behaviour in Physarum polycephalum and its Particle Approximation

161      A. Haidar and L. Rocha: Collective Classification of Biomedical Articles using T-Cell Cross-regulation

 

CompNets - Complex Networks (Carlos Gershensen and Mikhail Prokopenko)  

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CompNets I

--- J. D. Haynes, invited presentation

96        M. Brede: Optimizing spatially embedded networks for synchronization

167      R. Poblanno-Balp and C. Gershenson: Modular Random Boolean Networks

73        R. Wang, J. Lizier and M. Prokopenko: A Fisher Information Study of Phase Transitions in Random Boolean Networks

 

CompNets II

170      L. Yaeger, O. Sporns, S. Williams, X. Shuai and S. Dougherty: Evolutionary Selection of Network Structure and Function

113      N. Geard, J. Bryden, S. Funk, V. Jansen and S. Bullock: Stability in flux: group dynamics in adaptive networks

110      A. Dorin and K. Korb: Network Measures of Ecosystem Complexity

60        M. Piraveenan, M. Prokopenko and A. Zomaya: Classifying complex networks using unbiased local assortativity

 

CompNets III

35        R. Standish: Network Complexity of Foodwebs

147      M. Beurton-Aimar, N. Parisey, F. Vallee and S. Colombié: Identification of functional hubs through metabolic networks.

24        D. Aguilar, A. Córdoba, M. Lemos, F. Casares, M. Domínguez and M. Tavares: Computational approach to the gene regulatory network in the mus musculus mouse eye development

203      M. Joachimczak and B. Wrobel: Evolving Gene Regulatory Networks for Real Time Control of Foraging Behaviours

 

CANCELED:

76        Y. Maru: Social network are effective adaptive mechanisms to high uncertainty in desert livelihood and ecosystems.  

 

Ecol - Ecology (Seth Bullock)  

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98        J. McCormack: Enhancing Creativity with Niche Construction

77        J. Shao and T. Ray: Maintenance of Species Diversity by Predation in the Tierra Simulation System

151      M. Bardeen: Patch-level Selection in Darwinian Daisyworld

27        J. Dyke: The Daisystat: A model to explore multidimensional homeostasis

 

EvolDyn - Evolutionary Dynamics (Chris Adami) 

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EvolDyn I

145      N. Chaumont and C. Adami: Potential and Promise of Open-Ended Evolution in Artificial Life

118      J. Whitacre: Neutral evolution and cryptic genetic variation: evidence of complementary pathways to adaptive change in degenerate multi-agent systems

64        B. Corominas-Murtra, H. Fellermann, R. Solé and S. Rasmussen: On the interplay of kinetics, thermodynamics, and information in simple replicating systems

72        S. Arnold, R. Suzuki and T. Arita: Evolving learning ability in cyclically dynamic environments: The structuring force of environmental heterogeneity

 

EvolDyn II

134      M. Buck and C. Nehaniv: Evolution of Cooperation and Developmental Constraints: a GA-driven Approach

180      A. Hintze and C. Adami: Darwinian Evolution of Cooperation via Punishment in the “Public Goods” Game

188      J. Auerbach and J. Bongard: Dynamic Resolution in the Co-Evolution of Morphology and Control

132      H. Williams: Virus-host coevolution, killing the winner, and the Red Queen

 

EvolDyn III

33        S. Gavrilets: Dynamics of adaptive radiation

138      B. Connelly, L. Zaman, C. Ofria and P. McKinley: Social Structure and the Maintenance of Biodiversity

148      J. Bryden and V. Jansen: The impact of clonal mixing on the evolution of social behaviour in aphids

40        R. Suzuki and T. Arita: Effects of Temporal Locality of Ecological Processes on Coevolution of Learning and Niche Construction

 

EvolDyn IV

6          B. White: Aipotu: a simulated microworld based on a realistic model of gene expression and protein folding.

133      D. Parsons, C. Knibbe and G. Beslon: Importance of the rearrangement rates on the organization of genome transcription

25        J. Martins, R. Kouyos, T. Hinkley, C. Chappey, M. Haddad, J. Whitcomb, C. Petropoulos and S. Bonhoeffer: Evolution of recombination on an HIV-1 derived fitness landscape

153      A. Araujo, P. Bentley and B. Baum: Modelling the Role of Aneuploidy in Tumour Evolution

 

EvolDyn V

46        G. Turk: Sticky Feet: Evolution in a Multi-Creature Physical Simulation

184      C. Reynolds: Interactive Evolution of Camouflage

44        P. Gerlee, D. Basanta and A. Anderson: Evolving homeostatic tissue using genetic algorithms

175      M. Sim and D. Kim: Identifying the Location of a Target Object in the Weakly Electric Fish through Spatiotemporal Filtering Process

 

EmEng - Emergent Engineering (Norman Packard)  

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EmEng I

119      J. Whitacre: evolution-inspired approaches for engineering emergent robustness within an uncertain and dynamic world

84        V. Trianni and S. Nolfi: Re-Engineering Evolution: A Study In Self-Organising Synchronisation

32        T. Lints: How to Facilitate Variability

115      A. Penn, R. Watson, A. Kraaijeveld and J. Webb: Systems Aikido: A Novel Approach to Managing Natural Systems

 

IntelLearn -Intelligence and Learning (Takashi Ikegami) 

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IntelLearn I

36        R. Schulz, G. Wyeth and J. Wiles: Language Change across Generations for Robots using Cognitive Maps

111      A. Mukherjee, A. Baronchelli, V. Loreto, A. Puglisi and F. Tria: Aging in the Emergence of Linguistic Categories

120      E. Tuci, T. Ferrauto, G. Massera and S. Nolfi: The Evolution of Behavioural and Linguistic Skills to Execute and Generate Two-word Instructions in Agents Controlled by Dynamical Neural Networks

157      M. Harder, D. Polani and C. Nehaniv: Two Agents Acting as One

 

IntelLearn II

173      M. Rohde: Multisensory Perceptual Discrimination in Evolved Networks and Agents

136      J. Noble, T. Hebbron, J. Horst, R. Mills, S. Powers and R. Watson: Selection pressures for a theory-of-mind faculty in artificial agents

87        R. Silva and R. Gudwin: A Conscious-based Mind for an Artificial Creature

124      T. Ikegami and Y. Ogai: Self-organization of Subjective Time and Sustainable Autonomy in Mind Time Machine

 

IntelLearn III

37        K. Diwold, M. Beekman and M. Middendorf: Bee Nest Site Selection as an Optimization Process

107      G. Khan and J. Miller: Learning Games using Single Developmental Neuron

179      G. Schrementi and M. Gasser: Emergent Generalization in Bayesian Agents Using Iterated Learning

99        T. Schmickl, H. Hamann, J. Stradner, R. Mayet and K. Crailsheim: Complex Taxis-Behaviour in a Novel Bio-Inspired Robot Controller

 

MiniCog - Minimal Cognition and Physical Intelligence (Martin Hanczyc)  

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MiniCog I (chair: Martin Hanczyc)

160     D. Görlich and P. Dittrich: On the semantic capacity of (bio-)chemical systems

126     N. Horibe, K. Kobayashi, M. Hanczyc and T. Ikegami: Mode switching and collective behavior in chemical oil droplets

125     L. Grabowski, D. Bryson, R. Pennock, F. Dyer and C. Ofria: Early evolution of memory usage in digital organisms

78      T. Marchel, M. Shuhei, R. Füchslin, K. Nakajima, M. Göldi and R. Pfeifer: Self-organized Segregation Effect on Water Based Self-Assembling Robots

 

MiniCog II (chair: Martin Hanczyc)

100     O. Wiljes, R. Elburg, M. Biehl and F. Keijzer: Early Nervous Systems: Theoretical background and a preliminary model of neuronal processes

83      G. Khan and J. Miller: Solving Mazes using an Artificial Developmental Neuron

131     S. Tripodi, P. Ballet and V. Rodin: Self-organization of a virtual multicellular organism by adding a shape model in the Cellular Potts Model

190     J. Rieffel and B. Trimmer: Body/Brain Co-Evolution in Soft Robots

 

MiniCog III (Seth Bullock)

98        J. McCormack: Enhancing Creativity with Niche Construction

77        J. Shao and T. Ray: Maintenance of Species Diversity by Predation in the Tierra Simulation System

151      M. Bardeen: Patch-level Selection in Darwinian Daisyworld

27        J. Dyke: The Daisystat: A model to explore multidimensional homeostasis

 

OrigLife - Origin of Life (Mark Doerr and Bruce Damer) 

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OrigLife I (chair: Mark Doerr)

43        K. Kawamura: Temperature Limit for the Emergence of Life-like System Deduced from the Prebiotic Chemical Kinetics under the Hydrothermal Conditions

23        C. Fernando: The Origin of Life by Serial Dilution of a Primordial Soup

71        A. Pratt: Evolution, Selection and the Metabolic Foundations of the RNA World

101      A. Ullrich, C. Flamm, M. Rohrschneider and P. Stadler: In silico Evolution of Early Metabolism

 

OrigLife II (chair: Bruce Damer)

123      R. Füchslin, A. Filisetti, R. Serra, M. Villani, D. Lucrezia and I. Poli: Dynamical Stability of Autocatalytic Sets

152      B. Damer, P. Newman, R. Gordon, T. Barbalet, D. Deamer and R. Norkus: The EvoGrid: A Framework for Distributed Artificial Chemistry Cameo Simulations Supporting Computational Origins of Life Endeavors

196      R. Watson, R. Mills, C. Buckley, S. Powers, A. Penn, A. Davies, J. Noble and S. Bullock: Adaptation without natural selection

70        S. Hickinbotham, A. Faulconbridge and A. Nellis: The Blind Watchmaker’s Workshop: three Artificial Chemistries around Eigen’s Paradox

 

Phil - Philosophy (Mark Bedau)  

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Phil I

169      E. Silverman and T. Ikegami: Robust Explanations in Artificial Life

162      H. Thorén and P. Gerlee: Weak Emergence and Complexity

210      M. Bedau: The suppleness of life and mind

207      R. Pennock: Models of Artificial Life: Herbert Simon and Evolutionary Computation

 

Phil II

208      P. Humphreys: What Simulations can do that Experiments cannot, and vice versa.

 29       J. Misra: Algorithmic Feasibility of Observing Artificial Life Evolution

112      O. Holland: If there is something it is like to be Alife, what is it?

121      M. Segerståhl: Systems definition of an organism – a formal basis for modelling life

 

Robotics - Robots (Kasper Stoy)  

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Robotics I (chair: Chris Melhuis or Robert Lowe):

193      R. Lowe, A. Montebelli, I. Ieropoulos, J. Greenman, C. Melhuish and T. Ziemke: Grounding Motivation in Energy Autonomy: A Study of Artificial Metabolism Constrained Robot Dynamics

205      I. Ieropoulos, J. Greenman, C. Melhuish and I. Horsfield: EcoBot-III: a robot with guts

183      Y. Litus and R. Vaughan: What a Sunflower Can Teach a Robot? Efficient Robot Queuing by Reverse Phyllotaxis

194      A. Montebelli, R. Lowe, I. Ieropoulos, C. Melhuish, J. Greenman and T. Ziemke: Microbial Fuel Cell driven behavioral dynamics in robot simulations

 

Robotics II (chair: P. Husbands or S. Kernbach):

55        Y. Shim and P. Husbands: Chaotic Search of Emergent Locomotion Patterns for a Bodily Coupled Robotic System

9          Y. Meng, Y. Zhang and Y. Jin: A Morphogenetic Approach to Self-Reconfigurable Modular Robots using a Hybrid Hierarchical Gene Regulatory Network

57        H. Hamann, J. Stradner, T. Schmickl and K. Crailsheim: Artificial Hormone Reaction Networks: Towards Higher Evolvability in Evolutionary Multi-Modular Robotics

128      S. Kernbach: Adaptive Action Selection Mechanisms for Evolutionary Multimodular Robotics

 

Robotics III (chair: Richard Vaughan or Hod Lipson):

154      J. Wawerla and R. Vaughan: Online Robot Task Switching Under Diminishing Returns

200      C. Richter and H. Lipson: Hovering Flapping Flight of a 3D-Printed Mechanical Insect

93        D. Ball, S. Heath, M. Milford, G. Wyeth and J. Wiles: A Navigating Rat Animat

102      C. O'Bryne and L. Ca{\~n}amero: Emotion in Decisions of Life and Death - Its Role in Brain-Body-Environment Interactions for Predator and Prey

 

SocTecSys - Socio-Technical Systems (Kristian Lindgren)  

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SocTecSys I

39        J. Bullinaria: Memes in Artificial Life Simulations of Life History Evolution

195      A. Buchanan, N. Packard and M. Bedau: Darwinian evolution of culture as reflected in patent records

199      D. Chalmers, C. Francis, N. Pepper and M. Bedau: Evolution of Word Clouds in Patented Technology

51        A. Mutoh, S. Kato, H. Itoh and N. Inuzuka: Expression of Fashion in Female Preferences for a Mate by Conformity and Differentiation Genes

 

SocTecSys II

79        P. Mariano and L. Correia: Partner Selection: Finding the Right Combination of Players

143      K. Suzuki, R. Uno and T. Ikegami: Language as Autopoiesis : Experimental Approach to Agency in Linguistic Communication

182      A. Loula, R. Gudwin and J. Queiroz: On the emergence of indexical and symbolic interpretation in artificial creatures, or What is this I hear?

191      E. Vallejo and C. Taylor: A self-supervised classifier ensemble for source recognition in acoustic sensor arrays

 

SysBiol - Systems Biology (Luis Delaye)  

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SysBiol I

211      A. Chaudhary, G. Waldo, W. Hlavacek and C. Tung: Systems Biology Approaches for Developing Artificial Pathogen Detection Networks

144      J. Letelier, S. Jaramillo, R. Honorato-Zimmer, U. Pereira, D. Contreras, B. Reynaert, V. Hernandez, J. Soto-Andrade, M. Cardenas and A. Cornish-Bowden: (M,R) systems and RAF sets: common ideas, tools and projections

12        A. Fontana: An artificial life model for carcinogenesis

85        l. Delaye, C. González-Domenech and a. moya: Towards a simpler photoautotrophic cell: conserved and variable genes in Synechococcus elongatus

SysBiol II

186      S. Montagna, N. Donati and A. Omicini: An agent-based model for the pattern formation in Drosophila Melanogaster

103      S. Cussat-Blanc, J. Pascalie, H. Luga and Y. Duthen: Morphogen positioning by the means of a hydrodynamic engine

67        B. Østman, A. Hintze and C. Adami: Critical properties of complex fitness landscapes

137      L. Schramm, V. Martins, Y. Jin and B. Sendhoff: Analysis of Gene Regulatory Network Motifs in Evolutionary Development of Multicellular Organisms

 

TheoComp - Theoretical and Computational Frameworks (Peter Dittrich)         

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TheoComp I

129      I. Balaz and D. Mihailovic: Algebraic Representation and Modeling of Evolutionary Innovation and Adaptation in Biological Systems

21        T. Haruna: A Theoretical Study on Molecular Discreteness

108      J. Midtgaard-Olesen, C. Baldauf and D. Merkle: Barrier Trees for Continuous Fitness Landscapes

142      I. Harvey and N. Tomko: Binomics: Where Metagenomics meets the Binary World

 

TheoComp II

94        Z. Brain and M. Addicoat: Using Meta-Genetic Algorithms to tune parameters of Genetic Algorithms to find lowest energy Molecular Conformers

52        T. Hoverd and S. Stepney: Formalising Harmony Seeking Rules of Morphogenesis

50        W. Back and J. Starruß: Middle-out modeling of Multiscale Morphodynamics

204      B. Santos, P. Husbands and T. Froese: Accommodating homeostatically stable dynamical regimes to cope with different environmental conditions

 

TheoComp III

95        K. Nakamura: Asynchronous Parallel Self-Replication Based on Logic Molecular Model

59        H. Sayama: An Artificial Life View to the Collatz Problem

69        S. Ninagawa: Search for computationally universal cellular automata guided by 1/f noise

189      J. Rieffel and S. Smith: A Face-Encoding Grammar for the Generation of Tetrahedral-Mesh Soft Bodies