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ChemAssem I (chair: Jerzy Maselko) - Friday 20th, 11:00-12:30h, room: U99
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
3 G. Ashkenasy: Light induced Replication and Selection in Peptide Networks
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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
CompNets I (chair: Mikhail Prokopenko) - Friday 20th, 11:00-12:30h, room: U71
- 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
Phil I (chair: Mark Bedau) - Friday 20th, 11:00-12:30h, room: U100
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
TheoComp I - Friday 20th, 11:00-12:30h, room: O95
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
IntelLearn I - Friday 20th, 14:00-15:30h, room: O99
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
OrigLife I (chair: Mark Doerr) - Friday 20th, 14:00-15:30h, room: U77
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
SocTec I - Friday 20th, 14:00-15:30h, room: U100
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
TheoComp II - Friday 20th, 14:00-15:30h, room: O95
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
204 B. Santos, P. Husbands and T. Froese: Accommodating homeostatically stable dynamical regimes to cope with different environmental conditions
BottomUpCells I (chair: P.A. Monnard) - Saturday, 21st, 10:30-12:00h, room: U100
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
CompNets II – (chair: Carlos Gershenson) Saturday, 21st, 10:30-12:00h, room: U71
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
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M. Piraveenan, M. Prokopenko and A. Zomaya: Classifying complex
networks using unbiased local assortativity
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R. Wang, J. Lizier and M. Prokopenko: A Fisher Information Study of
Phase Transitions in Random Boolean Networks
EmEng - Saturday, 21h, 10:30-12:00h, room: U82
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 II - Saturday, 21h, 10:30-12:00h, room: U81
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
CollIectInt I (chair: Johan Bollen) - Saturday, 21st, 13:30-15:00h, room: U77
17 N. Gessler: Fostering Creative Emergences in Artificial Cultures
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
CompNets III - Saturday, 21st, 13:30-15:00h, room: U71
35 R. Standish: Network Complexity of Foodwebs
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A. Dorin and K. Korb: Network Measures of Ecosystem
Complexity
147
M. Beurton-Aimar, N. Parisey, F. Vallee and S. Colombié:
Identification of functional hubs through metabolic networks.
203 M. Joachimczak and B. Wrobel: Evolving Gene Regulatory Networks for Real Time Control of Foraging Behaviours
Ecol - Saturday, 21st, 13:30-15:00h, room: U82
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
IntelLearn III - Saturday, 21st, 13:30-15:00h, room: U81
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
99 T. Schmickl, H. Hamann, J. Stradner, R. Mayet and K. Crailsheim: Complex Taxis-Behaviour in a Novel Bio-Inspired Robot Controller
175 M. Sim and D. Kim: Identifying the Location of a Target Object in the Weakly Electric Fish through Spatiotemporal Filtering Process
OrigLife II (chair: Bruce Damer, coorganized with AChem) - Saturday, 21st, 13:30-15:00h, room: U100
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
AChem I (chair: Wolfgang Banzhaf) - Sunday, 22nd, 10:30-12:00h, room: U82
see also coorganized session OrigLife II
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L. Yamamoto and W. Banzhaf: Catalytic Search in Dynamic
Environments
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
48 P. Gerlee and T. Lundh: Rock-Scissor-Paper dynamics in a digital ecology
EvolDyn I - Sunday, 22nd, 10:30-12:00h, room: U81
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
MiniCog I (chair: Martin Hanczyc) - Sunday, 22nd, 10:30-12:00h, room: U100
160 D. Görlich and P. Dittrich: On the semantic capacity of (bio-)chemical systems
83 G. Khan and J. Miller: Solving Mazes using an Artificial Developmental Neuron
190 J. Rieffel and B. Trimmer: Body/Brain Co-Evolution in Soft Robots
78 T. Marchel, M. Shuhei, R. Füchslin, K. Nakajima, M. Göldi and R. Pfeifer: Self-organized Segregation Effect on Water Based Self-Assembling Robots
Robotics I (chair: Robert Lowe) - Sunday, 22nd, 10:30-12:00h, room: U71
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
BioChemIT I (chair: John MacCaskill) - Sunday 22nd, 13:30-15:00h, room:U82
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 II (chair: P.A. Monnard) - Sunday 22nd, 13:30-15:00h, room:U100
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
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
CollectInt II (chair: Johan Bollen) - Sunday 22nd, 13:30-15:00h, room:U77
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
EvolDyn II - Sunday 22nd, 13:30-15:00h, room:U81
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
Robotics II (chair: S. Kernbach) - Sunday, 22nd, 13:30-15:00h, room: U71
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
EvolDyn III - Sunday 22nd, 15:30-17:00h, room:U100
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
Robotics III (chair: Richard Vaughan) - Sunday, 22nd, 15:30-17:00h, room: U71
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. Cañamero: Emotion in Decisions of Life and Death - Its Role in Brain-Body-Environment Interactions for Predator and Prey
SysBiol I - Sunday 22nd, 15:30-17:00h, room:U81
85 L. Delaye, C. González-Domenech and A. Moya: Towards a simpler photoautotrophic cell: conserved and variable genes in Synechococcus elongatus
103 S. Cussat-Blanc, J. Pascalie, H. Luga and Y. Duthen: Morphogen positioning by the means of a hydrodynamic engine
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
137 L. Schramm, V. Martins, Y. Jin and B. Sendhoff: Analysis of Gene Regulatory Network Motifs in Evolutionary Development of Multicellular Organisms
TheoComp III - Sunday 22nd, 15:30-17:00h, room:U77
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
BioChemIT II (chair: John MacCaskill) - Monday 23rd, 10:30-12:00h, room:O96
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
ChemAssem II (chair: Jerzy Maselko) - Monday 23rd, 10:30-12:00h, room: U100
89 J. Maselko: Self-assembly and self- construction
149 M. Doerr, P. Löffler and P. Monnard: Possible role of ice in the synthesis of polymeric compounds
11 A. Fontana: Devo co-evolution of shape and metabolism in a virtual organ
164 H. Sayama: Swarm Chemistry Evolving
EvolDyn IV - Monday 23rd, 10:30-12:00h, room: O99
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
175 M. Sim and D. Kim: Identifying the Location of a Target Object in the Weakly Electric Fish through Spatiotemporal Filtering Process
Phil II (chair: Mark Bedau) - Monday, 23rd, 10:30-12:00h, room:U77
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
126 canceled
EvolDyn V - Monday, 23rd, 13:30-15:00h, room: U100
67 B. Østman, A. Hintze and C. Adami: Critical properties of complex fitness landscapes
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
MiniCog II (chair: Martin Hanczyc) - Monday, 23rd, 13:30-15:00h, room: U77
100 O. Wiljes, R. Elburg, M. Biehl and F. Keijzer: Early Nervous Systems: Theoretical background and a preliminary model of neuronal processes
126 N. Horibe, K. Kobayashi, M. Hanczyc and T. Ikegami: Mode switching and collective behavior in chemical oil droplets
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
125 L. Grabowski, D. Bryson, R. Pennock, F. Dyer and C. Ofria: Early evolution of memory usage in digital organisms
SocTec II - Monday, 23rd, 13:30-15:00h, room: U99
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
SysBiol II - Monday, 23rd, 13:30-15:00h, room: O95
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 canceled