Quick nav: Monday 4 Sept – Tuesday 5 Sept – Wednesday 6 Sept – Thursday 7 Sept – Friday 8 Sept
08:30 – 09:00 • Welcome coffee
Agora
09:00 – 10:00 • Keynote
Experimenting with computing and in computing: Stretching the traditional notion of experimentation
Viola Schiaffonati
Rotonde
10:00 – 10:30 • Coffee break
Agora
10:30 – 12:30 • Parallel sessions & Tutorials
Social dynamics
Rotonde
Mood Modelling within Reinforcement Learning
Joe Collenette, Katie Atkinson, Daan Bloembergen, Karl Tuyls
How Mutation Alters Fitness of Cooperation in Networked Evolutionary Games
Genki Ichinose, Yoshiki Satotani, Hiroki Sayama
Effects of Cooperative and Competitive Coevolution on Complexity in a Linguistic Prediction Game
Nick Moran, Jordan Pollack
Reweighting Rewards in Embodied Evolution to Achieve a Balanced Distribution of Labour
Sebastian Bangel, Evert Haasdijk
Complex dynamical systems
Huma. Amphi EST
Locating critical regions by the Relevance Index
Andrea Roli, Marco Villani, Roberto Serra
Criticality as It Could Be: organizational invariance as self-organized criticality in embodied agents
Miguel Aguilera, Manuel Bedia
Reservoir Computing with a Chaotic Circuit
Johannes H. Jensen, Gunnar Tufte
Signatures of criticality in a maximum entropy model of the C. elegans brain during free behaviour
Miguel Aguilera, Carlos Alquézar, Eduardo Izquierdo
Physical artificial life
Huma. Amphi OUEST
The Evolution of Protocells in Chemorobotic Platforms
Laurie J. Points, Jonathan Grizou, Juan Manuel Parrilla Gutierrez, James Ward Taylor, Lee Cronin
Building Physical Self-Replicating Machines
Alex Ellery
Life-like collective behavior of multiple chemotactic droplets
Jitka Cejkova, Frantisek Stepanek, Takashi Ikegami
Comparing and contrasting functional blueprints for simple self-replicating protocellular and robotics systems
Katharina Flugt, Steen Rasmussen
Tutorial: Building Artificial Life Systems for the Web with Empirical
Huma. 109
Tutorial: Evolution in the cloud
Huma. 111
12:30 – 14:00 • Lunch
with special ALIFE journal tables
14:00 – 16:00 • Parallel sessions & Tutorials
Evolutionary dynamics 1
Rotonde
Lineage selection leads to evolvability at large population sizes
Nathaniel Virgo, Eran Agmon, Chrisantha Fernando
A 4-base model for the Aevol in-silico experimental evolution platform
Vincent Liard, Jonathan Rouzaud-Cornabas, Nicolas Comte, Guillaume Beslon
MABE (Modular Agent Based Evolver):A Framework for Digital Evolution Research
Clifford Bohm, Nitash C G, Arend Hintze
Gene Duplications Drive the Evolution of Complex Traits and Regulation
Alexander Lalejini, Michael Wiser, Charles Ofria
Computational humanities
Huma. Amphi EST
Evolutionary Game-theoretic Modeling of Past Societies’ Social Organization
Angelos Chliaoutakis, Georgios Chalkiadakis
Emergence of hierarchy from the evolution of individual influence in an agent-based model
Cedric Perret, Simon Powers, Emma Hart
Evolution of Recursive Combination Operation
Genta Toya, Takashi Hashimoto
Modeling Patterns of Wealth Disparity in Neolithic Upper Egypt
Geoff Nitschke, Jessica Nitschke
Perception, cognition and behaviour
Huma. Amphi OUEST
Going round in Circles
Inman Harvey
An active inference implementation of phototaxis
Manuel Baltieri, Christopher Buckley
Let The Explanation Fit The Theorist – Enactive Explanatory Pluralism And The Representation Debate
Simon McGregor
Action and perception for spatiotemporal patterns
Martin Biehl, Daniel Polani
Tutorial: Evolutionary robotics – a practical guide to experiments with real hardware
René Char
Tutorial: Digital coevolution: a beginners approach
Huma. 111
16:00 – 16:30 • Coffee break
Agora
16:30 – 17:30 • Keynote
The Illusion of Life
Andreas Wessel-Therhorn and Laurent Pujo-Menjouet
Rotonde
17:30 – 20:00 • First poster session
Agora
with wine & cheese
20:00 – 22:00 • Climbing session
Meeting point: registration desk
