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
Synthetic palaeontology: Reconstructing Ancient Life using Virtual Robots
William Sellers
Rotonde
10:00 – 10:30 • Coffee break
Agora
10:30 – 12:30 • Parallel sessions & Tutorials
Evolutionary dynamics 2
Rotonde
Stochastic sexual interaction facilitates the evolution of asexual cooperation in the social amoeba
Shota Shibasaki, Masakazu Shimada
Improved Adaptation in Exogenously and Endogenously Changing Environments
Joshua Nahum, Jevin West, Benjamin Althouse, Luis Zaman, Charles Ofria, Benjamin Kerr
Investigations into the Evolutionary Origin of Navigation and Learning
Anselmo Pontes, Ian Whalen, Andrew Mitchell, Robert Mobley, Fred Dyer, Charles Ofria
Spatial resource heterogeneity creates local hotspots of evolutionary potential
Emily Dolson, Charles Ofria
Neural networks
Huma. Amphi EST
Learning by Stimulation Avoidance Scale to Large Neural Networks
Atsushi Masumori, Lana Sinapayen, Takashi Ikegami
Online Fitting of Computational Cost to Environmental Complexity: Predictive Coding with the ε-network
Lana Sinapayen, Takashi Ikegami
Dynamic Thresholds for Self-Organizing Predictive Cells
Benjamin Cowley, John Thornton, Linda Main, Abdul Sattar
The Development of Spatial Recognition and Navigation in Hierarchical Recurrent Neural Networks with Convolution Processing
Wataru Noguchi, Hiroyuki Iizuka, Masahito Yamamoto
Morphogenesis
Huma. Amphi OUEST
Development of Morphology Based on Resource Distribution: Finding the Shortest Path in a Maze by Vascular Morphogenesis Controller
Payam Zahadat, Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler, Thomas Schmickl
Criticality of Gene Regulatory Networks and the Resulting Morphogenesis
Hyobin Kim, Hiroki Sayama
Investigating the Effects of Noise on a Cell-to-Cell Communication Mechanism for Structure Regeneration
Giordano Ferreira, Matthias Scheutz, Michael Levin
Tutorial: Avida-ED: a web-based, GUI implementation of the Avida software platform, for educational use
Huma. 109
12:30 – 14:00 • Lunch
with special junior/senior tables
14:00 – 16:00 • Parallel sessions & Tutorials
Evolutionary robotics 2
Rotonde
Can Social Learning Increase Learning Speed, Performance or Both?
Jacqueline Heinerman, Jörg Stork, Margarita Alejandra Rebolledo Coy, Julien Hubert, A.E. Eiben, Thomas Bartz-Beielstein, Evert Haasdijk
Analysis of Lamarckian Evolution in Morphologically Evolving Robots
Milan Jelisavcic, Rafael Kiesel, Kyrre Glette, Evert Haasdijk, A. E. Eiben
An Evolutionary Robotics Model of Visually-Guided Braking: Testing Optical Variables
Didem Kadihasanoglu, Randall D. Beer, Geoffrey P. Bingham
Choice of robot morphology can prohibit modular control and disrupt evolution
Anton Bernatskiy, Josh Bongard
Applications of artificial life
Huma. Amphi EST
The Effects of Environmental Structure on the Evolution of Modularity in a Pattern Classifier
Jessica Lowell, Jordan Pollack
EvoMove: Evolutionary-based living musical companion
Sergio Peignier, Jonas Abernot, Christophe Rigotti, Guillaume Beslon
Evolution-in-Materio Computations: Hierarchies Rising from Electron Dynamics in Carbon Nanotubes
Dragana Laketic, Gunnart Tufte
Road Detection using Convolutional Neural Networks
Aparajit Narayan, Elio Tuci, Frederic Labrosse, Muhanad Mohammed
Collective dynamics of swarms 1
Huma. Amphi OUEST
Learning Collaborative Foraging in a Swarm of Robots using Embodied Evolution
Iñaki Fernández Pérez, Amine Boumaza, François Charpillet
Programmed self-replication & life-cycles of microchip swarming protocells
Asbjørn E. Hansen, Steen Rasmussen
Virtual experience of complex dynamics emerging in a social particle swarm model by sonification
Yukina Takano, Reiji Suzuki, Takaya Arita
Shepherding with Robots That Do Not Compute
Anil Ozdemir, Melvin Gauci, Roderich Gross
Tutorial: Using MABE (Modular Agent Based Evolution)
Huma. 109
Tutorial: Evolutionary Game Theory: Models and Applications
Huma. 111
16:00 – 16:30 • Coffee break
Agora
16:30 – 17:30 • Keynote
Drug addiction and alteration of decision making process
Philippe Faure
Rotonde
17:30 – 20:00 • Later breaking poster session
Agora
with wine & cheese
19:00 – 20:00 • ERC information session
René Char
