{"id":136,"date":"2016-06-08T09:46:27","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T07:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/project.inria.fr\/ecal2017\/?page_id=136"},"modified":"2017-09-14T13:17:30","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T11:17:30","slug":"ecal-2017-lyon-france","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/project.inria.fr\/ecal2017\/","title":{"rendered":"ECAL 2017<span style=\"margin:0px 25px;\">&bull;<\/span>Lyon, France<span style=\"margin:0px 25px;\">&bull;<\/span>4 &#8211; 8 September 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Create, play, experiment, discover: revealing the experimental power of virtual worlds<\/h3>\n<p>ECAL, the\u00a0European Conference on Artificial Life, is a biennial scientific gathering supported by the <a href=\"http:\/\/alife.org\/\">International Society for Artificial Life<\/a> (ISAL).<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/project.inria.fr\/ecal2017\/files\/2016\/06\/bateau_ecal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-822\" src=\"http:\/\/project.inria.fr\/ecal2017\/files\/2016\/06\/bateau_ecal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1582\" height=\"1010\" srcset=\"https:\/\/project.inria.fr\/ecal2017\/files\/2016\/06\/bateau_ecal.jpg 1582w, https:\/\/project.inria.fr\/ecal2017\/files\/2016\/06\/bateau_ecal-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/project.inria.fr\/ecal2017\/files\/2016\/06\/bateau_ecal-768x490.jpg 768w, https:\/\/project.inria.fr\/ecal2017\/files\/2016\/06\/bateau_ecal-1024x654.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/project.inria.fr\/ecal2017\/files\/2016\/06\/bateau_ecal-150x96.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1582px) 100vw, 1582px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u00a9 2017 Nicolas Comte<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3>Proceedings<\/h3>\n<p><a style=\"display: block; height: 40px; width: auto; color: white; background-color: #ff6600; border-radius: 10px; text-align: center; margin-top: 30px;\" href=\"http:\/\/cognet.mit.edu\/journal\/ecal2017\">MIT Press Open Access Proceedings<\/a><br \/>\n<a style=\"display: block; height: 40px; width: auto; color: red; background-color: #f3e5ab; border-radius: 10px; text-align: center;\" href=\"https:\/\/project.inria.fr\/ecal2017\/files\/2017\/08\/late-breaking-posters-booklet.pdf\">Late-Breaking Abstracts Booklet<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Awards<\/h3>\n<h4>Best paper award<\/h4>\n<p>The best paper award was granted to Nick Moran and Jordan Pollack, for their work on the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/cognet.mit.edu\/proceed\/10.7551\/ecal_a_051\">Effects of Cooperative and Competitive Coevolution on Complexity in a Linguistic Prediction Game<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>The four finalists were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Milan Jelisavcic, Rafael Kiesel, Kyrre Glette, Evert Haasdijk and A. E. Eiben.<a href=\"http:\/\/cognet.mit.edu\/proceed\/10.7551\/ecal_a_038\"> Analysis of Lamarckian Evolution in Morphologically Evolving Robots<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Emily Dolson and Charles Ofria. <a href=\"http:\/\/cognet.mit.edu\/proceed\/10.7551\/ecal_a_023\">Spatial resource heterogeneity creates local hotspots of evolutionary potential<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Nick Moran and Jordan Pollack. <a href=\"http:\/\/cognet.mit.edu\/proceed\/10.7551\/ecal_a_051\">Effects of Cooperative and Competitive Coevolution on Complexity in a Linguistic Prediction Game<\/a><\/li>\n<li>I\u00f1aki Fern\u00e1ndez P\u00e9rez, Amine Boumaza and Fran\u00e7ois Charpillet. <a href=\"http:\/\/cognet.mit.edu\/proceed\/10.7551\/ecal_a_028\">Learning Collaborative Foraging in a Swarm of Robots using Embodied Evolution<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Best poster award<\/h4>\n<p>The best poster award was granted to Peter Aaser, Martinius Knudsen, Ola Huse Ramstad, Rosanne van de Wijdeven, Stefano Nichele, Ioanna Sandvig, Gunnar Tufte, Ulrich Stefan Bauer, \u00d8yvind Halaas, Sverre Hendseth, Axel Sandvig and Vibeke Valderhaug, for their work entitled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/cognet.mit.edu\/proceed\/10.7551\/ecal_a_072\">Towards Making a Cyborg: A Closed-Loop Reservoir-Neuro System<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<h3>News<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/cognet.mit.edu\/journal\/ecal2017\">main proceedings<\/a> are online!<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/project.inria.fr\/ecal2017\/files\/2017\/08\/late-breaking-posters-booklet.pdf\">booklet of late-breaking abstracts<\/a> is online!<\/li>\n<li>The programme of the 4th <a href=\"http:\/\/project.inria.fr\/ecal2017\/fourth-isal-summer-school\/\">ISAL Summer School<\/a> (Sept 4th) is online.<\/li>\n<li>Poster guidelines: maximum size A0 (841 x 1189 mm), portrait orientation. 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