9:00-9:30
Opening
Miraikan-hall
Chair: Takashi Ikegami
9:30-10:30
Keynote: David OReilly
Miraikan-hall
Describing the Systems of Life
Chair: Mizuki Oka
10:30-11:00
Lightning session
Miraikan-hall
Chair: Mizuki Oka
10:30 Past Visions of Artificial Futures: One Hundred and Fifty Years under the Spectre of Evolving Machines.
Tim Taylor and Alan Dorin
10:40 Cell-Mimicry Behaviors of Micrometer-Sized Oil Droplets in Aqueous Solution.
Taisuke Banno, Taro Toyota and Kouichi Asakura
10:50 Hallucination Machine: Simulating Altered Perceptual Phenomenology with a Deep-Dream Virtual Reality platform.
Keisuke Suzuki, Warrick Roseboom, David Schwartzman and Anil Seth
11:00-11:30
Coffee break
11:30-12:45
Session: Evolutionary Robotics I
Miraikan-hall
Chair: Julien Hubert
11:30 Behavioral search drivers and the role of elitism in soft robotics
William La Cava and Jason Moore
11:55 Stochastic Ontogenesis in Evolutionary Robotics
Adam Stanton
12:20 Improving performance in distributed embodied evolution: Distributed Differential Embodied Evolution
Pedro Trueba and Abraham Prieto García
Special Session: Hybrid Life I
Venus & Mars
Chair: Manuel Baltieri, Keisuke Suzuki and Hiroyuki Iizuka
11:30 The modularity of action and perception revisited using control theory and active inference.
Manuel Baltieri and Christopher L. Buckley
11:55 Precision without Precisions: Handling uncertainty with a single predictive model.
Benjamin Cowley, John Thornton, Linda Main and Abdul Sattar
12:20 Autonomous Regulation of Self and Non-Self by Stimulation Avoidance in Embodied
Neural Networks.
Atsushi Masumori, Lana Sinapayen, Norihiro Maruyama, Takeshi Mita, Douglas Bakkum, Urs Frey, Hirokazu Takahashi and Takashi Ikegami
Special Session: ALIFE and Society I
Mercury
Chair: Alex Penn and J Mario Siqueiros
11:30 Socio-technical evolution.
Martin Rosenlyst, Henrik Siboni and Steen Rasmussen
11:40 Major Transitions in Planetary Evolution.
Hikaru Furukawa and Sara Walker
11:50 ALife as a Tool for Cooperative Society Between People and Machines.
Mizuki Oka, Dominique Chen, Ryuta Aoki and Takashi Ikegami
12:00 Co-creating Enduring Institutions for Socio-Technical Systems: The Complementarity of Content-based and Value-based Modelling Approaches.
Simon Powers, Aniko Ekárt and Peter Lewis
12:10 The affective affordances of the web: a 4E approach.
J. Mario Siqueiros-García, Laura Mojíca and Susana Ramírez-Vizcaya
12:20 Mutual synchronization and control between artificial chaotic system and human.
Dobromir Dotov and Tom Froese
Tutorial: Creative Prediction with Neural Networks
Uranus
Organizers: Charles P. Martin, Kyrre Glette, Jim Tørresen
Tutorial: Simulating Complex Systems with FLAME GPU
Neptune
Organizers: Paul Richmond, Mozhgan Kabiri Chimeh
12:45-14:15
Lunch break
14:15-15:15
Keynote: Hyejin Youn
Miraikan-hall
Scaling in Physics, Biology, Cities and Beyond
Chair: Olaf Witkowski
15:15-15:45
Lightning session
Miraikan-hall
Chair: Olaf Witkowski
15:15 Computation in artificial spin ice.
Johannes Jensen, Erik Folven and Gunnar Tufte
15:25 How computational thought experiments can improve our understanding of the genetic architecture of common human diseases.
Jason Moore, Randal Olson, Peter Schmitt, Yong Chen and Elisabetta Manduchi
15:35 A reservoir computing approach for molecular computing.
Wataru Yahiro, Nathanael Aubert-Kato and Masami Hagiya
15:45-16:15
Coffee break
16:15-17:30
Session: Evolutionary Dynamics
Miraikan-hall
Chair: Emily Dolson
16:15 Intrinsic Mortality Governs Evolvability.
Frank Veenstra, Pablo González de Prado Salas, Josh Bongard, Kasper Støy and Sebastian Risi
16:40 The Complexity Ratchet: Stronger than selection, weaker than robustness.
Vincent Liard, David Parsons, Jonathan Rouzaud-Cornabas and Guillaume Beslon
17:05 Investigating Open-Ended Coevolution in Digital Organisms.
Luis Zaman
Special Session: Hybrid Life II
Venus & Mars
Chair: Manuel Baltieri, Keisuke Suzuki and Hiroyuki Iizuka
16:15 Interfacing Synthetic Cells with Biological Cells: An Application of the Synthetic Method.
Giordano Rampioni, Livia Leoni, Fabio Mavelli, Luisa Damiano and Pasquale Stano
16:40 Effect of Behavioral Complexity on Development of Spatial Recognition.
Wataru Noguchi, Hiroyuki Iizuka and Masahito Yamamoto
17:05 Evolving robot controllers for a bio-hybrid system.
Pedro Mariano, Ziad Salem, Rob Mills, Stefan Schönwetter-Fuchs-Schistek, Luís Correia and Thomas Schmickl
Special Session: ALIFE and Society II
Mercury
Chair: Alex Penn and J Mario Siqueiros
“Open Space” Discussion on the future of ALIFE and Society beyond AI