9:00-10:00
Keynote: Elena Antonova
Miraikan-hall
Varela’s Legacy for ALIFE: from Enactive to Enlightened AI
Chair: Hiro Iizuka
10:00-10:30
Lightning session
Miraikan-hall
Chair: Hiro Iizuka
10:00 The Surprising Creativity of Digital Evolution.
Joel Lehman, Jeff Clune and Dusan Misevic
10:10 Neuronal Variation as a Cognitive Evolutionary Adaptation.
Jory Schossau and Arend Hintze
10:20 Seeking Open-Ended Evolution in Swarm Chemistry II: Analyzing Long-Term Dynamics via Automated Object Harvesting.
Hiroki Sayama
10:30-11:00
Coffee break
11:00-12:15
Session: Biology
Miraikan-hall
Chair: Martin Hanczyc
11:00 Toward a Synthetic Acoustic Ecology: Sonically Situated, Evolutionary Agent Based Models of the Acoustic Niche Hypothesis.
Alice Eldridge and Chris Kiefer
11:25 Viva in Silico: A position-based dynamics model for microcolony morphology simulation.
Christoph Bader, Sunanda Sharma, Rachel Soo Hoo Smith, Jean Disset and Neri Oxman
11:50 Multi-objective Strategies for Exploring Form and Function in Crustaceans.
Claudia Szabo, Jayden Barnes and Pablo Munguia
Session: Neural Controllers
Venus & Mars
Chair: Takaya Arita
11:00 Systematic self-exploration of behaviors for robots in a dynamical systems framework.
Cristina Pinneri and Georg Martius
11:25 Analysing the Relative Importance of Robot Brains and Bodies.
Milan Jelisavcic, Diederik M. Roijers and A.E. Eiben
11:50 Modular Neural Control for Bio-Inspired Walking and Ball Rolling of a Dung Beetle-Like Robot.
Binggwong Leung, Mathias Thor and Poramate Manoonpong
Session: Agency Studies
Mercury
Chair: Tom Froese
11:00 Investigations of an Adaptive and Autonomous Sensorimotor Individual.
Matthew Egbert
11:25 From Physics to Pattern: Uncovering Pattern Formation in Tissue Electrophysiology.
Micah Brodsky and Michael Levin
11:50 An Artificial Life perspective on traditional Pacific wave navigation.
Inman Harvey
Tutorial: Introduction to Artificial Gene Regulatory Networks
Uranus
Organizers: Sylvain Cussat-Blanc, Wolfgang Banzhaf
Tutorial: Avida-ED: A Tool for Artificial Life in the Classroom
Neptune
Organizers: Michael Wiser, Robert Pennock
12:15-13:45
Lunch break
13:45-14:45
Keynote: Hiroshi Ishiguro
Miraikan-hall
Studies of Interactive Humanoids
Chair: Takashi Ikegami
14:45-15:15
Coffee break
15:15-16:30
Session: Artificial Chemistry
Miraikan-hall
Chair: Keisuke Suzuki
15:15 Modular combinations of Artificial Chemistries.
Penelope Faulkner Rainford, Angelika Sebald and Susan Stepney
15:40 Evolving Reactive Agents with SignalGP.
Alexander Lalejini and Charles Ofria
16:05 The fittest, the common, and the dullest: Selection dynamics of exact autocatalytic replicators.
Ben Shirt-Ediss, Natalio Krasnogor and Harold Fellermann
Special Session: Morphogenetic Engineering
Venus & Mars
Chair: Rene Doursat, Hiroki Sayama
15:15 Holonic Cellular Automata: Modelling Multi-level Self-organisation of Structure and Behaviour.
Ada Diaconescu, Sven Tomforde and Christian Müller-Schloer
15:40 The Self-Assembling Brain: Contributions to Morphogenetic Engineering from a Self-Organizing Neural Network in the Insect Brain.
Robin Hiesinger
16:05 Modeling Cell Migration in a Simulated Bioelectrical Signaling Network for Anatomical Regeneration.
Giordano Ferreira, Matthias Scheutz and Michael Levin
Session: Evolution and Networks
Mercury
Chair: Miguel Aguilera
15:15 Topological resilience in non-normal networked systems.
Malbor Asllaniand Timoteo Carletti
15:40 Exploring Exploration Catastrophes in Various Network Models.
Geoff Nitschke and David Shorten
16:05 Multi-modeling the morphogenesis of transportation networks.
Juste Raimbault