9:00-10:00
Keynote: Inman Harvey
Miraikan-hall
Artificial Life Beyond AI: Neats, Scruffies and Holograms
Chair: Nathaniel Virgo
10:00-10:30
Lightning session
Miraikan-hall
Chair: Nathaniel Virgo
10:00 On the origin of gliders.
Randall Beer
10:10 Quantifying the tape of life: Ancestry-based metrics provide insights and intuition about evolutionary dynamics.
Emily Dolson, Alexander Lalejini, Steven Jorgensen and Charles Ofria
10:20 Digital protocells with dynamic size, position, and topology.
Dave Ackley
10:30-11:00
Coffee break
11:00-12:15
Session: Evolutionary Robotics II
Miraikan-hall
Chair: Nathanael Aubert-Kato
11:00 Effects of Selection Preferences on Evolved Robot Morphologies and Behaviors.
Karine Miras, Evert Haasdijk, Kyrre Glette and A.E. Eiben
11:25 Locomotion as a Result of Displacement of Resources.
Payam Zahadat and Thomas Schmickl
11:50 Neural Network Quine.
Oscar Chang and Hod Lipson
Session: Information Theory / Information Flow
Venus & Mars
Chair: Martin Biehl
11:00 Information integration in a globally coupled chaotic system.
Hiroki Mori and Masafumi Oizumi
11:25 Quantifying Information Modification in Cellular Automata using Pointwise Partial Information Decomposition.
Conor Finn and Joseph Lizier
11:50 The structure of evolved representations across different substrates for artificial intelligence.
Arend Hintze, Douglas Kirkpatrick and Christoph Adami
Special workshop: Earth, Life and Artificial Life, sponsored by ELSI
Innovation hall
Organizers: Nathaniel Virgo, Alexandra Penn, Matthew Egbert, Stuart Bartlett, Takashi Ikegami
12:15-12:45
Closing
Miraikan-hall
Chair: Takashi Ikegami