Computational Biology
Tuesday 5 July/Cobá
Chair: Inman Harvey
| 11:10 | Eukaryo: An Agent-based, Interactive Simulation of a Eukaryotic Cell.
Douglas Yuen and Christian Jacob. |
| 11:40 | Flies as Ship Captains? Digital Evolution Unravels Selective Pressures to Avoid Collision in Drosophila.
Ali Tehrani-Saleh, Christoph Adami and Randal Olson. |
| 12:10 | The Effects of Evolution and Spatial Structure on Diversity in Biological Reserves.
Emily Dolson, Michael Wiser and Charles Ofria. |
| 12:40 | Social Systems and Ecosystems: History Matters.
Inman Harvey. |
Wednesday 6 July/Cobá
Chair: Josh Bongard
| 16:00 | “Shit Happens”: The Spontaneous Self-Organisation of Communal Boundary Latrines via Stigmergy in a Null Model of the European Badger, Meles meles.
Seth Bullock |
| 16:30 | A Level Set Approach to Simulating Xenopus laevis Tail Regeneration.
Zachary Serlin, Jason Rife and Michael Levin. |
| 17:00 | Propagation of rhythmic dorsoventral wave in a neuromechanical model of locomotion in Caernohabditis elegans.
Eduardo J. Izquierdo and Randall D. Beer |
| 17:30 | A 3D Multiscale Model of Chemotaxis in Bacteria.
Andrew Wu and Christian Jacob. |
| 18:00 | In Silico Experimental Evolution suggests a complex intertwining of selection, robustness and drift in the evolution of genetic networks complexity.
Yoram Vadée Le Brun, Guillaume Beslon and Jonathan Rouzaud-Cornabas |
Morphology
Wednesday 6 July/Cobá
Chair: Tim Taylor
| 10:30 | On the Difficulty of Co-Optimizing Morphology and Control in Evolved Virtual Creatures.
Nicholas Cheney, Josh Bongard, Vytas Sunspiral and Hod Lipson. |
| 11:00 | Material properties affect evolution’s ability to exploit morphological computation in growing soft-bodied creatures.
Francesco Corucci, Nick Cheney, Hod Lipson, Cecilia Laschi and Josh Bongard. |
| 11:30 | Shape matters in cooperation.
Dusan Misevic, Antoine Frenoy, Ariel B. Lindner and François Taddei. |
| 12:00 | Evolution-in-Materio of a dynamical system with dynamical structures.
Odd Rune Lykkebø and Gunnart Tufte. |
| 12:30 | Exploring the coevolution of predator and prey morphology and behavior.
Randal Olson, Arend Hintze, Fred Dyer, Jason Moore and Christoph Adami. |
Human-Computer interaction
Wednesday 6 July/Xcaret 1
Chair: Dobri Dotov
| 10:30 | A Telepresence-Robot Approach for Efficient Coordination of Swarms.
Karl Tuyls, Sjriek Alers, Elisa Cucco, Daniel Claes and Daan Bloembergen. |
| 11:00 | Generating Artificial Plant Morphologies for Function and Aesthetics through Evolving L-Systems.
Frank Veenstra, Andres Faina, Kasper Stoy and Sebastian Risi |
| 11:30 | Robots can ground crowd-proposed symbols by forming theories of group mind.
Joey Anetsberger and Josh Bongard. |
| 12:00 | Social Contribution in the Design of Adaptive Machines on the Web.
Mark Wagy and JoshBongard. |
Collective behavior, Artificial Societies and Culture
Wednesday 6 July/Xcaret 1
Chair: Roberto Ulloa
| 16:00 | FireSlime Algorithm: Bio-Inspired Emergent Gradient Taxis.
Joshua Cherian Varughese, Ronald Thenius, Franz Wotawa and Thomas Schmickl. |
| 16:30 | Task Allocation in Foraging Robot Swarms: The Role of Information Sharing.
Lenka Pitonakova, Richard Crowder and Seth Bullock. |
| 17:00 | Performance Metrics of Collective Coordinated Motion in Flocks.
Jorge L. Zapotecatl, Angélica Muñoz-Meléndez and Carlos Gershenson. |
| 17:30 | Cooperation and Reputation in Primitive Societies.
Fernando P. Santos, Francisco C. Santos and Jorge M. Pacheco. |
| 18:00 | Divergent Cumulative Cultural Evolution.
Chris Marriott and Jobran Chebib. |
Collective behavior, Artificial Societies and Culture.
Thursday 7 July/Xcaret 1 & 2
Chair: Seth Bullock
| 16:00 | Understanding Language Evolution in Overlapping Generations of Reinforcement Learning. Agents. Lewys Brace and Seth Bullock. |
| 16:30 | Population Based Simulation of Gender Inequality Issues.
John Bullinaria. |
| 17:00 | Cultural wave front expansion explains multiple stages of diversity during the Neolithic Transition in Europe.
Cornelis Drost and Marc Vander Linden. |
| 17:30 | Job Insecurity in Academic Research Employment: An Agent-Based Model.
Eric Silverman, Nic Geard and Ian Wood. |
| 18:00 | Increasing Reward in Biased Natural Selection Decreases Task Performance.
Evert Haasdijk and Floor Eigenhuis. |
Living technology and Human-Computer interaction
Thursday 7 July/Xcaret 3 & 4
Chair: Christian Guckelsberger
| 16:00 | EvoBot: An Open-Source, Modular Liquid Handling Robot for Nurturing Microbial Fuel Cells. Andres Faina, Farzad Nejatimoharrami, Kasper Stoy, Pavlina Theodosiou, Benjamin Taylor and Ioannis Ieropoulos |
| 16:30 | Robotic Automation to Augment Quality of Artificial Chemical Life Experiments.
Farzad Nejatimoharrami, Andres Faina, Jitka Čejková, Martin Hanczyc and Kasper Stoy |
| 17:00 | A Bio-Inspired Artificial Agent to Complete a Herding Task with Novices.
Patrick Nalepka, Maurice Lamb, Rachel W. Kallen, Kevin Shockley, Anthony Chemero and Michael J. Richardson |
| 17:30 | Small Bugs, Big Ideas: Teaching Complex Systems Principles Through Agent-Based Models of Social Insects.
Yu Guo and Uri Wilensky. |
Development
Thursday 7 July/Cobá
Chair: Linda Smith
| 10:30 | Developmental encodings promote the emergence of hierarchical modularity.
Jessica Lowell and Jordan Pollack. |
| 11:00 | Dynamic Structure Discovery and Repair for 3D Cell Assemblages.
Giordano Ferreira, Max Smiley, Matthias Scheutz and Michael Levin. |
| 11:30 | Evolved Developmental Strategies of Artificial Multicellular Organisms.
Jean Disset, Sylvain Cussat-Blanc and Yves Duthen. |
| 12:00 | Bio-Reflective Architectures for Evolutionary Innovation.
Simon Hickinbotham and Susan Stepney. |
| 12:30 | Evolving Specialisation in a Population of Heterogeneous Robots: the Challenge of Bootstrapping and Maintaining Genotypic Polymorphism.
Arthur Bernard, Jean-Baptiste André and Nicolas Bredeche. |
Theory and measures
Thursday 7 July/Xcaret 1 & 2
Chair: Christoph Salge
| 10:30 | Nonequilibrium thermodynamic stability: the apparent teleology of living beings.
Mario Villalobos. |
| 11:00 | Does Empowerment Maximisation Allow for Enactive Artificial Agents?
Christian Guckelsberger and Christoph Salge |
| 11:30 | Quantifying Viability.
Matthew Egbert and Juan Pérez-Mercader. |
| 12:00 | Towards information based spatiotemporal patterns as a foundation for agent representation in dynamical systems.
Martin Biehl, Takashi Ikegami and Daniel Polani |
| 12:30 | Increasing Reward in Biased Natural Selection Decreases Task Performance.
Evert Haasdijk and Floor Eigenhuis |
Open-ended evolution and Evolvavility
Thursday 7 July/Xcaret 3 & 4
Chair: Mark Bedau
| 10:30 | The Evolutionary Origins of Phenotypic Plasticity.
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| 11:00 | The Limits of Decidable States on Open Ended Evolution and Emergence.
Santiago Hernández-Orozco, Francisco Hernández-Quiroz and Hector Zenil. |
| 11:30 | How the Strictness of the Minimal Criterion Impacts Open-Ended Evolution.
L. B. Soros, Nick Cheney and Kenneth O. Stanley. |
| 12:00 | The Evolution of Evolvability: Changing Environments Promote Rapid Adaptation in Digital Organisms.
Rosangela Canino-Koning, Michael J. Wiser and Charles Ofria. |
| 12:30 | The Relationship Between Evolvability and Robustness in the Evolution of Logic Networks.
David Shorten and Geoff Nitschke |
Origins of Life, Protocells, and Genetics
Thursday 7 July/Cobá
Chair: Takashi Ikegami
| 16:00 | Digital Replicators Emerge from a Self-Organizing Prebiotic World.
Andrew Pargellis and Benjamin Greenbaum |
| 16:30 | Exploring Constraint: Simulating Self-Organization and Autogenesis in the Autogenic Automaton.
Stefan Leijnen, Tom Heskes and Terrence Deacon. |
| 17:00 | Protein synthesis with liposome fusion and fission by using the freeze-thaw method.
Gakushi Tsuji, Takeshi Sunami, Satoshi Fujii and Tetsuya Yomo. |
| 17:30 | Critical Mutation Rate has an Exponential Dependence on Population Size for Eukaryotic-Length Genomes.
Elizabeth Aston, Alastair Channon, Roman Belavkin, Rok Krasovec and |
| 18:00 | Reductive evolution towards primitive life: What will we see?
Atsushi Shibai, Daisuke Motooka, Shota Nakamura and Saburo Tsuru. |
Self-optimization, automation, learning and memory
Friday 8 July /Cobá
Chair: Julien Hubert
| 10:30 | Expansion of Perception Area in Cellular Automata Using Recursive Algorithm.
Yoshihiko Kayama. |
| 11:00 | Fully Autonomous Real-Time Autoencoder-Augmented Hebbian Learning through the Collection of Novel Experiences.
Joshua Bowren, Justin Pugh and Kenneth Stanley. |
| 11:30 | Body Representations for Robot Ego-Noise Modelling and Prediction. Towards the Development of a Sense of Agency in Artificial Agents.
Guido Schillaci, Claas-Norman Ritter, Verena Vanessa Hafner and Bruno Lara. |
| 12:00 | How Complexity Pervades Specialization in Canonical Embodied Evolution.
Pedro Trueba, Abraham Prieto, Francisco Bellas and Richard J. Duro. |
| 12:30 | Functional Modularity Enables the Realization of Smooth and Effective Behavior Integration.
Jônata Tyska Carvalho and Stefano Nolfi. |
Artificial Chemistries
Friday 8 July /Xcaret 1 & 2
Chair: Olaf Witkoswki
| 10:30 | A Self-Replicating System of Ribosome and Replisome Factories.
Lance Williams. |
| 11:00 | Generalized Stochastic Simulation Algorithm for Artificial Chemistry.
Hedi Soula. |
| 11:30 | Thresholds in Messy Chemistries.
Nathaniel Virgo. |
| 12:00 | A Precarious Existence: Thermal Homeostasis of Simple Dissipative Structures.
Stuart Bartlett and Seth Bullock. |
| 12:30 | Jordan Algebra AChems: Exploiting Mathematical Richness for Open Ended Design.
Penelope Faulkner, Angelika Sebald and Susan Stepney. |