IEEE ALIFE 2009 Program
Session ALIFE-1: Keynote Lecture 1
Monday, March 30, 11:00AM-12:00PM, Room: Belmont, co-Chairs: Chrystopher Nehaniv and Daniel Polani, University of Hertfordshire, UK
| 11:00AM | Guided Self-Organization of Autonomous Robot Behavior |
| Nihat Ay and Ralf Der | |
| Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Germany, and Santa Fe Institute, USA, Germany; Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Germany |
Session ALIFE-2: Major Transitions in Evolution
Monday, March 30, 12:00PM-12:50PM, Room: Belmont, Chair: Hiroki Sayama, Binghamton University - SUNY, USA
| 12:00PM | Dude, Where is My Sex Gene? - Persistence of Sex over Evolutionary Time in Cellular Automata [#13] |
| Nicolas Oros and Chrystopher L. Nehaniv | |
| University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom | |
| 12:24PM | Mechanisms Affecting the Evolution of Evolvability [#18] |
| Gregg Vesonder | |
| ATT Labs - Research, United States |
Session ALIFE-3: Meaning, Information, Communication
Monday, March 30, 2:00PM-4:00PM, Room: Belmont, Chair: Ralf Der, University of Leipzig, Germany
| 2:00PM | A Constructivist Approach to Robot Language Learning via Simulated Babbling and Holophrase Extraction [#30] |
| Joe Saunders, Caroline Lyon, Frank Foerster, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv and Kerstin Dautenhahn | |
| University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom | |
| 2:24PM | Exploring Empowerment as a Basis for Quantifying Sustainability [#23] |
| Jan T. Kim and Daniel Polani | |
| University of East Anglia, United Kingdom; University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom | |
| 2:48PM | The Impact of Communication and Memory in Hive-based Foraging Agents [#25] |
| Paul Schermerhorn and Matthias Scheutz | |
| Indiana University, United States | |
| 3:12PM | Semantic Content and Pragmatic Convention: Emergence through Individual Advantage in Spatialized Environments [#29] |
| Patrick Grim | |
| Stony Brook, State University of New York, United States | |
| 3:36PM | Using Real-Time Recognition of Human-Robot Interaction Styles for Creating Adaptive Robot Behaviour in Robot-Assisted Play [#34] |
| Dorothee Francois, Kerstin Dautenhahn and Daniel Polani | |
| University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom |
Session ALIFE-4: Keynote Lecture 2
Monday, March 30, 4:30PM-5:30PM, Room: Belmont, Chair: George Kampis, Eötvös University, Hungary
| 4:30PM | The Human Mind |
| Thomas S. Ray | |
| University of Oklahoma, United States |
Session ALIFE-5: BioComputation and Genetic Regulatory Networks
Monday, March 30, 5:30PM-6:30PM, Room: Belmont, Chair: Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
| 5:30PM | Self-Adaptive Multi-Robot Construction using Gene Regulatory Networks [#3] |
| Hongliang Guo, Yan Meng and Yaochu Jin | |
| Stevens Institute of Technology, United States; Honda Research Institute Europe, Germany | |
| 5:54PM | Influence of Regulation Logic on the Easiness of Evolving Sustained Oscillation for Gene Regulatory Networks [#4] |
| Yaochu Jin, Yan Meng and Bernhard Sendhoff | |
| Honda Research Institute Europe, Germany; Stevens Institute of Technology, United States |
Session ALIFE-6: Embodiment, Behavior & Interaction
Tuesday, March 31, 8:30AM-10:30AM, Room: Belmont, Chair: Andy Tyrell, University of York, United Kingdom
| 8:30AM | Distinction between Types of Motivations: Emergent Behavior with a Neural, Model-Based Reinforcement Learning System [#17] |
| Elshad Shirinov and Martin Butz | |
| University of Wuerzburg, Germany | |
| 8:54AM | Developing Preferential Attention to a Speaker: A Robot Learning to Recognise its Carer [#31] |
| John Murray and Lola Canamero | |
| University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom | |
| 9:18AM | Enhancing the Architecture of Interactive Evolutionary Design for Exploring Heterogeneous Particle Swarm Dynamics: An In-Class Experiment [#20] |
| Hiroki Sayama, Shelley Dionne, Craig Laramee and David Wilson | |
| Binghamton University, State University of New York, United States | |
| 9:42AM | Cockroaches, Drunkards, and Climbers: Modeling the Evolution of Simple Movement Strategies Using Digital Organisms [#21] |
| Wesley Elsberry, Laura Grabowski, Charles Ofria and Robert Pennock | |
| Michigan State University, United States | |
| 10:06AM | Applying Digital Evolution to the Design of Self-Adaptive Software [#16] |
| Benjamin E. Beckmann, Laura Grabowski, Philip K. McKinley and Charles Ofria | |
| Michigan State University, United States |
Session ALIFE-7: Keynote Lecture 3
Tuesday, March 31, 11:00AM-12:00PM, Room: Belmont, Chair: Thomas S. Ray, University of Oklahoma, United States
| 11:00AM | A Model of Embodied Computation for Artificial Morphogenesis |
| Bruce J. MacLennan | |
| University of Tennessee at Knoxville, United States |
Session ALIFE-8: Evolution and Development (Evo-Devo)
Tuesday, March 31, 12:00PM-1:00PM, Room: Belmont, Chair: Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, University of Hertfordshire, UK
| 12:00PM | On the Properties of Artificial Development and Its Use in Evolvable Hardware [#28] |
| Andy Tyrrell, Julian Miller, Martin Trefzer and Tuze Kuyucu | |
| University of York, United Kingdom | |
| 12:24PM | Evolution of Bilateral Symmetry in Agents Controlled by Spiking Neural Networks [#10] |
| Nicolas Oros, Volker Steuber, Neil Davey, Lola Canamero and Rod Adams | |
| University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom |
Session ALIFE-9: Evolution and Ecology (Generalized Evo-Eco)
Tuesday, March 31, 2:00PM-4:00PM, Room: Belmont, Chair: Bruce MacLennan, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, USA
| 2:00PM | Ecological Approaches to Diversity Maintenance in Evolutionary Algorithms [#19] |
| Sherri Goings and Charles Ofria | |
| Michigan State University, United States | |
| 2:24PM | Emergence and Analysis of Complex Food Webs in an Individual-based Artificial Ecology [#14] |
| Walter de Back and George Kampis | |
| Collegium Budapest (Institute for Advanced Study), Hungary | |
| 2:48PM | On the Value of Simple Stoichiometry to ALife Simulations using EcoSim [#5] |
| Matthew Conforth and Yan Meng | |
| Stevens Institute of Technology, United States | |
| 3:12PM | Biomimetic Evolutionary Analysis: Robotically-Simulated Vertebrates in a Predator-Prey Ecology [#8] |
| Nicole Doorly, Kira Irving, Gianna McArthur, Keon Combie, Virginia Engel, Hassan Sakhtah, Elise Stickles, Hannah Rosenblum, Andres Gutierrez, Robert Root, Chun Wai Liew, and John H. Long, Jr. | |
| Case Western University, United States; Stanford University, United States; Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, United States; Howard University, United States; University of Washington, United States; Vassar College, United States; Lafayette College, United States | |
| 3:36PM | Peak Analysis for Characterizing Evolutionary Behavior [#26] |
| Jeffrey Pfaffmann | |
| Lafayette College, United States |
Session ALIFE-10: Multicellularity and Swarms
Tuesday, March 31, 4:30PM-6:30PM, Room: Belmont, Chair: Daniel Polani, University of Hertfordshire, UK
| 4:30PM | An Artificial T cell Immune System for predicting MHC-II binding peptides [#6] |
| Carsten Henneges, Stefan Huster and Andreas Zell | |
| University of Tuebingen, Germany | |
| 4:54PM | Cultural Transmission in Robotic Swarms through RFID Cards [#27] |
| Joshua Brandoff and Hiroki Sayama | |
| Binghamton University, State University of New York, United States | |
| 5:18PM | The Role of Lateral Inhibition in the Sensory Processing in a Simulated Spiking Neural Controller for a Robot [#15] |
| David Bowes, Rod Adams, Lola Canamero, Volker Steuber and Neil Davey | |
| University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom | |
| 5:42PM | Evolving Cooperative Pheromone Usage in Digital Organisms [#24] |
| Brian D. Connelly, Philip K. McKinley and Benjamin E. Beckmann | |
| Michigan State University, United States |
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