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Oral Presentations

Origin of Life, Self Organisation and Self-Replication
Carlos Gershenson
Classification of Random Boolean Networks
Kazumasa Oida
The Birth and Death Process of Hypercycle Spirals
Eleonora Bilotta, Antonio Lafusa and Pietro Pantano
Is self-replication an embedded characteristic of artificial/living matter?
Naoaki Ono and Takashi Ikegami
Selection of Catalysts through Cellular Reproduction
Chrystopher L. Nehaniv
Evolution in Asynchronous Cellular Automata

Development and Differentiation
Hiroaki Takagi and Kunihiko Kaneko
Dynamic Relationship between Diversity and Plasticity of Cell types in Multi-cellular State

Evolutionary and Adaptive Dynamics
Russell K. Standish
Diversity Evolution
Joshua Mitteldorf, David H. Croll and S. Chandu Ravela
Multilevel Selection and the Evolution of Predatory Restraint
Dale Thomas
Aesthetic Selection of Developmental Art Forms
Hideaki Suzuki and Hidefumi Sawai
Chemical Genetic Algorithms - Coevolution between Codes and Code Translation
Alastair Channon
Improving and still passing the ALife test: Component-normalised activity statistics classify evolution in Geb as unbounded
Daniel W. Franks and Jason Noble
The origins of mimicry rings
Seth Bullock
Will selection for mutational robustness significantly retard evolutionary innovation on neutral networks?
Hiroshi Ito and Takashi Ikegami
Evolutionary dynamics of a food web with recursive branching and extinction
Takashi Ikegami, Tomoharu Iwata and Koh Hashimoto
A Network of Dynamic Keystone Species
Tim F. Cooper and Charles Ofria
Evolution of stable ecosystems in populations of digital organisms
Andre Skusa and Mark A. Bedau
Towards a Comparison of Evolutionary Creativity in Biological and Cultural Evolution

Robots and Autonomous Agents
Peter Eggenberger Hotz, Gabriel Gómez and Rolf Pfeifer
Evolving the morphology of a neural network for controlling a foveating retina -- and its test on a real robot
Bertrand Mesot, Eduardo Sanchez, Carlos-Andres Peña and Andres Perez-Uribe
SOS++: Finding Smart Behaviors Using Learning and Evolution
Tom Smith, Phil Husbands, Andy Philippides and Michael O'Shea
Temporally adaptive networks: Analysis of GasNet robot control networks
Matthias Scheutz and Paul Schermerhorn
Steps Towards a Systematic Investigation of Possible Evolutionary Trajectories from Reactive to Deliberative Control Systems
Andy Philippides, Phil Husbands, Tom Smith and Michael O'Shea
Fast and Loose: Biologically Inspired Couplings
Matt Quinn, Lincoln Smith, Giles Mayley and Phil Husbands
Evolving Teamwork and Role-Allocation with Real Robots
Hiroyuki Iizuka and Takashi Ikegami
Simulating Turn-Taking Behaviours with Coupled Dynamical Recognizers
Jon Klein
BREVE: a 3D Environment for the Simulation of Decentralized Systems and Artificial Life
Dario Floreano, Nicolas Schoeni, Gilles Caprari and Jesper Blynel
Evolutionary Bits'n'Spikes

Communication, Cooperation and Collective Behaviour
Jin Akaishi and Takaya Arita
Misperception, Communication and Diversity
O. Burchan Bayazit, Jyh-Ming Lien and Nancy M. Amato
Better Group Behaviors in Complex Environments using Global Roadmaps
Jason Noble and Daniel W. Franks
Social Learning Mechanisms Compared in a Simple Environment
Anders Eriksson and Kristian Lindgren
Cooperation in an unpredictable environment

The Broader Context
Dominique Groß and Barry McMullin
The Creation of Novelty in Artificial Chemistries
Alan Dorin and Jon McCormack
Self-Assembling Dynamical Hierarchies

Poster Presentations

Origin of Life, Self Organisation and Self-Replication
Jean-Claude Heudin
Complexity Classes in Three-dimensional Gravitational Agents
Tatsuya Nomura
Formal Description of Autopoiesis for Analytic Models of Life and Social Systems
David Cornforth, David G. Green, David Newth and Michael Kirley
Do Artificial Ants March in Step? Ordered Asynchronous Processes and Modularity in Biological Systems
Satoshi Kurihara, Kensuke Fukuda, Toshio Hirotsu, Osamu Akashi, Shinya Sato and Toshiharu Sugawara
Importance of evolved structure for emerging self-organization in a complex competitive situation
Hiroki Sayama
Von Neumann's Machine in the Shell: Enhancing the Robustness of Self-Replication Processes
André Stauffer and Moshe Sipper
Interactive Self-Replicating, Self-Incrementing and Self-Decrementing Loops
Kenichi Kamijo and Masahide Yoneyama
Relationship between Generation Overlapping and Fractal Dimension in Secular Change of ALife Population
Tim Taylor
An Alternative Approach to the Synthesis of Life

Development and Differentiation
Thomas E. Portegys
An Abstraction of Intercellular Communication
Dennis L. Chao and Stephanie Forrest
Generating Biomorphs with an Aesthetic Immune System
Takamasa Sawada, Atsuko Mutoh, Shohei Kato and Hidenori Itoh
A Model of Biological Differentiation in Adaptiogenesis
to the Environment
Jaime Lagunez-Otero, Pedro Pablo González Pérez, Maura Cárdenas-García, Octavio Rosas and Armando Franyuti
Cellulat
Lucian Prodan, Gianluca Tempesti, Daniel Mange and André Stauffer
Embryonics: Electronic Stem Cells
D. A. Mac Dónaill
Tautomerism as a Constraint on the Composition of Alternative Nucleotide Alphabets
Gianluca Tempesti, Daniel Roggen, Eduardo Sanchez and Yann Thoma
A POEtic Architecture for Bio-Inspired Hardware
Wei-Min Shen, Cheng-Ming Chuong and Peter Will
Digital Hormone Models for Self-Organization
Sharon Minsuk
A Proposal for an Artificial Life Simulation of Evolving Multicellular Ontogeny

Evolutionary and Adaptive Dynamics
Marc Métivier, Claude Lattaud and Jean-Claude Heudin
A Stress-based Speciation Model in LifeDrop
Gary R. Greenfield
On Attaining Maximal Fitness or How to Evolve Virtual Redwoods
Xin-She Yang
Characterization of Multispecies Living Ecosystems With Cellular Automata
Lee Spector
Adaptive populations of endogenously diversifying Pushpop organisms are reliably diverse
James R. Watson, Nicholas Geard and Janet Wiles
Stability and task complexity: A neural network model of evolution and learning
Zachary Mason
Programming with Stigmergy: Using Swarms for Construction
Pedro Mariano and Luís Correia
The effect of agreements in a game with multiple strategies for cooperation
Shengxiang Yang
Adaptive Crossover in Genetic Algorithms Using Statistics Mechanism
Gina M. B. Oliveira, José C. Bortot and Pedro P. B. de Oliveira
Multiobjective Evolutionary Search for One-Dimensional Cellular Automata in the Density Classification Task
Tom Lenaerts, Anne Defaweux, Piet van Remortel, Joke Reumers and Bernard Manderick
Multi-level Selection and Immune Networks: Preliminary Discussion of an Abstract Model

Robots and Autonomous Agents
Janne Haverinen and Juha Röning
A Stochastic Evolutionary Neuron Migration Process with Emerged Hebbian Dynamics
Amelie Schmolke and Hanspeter A. Mallot
Territory Formation in Mobile Robots
Elaine Catterall, Kristof Van Laerhoven and Martin Strohbach
Self-Organization in Ad Hoc Sensor Networks: An Empirical Study
Jason Teo and Hussein A. Abbass
Multi-Objectivity for Brain-Behavior Evolution of a Physically-Embodied Organism
Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, Daniel Polani, Kerstin Dautenhahn, René te Boekhorst and Lola Cañamero
Meaningful Information, Sensor Evolution, and the Temporal Horizon of Embodied Organisms
Terry Stewart
Comparisons in Self-Supervised Environmental Modelling
Tomoki Hamagami, Seiichi Koakutsu and Hironori Hirata
A New Crowd Simulation Method by Using Multiagent on Cellular Automata

Communication, Cooperation and Collective Behaviour
Steven Mascaro, Kevin B. Korb and Ann E. Nicholson
ALife Investigation of Parental Investment in Reproductive Strategies
Tamon Oboshi, Shohei Kato, Atsuko Mutoh and Hidenori Itoh
Collective or Scattering: Evolving Schooling Behaviors to Escape from Predator
Mark Dras and K. David Harrison
Emergent Behavior in Phonological Pattern Change

The Broader Context
Tatsuo Unemi
SBEAT3: A Tool for Multi-part Music Composition by Simulated Breeding
Pavel O. Luksha
Formal Definition of Self-reproductive Systems
Stephen Jones
Organizing Relations and Emergence


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