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Plenary Presentations
Rodney Brooks
Living Machines Weds 11th, 9:30-10:30.
Butler Hine
Bioinspired engineering of space exploration systems for NASA and DoD: From bees to BEES Thursday 12th, 9-10
Steen Rasmussen
Collective intelligence of the Artificial Life community: Successes, failures, and the future Thursday 12th, 3-3:30
Charley Lineweaver
Title TBC Friday 13th, 9-10

Workshops/Tutorials
Scaling Agents beyond the Desktop
Monday 9th & 10th, 3:30-5:00
Conflict between automatic and controlled behaviors: Perspectives from cognitive neuroscience and implications for artificial agents
Tuesday 10th, 9:30-12:30
Cellular Neural Networks
Tuesday 9th, 1:30-4:30
Artificial Life Models for Musical Applications II: Searching for musical creativity
Monday 9th, 9:30-12:30
Modelling Dynamical Hierarchies in Artificial Life
Monday 9th, 9:30-3:30
Beyond Fitness: Visualising Evolution
Tuesday 10th, 9:30 - 3

Oral Presentations

Wednesday 11-12:30, Track 1
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?

Wednesday 11-12:30, Track 2
Hiroaki Takagi and Kunihiko Kaneko
Dynamic Relationship between Diversity and Plasticity of Cell types in Multi-cellular State
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

Wednesday 1:30-2:30, Track 1
Naoaki Ono and Takashi Ikegami
Selection of Catalysts through Cellular Reproduction
Chrystopher L. Nehaniv
Evolution in Asynchronous Cellular Automata

Wednesday 1:30-2:30, Track 2
Hideaki Suzuki and Hidefumi Sawai
Chemical Genetic Algorithms - Coevolution between Codes and Code Translation
Daniel W. Franks and Jason Noble
The origins of mimicry rings

Thursday 1-2:3, Track 1
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

Thursday 1-2:3, Track 2
Russell K. Standish
Diversity Evolution
Alastair Channon
Improving and still passing the ALife test: Component-normalised activity statistics classify evolution in Geb as unbounded
Andre Skusa and Mark A. Bedau
Towards a Comparison of Evolutionary Creativity in Biological and Cultural Evolution

Friday 10:30-12:30, Track 1
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

Friday 10:30-12:30, Track 2
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
Jin Akaishi and Takaya Arita
Misperception, Communication and Diversity

Friday 1:30-3:30, Track 1
Dario Floreano, Nicolas Schoeni, Gilles Caprari and Jesper Blynel
Evolutionary Bits'n'Spikes
Dominique Groß and Barry McMullin
The Creation of Novelty in Artificial Chemistries
Alan Dorin and Jon McCormack
Self-Assembling Dynamical Hierarchies
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

Friday 1:30-3, Track 2
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
Seth Bullock
Will selection for mutational robustness significantly retard evolutionary innovation on neutral networks?


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Russell Standish
2003-04-17