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Alife IX Workshop Programs
Sunday 12th September 2004
Workshop 1: Self-organization and Development in Artificial
and Natural Systems, organizer: Sanjeev Kumar,
Krasnow Institute for Advanced Studies, George Mason University.
9:00-9:30 Coffee
9:30 T. Otter and R. Davis Gene
and Body: Building and Maintaining the Phenotype of Living Organisms.
10:00 J.Siqueiros Multicellularity as
an Evolutionary Transition: Autonomy and Open-Ended Evolution
10:30 I. Garibay and A. Wu Emergence of
Genomic Self-Similarity in a Proteome-Based Representation
11:00 K. Bentley and C. Clack The
Artificial Cytoskeleton for Lifetime Adaptation of Morphology
11:30 P. Eggenberger and G. Gomez The
Transfer Problem from Simulation to the Real World in Artifical
Evolution
12:00 S. Kumar A Developmental Biology
Inspired Approach to Robot Control
----- 12:30-1:30 Lunch Break -----
1:30-2:00 Coffee
2:00 J. Bongard Particularities and Invariances:
A Way Forward for the Study of Artificial Developmental Systems
2:30 G. Hornby Properties of Artifact
Representations for Evolutionary Design
3:00 M. Hemberg and U-M. O’Reilly Using
Generative Growth Systems to Design Architectural Form
3:30 J. Rieffel and J. Pollack Artificial
Ontogenies for Real World Design and Assembly
4:00 D. Basanta, M. Miodownik, P. Bentley
and E. Holm Investigating the Evolvability of an Embryological
Model Based on CA
4:30 ?DISCUSSION ---
5:00 -- FINISH
Workshop 2: Artificial Chemistry and its Applications,
organizers:Hideaki Suzuki, ATR Network Informatics Laboratories,
and Tim Hutton, University College, London.
9:00-9:30 Coffee
9:30 B.Vowk, A.Wait, C.Schmidt An
Evolutionary Approach Generates Human Competitive Corewar Programs
10:05 R.K.Standish The influence
of parsimony and randomness on complexity growth in Tierra
10:40 ? BREAK ---
10:55 K.Tominaga Modelling DNA Computation
by an Artificial Chemistry Based on Pattern Matching and Recombination
11:30 H.Suzuki Network Artificial
Chemistry - Molecular Interaction Represented by a Graph
12:05 OPEN DISCUSSION
----- 12:30 - 1:30 Lunch Break -----
1:30-2:00 Coffee
2:00 T.J.Hutton Making Membranes
in Artificial Chemistries
2:35 T.E.Portegys Catalyzed Molecule
Replication in an Artificial Chemistry
3:10 ? BREAK ----
3:25 J.Kelemen, A.Kelemenova, Gh.Paun
Preview of P Colonies: A Biochemically Inspired Computing
Model
4:00 R.Nishiyama, K.Tomiyama Artificial
Life-Based Housing Design Assistant -Application of Movable Finite
Automata-
4:35: -- OPEN DISCUSSION -----
5:00 FINISH
Workshop 3: Rethinking Life: Scientific and Philosophical
Perspectives, organizer: Mark Bedau, Reed
College
9:00-9:30
coffee
9:30-12:30
morning session
[15
min. for prepared remarks + 5 min. for Q&A per speaker]
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Barry McMullin (School of Electrical Engineering, Dublin City
University): What is artificial life?
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Robert Pennock (Department of Philosophy, Michigan State University):
Life forms and forms of life:
Wittgensteinian and Darwinian insights on the meaning of ALife.
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Kelly Smith (Department of Philosophy, Clemson University): Life,
the universe, and all that.
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Carol Cleland (Department of Philosophy, University of Colorado,
Boulder): Why it is a mistake to define ‘life’.
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Ben Clark (Space Exploration Systems, Lockeed Martin, Denver):
From Mars and machines, to water and worker bees: application
of a GU DoL to identification of extraterrestrial and artificial
life forms.
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Barak Naveh (Department of Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University):
Self-preservation: a neglected sine qua non for (artificial)
life.
12:30-1:30
lunch break
1:30-2:00
coffee
2:00-5:00
afternoon session
[15
min. for prepared remarks + 5 min. for Q&A per speaker]
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Claus Emmeche (Center for the Philosophy of Nature and Science
Studies, University of Copenhagen):
ALife, organism and body: the semiotics of emergent levels.
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Peter Wills (Department of Physics, University of Auckland):
Scientific and non-scientific conceptions of life.
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Juan-Carlos Letelier (Department of Biology, University of Chile):
Geometry as a metabolite.
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Takashi Ikegami (Department of Physics, University of Tokyo):
Life as a dynamical system.
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Mark Bedau (Department of Philosophy, Reed College; ProtoLife
SRL, Venice): How to understand the question “What is
life?”
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Norman Packard (ProtoLife SRL, Venice): Life as emergence
of meaning, purpose, and intent.
5:00
-- workshop ends
TUTORIALS
9:00-9:30 Coffee
9:30 Tutorial 1: Robot: the true story of the word,
J. Horakova and J. Kelemen
9:30 Tutorial 2: Life as it is? Population genetics
basics for evolutionary computation experts., R. Watson
and D. Weinreich
12:30-1:30
lunch break
1:30-2:00
coffee
2:00-5:00 Tutorial 3: Evolution of sensors, D. Polani
2:00-5:00 Tutorial 4: Introduction to random Boolean
networks, C. Gershenson, A. Wuensche
2:00-5:00 Tutorial 5: The quantum coreworld, A.
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