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ALIFE 2021
- Jitka Cejková, Silvia Holler, Lisa B. Soros, Olaf Witkowski:
2021 Conference on Artificial Life, ALIFE 2021, online, July 19-23, 2021. MIT Press 2021
Special Session: Illusions of Self: Beyond Human, Animal, and Robot
- Jesús M. Siqueiros:
You, Robot: Empathy in a Hybrid World. 1 - Carlos Gershenson:
On the Scales of Selves: Information, Life, and Buddhist Philosophy. 2 - Ana Cristina Lopes:
Monks, Labs, Cyborgs: the Plasticity of Personhood in Tibetan Buddhism. 3 - Thomas Doctor, Elizaveta Solomonova, Bill Duane, Olaf Witkowski:
Can Being Aware of the Illusion of Self Augment an Agent's Affordances: Integrating Buddhist Philosophy, Cognitive Science, and Artificial Life. 4
Introduction
- Jitka Cejková:
Robots: The century past and the century ahead, an Introduction to the 2021 ALIFE conference. 5
Short Abstracts of Keynote Presentations
- James G. Dyke:
The autonomous Earth: How humans created a planetary civilisation that is beyond their control. 6 - Jessica C. Flack:
Complexity begets complexity. 7 - David Ha:
World Models and Attention for Reinforcement Learning. 8 - Jana Horáková:
Homage to R.U.R.: 100 Ways to Play a Robot. 9 - Iyad Rahwan:
Experiments in Machine Behavior. 10 - Daniela Rus:
Soft Robots: Increasing Robot Diversity with Soft Materials. 11 - Mike Russell:
Order from Order: How Life Emerged from a Convection-driven Submarine Spring. 12 - Andrew Steele:
Ageing in artificial and real life: can we code a cure? 13 - Tim Taylor:
Weird Tales: Early Visions of Machines That Can Reproduce and Evolve, and Their Relevance Today. 14
Special session: ALife and society
- Aymeric Vié:
Emergence of more contagious COVID-19 variants from the interaction of viruses and policy interventions. 15 - Anna Dumitriu, Alex May:
ArchaeaBot: A Post Singularity and Post Climate Change Life-form. 16 - Alan Dorin, Hazel R. Parry, James Cook:
Towards Guidelines for Mechatronic Ecosystem Monitoring and Management. 17 - Morten W. N. Jørgensen, Niels Høiby, Hans-Joachim Ziock, Steen Rasmussen:
SARS-CoV-2 pandemic dynamics and infection tracing in Denmark. 18 - Selin Zileli, Jiayu Wu, Cyriel Diels, Stephen Boyd Davis:
Creating Artificial Societies through Interaction Analysis: Translating Qualitative Observational Study into Agent-Based Modelling. 19 - Alice Eldridge:
Listening to Ecosystems as Complex Adaptive Systems: Toward Acoustic Early Warning Signals. 20 - Hiroki Sayama:
How Artificial Life Researchers Can Help Address Complex Societal Challenges. 21
Special Session: Artificial Perception: Machines with Lifelike Failings
- Ryota Mima, Yuki Kubota, Masahiko Inami:
A Monocular Depth Estimator to Perceive Crater Illusions in Several Characteristics. 22 - Ali Tehrani-Saleh, Christoph Adami:
Psychophysical Tests Reveal that Evolved Artificial Brains Perceive Time like Humans. 23 - Hiroki Kojima, Takashi Ikegami:
Artificial Cognitive Map System based on Generative Deep Neural Networks. 24
Special session: Bio-inspired approaches for modular robotics
- Karine Miras, Jim Cuijpers, Bahadir Gülhan, A. E. Eiben:
The Impact of Early-death on Phenotypically Plastic Robots that Evolve in Changing Environments. 25 - Babak Hosseinkhani Kargar, Karine Miras, A. E. Eiben:
The effect of selecting for different behavioral traits on the evolved gaits of modular robots. 26 - Kathryn Walker, Helmut Hauser:
Evolution of morphology through sculpting in a voxel based robot. 27 - Alexander Mordvintsev, Ettore Randazzo, Eyvind Niklasson:
Differentiable Programming of Reaction-Diffusion Patterns. 28 - Andrés Faiña:
Evolving Modular Robots: Challenges and Opportunities. 29 - Per Roald Leikanger:
Decomposing the Prediction Problem; Autonomous Navigation by neoRL Agents. 30
Special session: Complexity ALI[F|V]E: Socializing & Eco-integrating robots with living organisms
- Cesare Stefanini, Donato Romano:
Towards animal phenotype transfer into biomimetic robots: the LAMPETRA project. 31 - Donato Romano, Cesare Stefanini:
Any colour you like: using animal-robot interaction to unravel mechanisms promoting phenotypically heterogeneous fish aggregations. 32 - Ronald Thenius, Wiktoria Rajewicz, Joshua Cherian Varughese, Sarah Schönwetter-Fuchs, Farshad Arvin, Alexander J. Casson, Chao Wu, Barry Lennox, Alexandre Campo, Godfried Jansen van Vuuren, Cesare Stefanini, Donato Romano, Thomas Schmickl:
Biohybrid Entities for Environmental Monitoring. 33 - Mert Karakaya, Simone Macrì, Maurizio Porfiri:
Acute Citalopram administration alters zebrafish social dynamics in a behavioral teleporting experiment. 34 - Giovanni Polverino, Maurizio Porfiri:
Controlling invasive species with biologically-inspired robots. 35 - David Bierbach, Fritz Francisco, Juliane Lukas, Tim Landgraf, Moritz Maxeiner, Pawel Romanczuk, Lea Musiolek, Verena V. Hafner, Jens Krause:
Biomimetic robots promote the 3Rs Principle in animal testing. 36 - Heiko Hamann, Stjepan Bogdan, Antonio Diaz-Espejo, Laura García-Carmona, Virginia Hernandez-Santana, Serge Kernbach, Andreas Kernbach, Alfredo Quijano-Lopez, Babak Salamat, Mostafa Wahby:
WatchPlant: Networked Bio-hybrid Systems for Pollution Monitoring of Urban Areas. 37 - Edoardo Datteri:
The methods of biorobotics. 38 - Gerhard von der Emde, Martin Worm:
Robots communicating with fish: Integration requires reciprocal interaction. 39 - Alexander A. Brown, Michael F. Brown, Brent A. Utter:
Towards investigating the influence of probabilistic robot motion parameters on archerfish behavior in fish-robot interactions. 40 - Asya Ilgün, Kostadin Angelov, Martin Stefanec, Sarah Schönwetter-Fuchs, Valerin Stokanic, Jutta Vollmann, Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler, Martin H. Kärcher, Heinrich Mellmann, Volha Taliaronak, Armands Kviesis, Vitalijs Komasilovs, Matthias A. Becher, Martina Szopek, David M. Dormagen, Rafael Barmak, Erol Bairaktarov, Matthieu Broisin, Ronald Thenius, Rob Mills, Stamatios C. Nicolis, Alexandre Campo, Aleksejs Zacepins, Sergey Petrov, Jean-Louis Deneubourg, Francesco Mondada, Tim Landgraf, Verena V. Hafner, Thomas Schmickl:
Bio-Hybrid Systems for Ecosystem Level Effects. 41 - Dajana Lazic, Thomas Schmickl:
Can Robots Inform a Honeybee Colony's Foraging Decision-Making? 42 - Mohamed Boukens, Vincent Lebastard, Godfried Jansen van Vuuren, Frédéric Boyer:
Underwater communication with artificial electric sense. 43 - Stamatios C. Nicolis, Mariano Calvo Martín, Alexandre Campo, Jean-Louis Deneubourg:
Control of collective behaviours through artificial feedbacks. 44 - Giordano Rampioni, Yutetsu Kuruma, Livia Leoni, Luisa Damiano, Pasquale Stano:
Toward artificial cells/living cells communication in hybrid ensembles. 45 - Eric Aaron, John H. Long Jr.:
Toward Population-Level Biohybrid Systems: Bioinspiration and Behavior. 46 - Mostafa Wahby, Julian Petzold, Heiko Hamann:
A Concept of Full Plant Morphology Modeling for Robot-Plant Bio-Hybrids. 47
Special Session: Hybrid life IV: Approaches to integrate biological, artificial and cognitive systems
- Mikihiro Suda, Mizuki Oka:
Evaluation of the effect of mimicry on facial expression in Avatar-Mediated Communication. 48 - Meito Tsuruta, Reiji Suzuki, Takaya Arita:
A Design of a Virtual Agent that Facilitates a Spatial and Online Communication by Use of Social Particle Swarm Model. 49 - Alvaro Ovalle:
An organismic inspired strategy for adaptive control. 50 - Luisa Damiano, Pasquale Stano:
Towards Autopoietic SB-AI. 51 - Mahi Luthra, Peter M. Todd:
Social Search Evolves with the Emergence of Clustered Environments. 52 - Norihiro Maruyama, Atsushi Masumori, Takashi Ikegami:
Studying Embodied Cognition in the Android Alter. 53
General Conference
- Jamie Webster, Martyn Amos:
Identification of Lifelike Characteristics of Human Crowds Through a Classification Task. 54 - Tiago Barros Pontes e Silva, Marília Lyra Bergamo:
Species in Morphogenesis: Introducing Symbiogenesis as an Additional Method for the Evolutionary Process of an Artwork. 55 - Tony Z. Jia, Tommaso P. Fraccia:
Liquid Crystal Phase Assembly in Peptide-DNA Coacervates as a Mechanism for Primitive Emergence of Structural Complexity. 56 - Jared M. Moore, Anthony J. Clark:
Supervision and Evolution: Pretraining Neural Networks for Quadrupedal Locomotion. 57 - Ettore Randazzo, Luca Versari, Alexander Mordvintsev:
Recursively Fertile Self-replicating Neural Agents. 58 - Kyrill Schmid, Lenz Belzner, Claudia Linnhoff-Popien:
Learning to Penalize Other Learning Agents. 59 - Rudolf Rosa, Tomás Musil, Ondrej Dusek, Dominik Jurko, Patrícia Schmidtová, David Marecek, Ondrej Bojar, Tom Kocmi, Daniel Hrbek, David Kosták, Martina Kinská, Marie Nováková, Josef Dolezal, Klára Vosecká, Tomás Studeník, Petr Zabka:
When a Robot Writes a Play: Automatically Generating a Theatre Play Script. 60 - Thinh H. Nguyen, Dieter Vanderelst, Herbert Peremans:
Sensorimotor behavior under informational constraints: a robotic model of prey localization in the bat Micronycteris microtis. 61 - Hian Lee Kwa, Jabez Leong Kit, Roland Bouffanais:
Tracking Multiple Fast Targets With Swarms: Interplay Between Social Interaction and Agent Memory. 62 - Alyssa M. Adams:
A graph-theoretic approach to understanding emergent behavior in physical systems. 63 - Rory Greig, Jordi Arranz:
Generating Agent Based Models From Scratch With Genetic Programming. 64 - The Anh Han, Francisco C. Santos, Luís Moniz Pereira, Tom Lenaerts:
A Regulation Dilemma in Artificial Intelligence Development. 65 - Bhaskar Kumawat, Luis Zaman:
Architecture of the Genotype-Phenotype Map and the Coevolution of Complexity. 66 - Gregory Furman, Geoff Nitschke:
The Role of Speaker Prestige in Synthetic Language Evolution. 67 - Yohsuke Murase, Seung Ki Baek:
Friendly-rivalry solutions for direct reciprocity. 68 - Ditlev Hartmann Bornebusch, Hans-Joachim Ziock, Steen Rasmussen:
Reaction kinetics exploration of a protocellular metabolism. 69 - Kasper Støy:
Co-evolution of Initial Configuration and Control in Evolutionary Robotics. 70 - Johannes Josef Schneider, Alessia Faggian, Silvia Holler, Federica Casiraghi, Jin Li, Lorena Cebolla Sanahuja, Hans-Georg Matuttis, Martin M. Hanczyc, David A. Barrow, Mathias Sebastian Weyland, Dandolo Flumini, Peter Eggenberger Hotz, Rudolf Marcel Füchslin:
Influence of the geometry on the agglomeration of a polydisperse binary system of spherical particles. 71 - Lance R. Williams:
Increased Complexity and Fitness of Artificial Cells that Reproduce Using Spatially Distributed Asynchronous Parallel Processes. 72 - Jared M. Moore, Adam Stanton:
Objective Sampling Strategies for Generalized Locomotion Behavior with Lexicase Selection. 73 - Fabian Ritz, Daniel Ratke, Thomy Phan, Lenz Belzner, Claudia Linnhoff-Popien:
A Sustainable Ecosystem through Emergent Cooperation in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning. 74 - Leonardo Trujillo, Paul Banse, Guillaume Beslon:
Simulating short- and long-term evolutionary dynamics on rugged landscapes. 75 - Alex Baranski, Tom Froese:
Efficient Spike Timing Dependent Plasticity rule for Complex-Valued Neurons. 76 - Zixuan Liu, Michael Crosscombe, Jonathan Lawry:
Imprecise Fusion Operators for Collective Learning. 77 - Sina Khajehabdollahi, Emmanouil Giannakakis, Jan Prosi, Anna Levina:
Reservoir computing with self-organizing neural oscillators. 78 - Jan Prosi, Sina Khajehabdollahi, Emmanouil Giannakakis, Georg Martius, Anna Levina:
The dynamical regime and its importance for evolvability, task performance and generalization. 79 - Susan Stepney, Simon J. Hickinbotham:
What is a Parasite? Defining reaction and network properties in an open ended automata chemistry. 80 - Adam Katona, Daniel W. Franks, James Alfred Walker:
Quality Evolvability ES: Evolving Individuals With a Distribution of Well Performing and Diverse Offspring. 81 - Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez, Tania M. Palacios-Romo, Sandra E. Smith Aguilar:
Exploring collective intelligence in animal fission-fusion dynamics. 82 - Dragana Laketic:
Hyperdescriptions of Quantum Dynamics - A Case Study for Avian Magnetoreception. 83 - The Anh Han, Cedric Perret, Simon T. Powers:
An evolutionary game theory analysis of trust in repeated games and lessons for human-machine interactions. 84 - Jeremy Gordon, John Chuang:
Active Dynamical Prospection: Modeling Mental Simulation as Particle Filtering for Sensorimotor Control during Pathfinding. 85 - Nishant Ramakuru, Namid R. Stillman:
Designing Considerate Swarms. 86 - Reiji Suzuki, Ryohei Seki, Takahiro Banno, Kouki Kawai, Takaya Arita:
An Artificial Creature Approach to the Origin of Acoustic Communication. 87 - Ekaterina Sangati, Soheil Keshmiri, Federico Sangati:
Evolution of Neural Complexity in Division of Labor Tasks. 88 - Paolo Sibani, Steen Rasmussen:
Major transitions in evolution and finite time singularities: Human wealth history. 89 - Imran Khan, Lola Cañamero:
Adaptation-By-Proxy: Contagion Effect of Social Buffering in an Artificial Society. 90 - Takako Kawaguchi, Reiji Suzuki, Takaya Arita, Bert Chan:
Introducing asymptotics to the state-updating rule in Lenia. 91 - Yuta Horii, Katsuma Inoue, Satoshi Nishikawa, Kohei Nakajima, Ryuma Niiyama, Yasuo Kuniyoshi:
Physical reservoir computing in a soft swimming robot. 92 - Payam Zahadat:
Incentive for Self-Protection in a Collective System: a Swarm Robotics Case Study. 93 - Mário Franco, Octavio Zapata, David A. Rosenblueth, Carlos Gershenson:
Random Networks with Quantum Boolean Functions. 94 - Kevin Godin-Dubois, Sylvain Cussat-Blanc, Yves Duthen:
Spontaneous modular NeuroEvolution arising from a life/dinner paradox. 95 - Yara Khaluf:
The emergence of collective response to decisions in a group of physical agents. 96 - Théotime Grohens, Sam Meyer, Guillaume Beslon:
A Genome-Wide Evolutionary Simulation of the Transcription-Supercoiling Coupling. 97 - Igor Balaz, Tara Petric, Namid Stillman:
Towards open-ended evolutionary simulator for developing novel tumour drug delivery systems. 98 - Arthur Penty, Gunnar Tufte:
A Representation of Artificial Spin Ice for Evolutionary Search. 99 - Elias Fernández Domingos, Jelena Grujic, Juan C. Burguillo, Francisco C. Santos, Tom Lenaerts:
Modeling behavioral experiments on uncertainty and cooperation with population-based reinforcement learning - Extended Abstract. 100 - Thomas Gabor, Steffen Illium, Maximilian Zorn, Claudia Linnhoff-Popien:
Goals for Self-Replicating Neural Networks. 101 - Tom Eivind Glover, Pedro G. Lind, Anis Yazidi, Evgeny Osipov, Stefano Nichele:
The Dynamical Landscape of Reservoir Computing with Elementary Cellular Automata. 102 - Thomas Gabor, Marian Lingsch Rosenfeld, Claudia Linnhoff-Popien:
A Probabilistic Game of Life on a Quantum Annealer. 103 - Nicolás Araya, Guillermo Iglesias, Martín Gutiérrez:
Searching for initial parameters in cell colony spatial pattern generation. 104 - Barbora Hudcová, Tomás Mikolov:
Computational Hierarchy of Elementary Cellular Automata. 105 - Derek Whitley, Jason Yoder, Nicklas Carpenter:
Resurrecting FPGA Intrinsic Analog Evolvable Hardware. 106 - Djordje Grbic, Sebastian Risi:
Safer Reinforcement Learning through Transferable Instinct Networks. 107 - Shyam Sudhakaran, Djordje Grbic, Siyan Li, Adam Katona, Elias Najarro, Claire Glanois, Sebastian Risi:
Growing 3D Artefacts and Functional Machines with Neural Cellular Automata. 108 - Vincent R. Ragusa, Clifford Bohm:
Connections between Noisy Fitness and Selection Strength. 109 - Sarah Albani, Acacia L. Ackles, Charles Ofria, Clifford Bohm:
The Comparative Hybrid Approach to Investigate Cognition across Substrates. 110 - Nathanaël Aubert-Kato, Guillaume Gines, Teruo Fujii, Yannick Rondelez:
Emergence of structures from parasitic species in a spatially distributed molecular system. 111 - Maciej Komosinski, Konrad Miazga:
Diversity Control in Evolution of Movement. 112 - Douglas Kirkpatrick, Arend Hintze:
Using MAP-Elites to direct the evolution of desired neural characteristics. 113 - Douglas Kirkpatrick, Victoria Cao, Clifford Bohm:
Tracking data flow in digital brains exposes coincidental encryption. 114 - Marina Dubova:
Growing Opportunities to Grow: Toward Open-Ended Multi-Agent Communication Learning. 115 - Eyvind Niklasson, Alexander Mordvintsev, Ettore Randazzo:
Asynchronicity in Neural Cellular Automata. 116 - Hiroki Sato, Yasuhiro Hashimoto, Mizuki Oka, Takashi Ikegami:
Exploration in Evolutionary Space by Hashtag Evolution on a Social Network Service. 117 - Abe Leite, Eduardo J. Izquierdo:
Generating reward structures on a parameterized distribution of dynamics tasks. 118
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