Table of Contents

• A Top Down Chemically Embodied Artificial Life ComputationLeroy Cronin. 1 [doi]
• From Particles to Parts - Building Artificial Life from Multifunctional CompositesRebecca Kramer-Bottiglio. 3 [doi]
• Robot Cancer: what the bioelectrics of embryogenesis and regeneration can teach us about unconventional computing, cognition, and the software of lifeMichael Levin. 5 [doi]
• Conceptual Abstraction and Analogy in Artificial IntelligenceMelanie Mitchell. 7 [doi]
• The Natural History of InformationSara Imari Walker. 9 [doi]
• New Frontiers in Alife: What was old is new againLuis Zaman. 11 [doi]
• Best-effort computing with SPOTs and Spatial ThreadsDavid H. Ackley. 13-15 [doi]
• C. elegansBrian A. Dahlberg, Eduardo J. Izquierdo. 16-24 [doi]
• An introduction to using counterdiabatic driving to eliminate genetic lag in changing environmentsEmily L. Dolson, Shamreen Iram, Joshua Chiel, Julia Pelesko, Nikhil Krishnan, Özenç Güngör, Benjamin Kuznets-Speck, Sebastian Deffner, Efe Ilker, Jacob G. Scott, Michael Hinczewski. 25-26 [doi]
• Open Questions in Creating Safe Open-ended AI: Tensions Between Control and CreativityAdrien Ecoffet, Jeff Clune, Joel Lehman. 27-35 [doi]
• A Minimal River Crossing Task to Aid the Explainability of Evolutionary AgentsAbida Ghouri, Chloe M. Barnes, Peter R. Lewis 0001. 36-43 [doi]
• SPIDER: a Bioinspired Swarm Algorithm for Adaptive Risk-TakingEdmund R. Hunt, George P. Jenkinson, Michael Wilsher, Carl P. Dettmann, Sabine Hauert. 44-51 [doi]
• Morphology dictates learnability in neural controllersJoshua P. Powers, Ryan Grindle, Sam Kriegman, Lapo Frati, Nick Cheney, Josh C. Bongard. 52-59 [doi]
• A Framework for Search and Application Agnostic Interactive OptimizationJoshua P. Powers, Sarah Pell, Josh C. Bongard. 60-68 [doi]
• Life-Span Expectancy and Cycle Size in the Original Autopoiesis AlgorithmSiddharth Priya, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv. 69-77 [doi]
• Agents of Habit: Refining the Artificial Life Route to Artificial IntelligenceSusana Ramírez-Vizcaya, Tom Froese. 78-86 [doi]
• Emergence of the tradeoff law of social relationships in artificial societies driven by dual memory mechanismsMasanori Takano, Kenichi Nakazato. 87-94 [doi]
• A mechanism to promote social behaviour in household load balancingNathan A. Brooks, Simon T. Powers, James M. Borg. 95-103 [doi]
• Socio-Physical Modelling and Declining MobilityPenny Faulkner Rainford, Susan Stepney, Yasmin Merali. 104-112 [doi]
• Extreme Ideas Emerging from Social Conformity and Homophily: An Adaptive Social Network ModelHiroki Sayama. 113-120 [doi]
• Predictions in the eye of the beholder: an active inference account of Watt governorsManuel Baltieri, Christopher L. Buckley, Jelle P. Bruineberg. 121-129 [doi]
• Sensory-Motor Gestalt: Sensation and Action as the Foundations of Identity, Agency, and SelfJasmine A. Berry, Francisco J. Valero Cuevas. 130-138 [doi]
• Dynamic Interactive Artificial Intelligence: Sketches for a Future AI Based on Human-Machine InteractionDobromir Dotov, Tom Froese. 139-145 [doi]
• Truth or Consequences: Homeostatic Self-Regulation in Artificial Neural NetworksKingson Man, Antonio Damasio. 146-147 [doi]
• Crowd grounding: finding semantic and behavioral alignment through human robot interactionDavid Matthews, Josh C. Bongard. 148-156 [doi]
• Anticipation as a Mechanism for Complex Behavior in Artificial AgentsHeinrich Mellmann, Benjamin Schlotter, Lea Musiolek, Verena V. Hafner. 157-159 [doi]
• Rank epistasis: A new model for analyzing epistatic interactions in the absence of quantifiable fitness interactionsAcacia L. Ackles, Austin J. Ferguson, Connor Grady, Charles Ofria. 160-162 [doi]
• Robotic Canvas: Interactive Painting onto Robot SwarmsMerihan Alhafnawi, Sabine Hauert, Paul J. O'Dowd. 163-170 [doi]
• Composition of Games as a Model for the Evolution of Social InstitutionsPeter Andras 0001. 171-179 [doi]
• A Study of Severe Disruption in an Artificial EconomyGustavo Recio, Wolfgang Banzhaf, Roger White. 180-187 [doi]
• Lyfe in the Universe: A Definition Based on Four PillarsStuart Bartlett, Michael L. Wong. 188-189 [doi]
• Mechanisms of Social Learning in Evolved Artificial LifeAlberto Bartoli, Marco Catto, Andrea De Lorenzo, Eric Medvet, Jacopo Talamini. 190-198 [doi]
• Dynamic natural kinds: Open-ended evolution in the joints of natureMark A. Bedau. 199-201 [doi]
• An Integrated Perspective on the Constitutive and Interactive Dimensions of AutonomyRandall D. Beer. 202-209 [doi]
• Neural reuse in multifunctional neural networks for control tasksLauren V. Benson, Madhavun Candadai, Eduardo J. Izquierdo. 210-218 [doi]
• Automated replication optimization for protocellular information systemDitlev Hartmann Bornebusch, Christina Colaluca Sørensen, Peter Zingg, Gianluca Gazzola, Norman H. Packard, Steen Rasmussen. 219-220 [doi]
• Lenia and Expanded UniverseBert Wang-Chak Chan. 221-229 [doi]
• Web as an Evolutionary Ecosystem: Emergence of Keystone SpeciesPalin Choviwatana, Shota Ejima, Mizuki Oka, Takashi Ikegami. 230-238 [doi]
• Visualizing computation in large-scale cellular automataHugo Cisneros, Josef Sivic, Tomás Mikolov. 239-247 [doi]
• The effect of mutation on equilibrium properties of deterministic and random evolutionary gamesManh Hong Duong, The Anh Han. 248-250 [doi]
• Learning to Cooperate in a Socially Optimal Way in Swarm RoboticsPaul Ecoffet, Jean-Baptiste André, Nicolas Bredèche. 251-259 [doi]
• Marangoni Based Motile Oil-Droplets in Simulated Artificial ChemistryMatthew D. Egbert. 260-262 [doi]
• Monte Carlo Physarum Machine: An Agent-based Model for Reconstructing Complex 3D Transport NetworksOskar Elek, Joseph N. Burchett, J. Xavier Prochaska, Angus G. Forbes. 263-265 [doi]
• A Hybrid Approach to Understanding the Continuous Social Dynamics Based on a Large-Scale Modeling and a Face-to-Face ExperimentZineb Elhamer, Reiji Suzuki, Takaya Arita. 266-268 [doi]
• Thermodynamics and kinetics of Lesion Induced DNA Amplification (LIDA)Jan Engelhardt, Bent B. Andresen, Steen Rasmussen. 269-272 [doi]
• Fast and stable MAP-Elites in noisy domains using deep gridsManon Flageat, Antoine Cully. 273-282 [doi]
• Safe Reinforcement Learning through Meta-learned InstinctsDjordje Grbic, Sebastian Risi. 283-291 [doi]
• Coloured noise time series as appropriate models for environmental variation in artificial evolutionary systemsMatt Grove, James M. Borg, Fiona Polack. 292-299 [doi]
• What Matters? Agent Concerns, Agent-designer ConcernsInman Harvey. 300-302 [doi]
• Genetic Source Sensitivity and Transfer Learning in Genetic ProgrammingThomas Helmuth, Edward R. Pantridge, Grace Woolson, Lee Spector. 303-311 [doi]
• Cellular Automata Simulation of RNA Self-ReplicatorsIan Holmes. 312-314 [doi]
• The Bayesian Superorganism: Collective Probability Estimation in Swarm SystemsEdmund R. Hunt, Nigel R. Franks, Roland J. Baddeley. 315-323 [doi]
• Data-Driven Modeling of Resource Distribution in Honeybee SwarmsGolnar Gharooni-fard, Elizabeth Bradley, Orit Peleg. 324-332 [doi]
• Foraging Swarms using Multi-Agent Reinforcement LearningCarsten Hahn, Fabian Ritz, Paula Wikidal, Thomy Phan, Thomas Gabor, Claudia Linnhoff-Popien. 333-340 [doi]
• Explaining and Exploiting the Advantages of Down-sampled Lexicase SelectionThomas Helmuth, Lee Spector. 341-349 [doi]
• Sexual Selection Compared to Novelty SearchArend Hintze, Jory Schossau. 350-358 [doi]
• Morphologically programming the interactions of V-shaped falling papersToby Howison, Josie Hughes, Fumiya Iida. 359-366 [doi]
• Classification of Complex Systems Based on TransientsBarbora Hudcová, Tomás Mikolov. 367-375 [doi]
• Reservoir Computing in Artificial Spin IceJohannes H. Jensen, Gunnar Tufte. 376-383 [doi]
• Evolution of Diverse Swarm Behaviors with Minimal SurpriseTanja Katharina Kaiser, Heiko Hamann. 384-392 [doi]
• Modelling the Social Buffering Hypothesis in an Artificial Life EnvironmentImran Khan, Matthew Lewis 0001, Lola Cañamero. 393-401 [doi]
• Putting oneself in everybody's shoes - Pleasing enables indirect reciprocity under private assessmentsMarcus Krellner, The Anh Han. 402-410 [doi]
• Combinatory Chemistry: Towards a Simple Model of Emergent EvolutionGermán Kruszewski, Tomás Mikolov. 411-419 [doi]
• Temperature-based inputs for molecular reservoir computersNicolas Lobato-Dauzier, Leo Cazenille, Teruo Fujii, Anthony J. Genot, Nathanaël Aubert-Kato. 420-422 [doi]
• On Pros and Cons of Evolving Topologies with Novelty SearchLéni K. Le Goff, Emma Hart, Alexandre Coninx, Stéphane Doncieux. 423-431 [doi]
• Sample and time efficient policy learning with CMA-ES and Bayesian OptimisationLéni K. Le Goff, Edgar Buchanan, Emma Hart, Ágoston E. Eiben, Wei Li 0055, Matteo De Carlo, Matthew F. Hale, Mike Angus, Robert Woolley, Jon Timmis, Alan F. T. Winfield, Andrew M. Tyrrell. 432-440 [doi]
• Reinforcement learning beyond the Bellman equation: Exploring critic objectives using evolutionAbe Leite, Madhavun Candadai, Eduardo J. Izquierdo. 441-449 [doi]
• Cognition Evolves with the Emergence of Environmental PatchinessMahi Luthra, Eduardo J. Izquierdo, Peter M. Todd. 450-458 [doi]
• Contributed talksAzumi Mamiya, Genki Ichinose. 459-461 [doi]
• Competition Dynamics in a Chemical System of Self-replicating MacrocyclesOmer Markovitch, Boris H. Kramer, Franz J. Weissing, G. Sander van Doorn, Sijbren Otto. 462-464 [doi]
• Evolving Acoustic Niche Differentiation and Soundscape Complexity Based on Intraspecific Sound CommunicationAtsushi Masumori, Itsuki Doi, John Smith, Ryuta Aoki, Takashi Ikegami. 465-472 [doi]
• Evolving developmental neural networks to solve multiple problemsJulian Francis Miller. 473-482 [doi]
• De novo laboratory synthesis of life mimics without biochemistryJuan Pérez-Mercader. 483-490 [doi]
• Reservoir Computing with Random Chemical SystemsHoang Nguyen, Peter Banda, Darko Stefanovic, Christof Teuscher. 491-499 [doi]
• A model of urban evolution based on innovation diffusionJuste Raimbault. 500-508 [doi]
• Generating symmetry and symmetry breaking in sand-bubbler patternsHendrik Richter 0001. 509-517 [doi]
• Towards Ecosystem Management from Greedy Reinforcement Learning in a Predator-Prey SettingFabian Ritz, Felix Hohnstein, Robert Müller, Thomy Phan, Thomas Gabor, Carsten Hahn, Claudia Linnhoff-Popien. 518-525 [doi]
• The Role of Co-Representations in Joint TrackingEkaterina Sangati, Simon M. Hofmann. 526-534 [doi]
• Selection and Accelerated Divergence in Hashtag Evolution on a Social Network ServiceHiroki Sato, Itsuki Doi, Yasuhiro Hashimoto, Mizuki Oka, Takashi Ikegami. 535-540 [doi]
• Modelling Artificial Immune - Tumor Ecosystem Interaction During Radiation Therapy Using a Perceptron - Based Antigen Pattern RecognitionStephan Scheidegger, Alexander Mikos, Harold Fellermann. 541-548 [doi]
• Morphological communication for swarmsAsheesh Sharma, Sabine Hauert, Helmut Hauser. 549-557 [doi]
• Phase Spaces of the Strategy Evolution in the El Farol Bar ProblemShane St. Luce, Hiroki Sayama. 558-566 [doi]
• Localization, bistability and optimal seeding of contagions on higher-order networksGuillaume St-Onge, Antoine Allard, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne. 567-569 [doi]
• Communication in Decision Making: Competition favors InequalityJacopo Talamini, Eric Medvet, Alberto Bartoli, Andrea De Lorenzo. 570-577 [doi]
• The Importance of Open-Endedness (for the Sake of Open-Endedness)Tim Taylor 0001. 578-580 [doi]
• Adapting to Unseen Environments through Explicit Representation of ContextCem Celal Tutum, Risto Miikkulainen. 581-588 [doi]
• Measuring Autonomy for Life-Like AIDemyan Vakhrameev, Miguel Aguilera, Xabier E. Barandiaran, Manuel Glez-Bedia. 589-591 [doi]
• How Different Encodings Affect Performance and Diversification when Evolving the Morphology and Control of 2D Virtual CreaturesFrank Veenstra, Kyrre Glette. 592-601 [doi]
• A compiler framework to derive microfluidic platforms for manufacturing hierarchical, compartmentalized structures that maximize yield of chemical reactionsMathias S. Weyland, Dandolo Flumini, Johannes J. Schneider, Rudolf M. Füchslin. 602-604 [doi]
• Modeling the Impact of Social Comparison on Student Engagement by the Equity TheoryWen-Chi Yang, Yuh-Huey Lee, Kuo-Shih Yang. 605-613 [doi]
• Reactive or Stable: A Plant-inspired Approach for Organisation MorphogenesisPayam Zahadat, Ada Diaconescu. 614-622 [doi]
• On two information-theoretic measures of random fuzzy networksOctavio Zapata, Hyobin Kim, Carlos Gershenson. 623-625 [doi]
• Simulations on Herding a Flock of Birds Away from an Aircraft using an Unmanned Aerial VehiclePourya Aliasghari, Kerstin Dautenhahn, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv. 626-635 [doi]
• Untangling chromosome mis-segregation from mutation in cancer initiationArturo Araujo, Peter J. Bentley. 636-644 [doi]
• Visual Hide and SeekBoyuan Chen, Shuran Song, Hod Lipson, Carl Vondrick. 645-655 [doi]
• Resilient Life: An Exploration of Perturbed Autopoietic Patterns in Conway's Game of LifeArta Cika, Elissa Cohen, Germán Kruszewski, Luther Seet, Patrick Steinmann, Wenqian Yin. 656-664 [doi]
• Designing Computational Substrates using Open-Ended EvolutionMatthew Dale, Susan Stepney, Martin Trefzer. 665-667 [doi]
• Exploring the robustness of insect-inspired visual navigation for flying robotsAlex Dewar, Paul Graham, Thomas Nowotny, Andrew Philippides. 668-677 [doi]
• Effects of Supervision, Population Size, and Self-Play on Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning to CommunicateMarina Dubova, Arseny Moskvichev. 678-686 [doi]
• Adapting to a changing environment: Simulating the effects of noise on animal sonificationDavid Kadish, Sebastian Risi. 687-695 [doi]
• Adaptive One-dimensional Crawling Robot Driven by Simple Decentralized Control MechanismTakeshi Kano, Rodrigo Senofieni, Akira Fukuhara, Akio Ishiguro. 696-698 [doi]
• Dynamical Systems Analysis of a ProtocellYan Kolezhitskiy, Matthew D. Egbert, Claire M. Postlethwaite. 699-701 [doi]
• Architectural Plasticity in Spiking Neural NetworksKatarzyna Kozdon, Peter J. Bentley. 702-711 [doi]
• One-dimensional reaction-diffusion model for intra- and inter- biofilm oscillatory dynamicsTaishi Mikami, Munehiro Asally, Takeshi Kano, Akio Ishiguro. 712-714 [doi]
• How Lévy Flights Triggered by Presence of Defectors Affect Evolution of Cooperation in Spatial GamesDaiki Miyagawa, Genki Ichinose, Erika Chiba, Hiroki Sayama. 715-718 [doi]
• When Specialists Transition to Generalists: Evolutionary Pressure in Lexicase SelectionJared M. Moore, Adam Stanton. 719-726 [doi]
• Modeling the Influence of Social Feedback on Altruism using Multi-Agent SystemsIlja Rausch, Johannes Nauta, Pieter Simoens, Yara Khaluf. 727-735 [doi]
• Emerging Representations for Counting in a Neural Network Agent Interacting with a Multimodal EnvironmentSilvester Sabathiel, James L. McClelland, Trygve Solstad. 736-743 [doi]
• Neuroevolution in Dynamically Changing EnvironmentsJory Schossau, Arend Hintze. 744-746 [doi]
• MorphWorld: A State Transition SimulatorMatthew Shan, Jared M. Moore, Anthony J. Clark. 747-749 [doi]
• Understanding biological plume tracking behavior using deep reinforcement-learningSatpreet H. Singh, Floris van Breugel, Rajesh P. N. Rao, Bingni W. Brunton. 750-752 [doi]
• Innovation, Variation, and Emergence in an Automata ChemistrySusan Stepney, Simon J. Hickinbotham. 753-760 [doi]
• Interaction Between Evolution and Learning in NK Fitness LandscapesGraham Todd, Madhavun Candadai, Eduardo J. Izquierdo. 761-767 [doi]
• Experimental study of the effect of system composition on artificial chemotaxis of dropletsJakub Vaculik, Jitka Cejková. 768-770 [doi]
• A Precarious Sensorimotor Sequence Reiterator for Modelling Enactive HabitsFelix M. G. Woolford, Matthew D. Egbert. 771-779 [doi]
• Emergence of Multistrain Epidemics with an Underlying Genotype NetworkBlake J. M. Williams, Guillaume St-Onge, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne. 780-782 [doi]
• Errata: Phase Spaces of the Strategy Evolution in the El Farol Bar ProblemShane St. Luce, Hiroki Sayama. 783 [doi]