Table of Contents

• You, Robot: Empathy in a Hybrid WorldJesús M. Siqueiros. 1 [doi]
• On the Scales of Selves: Information, Life, and Buddhist PhilosophyCarlos Gershenson. 2 [doi]
• Monks, Labs, Cyborgs: the Plasticity of Personhood in Tibetan BuddhismAna Cristina Lopes. 3 [doi]
• Can Being Aware of the Illusion of Self Augment an Agent's Affordances: Integrating Buddhist Philosophy, Cognitive Science, and Artificial LifeThomas Doctor, Elizaveta Solomonova, Bill Duane, Olaf Witkowski. 4 [doi]
• Robots: The century past and the century ahead, an Introduction to the 2021 ALIFE conferenceJitka Cejková. 5 [doi]
• The autonomous Earth: How humans created a planetary civilisation that is beyond their controlJames G. Dyke. 6 [doi]
• Complexity begets complexityJessica C. Flack. 7 [doi]
• World Models and Attention for Reinforcement LearningDavid Ha. 8 [doi]
• Homage to R.U.R.: 100 Ways to Play a RobotJana Horáková. 9 [doi]
• Experiments in Machine BehaviorIyad Rahwan. 10 [doi]
• Soft Robots: Increasing Robot Diversity with Soft MaterialsDaniela Rus. 11 [doi]
• Order from Order: How Life Emerged from a Convection-driven Submarine SpringMike Russell. 12 [doi]
• Ageing in artificial and real life: can we code a cure?Andrew Steele. 13 [doi]
• Weird Tales: Early Visions of Machines That Can Reproduce and Evolve, and Their Relevance TodayTim Taylor 0001. 14 [doi]
• Emergence of more contagious COVID-19 variants from the interaction of viruses and policy interventionsAymeric Vié. 15 [doi]
• ArchaeaBot: A Post Singularity and Post Climate Change Life-formAnna Dumitriu, Alex May. 16 [doi]
• Towards Guidelines for Mechatronic Ecosystem Monitoring and ManagementAlan Dorin, Hazel Parry, James Cook. 17 [doi]
• SARS-CoV-2 pandemic dynamics and infection tracing in DenmarkMorten W. N. Jørgensen, Niels Høiby, Hans-Joachim Ziock, Steen Rasmussen. 18 [doi]
• Creating Artificial Societies through Interaction Analysis: Translating Qualitative Observational Study into Agent-Based ModellingSelin Zileli, Jiayu Wu, Cyriel Diels, Stephen Boyd Davis. 19 [doi]
• Listening to Ecosystems as Complex Adaptive Systems: Toward Acoustic Early Warning SignalsAlice Eldridge. 20 [doi]
• How Artificial Life Researchers Can Help Address Complex Societal ChallengesHiroki Sayama. 21 [doi]
• A Monocular Depth Estimator to Perceive Crater Illusions in Several CharacteristicsRyota Mima, Yuki Kubota, Masahiko Inami. 22 [doi]
• Psychophysical Tests Reveal that Evolved Artificial Brains Perceive Time like HumansAli Tehrani-Saleh, Christoph Adami. 23 [doi]
• Artificial Cognitive Map System based on Generative Deep Neural NetworksHiroki Kojima, Takashi Ikegami. 24 [doi]
• The Impact of Early-death on Phenotypically Plastic Robots that Evolve in Changing EnvironmentsKarine Miras, Jim Cuijpers, Bahadir Gülhan, A. E. Eiben. 25 [doi]
• The effect of selecting for different behavioral traits on the evolved gaits of modular robotsBabak H. Kargar, Karine Miras, A. E. Eiben. 26 [doi]
• Evolution of morphology through sculpting in a voxel based robotKathryn Walker, Helmut Hauser. 27 [doi]
• Differentiable Programming of Reaction-Diffusion PatternsAlexander Mordvintsev, Ettore Randazzo, Eyvind Niklasson. 28 [doi]
• Evolving Modular Robots: Challenges and OpportunitiesAndrés Faiña. 29 [doi]
• Decomposing the Prediction Problem; Autonomous Navigation by neoRL AgentsPer Roald Leikanger. 30 [doi]
• Towards animal phenotype transfer into biomimetic robots: the LAMPETRA projectCesare Stefanini, Donato Romano. 31 [doi]
• Any colour you like: using animal-robot interaction to unravel mechanisms promoting phenotypically heterogeneous fish aggregationsDonato Romano, Cesare Stefanini. 32 [doi]
• Biohybrid Entities for Environmental MonitoringRonald 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. 33 [doi]
• Acute Citalopram administration alters zebrafish social dynamics in a behavioral teleporting experimentMert Karakaya, Simone Macrì, Maurizio Porfiri. 34 [doi]
• Controlling invasive species with biologically-inspired robotsGiovanni Polverino, Maurizio Porfiri. 35 [doi]
• Biomimetic robots promote the 3Rs Principle in animal testingDavid Bierbach, Fritz Francisco, Juliane Lukas, Tim Landgraf, Moritz Maxeiner, Pawel Romanczuk, Lea Musiolek, Verena V. Hafner, Jens Krause. 36 [doi]
• WatchPlant: Networked Bio-hybrid Systems for Pollution Monitoring of Urban AreasHeiko Hamann, Stjepan Bogdan, Antonio Diaz-Espejo, Laura García-Carmona, Virginia Hernandez-Santana, Serge Kernbach, Andreas Kernbach, Alfredo Quijano Lopez, Babak Salamat, Mostafa Wahby. 37 [doi]
• The methods of bioroboticsEdoardo Datteri. 38 [doi]
• Robots communicating with fish: Integration requires reciprocal interactionGerhard von der Emde, Martin Worm. 39 [doi]
• Towards investigating the influence of probabilistic robot motion parameters on archerfish behavior in fish-robot interactionsAlexander A. Brown, Michael F. Brown, Brent A. Utter. 40 [doi]
• Bio-Hybrid Systems for Ecosystem Level EffectsAsya 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. 41 [doi]
• Can Robots Inform a Honeybee Colony's Foraging Decision-Making?Dajana Lazic, Thomas Schmickl. 42 [doi]
• Underwater communication with artificial electric senseMohamed Boukens, Vincent Lebastard, Godfried Jansen van Vuuren, Frédéric Boyer. 43 [doi]
• Control of collective behaviours through artificial feedbacksStamatios C. Nicolis, Mariano Calvo Martín, Alexandre Campo, Jean-Louis Deneubourg. 44 [doi]
• Toward artificial cells/living cells communication in hybrid ensemblesGiordano Rampioni, Yutetsu Kuruma, Livia Leoni, Luisa Damiano, Pasquale Stano. 45 [doi]
• Toward Population-Level Biohybrid Systems: Bioinspiration and BehaviorEric Aaron, John H. Long Jr.. 46 [doi]
• A Concept of Full Plant Morphology Modeling for Robot-Plant Bio-HybridsMostafa Wahby, Julian Petzold, Heiko Hamann. 47 [doi]
• Evaluation of the effect of mimicry on facial expression in Avatar-Mediated CommunicationMikihiro Suda, Mizuki Oka. 48 [doi]
• A Design of a Virtual Agent that Facilitates a Spatial and Online Communication by Use of Social Particle Swarm ModelMeito Tsuruta, Reiji Suzuki, Takaya Arita. 49 [doi]
• An organismic inspired strategy for adaptive controlAlvaro Ovalle. 50 [doi]
• Towards Autopoietic SB-AILuisa Damiano, Pasquale Stano. 51 [doi]
• Social Search Evolves with the Emergence of Clustered EnvironmentsMahi Luthra, Peter M. Todd. 52 [doi]
• Studying Embodied Cognition in the Android AlterNorihiro Maruyama, Atsushi Masumori, Takashi Ikegami. 53 [doi]
• Identification of Lifelike Characteristics of Human Crowds Through a Classification TaskJamie Webster, Martyn Amos. 54 [doi]
• Species in Morphogenesis: Introducing Symbiogenesis as an Additional Method for the Evolutionary Process of an ArtworkTiago Barros Pontes e Silva, Marília Lyra Bergamo. 55 [doi]
• Liquid Crystal Phase Assembly in Peptide-DNA Coacervates as a Mechanism for Primitive Emergence of Structural ComplexityTony Z. Jia, Tommaso P. Fraccia. 56 [doi]
• Supervision and Evolution: Pretraining Neural Networks for Quadrupedal LocomotionJared M. Moore, Anthony J. Clark. 57 [doi]
• Recursively Fertile Self-replicating Neural AgentsEttore Randazzo, Luca Versari, Alexander Mordvintsev. 58 [doi]
• Learning to Penalize Other Learning AgentsKyrill Schmid, Lenz Belzner, Claudia Linnhoff-Popien. 59 [doi]
• When a Robot Writes a Play: Automatically Generating a Theatre Play ScriptRudolf 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. 60 [doi]
• Micronycteris microtisThinh Nguyen, Dieter Vanderelst, Herbert Peremans. 61 [doi]
• Tracking Multiple Fast Targets With Swarms: Interplay Between Social Interaction and Agent MemoryHian Lee Kwa, Jabez Leong Kit, Roland Bouffanais. 62 [doi]
• A graph-theoretic approach to understanding emergent behavior in physical systemsAlyssa M. Adams. 63 [doi]
• Generating Agent Based Models From Scratch With Genetic ProgrammingRory Greig, Jordi Arranz. 64 [doi]
• A Regulation Dilemma in Artificial Intelligence DevelopmentThe Anh Han, Francisco C. Santos, Luís Moniz Pereira, Tom Lenaerts. 65 [doi]
• Architecture of the Genotype-Phenotype Map and the Coevolution of ComplexityBhaskar Kumawat, Luis Zaman. 66 [doi]
• The Role of Speaker Prestige in Synthetic Language EvolutionGregory Furman, Geoff Nitschke. 67 [doi]
• Friendly-rivalry solutions for direct reciprocityYohsuke Murase, Seung Ki Baek. 68 [doi]
• Reaction kinetics exploration of a protocellular metabolismDitlev Hartmann Bornebusch, Hans-Joachim Ziock, Steen Rasmussen. 69 [doi]
• Co-evolution of Initial Configuration and Control in Evolutionary RoboticsKasper Støy. 70 [doi]
• Influence of the geometry on the agglomeration of a polydisperse binary system of spherical particlesJohannes 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. 71 [doi]
• Increased Complexity and Fitness of Artificial Cells that Reproduce Using Spatially Distributed Asynchronous Parallel ProcessesLance R. Williams. 72 [doi]
• Objective Sampling Strategies for Generalized Locomotion Behavior with Lexicase SelectionJared M. Moore, Adam Stanton. 73 [doi]
• A Sustainable Ecosystem through Emergent Cooperation in Multi-Agent Reinforcement LearningFabian Ritz, Daniel Ratke, Thomy Phan, Lenz Belzner, Claudia Linnhoff-Popien. 74 [doi]
• Simulating short- and long-term evolutionary dynamics on rugged landscapesLeonardo Trujillo, Paul Banse, Guillaume Beslon. 75 [doi]
• Efficient Spike Timing Dependent Plasticity rule for Complex-Valued NeuronsAlex Baranski, Tom Froese. 76 [doi]
• Imprecise Fusion Operators for Collective LearningZixuan Liu, Michael Crosscombe, Jonathan Lawry. 77 [doi]
• Reservoir computing with self-organizing neural oscillatorsSina Khajehabdollahi, Emmanouil Giannakakis, Jan Prosi, Anna Levina. 78 [doi]
• The dynamical regime and its importance for evolvability, task performance and generalizationJan Prosi, Sina Khajehabdollahi, Emmanouil Giannakakis, Georg Martius, Anna Levina. 79 [doi]
• What is a Parasite? Defining reaction and network properties in an open ended automata chemistrySusan Stepney, Simon J. Hickinbotham. 80 [doi]
• Quality Evolvability ES: Evolving Individuals With a Distribution of Well Performing and Diverse OffspringAdam Katona, Daniel W. Franks, James Alfred Walker. 81 [doi]
• Exploring collective intelligence in animal fission-fusion dynamicsGabriel Ramos-Fernandez, Tania M. Palacios-Romo, Sandra E. Smith Aguilar. 82 [doi]
• Hyperdescriptions of Quantum Dynamics - A Case Study for Avian MagnetoreceptionDragana Laketic. 83 [doi]
• An evolutionary game theory analysis of trust in repeated games and lessons for human-machine interactionsThe Anh Han, Cedric Perret, Simon T. Powers. 84 [doi]
• Active Dynamical Prospection: Modeling Mental Simulation as Particle Filtering for Sensorimotor Control during PathfindingJeremy Gordon 0001, John Chuang. 85 [doi]
• Designing Considerate SwarmsNishant Ramakuru, Namid R. Stillman. 86 [doi]
• An Artificial Creature Approach to the Origin of Acoustic CommunicationReiji Suzuki, Ryohei Seki, Takahiro Banno, Kouki Kawai, Takaya Arita. 87 [doi]
• Evolution of Neural Complexity in Division of Labor TasksEkaterina Sangati, Soheil Keshmiri, Federico Sangati. 88 [doi]
• Major transitions in evolution and finite time singularities: Human wealth historyPaolo Sibani, Steen Rasmussen. 89 [doi]
• Adaptation-By-Proxy: Contagion Effect of Social Buffering in an Artificial SocietyImran Khan, Lola Cañamero. 90 [doi]
• Introducing asymptotics to the state-updating rule in LeniaTakako Kawaguchi, Reiji Suzuki, Takaya Arita, Bert Chan. 91 [doi]
• Physical reservoir computing in a soft swimming robotYuta Horii, Katsuma Inoue, Satoshi Nishikawa, Kohei Nakajima, Ryuma Niiyama, Yasuo Kuniyoshi. 92 [doi]
• Incentive for Self-Protection in a Collective System: a Swarm Robotics Case StudyPayam Zahadat. 93 [doi]
• Random Networks with Quantum Boolean FunctionsMário Franco, Octavio Zapata, David A. Rosenblueth, Carlos Gershenson. 94 [doi]
• Spontaneous modular NeuroEvolution arising from a life/dinner paradoxKevin Godin-Dubois, Sylvain Cussat-Blanc, Yves Duthen. 95 [doi]
• The emergence of collective response to decisions in a group of physical agentsYara Khaluf. 96 [doi]
• A Genome-Wide Evolutionary Simulation of the Transcription-Supercoiling CouplingThéotime Grohens, Sam Meyer, Guillaume Beslon. 97 [doi]
• Towards open-ended evolutionary simulator for developing novel tumour drug delivery systemsIgor Balaz, Tara Petric, Namid Stillman. 98 [doi]
• A Representation of Artificial Spin Ice for Evolutionary SearchArthur Penty, Gunnar Tufte. 99 [doi]
• Modeling behavioral experiments on uncertainty and cooperation with population-based reinforcement learning - Extended AbstractElias Fernández Domingos, Jelena Grujic, Juan C. Burguillo, Francisco C. Santos, Tom Lenaerts. 100 [doi]
• Goals for Self-Replicating Neural NetworksThomas Gabor, Steffen Illium, Maximilian Zorn, Claudia Linnhoff-Popien. 101 [doi]
• The Dynamical Landscape of Reservoir Computing with Elementary Cellular AutomataTom Eivind Glover, Pedro G. Lind, Anis Yazidi, Evgeny Osipov, Stefano Nichele. 102 [doi]
• A Probabilistic Game of Life on a Quantum AnnealerThomas Gabor, Marian Lingsch Rosenfeld, Claudia Linnhoff-Popien. 103 [doi]
• Searching for initial parameters in cell colony spatial pattern generationNicolás Araya, Guillermo Iglesias, Martín-Gutiérrez. 104 [doi]
• Computational Hierarchy of Elementary Cellular AutomataBarbora Hudcová, Tomás Mikolov. 105 [doi]
• Resurrecting FPGA Intrinsic Analog Evolvable HardwareDerek Whitley, Jason Yoder, Nicklas Carpenter. 106 [doi]
• Safer Reinforcement Learning through Transferable Instinct NetworksDjordje Grbic, Sebastian Risi. 107 [doi]
• Growing 3D Artefacts and Functional Machines with Neural Cellular AutomataShyam Sudhakaran, Djordje Grbic, Siyan Li, Adam Katona, Elias Najarro, Claire Glanois, Sebastian Risi. 108 [doi]
• Connections between Noisy Fitness and Selection StrengthVincent R. Ragusa, Clifford Bohm. 109 [doi]
• The Comparative Hybrid Approach to Investigate Cognition across SubstratesSarah Albani, Acacia L. Ackles, Charles Ofria, Clifford Bohm. 110 [doi]
• Emergence of structures from parasitic species in a spatially distributed molecular systemNathanaël Aubert-Kato, Guillaume Gines, Teruo Fujii, Yannick Rondelez. 111 [doi]
• Diversity Control in Evolution of MovementMaciej Komosinski, Konrad Miazga. 112 [doi]
• Using MAP-Elites to direct the evolution of desired neural characteristicsDouglas Kirkpatrick, Arend Hintze. 113 [doi]
• Tracking data flow in digital brains exposes coincidental encryptionDouglas Kirkpatrick, Victoria Cao, Clifford Bohm. 114 [doi]
• Growing Opportunities to Grow: Toward Open-Ended Multi-Agent Communication LearningMarina Dubova. 115 [doi]
• Asynchronicity in Neural Cellular AutomataEyvind Niklasson, Alexander Mordvintsev, Ettore Randazzo. 116 [doi]
• Exploration in Evolutionary Space by Hashtag Evolution on a Social Network ServiceHiroki Sato, Yasuhiro Hashimoto, Mizuki Oka, Takashi Ikegami. 117 [doi]
• Generating reward structures on a parameterized distribution of dynamics tasksAbe Leite, Eduardo J. Izquierdo. 118 [doi]