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ALIFE 2020
- Josh C. Bongard, Juniper L. Lovato, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Radhakrishna Dasari, Lisa B. Soros:
2020 Conference on Artificial Life, ALIFE 2020, online, July 13-18, 2020. MIT Press 2020
Short Abstracts of Keynote Presentations
- Leroy Cronin:
A Top Down Chemically Embodied Artificial Life Computation. 1 - Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio:
From Particles to Parts - Building Artificial Life from Multifunctional Composites. 3 - Michael Levin:
Robot Cancer: what the bioelectrics of embryogenesis and regeneration can teach us about unconventional computing, cognition, and the software of life. 5 - Melanie Mitchell:
Conceptual Abstraction and Analogy in Artificial Intelligence. 7 - Sara Imari Walker:
The Natural History of Information. 9 - Luis Zaman:
New Frontiers in Alife: What was old is new again. 11
Lightning Talks
- David H. Ackley
:
Best-effort computing with SPOTs and Spatial Threads. 13-15 - Brian A. Dahlberg, Eduardo J. Izquierdo:
Contributions from parallel strategies for spatial orientation in C. elegans. 16-24 - Emily L. Dolson, Shamreen Iram, Joshua Chiel, Julia Pelesko, Nikhil Krishnan, Özenç Güngör, Benjamin Kuznets-Speck, Sebastian Deffner, Efe Ilker, Jacob G. Scott, Michael Hinczewski:
An introduction to using counterdiabatic driving to eliminate genetic lag in changing environments. 25-26 - Adrien Ecoffet, Jeff Clune, Joel Lehman:
Open Questions in Creating Safe Open-ended AI: Tensions Between Control and Creativity. 27-35 - Abida Ghouri, Chloe M. Barnes
, Peter R. Lewis:
A Minimal River Crossing Task to Aid the Explainability of Evolutionary Agents. 36-43 - Edmund R. Hunt
, George P. Jenkinson
, Michael Wilsher
, Carl P. Dettmann, Sabine Hauert:
SPIDER: a Bioinspired Swarm Algorithm for Adaptive Risk-Taking. 44-51 - Joshua P. Powers, Ryan Grindle, Sam Kriegman, Lapo Frati, Nick Cheney, Josh C. Bongard:
Morphology dictates learnability in neural controllers. 52-59 - Joshua P. Powers, Sarah Pell, Josh C. Bongard:
A Framework for Search and Application Agnostic Interactive Optimization. 60-68 - Siddharth Priya, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv
:
Life-Span Expectancy and Cycle Size in the Original Autopoiesis Algorithm. 69-77 - Susana Ramírez-Vizcaya
, Tom Froese:
Agents of Habit: Refining the Artificial Life Route to Artificial Intelligence. 78-86 - Masanori Takano, Kenichi Nakazato
:
Emergence of the tradeoff law of social relationships in artificial societies driven by dual memory mechanisms. 87-94
Special session: Artificial Life and Society
- Nathan A. Brooks
, Simon T. Powers, James M. Borg
:
A mechanism to promote social behaviour in household load balancing. 95-103 - Penny Faulkner Rainford, Susan Stepney, Yasmin Merali:
Socio-Physical Modelling and Declining Mobility. 104-112 - Hiroki Sayama:
Extreme Ideas Emerging from Social Conformity and Homophily: An Adaptive Social Network Model. 113-120
Special session: Hybrid Life
- Manuel Baltieri, Christopher L. Buckley, Jelle P. Bruineberg:
Predictions in the eye of the beholder: an active inference account of Watt governors. 121-129 - Jasmine A. Berry, Francisco J. Valero Cuevas:
Sensory-Motor Gestalt: Sensation and Action as the Foundations of Identity, Agency, and Self. 130-138 - Dobromir Dotov, Tom Froese:
Dynamic Interactive Artificial Intelligence: Sketches for a Future AI Based on Human-Machine Interaction. 139-145 - Kingson Man, Antonio Damasio:
Truth or Consequences: Homeostatic Self-Regulation in Artificial Neural Networks. 146-147 - David Matthews, Josh C. Bongard:
Crowd grounding: finding semantic and behavioral alignment through human robot interaction. 148-156 - Heinrich Mellmann
, Benjamin Schlotter, Lea Musiolek
, Verena V. Hafner
:
Anticipation as a Mechanism for Complex Behavior in Artificial Agents. 157-159
Contributed talks
- Acacia L. Ackles
, Austin J. Ferguson, Connor Grady, Charles Ofria:
Rank epistasis: A new model for analyzing epistatic interactions in the absence of quantifiable fitness interactions. 160-162 - Merihan Alhafnawi, Sabine Hauert, Paul J. O'Dowd
:
Robotic Canvas: Interactive Painting onto Robot Swarms. 163-170 - Peter Andras:
Composition of Games as a Model for the Evolution of Social Institutions. 171-179 - Gustavo Recio, Wolfgang Banzhaf, Roger White:
A Study of Severe Disruption in an Artificial Economy. 180-187 - Stuart Bartlett, Michael L. Wong:
Lyfe in the Universe: A Definition Based on Four Pillars. 188-189 - Alberto Bartoli, Marco Catto, Andrea De Lorenzo, Eric Medvet, Jacopo Talamini:
Mechanisms of Social Learning in Evolved Artificial Life. 190-198 - Mark A. Bedau:
Dynamic natural kinds: Open-ended evolution in the joints of nature. 199-201 - Randall D. Beer:
An Integrated Perspective on the Constitutive and Interactive Dimensions of Autonomy. 202-209 - Lauren V. Benson, Madhavun Candadai, Eduardo J. Izquierdo:
Neural reuse in multifunctional neural networks for control tasks. 210-218 - Ditlev Hartmann Bornebusch, Christina Colaluca Sørensen, Peter Zingg, Gianluca Gazzola, Norman H. Packard, Steen Rasmussen:
Automated replication optimization for protocellular information system. 219-220 - Bert Wang-Chak Chan:
Lenia and Expanded Universe. 221-229 - Palin Choviwatana, Shota Ejima, Mizuki Oka, Takashi Ikegami:
Web as an Evolutionary Ecosystem: Emergence of Keystone Species. 230-238 - Hugo Cisneros
, Josef Sivic, Tomás Mikolov:
Visualizing computation in large-scale cellular automata. 239-247 - Manh Hong Duong, The Anh Han:
The effect of mutation on equilibrium properties of deterministic and random evolutionary games. 248-250 - Paul Ecoffet, Jean-Baptiste André, Nicolas Bredèche:
Learning to Cooperate in a Socially Optimal Way in Swarm Robotics. 251-259 - Matthew D. Egbert:
Marangoni Based Motile Oil-Droplets in Simulated Artificial Chemistry. 260-262 - Oskar Elek
, Joseph N. Burchett, J. Xavier Prochaska, Angus G. Forbes:
Monte Carlo Physarum Machine: An Agent-based Model for Reconstructing Complex 3D Transport Networks. 263-265 - Zineb Elhamer, Reiji Suzuki, Takaya Arita:
A Hybrid Approach to Understanding the Continuous Social Dynamics Based on a Large-Scale Modeling and a Face-to-Face Experiment. 266-268 - Jan Engelhardt, Bent B. Andresen, Steen Rasmussen:
Thermodynamics and kinetics of Lesion Induced DNA Amplification (LIDA). 269-272 - Manon Flageat, Antoine Cully:
Fast and stable MAP-Elites in noisy domains using deep grids. 273-282 - Djordje Grbic, Sebastian Risi:
Safe Reinforcement Learning through Meta-learned Instincts. 283-291 - Matt Grove, James M. Borg
, Fiona Polack:
Coloured noise time series as appropriate models for environmental variation in artificial evolutionary systems. 292-299 - Inman Harvey:
What Matters? Agent Concerns, Agent-designer Concerns. 300-302 - Thomas Helmuth, Edward R. Pantridge, Grace Woolson, Lee Spector:
Genetic Source Sensitivity and Transfer Learning in Genetic Programming. 303-311 - Ian Holmes:
Cellular Automata Simulation of RNA Self-Replicators. 312-314 - Edmund R. Hunt
, Nigel R. Franks, Roland J. Baddeley:
The Bayesian Superorganism: Collective Probability Estimation in Swarm Systems. 315-323 - Golnar Gharooni Fard, Elizabeth Bradley, Orit Peleg
:
Data-Driven Modeling of Resource Distribution in Honeybee Swarms. 324-332 - Carsten Hahn, Fabian Ritz
, Paula Wikidal, Thomy Phan, Thomas Gabor, Claudia Linnhoff-Popien:
Foraging Swarms using Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning. 333-340 - Thomas Helmuth, Lee Spector:
Explaining and Exploiting the Advantages of Down-sampled Lexicase Selection. 341-349 - Arend Hintze, Jory Schossau:
Sexual Selection Compared to Novelty Search. 350-358 - Toby Howison, Josie Hughes, Fumiya Iida:
Morphologically programming the interactions of V-shaped falling papers. 359-366 - Barbora Hudcová
, Tomás Mikolov:
Classification of Complex Systems Based on Transients. 367-375 - Johannes H. Jensen, Gunnar Tufte:
Reservoir Computing in Artificial Spin Ice. 376-383 - Tanja Katharina Kaiser
, Heiko Hamann:
Evolution of Diverse Swarm Behaviors with Minimal Surprise. 384-392 - Imran Khan
, Matthew Lewis, Lola Cañamero
:
Modelling the Social Buffering Hypothesis in an Artificial Life Environment. 393-401 - Marcus Krellner, The Anh Han:
Putting oneself in everybody's shoes - Pleasing enables indirect reciprocity under private assessments. 402-410 - Germán Kruszewski, Tomás Mikolov:
Combinatory Chemistry: Towards a Simple Model of Emergent Evolution. 411-419 - Nicolas Lobato-Dauzier, Leo Cazenille, Teruo Fujii, Anthony J. Genot, Nathanaël Aubert-Kato:
Temperature-based inputs for molecular reservoir computers. 420-422 - Léni K. Le Goff, Emma Hart, Alexandre Coninx, Stéphane Doncieux:
On Pros and Cons of Evolving Topologies with Novelty Search. 423-431 - Léni K. Le Goff, Edgar Buchanan, Emma Hart, Ágoston E. Eiben, Wei Li, Matteo De Carlo, Matthew F. Hale, Mike Angus, Robert Woolley, Jon Timmis, Alan F. T. Winfield
, Andrew M. Tyrrell:
Sample and time efficient policy learning with CMA-ES and Bayesian Optimisation. 432-440 - Abe Leite, Madhavun Candadai, Eduardo J. Izquierdo:
Reinforcement learning beyond the Bellman equation: Exploring critic objectives using evolution. 441-449 - Mahi Luthra, Eduardo J. Izquierdo, Peter M. Todd:
Cognition Evolves with the Emergence of Environmental Patchiness. 450-458
Short Abstracts of Keynote Presentations
- Azumi Mamiya, Genki Ichinose:
Contributed talks. 459-461
Contributed talks
- Omer Markovitch
, Boris H. Kramer, Franz J. Weissing
, G. Sander van Doorn, Sijbren Otto
:
Competition Dynamics in a Chemical System of Self-replicating Macrocycles. 462-464 - Atsushi Masumori, Itsuki Doi, John Smith, Ryuta Aoki, Takashi Ikegami:
Evolving Acoustic Niche Differentiation and Soundscape Complexity Based on Intraspecific Sound Communication. 465-472 - Julian Francis Miller:
Evolving developmental neural networks to solve multiple problems. 473-482 - Juan Pérez-Mercader
:
De novo laboratory synthesis of life mimics without biochemistry. 483-490 - Hoang Nguyen, Peter Banda, Darko Stefanovic, Christof Teuscher:
Reservoir Computing with Random Chemical Systems. 491-499 - Juste Raimbault:
A model of urban evolution based on innovation diffusion. 500-508 - Hendrik Richter
:
Generating symmetry and symmetry breaking in sand-bubbler patterns. 509-517 - Fabian Ritz
, Felix Hohnstein, Robert Müller, Thomy Phan, Thomas Gabor, Carsten Hahn, Claudia Linnhoff-Popien:
Towards Ecosystem Management from Greedy Reinforcement Learning in a Predator-Prey Setting. 518-525 - Ekaterina Sangati, Simon M. Hofmann
:
The Role of Co-Representations in Joint Tracking. 526-534 - Hiroki Sato, Itsuki Doi, Yasuhiro Hashimoto, Mizuki Oka, Takashi Ikegami:
Selection and Accelerated Divergence in Hashtag Evolution on a Social Network Service. 535-540 - Stephan Scheidegger, Alexander Mikos, Harold Fellermann:
Modelling Artificial Immune - Tumor Ecosystem Interaction During Radiation Therapy Using a Perceptron - Based Antigen Pattern Recognition. 541-548 - Asheesh Sharma, Sabine Hauert, Helmut Hauser
:
Morphological communication for swarms. 549-557 - Shane St. Luce, Hiroki Sayama:
Phase Spaces of the Strategy Evolution in the El Farol Bar Problem. 558-566 - Guillaume St-Onge, Antoine Allard, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne:
Localization, bistability and optimal seeding of contagions on higher-order networks. 567-569 - Jacopo Talamini, Eric Medvet, Alberto Bartoli, Andrea De Lorenzo:
Communication in Decision Making: Competition favors Inequality. 570-577 - Tim Taylor
:
The Importance of Open-Endedness (for the Sake of Open-Endedness). 578-580 - Cem Celal Tutum, Risto Miikkulainen:
Adapting to Unseen Environments through Explicit Representation of Context. 581-588 - Demyan Vakhrameev, Miguel Aguilera, Xabier E. Barandiaran, Manuel Glez Bedia:
Measuring Autonomy for Life-Like AI. 589-591 - Frank Veenstra, Kyrre Glette:
How Different Encodings Affect Performance and Diversification when Evolving the Morphology and Control of 2D Virtual Creatures. 592-601 - Mathias S. Weyland, Dandolo Flumini, Johannes J. Schneider, Rudolf M. Füchslin:
A compiler framework to derive microfluidic platforms for manufacturing hierarchical, compartmentalized structures that maximize yield of chemical reactions. 602-604 - Wen-Chi Yang, Yuh-Huey Lee, Kuo-Shih Yang:
Modeling the Impact of Social Comparison on Student Engagement by the Equity Theory. 605-613 - Payam Zahadat, Ada Diaconescu:
Reactive or Stable: A Plant-inspired Approach for Organisation Morphogenesis. 614-622 - Octavio Zapata, Hyobin Kim
, Carlos Gershenson:
On two information-theoretic measures of random fuzzy networks. 623-625
Poster Presentations
- Pourya Aliasghari, Kerstin Dautenhahn, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv:
Simulations on Herding a Flock of Birds Away from an Aircraft using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle. 626-635 - Arturo Araujo, Peter J. Bentley:
Untangling chromosome mis-segregation from mutation in cancer initiation. 636-644 - Boyuan Chen, Shuran Song, Hod Lipson, Carl Vondrick:
Visual Hide and Seek. 645-655 - Arta Cika, Elissa Cohen, Germán Kruszewski, Luther Seet, Patrick Steinmann, Wenqian Yin:
Resilient Life: An Exploration of Perturbed Autopoietic Patterns in Conway's Game of Life. 656-664 - Matthew Dale
, Susan Stepney
, Martin Trefzer
:
Designing Computational Substrates using Open-Ended Evolution. 665-667 - Alex Dewar, Paul Graham
, Thomas Nowotny
, Andrew Philippides
:
Exploring the robustness of insect-inspired visual navigation for flying robots. 668-677 - Marina Dubova, Arseny Moskvichev:
Effects of Supervision, Population Size, and Self-Play on Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning to Communicate. 678-686 - David Kadish
, Sebastian Risi:
Adapting to a changing environment: Simulating the effects of noise on animal sonification. 687-695 - Takeshi Kano, Rodrigo Senofieni, Akira Fukuhara, Akio Ishiguro:
Adaptive One-dimensional Crawling Robot Driven by Simple Decentralized Control Mechanism. 696-698 - Yan Kolezhitskiy, Matthew D. Egbert, Claire M. Postlethwaite:
Dynamical Systems Analysis of a Protocell. 699-701 - Katarzyna Kozdon, Peter J. Bentley:
Architectural Plasticity in Spiking Neural Networks. 702-711 - Taishi Mikami, Munehiro Asally, Takeshi Kano, Akio Ishiguro:
One-dimensional reaction-diffusion model for intra- and inter- biofilm oscillatory dynamics. 712-714 - Daiki Miyagawa, Genki Ichinose, Erika Chiba, Hiroki Sayama:
How Lévy Flights Triggered by Presence of Defectors Affect Evolution of Cooperation in Spatial Games. 715-718 - Jared M. Moore, Adam Stanton
:
When Specialists Transition to Generalists: Evolutionary Pressure in Lexicase Selection. 719-726 - Ilja Rausch, Johannes Nauta, Pieter Simoens, Yara Khaluf:
Modeling the Influence of Social Feedback on Altruism using Multi-Agent Systems. 727-735 - Silvester Sabathiel, James L. McClelland, Trygve Solstad:
Emerging Representations for Counting in a Neural Network Agent Interacting with a Multimodal Environment. 736-743 - Jory Schossau, Arend Hintze:
Neuroevolution in Dynamically Changing Environments. 744-746 - Matthew Shan, Jared M. Moore, Anthony J. Clark:
MorphWorld: A State Transition Simulator. 747-749 - Satpreet H. Singh
, Floris van Breugel, Rajesh P. N. Rao, Bingni W. Brunton:
Understanding biological plume tracking behavior using deep reinforcement-learning. 750-752 - Susan Stepney, Simon J. Hickinbotham:
Innovation, Variation, and Emergence in an Automata Chemistry. 753-760 - Graham Todd, Madhavun Candadai, Eduardo J. Izquierdo:
Interaction Between Evolution and Learning in NK Fitness Landscapes. 761-767 - Jakub Vaculik, Jitka Cejková:
Experimental study of the effect of system composition on artificial chemotaxis of droplets. 768-770 - Felix M. G. Woolford
, Matthew D. Egbert:
A Precarious Sensorimotor Sequence Reiterator for Modelling Enactive Habits. 771-779 - Blake J. M. Williams, Guillaume St-Onge, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne:
Emergence of Multistrain Epidemics with an Underlying Genotype Network. 780-782
Errata
- Shane St. Luce, Hiroki Sayama:
Errata: Phase Spaces of the Strategy Evolution in the El Farol Bar Problem. 783

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