ECAL91 programme
European Conference on Artificial Life
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To be held on December 11-13 1991
in Centre des Congres de la Villette
Salle Laser
cite des Sciences et de l'Industrie
Paris, France
Publisher : MIT Press / Bradford Books
Sponsors :
la Cite
CEMAGREF
Banque de France
CNR
Fondation de France
AFCET
Electricite de France
CREA
Offilib
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Artificial life: a new scientific field
Artificial life embodies a recent and important conceptual step in modern
science: asserting that the core of intelligence and cognitive abilities is the
same as the capacity for living. Metaphorically, artificial life would see in
the modest insect rather than in the symbolic abilities of an expert the best
prototype for intelligence . What needs to be understood and characterized is
the class of processes that endow living creatures with their characteric
autonomy, key properties such as viability, abduction and adaptability. The
autonomy of the living beings is understood here both with regards to their
actions and to the way in which they shape their world into significance. This
exploration goes hand in hand with the theory, design and construction of
simple autonomous agents.
The recent surge of interest in 'artificial life' has to be understood in the
context of the long tradition inaugurated with cybernetics, seeking common
basis for the living and the artificial. Artificial life can take advantage of
the years of research in the tradition of symbolic computation that still
characterizes most of the research in artificial intelligence, as well as the
more recent explosive development of neural networks and connectionist
approaches. Artificial life also induces a renewal of a whole range of
engineering traditions, such as control theory and robotics, beyond classical
notions of goal and planning, into biologically inspired notions of viability
and adaptation, situatedness and operational closure, thus putting evolutionary
processes at the very center of the stage.
The first European meeting intends to highlight the practice of such autonomous
systems in all their forms, by hosting the presentation and discussion of the
most recent research in the area. Beyond research results, another main
intention of the meeting is to engage researchers and philosophers to examine
the epistemological basis of this new trend. Only a sustained analysis of the
main concepts and ideas can provide a fertile ground for important advances and
a change of research paradigm.
Conference Chairs : Paul Bourgine and Francisco Varela
Programme Committee :
H. Bersini, B Ch. G. Langton, USA
R. Brooks, USA J. A. Meyer, F
J. Demongeot, F H.Schwefel, FRG
B. Goodwin, UK D. Parisi, I
S. Kauffman, USA
Organizing Committee :
I. Alvarez V. Douzal
L. Bochereau T. Fuhs
G. Deffuant
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Wednesday December 11
8:00 REGISTRATION
9:30 WELCOME ADDRESS
Paul BOURGINE, CEMAGREF - (F), Francisco VARELA, CREA - (F)
9:45 AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS (I)
Invited lecture:
Rodney BROOKS, MIT - (USA)
"Robots and artificial life"
Uwe SCHNEPF, GMD - (FRG), Mukesh J. PATEL, University of Sussex - (UK)
"Concept formation as Emergent Phenomena"
Rolf PFEIFER, Free University of Brussels - (B), Paul VERSCHURE, Univ. of
California, Santa Cruz (USA)
"Distributed adaptive control : a paradigm for autonomous agents"
Break / refreshments
Tim SMITHERS, University of Edimburgh - (UK)
"Taking eliminative materialism seriously : a methodology for autonomous
systems research"
Leslie P. KAELBLING, Brown University - (USA)
"An adaptable mobile robot"
Pattie MAES, MIT - (USA)
"Learning behavior networks from experience"
13:15 LUNCH
14:30 SWARM INTELLIGENCE
Invited lecture:
Jean-Louis DENEUBOURG, Free University of Brussels - (B)
"Swarm-made architecture"
Alberto COLORNI, Marco DORIGO, Vittorio MANIEZZO, Politecnico di Milano - (I)
"Distributed optimization by ant colonies"
Andrew M. ASSAD, Univ. of Illinois - (USA), Norman H. PACKARD, Inst. for
Scientific Interchange - (I)
"Emergent colonization in an artificial ecology"
Gerardo BENI, Susan HACKWOOD, Univ. of California, Riverside - (USA)
"The maximum entropy principle and sensing in swarm intelligence"
Break / refreshments
17:00 EPISTEMOLOGICAL ISSUES
Stefan HELMREICH, Stanford University - (USA)
"The historical and epistemological ground of von Neumann's theory of
self-reproducing automata and theory of games"
Jean-Luc DORMOY, EDF - (F), Sylvie KORNMAN, LAFORIA - (F)
"Meta-knowledge, autonomy and (artificial) evolution : some lessons learnt so
far"
18:00 POSTERS AND DEMOS
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Thursday December 12
9:00 EPISTEMOLOGICAL ISSUES (Continued)
R. Allen GARDNER, Beatrix T. GARDNER, University of Nevada - (USA)
"A feedforward model of animal learning"
Bernard MANDERICK, Free University of Brussels - (B)
"Selectionist systems as cognitive systems"
Break / refreshments
10:15 AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS (II)
Ian HORSWILL, MIT - (USA)
"Characterizing adaptation by constraint"
Didier KEYMEULEN, Jo DECUYPER, Free University of Brussels - (B)
"On the self-organizing properties of topological maps"
Piet SPIESSENS, Jan TORREELE, Free University of Brussels - (B)
"Massively parallel evolution of recurrent networks : an approach to temporal
processing"
Dave CLIFF, University of Sussex - (UK)
"Neural networks for visual tracking in an artificial fly"
12:45 LUNCH
14:15 LEARNING AND EVOLUTION
Invited lecture:
Domenico PARISI, Stefano NOLFI, Federico CECCONI, CNR - (I)
"Learning, behaviour, and evolution"
Hugues BERSINI, Free University of Brussels - (B)
"Immune network and adaptive control"
Franck HOFFMEISTER, Thomas BACK , University of Dortmund - (FRG)
"Genetic self-learning"
Heinz MUHLENBEIN, GMD - (FRG)
"Darwin's continent cycle theory and its simulation by the Prisoner's dilemna"
Break / refreshments
Melanie MITCHELL, John H. HOLLAND, University of Michigan - (USA), Stephanie
FORREST, University of New Mexico - (USA)
"The royal road for genetic algorithms : fitness landscapes and GA performance"
Brad FULLMER, Risto MIIKKULAINEN, University of Texas - (USA)
"Evolving finite state behaviour using marker-based genetic encoding of neural
networks"
18:00 Invited lecture:
Stuart KAUFMANN , University of Pennsylvania - (USA)
"Waiting for Carnot"
20:30 DINNER
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Friday December 13
9:30 ADAPTIVE AND EVOLUTIONARY MECHANISMS
Barry McMULLIN, Dublin City University - (UK)
"The Holland alpha-Universes revisited"
Robert J. COLLINS, David R. JEFFERSON, University of California - (USA)
"The evolution of sexual selection and female choice"
Filippo MENCZER, Domenico PARISI, CNR - (I)
"A model for the emergence of sex in evolving networks : adaptive advantage or
random drift ?"
Break / refreshments
Inman HARVEY, University of Sussex - (UK)
"Species adaptation genetic algorithms : a basis for a continuing SAGA"
Jakob SKIPPER, Niels Bohr Institute - (Dk)
"The complete zoo evolution in a box"
Jeffrey HORN, University of Illinois - (USA)
"Measuring the evolving complexity of stimulus-response organisms"
13:15 LUNCH
14:30 CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS
Hugues BERSINI, Free University of Brussels - (B)
"Animat's I"
Claus EMMECHE, Institute of Computer and Systems Sciences - (Dk)
"Life as an abstract phenomenon : is Artificial Life possible ?"
John STEWART - Paris (F)
"Life=cognition : the epistemological and ontological signifance of Artificial
Life"
Break / refreshments
Peter CARIANI, Boston - (USA)
"Some epistemological implications of devices which construct their own sensors
and effectors"
Mark A. BEDAU, Reed College - (USA)
"Philosophical aspects of Articial Life"
17:30 CONCLUDING REMARKS
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POSTER SESSION
Petr KURKA, Charles University - (Cz)
"Natural Selection in a population of automata"
Thomas BACK, University of Dortmund - (FRG)
"Self-adaptation in genetic algorithms"
Robert DAVIDGE, University of Sussex - (UK)
"Looking at life"
Hugo de GARIS, Free University of Brussels - (B)
"Streerable GenNets : the genetic programming of controllable behaviors in
GenNets"
Bruno MARCHAL, Free University of Brussels - (B)
"Amoeba, planaria and dreaming machines"
Alexis DROGOUL, Jacques FERBER, LAFORIA - (F)
"A behavioural simulation model for the study of emergent social structures"
Antonio RIZZO, CNR - (I), Neil BURGESS, University of Manchester - (UK)
"Action based neural network for adaptive control : the tank case"
John R. KOZA, Stanford University - (USA)
"Evolving emergent wall following robotic behavior using the genetic
programming paradigm"
Bruno GAS, Rene NATOWICZ, ESIEE - (F)
"A non-supervised continuous learning model of neural network for temporal
sequence recognition"
Eric DEDIEU, Emmanuel MAZER, IMAG - (F)
"The SWALLOW modeler : an approach to sensory relevance"
Gilles VENTURINI, ESIEE - (F)
"Characterizing the adaptation abilities of a class of genetic base machine
learning algorithms"
Barbara WEBB, Tim SMITHERS, University of Edimburgh - (UK)
"The connection between AI and biology in the study of behaviour"
Ulrich NEHMZOW, Tim SMITHERS, University of Edimburgh - (UK)
"Using motor actions for location recognition"
Stephen TODD, Wiliam LATHAM, IBM - (UK)
"Artificial life or surreal art?"
R.C. PATON , H. S. NWANA, M. J. SHAVE, T. J. BENCH-CAPON, University of
Liverpool - (UK)
"Computing at the tissue/organ level (with particular reference to the liver)"
Pierre BESSIERE, IMAG - (F)
"Genetic Algorithms applied to formal neural networks : parallel genetic
implementation of a Boltzmann machine and associated robotic experimentations"
Karl SIMS, Thinking Machines Corp. - (USA)
"Interactive evolution of dynamical systems"
Nicolas MEULEAU, CEMAGREF - (F)
"Co-evolution and mimetism : a program simulating road traffic"
Christian NOTTOLA, Frederic LEROY, Banque de France - (F)
"Dynamics of artificial markets
M. SNAITH, 0.HOLLAND, TAG - (UK)
"Application of the temporal difference learning to the neural control of
quadrupede locomotion"
Simon GOOS, Jean-Louis DENEUBOURG, Free University of Brussels - (B)
"Harvesting by a group of robots"
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General Information
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Language
The conference will be conducted in English.
Accommodation
Hotel Forest Hill La Villette *** (5-minutes walk )
26 av. Corentin Cariou, Paris.
Tel : +33 1 44 72 15 30, fax: 33 1 44 72 15 80.
Single or double rooms: 480FF, special price for ECAL participants.
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