U.K. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) 

         Network on Evolvability in Biological & Software Systems 

                      EVOLVABILITY AND INDIVIDUALITY 

                                 SYMPOSIUM
                                 PROGRAMME 

                              Invited Speakers

                BRIAN C. GOODWIN (SCHUMACHER COLLEGE, U.K.)

             RICHARD E. MICHOD (UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, U.S.A.)

          PAULIEN HOGEWEG (UNIVERSITY OF UTRECHT, THE NETHERLANDS)

            NICHOLAS J. MACIAS (CELL MATRIX CORPORATION, U.S.A.)

             JULIAN F. MILLER (UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM, U.K.)

             AURORA M. NEDELCU (UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, U.S.A.)

            LARRY BULL (UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND, U.K.)

                 JOEL R. PECK (UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX, U.K.)

                               Program Chairs

            CHRYSTOPHER L. NEHANIV (UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE)
              RENÉ TE BOEKHORST (UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE)

                               Co-Organizers

              KERSTIN DAUTENHAHN (UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE)
                MARTIN LOOMES (UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE)
                       PAUL MARROW (BRITISH TELECOM)

                           18-20 September 2002 

                      St. Albans, Hertfordshire, U.K. 

                                Sponsored by
          Network on Evolvability in Biological & Software Systems
        Adaptive Systems Research Group, University of Hertfordshire
                           EPSRC Grant GR/N23158 

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                       Wednesday - 18 September 2002
                            St. Albans Town Hall

   8:45-9:30 Refreshments

                              INVITED LECTURE

   9:30-10:30 Cancer, Morphogenesis and Evolvability 
   BRIAN C. GOODWIN (Schumacher College, U.K.)

                            COFFEE AND BISCUITS

                             CONTRIBUTED PAPERS

   10:45-11:45 Evolvability and Individuality: Some Minimal Examples in
   Constructive Biology 
   CHRYSTOPHER L. NEHANIV 

   11:45-12:15 Investigating Evolvability Enhancing Properties 
   GWENN VOLKERT 

                                   LUNCH

                              INVITED LECTURE

   2:15-3:15 Symbiogenesis in Machine Learning 
   LARRY BULL (University of the West of England, U.K.)

                            COFFEE AND BISCUITS

                             CONTRIBUTED PAPERS

   3:40-4:10 An Individual Based Model for Simulating Bacterial Evolution
   RICHARD GREGORY, R. PATON, J. R. SAUNDERS, AND H. WU 

   4:10-4:40 Tag Based Models of Group Specialization 
   DAVID HALES 

   4:40-5:10 Surviving on a Sand-Pile: Investigating the Type of
   Behaviour that Evolves in the
   Presence of Crises 
   BRUCE EDMONDS 

   5:10-5:30 POSTER INTRODUCTIONS (5 MINUTES EACH)


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                        Thursday - 19 September 2002
                        St. Albans Council Chambers

   8:30-9:00 Refreshments

                              INVITED LECTURE

   9:00-10:00 Cooperation and Conflict Mediation During the Origin of
   Multicellular Individuals 
   RICHARD E. MICHOD (University of Arizona, U.S.A.)

                            COFFEE AND BISCUITS

                WALK OVER TO AND VISIT ST. ALBANS CATHEDRAL
      (GUIDED TOURS STARTING 10:30 AND 11:30 AT CATHEDRAL'S WEST END)

                                   LUNCH

                              INVITED LECTURE

   1:00-2:00 Inducing Complex Higher-Order Behavior from a System of
   Identical Individuals 
   NICHOLAS J. MACIAS AND LISA J. K. DURBECK (Cell Matrix Corporation,
   U.S.A.)

                            COFFEE AND BISCUITS

                             CONTRIBUTED PAPERS

   2:15-2:45 Links between Sexual Selection and Evolvability 
   RENÉ TE BOEKHORST 

   2:45-3:15 Individuality and Autonomous Robots 
   KERSTIN DAUTENHAHN 

   Measuring Individuality: Homeostasis and System Organisation in the
   Formation of New Biological Levels 
   * ALEXANDRA PENN 

                              INVITED LECTURE

   3:15-4:15 Growing Multi-Cellular Organisms Inside Computers 
   JULIAN F. MILLER (University of Birmingham, U.K.)

            POSTER SESSION WITH COFFEE AND BISCUITS (4:15-5:15)

   * FRANCO DI PRIMIO Basic Constraints on Evolvable (Artificial)
   Individuals 

   PAUL HODGSON Creativity and Artificial Evolution 

   TIMOTHY A. MILLEA Autonomic Computing - Creating Self-Evolving
   Software Systems 

   TIMOTHY A. MILLEA Darwin Meets Lehman - Generalising Evolution 

   * =  unable to attend.


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                         Friday - 20 September 2002
                        St. Albans Council Chambers

   8:30-9:00 Refreshments

                              INVITED LECTURE

   9:00-10:00 Sex Causes Altruism 
   JOEL R. PECK (University of Sussex, U.K.)

                            COFFEE AND BISCUITS

                             CONTRIBUTED PAPERS

   10:15-10:45 On Individuality, Emergence and Information Preservation 
   DANIEL POLANI 

   10:45-11:15 Can ``Bad" Biology be Good for Artifical Life? 
   TONY HIRST 

   11:45-12:15 Individuality, Control Networks and Computer Systems 
   NEIL MCBRIDE 

                                   LUNCH

                              INVITED LECTURE

   2:15-3:15 Evolvability and Individuality during the Transition to
   Multicellularity in Volvocalean
   Green Algae 
   AURORA M. NEDELCU (University of Arizona, U.S.A.)

                            COFFEE AND BISCUITS

                              INVITED LECTURE

   3:30-4:30 Individuality at Multiple Levels -- Phenotype-First:
   Evolution toward Robustness 
   PAULIEN HOGEWEG (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands)

              DISCUSSION WITH COFFEE AND BISCUITS (4:30-5:00)
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