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

Network on Evolvability in Biological & Software Systems:



EVOLVABILITY & INTERACTION:

Evolutionary Substrates of Communication, Signaling, and Perception in the Dynamics of Social Complexity



DRAFT PROGRAM EPSRC Network on Evolvability in Biological & Software Systems
England, UK


8 -10 October 2003







SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM









Symposium General Chair and Local Organization:


Peter William McOwan (Queen Mary, University of London)

Program Chairs:


Chrystopher L. Nehaniv (University of Hertfordshire)
Kerstin Dautenhahn (University of Hertfordshire)

Supported by:

Adaptive Systems Research Group
University of Hertfordshire, U.K.



Queen Mary University of London, U.K.





EPSRC Grant GR/N23158/01

8 October 2003 - Wednesday

12:00 Registration Open

12:00-14:00 Welcome Lunch in the Balme Room

14:00-14:10 Opening and Introduction

14:10-15:00 Keynote: Evolvability and Interaction in Biological and Artificial Systems
Chrystopher L. Nehaniv
(Adaptive Systems Research Group, University of Hertfordshire, UK)

15:00-15:30 Evolving Interaction in Artificial Systems: An historical overview and future directions
Tim Taylor
(Institute of Perception, Action, & Behaviour, University of Edinburgh)

15:30-16:00 Coffee

16:00-17:00 Keynote: The Dynamics of Social Complexity and the Evolution of Individuality
Richard E. Michod
(Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, USA)

17:00-18:00 Keynote: Evolutionary and Physical Properties of Cooperation
Dario Floreano
(Autonomous Systems Lab, EPFL, Switzerland)

18:00-18:40 Poster Presentations (3 minutes and 3 OHP slides each)

18:40-19:15 Poster Session (with refreshments) in Coffee Area and the Balme Room

19:15-22:00 Hot Buffet (while Poster Session continues) in the Balme Room

9 October 2003 - Thursday

8:45 Coffee on Arrival

9:00-10:00 Keynote: Embodied Interaction and Communication Technology Through the Development of E-COSMIC: Embodied Communication System for Mind Connection
Tomio Watanabe
(Faculty of Computer Science and System Engineering, Okayama Prefectural University, Japan)

10:00-10:30 Motion Camouflage Team Tactics
Andrew J. Anderson and Peter McOwan
(Queen Mary, University of London)

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:00 Keynote: Artificial Social Intelligence: The Case of Robot-Human Interaction Dynamics
Kerstin Dautenhahn
(Adaptive Systems Research Group, University of Hertfordshire, UK)

12:00-14:00 Lunch in the Balme Room

14:00-15:0 Keynote: Cultural Evolution in a Structured Population
Robin I. M. Dunbar
(Evolutionary Psychology and Behavioural Ecology Research Group, University of Liverpool, UK)

15:00-15:30 Rules of Decsion Making: Trade-offs in Collective House Hunting
Anna Dornhaus
and Nigel R. Franks (Biological Sciences, University of Bristol)

15:30-16:00 Comparing Communication Protocols in Evolving Agent Societies: Cell phone versus Shouting
A. E. Eiben, M. C. Schut,
and T. Toma (Dept. Artificial Intelligence, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

16:00-16:30 Coffee Break

16:30-17:3 Keynote: Evolvability and Evolution of Interaction
Takashi Ikegami
(Department of General Systems Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan)

17:30-18:00 Simultaneous Learning of Basic and Compound Actions by Imitating Compound Action
Bart Jansen
(AI Laboratory, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)

18:00-19:00 Discussion

19:30 Conference Dinner at Carluccios (5 minute walk away)

10 October 2003 - Friday

8:45 Coffee on Arrival

9:00-10:00 Keynote: Simultaneous Development of Vocal and Physical Object Combinations by a Grey Parrot (Psittacus erithacus): An Evolutionary Comparison with Primates
Irene Pepperberg
(MIT & Brandeis University, USA)

10:00-10:30 Will Humans and Robots Ever Coordinate Each Other via Behavioral Communication?
Cristiano Castelfranchi
(Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technology, National Research Council, Italy) and Francesca Giardini (University of Siena, Italy)

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:00 Keynote: Co-creation Process in Embodied Interaction
Yoshihiro Miyake
(Department of Computational Intelligence and Systems Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)

12:00-14:00 Lunch in the Balme Room

14:00-15:00 Keynote: Computational Models of Movement Control in Lampreys, Salamanders, and Humanoid Robots
Auke Jan Ijspeert
(Biologically-Inspired Robotics Group, EPFL, Switzerland)

15:00-16:0 Keynote: Behind the Spirit of the Hive: Complex Interaction Dynamics in Social Insects
Lars Chittka
(School of Biological Sciences, Queen Mary, UK, joint work with Anna Dornhahus, University of Bristol)

16:00-16:30 Coffee

16:30-17:30 Keynote: Complex Networks and Evolution
Pau Fernández
(with Ricard V. Solé, ICREA - Complex Systems Lab, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)

17:30-18:30 Panel & Discussion

LIST OF ACCEPTED POSTERS