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EPSRC Network on Evolvability in Biology & Software SystemsSoftware Evolution and Evolutionary Computation Symposium
University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, U.K. |
| 7 February 2002 | Presentation Title | Author(s) |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Welcome to the Symposium - What Do Software Evolution and Biological Evolution Have in Common? |
Chrystopher L. Nehaniv (University of Hertfordshire) |
| 9:30 - 10:30 | invited lecture: Is Evolution Intrinsic to All Real World Software? An Answer and Some Implications |
M. M. Lehman (Imperial College) [with J. F. Ramil (The Open University)] |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | An Approach to the Prediction of Software Evolutionary Attributes and some of its Implications | J. F. Ramil (The Open University) and M. M. Lehman (Imperial College, London) |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break & Discussion | |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Software Evolution and the Semantic Relation: An Empirical Modelling Perspective | Meurig Beynon (University of Warwick) |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | MENDEL and EDEN: Exploring Evolutionary Pathways in Socially Constructed Systems | Andrew Lord and llfryn Price (Sheffield Hallam University) |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch | |
| 13:30 - 14:30 | invited lecture: The Biological Metaphor and Self-Adaptive Software |
Robert Laddaga (MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab) |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Analogies for Software Evolution: Darwin or Lamarck? | Paul Wernick (University of Hertfordshire) |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Characteristics of Genetic Programming Search Spaces | W. B. Langdon (University College, London) |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee Break & Discussion | |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Evolution: A Non-Technocentric View | Martin Loomes (University of Hertfordshire) |
| 17:00 - 18:00 | invited lecture: Development, Embodiment, and Excitement |
Peter Bentley (University College, London) |
| 19:30 | Symposium Dinner at Quality Hotel (Hatfield) |
| 8 February 2002 | Presentation Title | Author(s) |
| 9:00 - 10:00 | invited lecture: Evolutionary Infrastructure and Biological Systems |
Christopher Landauer (with Kirstie L. Bellman) (The Aerospace Corporation, U.S.A.) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | invited lecture: Evolvability: A Perspective from Telecommunications and Biology |
Paul Marrow (British Telecom) |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | [Brief Poster Introductions] | |
| Major Transitions, Homeostasis and the Evolution of Individuality: Preliminary work on a metric for individuality. | Alexandra Penn (University of Sussex, and Future Technologies Group, British Telecom) | |
| Shared Meanings Requirements Elicitation and Evolution (SMREE): A Candidate Semiotic DNA for Software Development Success? | Tim French (University of Luton) and Simon Polovina (Goldsmiths College, University of London) | |
| A Memetic Algorithm for Scene Content and Motions Analysis | Keith Anderson and Peter McOwan (Queen Mary, University of London) | |
| 10:45 - 11:30 | Poster Session & Coffee Break | |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Panel Discussion: Evolution in Software: What does Biology have to Teach Computer Science (and vice versa)? |
Panelists: P. Bentley, R. Laddaga, C. Landauer, M. Lehman, P. Marrow,
J. F. Miller Moderator: C. L. Nehaniv |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch | |
| 13:30 - 14:30 | invited lecture: What is a Good Genotype-Phenotype Mapping for the Evolution of Computer Programs? |
Julian F. Miller (University of Birmingham) |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Is an Open-ended Artificial Evolutionary Process Possible? | Jon Bird (University of Sussex) and Paul Layzell (Hewlett-Packard Laboratories) |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee Break & Discussion | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Evolutionary Approaches to Management of Pervasive Computing | Ian W. Marshall, Chris Roadknight and Antonio Gonzalez (BT Exact Technologies) |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Bridging the Gap: The Cybernetics of Auto-Adaptive Software Systems | A.G. Laws, A. Taleb-Bendiab and S.J. Wade (Liverpool John Moores University) |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Using Molecular Biology as a Metaphor for Generating Architectures for Adaptive Evolutionary Information Systems | Neil McBride (De Montfort University) |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Buffer for Discussion | |
| 17:30 | Symposium Ends |
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Last Update: 29 January 2002