EPSRC Network on Evolvability in Biology & Software Systems

Software Evolution and Evolutionary Computation Symposium

University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, U.K.
Central Committee Room

7-8 February 2002


 

Scientific Programme

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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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