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From: memetral@media.mit.edu (Max Metral)
Subject: Artificial Life IV Workshop Program Announcement (LONG)
Date: 18 May 1994 22:06:25 GMT
[note: this article has been crossposted all over the place, but
it seems relevant to these groups, so I have taken the plunge and
approved the posting to my group (s.b.e.), which has the effect
of approving it for ALL the groups. If any other moderators are
irritated about this, sorry....that's how inews works.... - JAH]
Included is the full program for the ARTIFICIAL LIFE IV workshop, to
be held at MIT, Cambridge, MA 6-8 July 1994. The registration form and
hotel form are also included. Please forward this message to
interested parties. We hope to see you there!
Contents:
1. general information
2. program
3. registration information
4. hotel information
5. MIT housing and dining accomodations
6. miscellaneous information
7. registration form
8. hotel reservation form
9. MIT on-campus housing request
***********************1. GENERAL INFORMATION**************************
ARTIFICIAL LIFE IV
An Interdisciplinary Workshop on the
Synthesis and Simulation of
Living Systems
July 6--8, 1994
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA 02139
USA
Artificial Life complements the traditional Biological sciences,
concerned with the analysis of living organisms, by attempting to
synthesize phenomena normally associated with natural living systems
within computers and other "artificial" media. By extending the
empirical foundation upon which the science of Biology rests beyond
the carbon-chain based life that has evolved on Earth, Artificial Life
can contribute to Theoretical Biology by locating "life-as-we-know-it"
within the larger context of "life-as-it-could-be."
The three previous workshops in this series were held in Santa Fe, New
Mexico. This year's workshop, held primarily at Kresge Auditorium on
the MIT campus, is intended to continue in the spirit of the earlier
events, encouraging people with a broad range of backgrounds to share
and exchange opinions, ideas, and techniques. Papers and posters will
be presented, and registrants will have the opportunity to sign up for
a tour of either the Artificial Intelligence Lab or the Media Lab, the
afternoon of July 7. Participation in the tours is limited, however,
and will be on a first-come, first-served basis.
There will be five daytime sessions with plenary talks and parallel
paper presentations, an evening session on Wednesday the 6th,
and on Thursday afternoon there will be poster sessions, demonstrations,
panels, and small meetings.
Plenary speakers include:
Chris Langton on the state of ALIFE
Katsunori Shimohara on ALIFE research in Japan
Luc Steels on `emergence'
Jack Szostak on RNA-based evolution in a beaker
Wednesday evening we will have a set of talks and panels on SETI,
the search for extraterrestial life. We will have the leaders of the
two major efforts in the US, Paul Horowitz from Harvard and Jill
Tarter from the SETI Institute (just recently spun off from NASA).
Both these efforts involve simultaneously scanning many frequencies
from radio telescope searches of the sky, looking for signs
of intelligent life. Between ALIFE and SETI we will be covering
all forms of life not of natural Earth-based biological origin.
The proceedings will be published by MIT Press. A loose-leaf version
will be provided to all registrants at the conference. Approximately
two months following the conference, all registrants will receive a
bound copy from the MIT Press by surface mail.
For up to date information and announcements refer to "Events at the
AI Lab" under the home page for the MIT AI Lab on the World Wide Web
(at http://www.ai.mit.edu/). For questions or more information email
alife@ai.mit.edu.
***************************2. PROGRAM**********************************
WEDNESDAY, JULY 6
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8:30 Plenary talk --- Chris Langton
"Artificial Life: The State of the Art"
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Session 1: 5 long papers
9:30 Demetri Terzopoulos, Xiaoyuan Tu and Radek Grzeszczuk, "Artificial
Fishes with Autonomous Locomotion, Perception, Behavior, and
Learning in a Simluated Physical World"
10:00 Karl Sims, "Evolving 3D Morphology and Behavior by Competition"
_______________________________________
10:30 coffee break
_______________________________________
11:00 David H. Ackley and Michael L. Littman, "Altruism in the Evolution
of Communication"
11:30 Hiroaki Kitano, "Evolution of Metabolism for Morphogenesis"
12:00 Craig W. Reynolds, "Competition, Coevolution and the Game of
Tag"
_______________________________________
12:30 lunch
_______________________________________
1:30 Plenary talk --- Katsunori Shimohara
"Evolutionary Systems for Brain Communications"
_______________________________________
Session 2(a): 5 long papers
2:30 Horst Hendriks-Jansen, "In Praise of Interactive Emergence, or
Why Explanations Don't Have to Wait for Implementations"
3:00 Peter Godfrey-Smith, "Spencer and Dewey on Life and Mind"
______________________________________
3:30 coffee break
_______________________________________
4:00 Gene Levinson, "Crossovers Generate Non-Random Recombinants
Under Darwinian Selection"
4:30 Jan Paredis, "Steps Towards Co-Evolutionary Classification
Neural Networks"
5:00 Wolfgang Banzhaf, "Self-organisation in a system of binary
strings"
_______________________________________
Session 2(b): 7 short papers
2:30 Robert M. French and Adam Messinger, " Genes, Phenes and the
Baldwin Effect: Learning and Evolution in a Simulated Population"
2:50 Kurt Thearling and Thomas S. Ray, "Evolving Multi-cellular
Artificial
Life"
3:10 Kazuhiro Saitou and Mark J. Jakiela, "Meshing of Engineering
Domains by Meitotic Cell Division"
_______________________________________
3:30 coffee break
_______________________________________
4:00 Hiroaki Inayoshi, "Simulating Natural Spacing Patterns of
Insect Bristles Using a Network of Interacting Celloids"
4:20 Lijia Zhou and Stan Franklin, "Character Recognition
Agents"
4:40 Eric Bonabeau, Guy Theraulaz, Eric Arpin and Emmanuel Sardet,
"The Building Behavior of Lattice Swarms"
5:00 Jari Vaario, "Modeling Adaptive Self-Organization"
_______________________________________
5:30 dinner
_______________________________________
7:30 Jill Tarter and Paul Horowitz---SETI
_______________________________________
9:00 MIT Press Reception
10:30
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
THURSDAY, JULY 7
_______________________________________
8:30 Plenary talk --- Jack Szostak
"Towards the In Vitro Evolution of an RNA Replicase"
_______________________________________
Session 3(a): 5 long papers
9:30 I.J.A. Te Boekhorst and P. Hogeweg, "Effects of Tree Size on
Travel Band Formation in Orang-utans: Data Analysis Suggested
by a Model Study"
10:00 Jeffrey O. Kephart, "A Biologically Inspired Immune System for
Computers"
_______________________________________
10:30 coffee break
_______________________________________
11:00 Yukihiko Toquenaga, Isamu Kajitani and Tsutomu Hoshino,
"Egrets of a Feather Flock Together"
11:30 C.C. Maley, "A Model of the Effects of Dispersal Distance on
the Evolution of Virulence in Parasites"
12:00 John Batali, "Innate Biases and Critical Periods: Combining
Evolution and Learning in the Acquisition of Syntax"
_______________________________________
Session 2(b): 7 short papers
9:30 Jessica K. Hodgins and David C. Brogan, "Robot Herds: Group
Behaviors for Systems with Significant Dynamics"
9:50 Michael de la Maza and Deniz Yuret, "A Futures Market Simulation
with Non-Rational Participants"
10:10 Tatsuo Unemi, Masahiro Nagayoshi, Nobumasa Hirayama, Toshiaki
Nade, Kiyoshi Yano and Yashuhiro Masujima, " Evolutionary
Differenciation of Learning Abilities--a case study on optimizing
parameter values in Q-learning by a genetic algorithm"
_______________________________________
10:30 coffee break
_______________________________________
11:00 Steve Bankes, "Exploring the Foundations of Artificial
Societies: Experiments in Evolving Solutions to Iterated N-player
Prisoner's Dilemma"
11:20 John Batali and Philip Kitcher, "Evolutionary Dynamics of
Altruistic Behavior in Optional and Compulsary Versions of the
Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma"
11:40 Michael Oliphant, "Evolving Cooperation in the Non-Iterated
Prisoner's Dilemma: The Importance of Spatial Organization"
12:00 Peter J. Angeline, "An Alternate Interpretation of the
Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma and the Evolution of Non-Mutual
Cooperation"
______________________________________
12:30 lunch
_______________________________________
1:30 General interest talks:
Thomas Ray (digital game reserve) and
Stefan Helmreich (anthropology)
_______________________________________
2:30 Session 4:
Posters & Demos (with coffee)
4:00
_______________________________________
5:00 AI Lab & Media Lab Tours
6:30
_______________________________________
7:00 Clambake
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
FRIDAY, JULY 8
_______________________________________
8:30 Plenary talk --- Luc Steels
"Emergent functionality of robot behavior through on-line
evolution"
_______________________________________
Session 5(a): 5 long papers
9:30 Kazuo Hosokawa, Isao Shimoyama and Hirofumi Miura, "Dynamics
of Self-Assembling Systems --Analogy with Chemical Kinetics--"
10:00 R. Beckers, O.E. Holland and J.L. Deneubourg, "From Local
Actions to Global Tasks: Stigmergy and Collective Robotics"
______________________________________
10:30 coffee break
_______________________________________
11:00 Stefano Nolfi, Dario Floreano, Orazio Miglino and Francesco
Mondada, "How to Evolve Autonomous Robots: Different
Approaches in Evolutionary Robotics"
11:30 Michael Patrick Johnson, Pattie Maes and Trevor Darrell,
"Evolving Visual Routines"
12:00 Filippo Menczer and Richard K. Belew, "Evolving Sensors in
Environments of Controlled Complexity"
_______________________________________
Session 5(b): 7 short papers
9:30 Hirofumi Doi, Ken-nosuke Wada and Mitsuru Furusawa,
"Asymmetric Mutations Due to Semiconservative DNA Replication:
Double-stranded DNA Type Genetic Algorithms"
9:50 P. Marchal, C. Piguet, D. Mange, A. Stauffer and S. Durand,
"Embryological Development on Silicon "
10:10 Hitoshi Hemmi, Jun'ichi Mizoguchi and Katsunori Shimohara,
"Development and Evolution of Hardware Behaviors"
______________________________________
10:30 coffee break
_______________________________________
11:00 Chris Adami and C. Titus Brown, "Evolutionary Learning in the
2D Artificial Life System "Avida" "
11:20 Hugues Bersini and Vincent Detours, "Asynchrony Induces Stability
in Cellular Automata Based Models"
11:40 Murray Shanahan, "Evolutionary Automata"
12:00 Moshe Sipper, "Non-Uniform Cellular Automata: Evolution in
Rule Space and Formation of Complex Structures"
______________________________________
12:30 lunch
_______________________________________
Session 6(a): 5 long papers
1:30 Kai Nagel and Steen Rasmussen, "Traffic at the Edge of Chaos"
2:00 James F. Lynch, "A Phase Transition in Random Boolean
Networks"
2:30 Frank Dellaert and Randall D. Beer, "Toward an Evolvable Model
of Development for Autonomous Agent Synthesis"
3:00 Mark A. Bedau and Alan Bahm, "Bifurcation Structure in
Diversity Dynamics"
3:30 Chris Adami, "On Modelling Life"
_______________________________________
Session 6(b): 7 short papers
1:30 James V. Stone, "Evolutionary Robots: Our Hands In Their Brains?"
1:50 Alvaro Moreno, Arantza Etxeberria and Jon Umerez,
"Universality Without Matter?"
2:10 Vince Darley, "Emergent Phenomena and Complexity"
2:30 Markus F. Peschl, "Autonomy vs. Environmental Dependency in
Neural Knowledge Representation"
2:50 Takuya Saruwatari, Yukihiko Toquenaga and Tsutomu Hoshino,
"Adiversity: Stepping Up Trophic Levels"
3:10 Nicholas Gessler, "Artificial Culture"
3:30 Jeffrey Ventrella, "Explorations in the Emergence of
Morphology and Locomotion Behavior in Animated Characters"
*******************3. REGISTRATION INFORMATION************************
The Registration fee for the Conference is $250 if paid before May 1,
and $300 if paid after that date. The student rates are $150 before
May 1 and $200 after that date. The fees for persons registering
on-site will be $350 and $250 for students. Persons registering at
the student rate should send a photocopy of his/her current student
identification with the registration form and payment; an
identification will also be required upon arrival. This fee includes
admission to all conference sessions, materials, daily refreshments, a
reception, a clambake, and the workshop proceedings.
To register for the Conference please complete and return the enclosed
form with payment to the MIT Conference Services Office, Room 7-111,
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 USA. The fee may be paid by check or money
order made payable in US currency to the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology or via credit card with the appropriate information
provided. Persons paying via Mastercard or Visa may do so via fax at
617-253-7002. Your registration will be confirmed upon receipt.
Details regarding on-site registration and transportation directions
will be included with the registration confirmation.
Cancellations received in writing prior to June 15 will be entitled to
a refund less a $35 processing fee; no refunds will be granted after
that date. Substitutions may be made until the start of the
Conference.
******************4. HOTEL ACCOMODATION INFORMATION********************
A block of rooms has been reserved at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, 575
Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA Telephone: 617-492-1234; Fax:
617-491-6906. The Hyatt is located along the Charles River on the
west end of the campus within a 15-minute walk to the Conference
meeting rooms. The Hyatt offers two restaurants and a health club with
swimming pool, and parking is available at $12 per day. The Hyatt
also offers scheduled complimentary shuttle service to and from campus
as well as other Cambridge points and downtown Boston; please see the
guest services desk upon arrival for schedule times.
The Conference rate is $135 per night/single and $155 per night/double
plus applicable taxes. Room availability and rate are guaranteed
only until June 5. To secure your reservations, please return the
attached hotel reservation form directly to the Hyatt Regency.
***************5. MIT HOUSING AND DINING ACCOMODATIONS****************
MIT has single and double dormitory rooms located in five
non-airconditioned buildings along the Charles River. These buildings
are located in close proximity to the meeting and dining room the
Conference will be using. There are shared baths by floor. Rooms are
furnished with twin-size beds, blanket, pillow, towels, desk lamp, and
closet. Irons and fans are available at the front desk. Rooms are
serviced each day (towels changed, waste receptacles emptied) and
linens are changed weekly. Guest rooms have telephones which allow
outgoing campus, local and long-distance (collect or credit card)
calls and all incoming calls. Messages are taken by the front desk
and posted in the lobby as well. All buildings are elevator equipped.
Each building has vending machines and coin-operated laundry machines
on the lower level. There are lounge areas available for informal
gatherings; refridgerators are located in many of these areas.
********************6. MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION**********************
Check-in is 3:00pm and the front desk staff is available from 8:00am
to 12:00 midnight daily for late check-ins; check-out is 11:00am.
Luggage may be stored at the front desk on the day of departure.
Rates for guests of this conference are as follows: The evenings of
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday (July 5--7) will be inclusive of
breakfast and lunch on the following days (Wednesday, Thursday, and
Friday/July 6--8) in the Johnson Athletics Center. The rates for
these evenings are $60 per night for single accomodations; $96 per
night for double accomodations ($48 per person, per night for guests
who elect to share a room with another conference participant); and
$28 per night for children between the ages of 6 and 14. Children
over the age of 14 are subject to the full single and/or double rate.
Conference Services will match roommates for guests who want to take
advantage of the shared double rate but do not have a specific person
with whom they can share a room. Rooms are available beginning on
Sunday, July 3 and guests may extend their stay beyond the dates of
the Conference as rooms are available. Nights either before the 5th
or after the 7th are exclusive of any meals.
Rates for evenings preceding the 5th or following the 7th of July for
guests of the Conference will be charged as follows: $39 per night for
single accomodations; $54 per night for double accomodations; and $10
per night for a cot (children between the ages of 6 and 14 only).
Reservations must be received by June 22, and payment is required at
the time of the reservation. Requests received after June 22 will be
accepted on a space available basis only. All requests should be sent
directly to the MIT Conference Services Office. Rooms not paid in
full prior to July 1 are subject to cancellation. MIT will send each
guest a written confirmation indicating in which building they will be
housed; this confirmation must be presented to the desk staff upon
arrival. MIT retains the right to refuse entry to guests without
proper identification.
Cancellations will be accepted and refunded in full if received in
writing by 5:00 pm on Friday, July 1. Cancellations received after
that date will be subject to a one-night penalty if received in
writing 24 hours prior to the reserved date of arrival. No
cancellations will be refunded after that date, and no refunds will be
granted for nights the dormitory rooms are not occupied during a
reservation period or missed meals during the Conference.
Parking
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A limited number of parking spaces are available for persons
registering for on-campus housing (only). If you will require a
permit, please indicate this on the on-campus housing/dining request
form, and the permit will be sent with your confirmation. There is a
$10 non-refundable fee. Persons staying at the Hyatt Regency Hotel
are encouraged to walk or utilize the Hyatt's shuttle service to
campus.
Recreation
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A variety of athletic facilities are available on campus including
swimming, tennis, and squash. Athletic passes may be purchased on
arrival at the registration desk.
Sightseeing
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Boston and Cambridge offer a wide variety of daytime and evening
activities, boasting a unique combination of tradition and trend.
Historic Faneuil Hall and Quincy Marketplace---with their many
fascinating shops, craft stands and restaurants---are popular
gathering places for both area residents and visitors. Copley Place,
along with the newly renovated Prudential Center, adds a contemporary
dimension to Boston's traditional Copley Square and Back Bay.
Attractions of particular interest to visitors include the USS
Constitution, the John F. Kennedy Library, the Museum of Science and
the Museum of Fine Arts. The historic Freedom Trail takes the visitor
from the Boston Common through the popular markets of the North End
and the Waterfront districts. Harvard Square, the Cambridge Common
and the University Museums are but a few of the points of interest on
the MIT side of the Charles River.
Questions
---------
Inquiries regarding local arrangements may be directed to the MIT
Conference Services Office at 617-253-1700 or via Fax at 671-253-7002.
Questions regarding the program should be directed to Professor Rodney
Brooks at 617-253-0073 (Fax 617-253-0039).
Rodney Brooks/Alife IV
MIT Artificial Ingelligence Lab
545 Technology Square
Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
alife@ai.mit.edu
***********************7. REGISTRATION FORM***************************
ARTIFICIAL LIFE IV
July 6--8, 1994
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Please note---this form must be printed out and returned with payment to:
MIT Conference Services Office
Room 7-111
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
USA
telephone: 617-253-1700
fax: 671-253-7002
Name____________________________________________________________________
Affiliation_____________________________________________________________
Address_________________________________________________________________
City_____________________________State/Province_________________________
Zip/Postal Code__________________Country________________________________
Telephone________________________Fax____________________________________
Electronic Mail Address_________________________________________________
If you have any special needs, please describe__________________________
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
If you wish to attend a tour, please indicate your preference:
Participation is on a first-come, first-served basis.
______AI Lab ______Media Lab
REGISTRATION FEES: STUDENT FEES:
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Before May 1 $250 Before May 1 $150
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After May 1 $300 After May 1 $200
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On-Site Registration $350 On-Site Registration $250
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Total Enclosed $
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______Check or Money Order made payable to MIT is enclosed.
______Credit Card: ______Mastercard ______Visa
Account Number___________________________Expiration Date________________
Cardholder's Name_______________________________________________________
Signature_______________________________________________________________
(required for credit card transactions)
**********************8. HOTEL RESERVATION FORM************************
ARTIFICIAL LIFE IV
July 6--8, 1994
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Please note---this form must be printed out and returned to:
Hyatt Regency Cambridge
575 Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA 02139
USA
telephone: 617-492-1234
fax: 617-491-9609
Name____________________________________________________________________
Affiliation_____________________________________________________________
Address_________________________________________________________________
City_____________________________State/Province_________________________
Zip/Postal Code__________________Country________________________________
Telephone_______________________________________________________________
________Single Room at $135 per night
________Double Room at $155 per night
________Additional Person(s) at $10 each person, per night
Name(s) of Additional Person(s)_________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
Check-in Time 4:00pm
Check-out Time 12:00noon
Arrival Date_______________________Time___________am/pm
Departure Date_____________________Time___________am/pm
Reservation held until 6:00pm unless accompanied by a deposit, or
guaranteed with a credit card number, expiration date and signature.
______Hold until 6:00pm only
______Guaranteed by the following:
Deposit of $_______________
______American Express
Account Number___________________________Expiration Date________________
Cardholder's Name_______________________________________________________
Signature_______________________________________________________________
______Diner's Club
Account Number___________________________Expiration Date________________
Cardholder's Name_______________________________________________________
Signature_______________________________________________________________
______Carte Blanche
Account Number___________________________Expiration Date________________
Cardholder's Name_______________________________________________________
Signature_______________________________________________________________
______Mastercard
Account Number___________________________Expiration Date________________
Cardholder's Name_______________________________________________________
Signature_______________________________________________________________
______Visa
Account Number___________________________Expiration Date________________
Cardholder's Name_______________________________________________________
Signature_______________________________________________________________
*******************9. MIT ON-CAMPUS HOUSING REQUEST********************
ARTIFICIAL LIFE IV
July 6--8, 1994
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Please note---this form must be printed out and returned with payment to:
MIT Conference Services Office
Room 7-111
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
USA
telephone: 617-253-1700
fax: 671-253-7002
Name____________________________________________________________________
Affiliation_____________________________________________________________
Address_________________________________________________________________
City_____________________________State/Province_________________________
Zip/Postal Code__________________Country________________________________
Telephone________________________Fax____________________________________
ACCOMODATIONS
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Arrival day/date_________________Departure day/date_____________________
Nights of July 5, 6 and 7: Nights before July 5 or after July 7:
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___Single Room at $60/night ___Single Room at $39/night
___Full Double Room at $96/night ___Full Double Room at $54/night
Name of Guest____________________________________________________________
___Shared Double Room with ___Shared Double Room with
roommate at $48/night roommate at $27/night
Name of Roommate________________________________________________________
___Shared Double Room with ___Shared Double Room with
assigned roommate at $48/night assigned roommate at $27/night
I am ___male ___female ___smoker ___non-smoker
___Cots for children between ___Cots for children between
the ages of 6 and 14 at the ages of 6 and 14 at
$28 per child $10 per child
Ages of Children____________________Ages of Children____________________
_______I will need a parking permit while on campus ($10 nonrefundable
fee)
Total for Housing $ Total for Parking $
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Total Enclosed $
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______Check or Money Order made payable to MIT is enclosed.
______Credit Card: ______Mastercard ______Visa
Account Number___________________________Expiration Date________________
Cardholder's Name_______________________________________________________
Signature_______________________________________________________________
(required for credit card transactions)
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