•   Morphologies, Motion & Cognition
    (Fernando Almeida e Costa &Ian Macinnes)

•   Evolution of Complexity
    (Carlos Gershenson, Tom Lenaerts)

•   Neurodynamic Methods for Analysis & Control of Cognitive Behaviors
    (Robert Kozma, Anil Seth & Jun Tani)

•   Ethical Agents
    (Colin Allen, Wendell Wallach, Michael Brady)

•   Artificial Autonomy
    (Xabier Barandiaran, Kepa Ruiz-Mirazo)

•   Modeling Environment Construction
    (Peter Todd)

•   Computational Chemistry for Self-organization
    (Hideaki Suzuki, Bersini Hugues)

•   Morphologies, Motion & Cognition
    (Fernando Almeida e Costa &Ian Macinnes)

•   Evolution of Complexity
    (Carlos Gershenson, Tom Lenaerts)

•   Neurodynamic Methods for Analysis & Control of Cognitive Behaviors
    (Robert Kozma, Anil Seth & Jun Tani)

•   Ethical Agents
    (Colin Allen, Wendell Wallach, Michael Brady)

•   Machine Self-replication
    (William Buckley)

•   Molecular Information Processing in Nature
    (Peter Willis)

•   The Complete Idiot's Tutorial to In Theorio,In Silico & In Vivo Computation
    (Christof Teuscher)

        Welcome & Introduction:  Michael Dunn, Dean, School of Informatics
                                                                   Luis Rocha, Alife X Conference Chairperson
                                                                   Linda Smith, ICDL Conference Chairperson
        Keynote I:  Cynthia Breazeal, MIT Media Lab: 
                             Mechanisms of Social Learning applied to Human-Robot Interaction

        Opening Remarks:  Robert Goldstone, Indiana University
        Keynote II:  Norman Packard, ProtoLife: 
                                          The Role of Evolution in Artificial Life

•   Crossing Fitness Valleys with the Baldwin Effect
    (Rob Mills, Richard Watson)

•   On the Influence of Lifetime Learning on Selection Pressure
    (Ingo Paenke, Kawecki Tadeusz, Sendhoff Bernhard)

•   How machines can learn the meanings of words: Intelligent cross-situational learning
    (Bart deVylder, Joachim De Beule, Tony Belpaeme)

•   Collectivism and the Emergence of Linguistic Universals
    (Georg Theiner)

•   Self-Organization of Communication in Evolving Robots
    (Davide Marocco and Stefano Nolfi)

•   Strategies for fast convergence in semiotic dynamics
    (Andrea Baronchelli, Luca Dall'Asta, Alain Barrat, Vittorio Loreto)

•   Generalization in Languages Evolved for Mobile Robots
    (Ruth Schulz, Paul Stockwell, Mark Wakabayashi, Janet Wiles)

•   Learning on a Continuum in Evolved Dynamical Node Networks
    (Eduardo Izquierdo-Torres, Inman Harvey)

•   Representations: The Hard Problem for ALife
    (Harry Halpin)

•   Formalising Agency-Inducing Patterns in World Dynamics
    (Tibor Bosse, Jan Treur)

•   Synchronization within Homogeneous Neural Modules Controlling a Simulated Hexapod Robot Mariagiovanna Mazzapioda
    (Stefano Nolfi)

•   Incoporating Energy Expenditure into Evolutionary Robotics Fitness Measure
    (Gary McHale, Phil Husbands)

•   Topos: generalized Braitenberg vehicles that recognize complex real sounds as landmarks
    (Pablo Gonzalez-Nalda, Blanca Cases)

•   Automated Synthesis of Body Schema Through Active Exploration
    (Josh Bongard, Victor Zykov, Hod Lipson)

•   Developing a Reaching Behaviour in an simulated Anthropomorphic Robotic Arm Through an Evolutionary Technique
    (Gianluca Massera, Angelo Cangelosi, Stefano Nolfi)

•   Towards Evolvable Hovering Flight on a Physical Ornithopter
    (Will Regan, Floris van Breugel, Hod Lipson)

•   Evolving an Integrated Phototaxis and Hole-avoidance Behavior for a Swarm-bot
    (Anders Lyhne Christensen, Marco Dorigo)

•   Evolution of virtual catapults
    (Nicolas Chaumont, Richard Egli, Christoph Adami)

•   The Evolution of Novel Body Types under Differing Selective Pressures in Digital Organisms
    (Matthew Rupp, Eric Torng, Charles Ofria)

•   Passive sensing and active sensing of a biomimetic whisker
    (DaeEun Kim, Ralf Moeller)

•   A Cytoskeletal-Based Robotic Controller
    (Jeffrey Pfaffmann, Monica Brockmeyer, Silvano Colombano)

        Introduction:  Dario Floreano, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
        Keynote III:  Hod Lipson, Cornell University: 
                             From Virtual to Physical Artificial Life

•   Role of Inhibitions in Neural Networks for the Orientation Behaviour of Sand Scorpions
    (DaeEun Kim)

•   Heterochrony and Evolvability in Neural Network Development
    (Artur Matos, Reiji Suzuki, Takaya Arita)

•   Measuring Spatiotemporal Coordination in a Modular Robotic System
    (Mikhail Prokopenko, Vadim Gerasimov, Ivan Tanev)

•   Let it roll -- Emerging Sensorimotor Coordination in a Spherical Robot
    (Ralf Der, Georg Martius, Frank Hesse)

•   An Endosymbiotic Model for Modular Acquisition in Stochastic Developmental Systems
    (John Rieffel, Jordan Pollack)

•   From Games to Apps: Designing ALife Challenges
    (Zann Gill, Mark Bedau)
    The Evolution Prize for a demonstration of Open-Ended Evolutionary Innovation in a Closed System
    (Brig Klyce, Mark Bedau)

•   Evolution of Sensors & the Perception-Action Loop
    (Daniel Polani)

•   Morphologies, Motion & Cognition
    (Fernando Almeida e Costa, Ian Macinnes)

•   Not just another piece of software. Artificial Life Modeling with COBWEB
    (Brad Bass, Tristan Nixon)

•   Robotic & Emergent Systems (RES) Arts Exhibition
    (Michael Brady, Galo Moncayo)

        Opening Remarks:  Luis Rocha, Indiana University
                               Santiago Schnell, Indiana University and Biocomplexity Institute
        Keynote IV:  António Coutinho, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência:
        Purposeless diversity and degeneracy of molecular recognition in the immune system

•   Modeling recombination's role in the evolution of HIV drug resistance
    (Richard Belew and Max Chang)

•   Modeling of Pattern Formation in Cell Cultures
    (Scott Christley, Mark Alber, Stuart Newman)

•   Evolving Biological Clocks using Genetic Regulatory Networks
    (Johannes Knabe, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, Maria J. Schilstra, Tom Quick)

•   Evolution of repressilators using a biologically-motivated model of gene expression
    (Barry Drennan and Randall Beer)

•   Investigating Ontogenetic Space with Developmental Cell Lineages
    (Nicholas Geard, Janet Wiles)

•   A morphogenesis model for multiagent embryogeny
    (Beurier Grégory, Michel Fabiem, Ferber Jacques)

•   Three characteristics to improve the evolvability of developmental, self-repairable cellular systems
    (Mathieu Capcarrere, Can Ozturkeri)

•   The Role of Programmed Death in the Persistence of Life
    (Gordon Osbourn, Ann Bouchard, Christina Warrender)

•   Complexity Scaling of a Minimal Functional Chemistry
    (Chris Salzberg)

•   An approach to constructing qualitative models in computational cell biology using an artificial chemistry based on pattern matching and recombination
    (Kazuto Tominaga, Keiji Kobayashi, Tooru Watanabe, Kazumasa Koizumi, Koji Kishi)

•   A Nonlinear Continuous Stochastic Model for Genetic Regulatory Network
    (Simon Rosenfeld)

•   Wriggraph: A Kinetic Graph Model That Uniformly Describes Ontogeny and Motility of Artificial Creatures
    (Koji Sano, Hiroki Sayama)

•   Experimental studies on interaction among correlated traits
    (Haitao Zhang, Michael Travisano)

•   Towards shape and structure optimization with evolutionary development
    (Markus Olhofer, Till Steiner, Bernhard Sendhoff)

•   Alternative Recruitment Strategies for Stochastic Diffusion Search
    (Darren Myatt, Mark Bishop, Slawomir Nasuto)

•   DNA as a Medium for Storing Digital Signals
    (Sotirios Tsaftaris, Vassily Hatzimanikatis, Aggelos Katsagelos)

•   Sensorimotor Information flow in Genetic Regulatory Network driven control systems
    (Tom Quick, Chrystopher Nehaniv, Kerstin Dautenhahn, Graham Roberts)

•   Pushing Up The Daisies
    (James Dyke, Inman Harvey)

•   How Spatial Locality Can Affect the Evolution of Niche Construction
    (Reiji Suzuki, Takaya Arita)

•   An Improved System for Artificial Creatures Evolution
    (Thomas Miconi, Alastair Channon)

        Introduction:  Mark Bedau, Reed College
        Keynote V:  Clyde Hutchison III, Venter Institute: 
                                 The prospect of synthetic life

•   Quasi-Species and Aggregate Dynamics
    (Martin Jacobi et al)

•   Simulation Model of Prebiotic Evolution of Genetic Coding
    (Sidney Markowitz, Alexei Drummond, Kay Nieselt, Peter R Wills)

•   Includes CompuCell 3D Demonstration (Maciej Swat, James Glazier)

•   Connecting Genotype with Phenotype using the Genome Template Model: Pleiotropy, Polygenic Traits, and Life-History Strategies
    (Ralph DeSimone, Ankana Boondirek, Timothy Newman)

•   An evolutionary model of genotype editing
    (Luis Rocha, Ana Maguitman, Chien-feng Huang, Jasleen Kaur, Sheetal Narayanan)

•   A structure of the foothills of the fitness landscape in protein sequence space
    (Yuuki Hayashi, Takuyo Aita, Hitoshi Toyota, Yuzuru Husimi, Itaru Urabe, Tetsuya Yomo)

        Opening Remarks:  Alessandro Vespignani, Indiana University
        Keynote VI:  Dirk Helbing, Technische Universitat Dresden
                     Self-Organization in Crowds and Network Flows

•   Dynamics of Scale-Free Semi-Synchronous Boolean Networks
    (Mario Giacobini, Marco Tomassini, Paolo De Los Rios, Enea Pestelacci)

•   How Scale-free Type-based Networks Emerge from Instance-based Dynamics
    (Tom Lenaerts, Hugues Bersini, Francisco Santos)

•   Measuring Informational Distances Between Sensors and Sensor Integration
    (Lars Olsson, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, Daniel Polani)

•   Evolving Coordinated Behavior by Maximizing Information Structure
    (Olaf Sporns and Max Lungarella)

•   Evolution of Neural Structure and Complexity in a Computational Ecology
    (Larry Yaeger and Olaf Sporns)

•   The Role of Redundancy in the Robustness of Random Boolean Networks
    (Carlos Gershenson, Stuart Kauffman, Ilya Shmulevich)

•   Noise-Mediated Intermittent Synchronization of Collective Behaviors in the Probabilistic Cellular Automata Model of Neural Populations
    (Robert Kozma, Marko Puljic)

•   Relevant Information in Optimized Persistence vs. Progeny Strategies
    (Daniel Polani, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, Thomas Martinetz, Jan T. Kim)

•   A Simple Modularity Measure for Search Spaces based on Information Theory
    (Peter Dauscher, Daniel Polani, Richard A. Watson)

•   Representing classical structures in cellular automata
    (Peter Wills)

•   SWAGES - An Extendable Distributed Experimentation System for Large-Scale Agent-Based Alife Simulations
    (Matthias Scheutz, Paul Schermerhorn, Ryan Connaugthon, Aaron Dingler)

•   Real-time Evolving Swarms for Rapid Patern Detection and Tracking
    (Christopher Middendorff, Matthias Scheutz)

•   A Minimal Information Prisoner's Dilemma on Evolving Networks
    (Leslie Luthi, Mario Giacobini, Marco Tomassini)

•   Game-Theoretic Robustness in Cooperation and Prejudice Reduction: A Graphic Measure
    (Evan Selinger, Patrick Grim, Randy Au, Nancy Louie, Robert Rosenberger, William Braynen)

•   Cross-level Interactions Between Conflict Resolution and Survival Games
    (Matthias Scheutz)

•   Is Adaptiveness a Coherent Idea?
    (Simon McGregor)

•   Inductive Formalization of Self Reproduction in Dynamical Hierarchies
    (Janardan Mishra)

•   The fallacy of general purpose bio-inspired computing
    (Seth Bullock)

•   Asymmetry between Even and Odd Levels of Recursion in a Theory of Mind
    (Masanori Takano, Takaya Arita)

•   Spontaneous Emergence of Self-Replicating Structures in Molecube Automata
    (Gregory Studer, Hod Lipson)

•   Ideal Free Distribution in Agents with Evolved Neural Architectures
    (Virgil Griffith and Larry Yaeger)

        Introduction:  Alessandro Vespignani, Indiana University
        Keynote VII:  Melanie Mitchell, Portland State University: 
                                     Four Principles of Information Processing in Complex Adaptive Systems

•   Emergence of Cooperation in Heterogeneous Structured Populations
    (Francisco Santos, Jorge Pacheco, Tom Lenaerts)

•   The role of space in the success of coevolutionary learning
    (Melanie Mitchell, Michael Thomure, Nathan Williams)

•   A Particle Swarm Selects for Evolution of Gliders in Non-Uniform 2D Cellular Automata
    (Jeffrey Ventrella)

•   On Self-Regulated Swarms, Societal Memory, Speed and Dynamics
    (Vitorino Ramos, Carlos Fernandes, Agostinho Rosa)

•   Influence of the level of polyandry and genetic architecture on division of labour
    (Danesh Tarapore, Dario Floreano, Laurent Keller)

        Opening Remarks:  Larry Yaeger, Indiana University
        Keynote VIII:  Douglas Hofstadter, Indiana University: 
                            The So-called Singularity: An Onrushing Tsunami, or Another Y2K?

•   Alife Models as Epistemic Artifacts
    (Xabier Barandiaran, Alvaro Moreno)

•   Computational modeling, explicit mathematical treatments, and scientific explanation
    (John Bryden, Jason Noble)

•   On prey grouping and predator confusion in artificial fish schools
    (Hanspeter Kunz,Charlotte Hemelrijk, Thomas Züblin )

•   Phat Phenotypes for Agents in Niche Construction
    (George Kampis, Laszlo Gulyas)

•   EPICURE: An Agent-Based Foraging Model
    (Michael Roberts, Robert Goldstone)