Programme & Proceedings

Monday

8.30 - 9.30 Registration
9.00 - 9.30 Welcome
9.30 - 11.00 First Session
  • Experimental perspectives for a chemical communication between synthetic and natural cells
  • The Effects of Multivalency and Kinetics in Nanoscale Search by Molecular Spiders
  • The influence of different kinetic rates on the dynamics of a simple model of catalytic reaction network
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee Break
11.30 - 13.00 Riccardo Poli: Taming the complexity of natural and artificial evolutionary dynamics
14.00 - 16.00 Second Session: Awareness Best Paper Prize Candidates
  • An Evolutionary Approach to Grid Computing Agents
  • A bio-inspired learning signal for the cumulative learning of different skills
  • Development of categorization abilities in evolving embodied agents : a study of internal representations with external social inputs
  • Collective Adaptive Agents as Techniques to build-up Edutainments Systems
16.00 - 16.30 Coffee Break
16.30 - 18.00 Domenico Parisi: Two limitations of current living artifacts and how to overcome them
18.00 Award Ceremony for the Awareness Prize / Proposals for WIVACE 2013
20.30 - 23.00 Social Dinner

Sessions will comprise 3 or 4 30 minutes' oral presentations

Tuesday

9.00 - 10.00 Tutorial: Organic Computing
10.00 - 11.00 Tutorial: Evolutionary Game Theory
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee Break
11.00 - 12.00 Poster Session
12.00 - 13.30 Third Session
  • Automatic Design of Boolean Networks for Modelling Cell Differentiation
  • Regulatory Traits in Cultural Evolution
  • Neuro-Evolutionary Modeling of the Milan Stock Exchange for Intraday Trading
14.30 - 16.30 Fourth Session
  • Nature-inspired Methods for Monitoring Applications with Time-Evolving Data
  • A Statistical Study of Concurrent Differential Evolution on Multi-core CPUs
  • A Genetic Optimization Technique for the Strategic Use of Renewable Energy Supply
  • Adaptive ε-Ranking and Distribution Search on Evolutionary Many-objective Optimization
16.30 - 17.00 Coffee Break
17.00 Fifth Session Fourth Session
  • What mechanisms underlie dyadic cooperation? A study with neuro-robotics models
  • Honest vs Cheating Bots in PATROL-based Real-Time Strategy MMOGs

All presentations will be given in English.

Sessions will comprise 30 minutes' oral presentations, including questions and PC setup.

The maximum size allowed for posters is A0 (vertical).