ECAL 2005 - VIIIth European Conference on Artificial Life

• Dennis Bray. "How Do Living Cell Compute?". Full talk Audio 44:20 [mp3: 64Kbps, 20.3 Mb].
• Christopher L. Buckley, Seth Bullock, and Netta Cohen. "Timescale and Stability in Adaptive Behaviour". Video Summary [asf: 2.0 Mb].
• Mikhail Burtsev. "Artificial Life Meets Anthropology: A Case of Aggression in Primitive Societies". Video Summary [asf: 4.8 Mb].
• Bart de Boer, Paul Vogt and Tony Belpaeme. Tutorial: Modelling Language Origins and Evolution. Video Summary [asf: 5.8 Mb].
• Marco Dorigo. "Swarm-bots: Self-assembling swarms of robots". Full talk Audio 47:10 [mp3: 64Kbps, 21.6 Mb] Slides [pdf 10.3 Mb].
• Takashi Hashimoto and Susumu Egashira. "Multi-Agent-Based Simulation for Formation of Institutions on Socially Constructed Facts". Video Summary [asf: 5.6 Mb].
• Fernando Almeida e Costa and Eduardo Izquierdo-Torres . Workshop "Active Agents and their Environments as Dynamical Systems". Video Summary [asf: 2.9 Mb].
• Jan T. Kim. Systems Biology Workshop. Video Summary [asf: 3.2 Mb].
• Simon McGregor. "How Do Evolved Digital Logic Circuits Generalise Successfully?". Video Summary [asf: 1.1 Mb].
• Daisuke Ogihara and Hiroki Sayama. "Playing a 3D Game of Life in an Interactive Virtual Sandbox". Video Summary [asf: 0.8 Mb].
• Fiona Polack, Susan Stepney, Heather Turner, Peter Welch, Fred Barnes. "An Architecture for Modelling Emergence in CA-Like Systems". Video Summary [asf: 3.0 Mb].
• Daniel Polani, Peter Dauscher, and Thomas Uthmann. "On a Quantitative Measure for Modularity Based on Information Theory". Video Summary [asf: 1.4 Mb].
• Mikhail Prokopenko, Piraveenan Mahendra Rajah, Peter Wang. "Ageless Aerospace Vehicles". Video Summary [asf: 11.0 Mb].
• Sarunas Raudys. "Effect of Synthetic Emotions on Agents Learning Speed and their Survivability". Video Summary [asf: 15.7 Mb]. Slides [pdf 1.2 Mb].
• Marieke Rohde, Ezequiel Di Paolo. "t for Two: Linear Synergy Advances the Evolution of Directional Pointing Behaviour". Video Summary [asf: 2.0 Mb].
• Rebecca Schulman and Erik Winfree. "Self-Replication and Evolution of DNA Crystals", Best paper award. Video Summary [asf: 2.1 Mb].
• Margaret Hill, Susan Stepney, Francis Wan. "Penrose Life: ash and oscillators". Video Summary [asf: 2.1 Mb].
• Hideaki Suzuki, Tim Hutton, and Jan-Qin Liu. Workshop on Artificial Chemistry. Video Summary [asf: 3.3 Mb].
• Elio Tuci and DaeEun Kim. Workshop on Memory and Learning Mechanisms in Autonomous Robots. Video Summary [asf: 2.9 Mb].
• Andy M. Tyrrell. "Evolvable Hardware and its Support". Full talk Audio 44:20 [mp3: 64Kbps, 20.3 Mb]. Video Summary [asf: 4.6 Mb]
• Richard A. Watson. "On the Unit of Selection in Sexual Populations". Video Summary [asf: 3.8 Mb].
• Hywel Williams and Jason Noble. "Evolution and the Regulation of Environmental Variables". Video Summary [asf: 1.1 Mb].

Contributed by Nadia Gershenson (video) and Carlos Gershenson (audio). We would like to thank all the people who participated in this webcast, it was a pleasure working with you.

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Note: Audio files are in downloadable mp3 format for portable mp3 players or mp3 software players. Video files are in asf format and can be played e.g. with windows media player. If you have problems, suggestions, or comments with the file formats, please contact Carlos Gershenson.

For a theoretical background of the Complexity Digest Virtual Conference Network see:

• Time-scales, Meaning, and Availability of Information in a Global Brain, C. Gershenson, G. Mayer-Kress, A. Das, P. Das, and M. Marko, 2003-07-11, DOI: cs.AI/0305012, arXiv
• Conferences with Internet Web-Casting as Binding Events in a Global Brain: Example Data From Complexity Digest, A. Das, G. Mayer-Kress, C. Gershenson, P. Das, 2003-03-22, DOI: cs.NI/0303023, arXiv
• Time-Scales and the Historical Role of Conferences for the Emergence of Global Brains, G. Mayer-Kress
  • in: From Intelligent Networks to Global Brains, Evolutionary Social Organization through Knowledge Technology, Brussels, Belgium, 01/07/3-5
• The Global Brain As An Emergent Structure From The Worldwide Computing Network, And Its Implications For Modeling, Mayer-Kress, Gottfried; Barczys, Cathleen. The Information Society v11, n1 (Jan-Mar 1995): 1-27