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Location The conference will be held at the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris (CIUP). The Cité Universitaire was created in the pacifist context of the 1920s to support exchanges among students of the whole world. It is located on a wooded park in the south of the French capital and represents the largest student housing and facilities in the Paris region (5,600 beds). The grounds of the Cité Universitaire accommodate 40 residences, doubling as an outdoor exhibit of architecture. The eclecticism of the buildings expresses the diversity of the countries that contributed to their construction. Residences evoke the architecture of their country of origin (e.g., English colleges), others originate from the international modern movement (decorative arts, Le Corbusier). Address: 17, boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris

Access within Paris

• Suburban train (called “RER”, line B): “Cité Universitaire” station

• Metro (ligne 4): “Porte d’Orléans” station, then Tramway (line T3)

• Tramway (line T3): “Cité Universitaire” station

• Bus (line 21): “Cité Universitaire-Gazan” station

• Bus (line 88): “Jourdan-Montsouris” station

• Car: From the Paris beltway (called “Boulevard Périphérique”), take the “Porte d’Orléans” or “Porte de Gentilly” exits, then follow the signs to the nearby “Charlety” parking garage.

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Conference Rooms

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Salon Gulbenkian

Monday, August 8

Program Time

AAALE - Alife Approaches to Artificial Language Evolution AAALE discusses operational experiments in cultural artificial language evolution with embodied agents (primarily humanoid robots). Such experiments have recently reached a new level of maturity thanks to significant progress in humanoid robotics, the availability of language technologies supporting constantly evolving grammars and embodied cognitive semantics, and new insights into semiotic dynamics and cultural evolution from a complex systems point of view. The topic of language evolution has been part of Alife and SAB conferences from the very beginning, simply because language evolution is one of the most outstanding puzzles of evolutionary biology and a challenging case study of cultural evolution. Moreover, performing experiments with robots in grounded

language evolution poses enormous challenges for Alife approaches to robotics. This is the first workshop ever that focuses specifically on Alife approaches to Artificial Language Evolution.

9:00-13:00

Open coffee break 10:00-12:00

[Lobby]

9:00 - Registration 9:15 - Introduction (Luc Steels - VUB AI-Lab, University of Brussels / Sony CSL Paris) Morning Session I: Concept and Lexicon Formation 10.00 - Coordination of meaning within different embodiments through linguistic interactions. Joachim de Greeff (University of Plymouth) 10:30 - From now to not-now: an evolutionary plausible model of the human ability to process time. Damien Munch and Jean-Louis Desalles (Telecom Paris Tech) Morning Session II: Grammar Formation 11:15 - Naming A Structured World: A Cultural Route to Duality of Patterning.

Francesca Tria (ISI Foundation, Torino) 11:45 - Evolutionary Simulations on the Emergence of Grammatical Agreement Katrien Beuls (VUB AI-Lab, University of Brussels) 12:15 - The Emergence of Case Marking Systems Remi van Trijp (Sony CSL Paris)

13:00-14:30 [Halls]

Lunch Break

14:30-18:30

Open coffee break 15:30-17:30

[Lobby]

Afternoon Session I: Action Language and Space 14:30 - How language and space scaffold sensorimotor cognition

Anthony Morse (University of Plymouth) 15:00 - Acoustic Packaging – Towards Bottom-Up Action and Language Learning in Tutoring Situations

Lars Schillingman (University of Bielefeld) 15:30 - The Evolution of Grounded Spatial Language

Michael Spranger (Sony CSL Paris)

Afternoon Session II: Robot Platforms and Language Research 16:30 - Short presentations followed by parallel demonstrations and/or videos

Manfred Hild (Myon - Humboldt University Berlin) Michael Spranger (Sony Humanoid Robot - Sony CSL Paris) Matthieu Lapeyre and Pierre Rouanet (HRI and Acroban - INRIA Bordeaux) Tony Belpaeme (iCub - University of Plymouth) Lars Schillingman (Nao/iCub - University of Bielefeld) Nicolas Boudot (Nao - Aldebaran Robotics Paris) Jean-Christophe Baillie (Jazz - Gostai Robotics Paris)

18:00 - Concluding panel (Chair: Manfred Hild)

Luc Steels Tony Belpaeme

Salon du Cambodge (morning) and Salle Nathan (afternoon)

Monday, August 8

Program Time

BioChemIT – 1st COBRA Workshop on Biological and Chemical Information Technologies BioChemIT will provide a forum to present and discuss the latest advances of Bio/Chem IT research. This workshop will foster interaction, exchange, and communication between Bio/Chem IT research groups and projects. It will contribute to building a scientific community, providing input for a future strategy and vision of Bio/Chem IT. Topics: biological/chemical information technologies; molecular and chemical computing; protocells and synthetic cells; molecular robots; integration of information processing with (bio-)chemical production; nano-bio-info interface; cellular engineering, artificial neurons, and programmable information chemistry; unconventional computing substrates, synthetic biology.

[Cam]

9:00-13:00

Open coffee break 10:00-12:00

[Lobby]

9:00 – Welcome.

9:15 – Invited lecture – Stepanek Frantisek: Challenges and opportunities in the engineering of chemical robots.

10:15 – Chu: Noise-speed-code trade-offs in gene computers.

10:45 – Goni-Moreno/Amos: Design of a genetic branch predictor.

11:30 – Corsi et al.: BZ oscillations inside lipid-enclosed droplets.

12:00 – Holley et al.: Computational explorations in BZ mediated geometric vesicle transcriptions.

12:30 – Lui et al.: Towards an in silico and in vivo Turing Test for Chells.

13:00-14:30 [Halls]

Lunch Break

[Nath]

14:30-18:30

Open coffee break 15:30-17:30

[Lobby]

14:30 – Invited lecture – Serge Kernbach.

15:30 – King et al.: Towards on-chip on-demand microfluidic production and manipulation of droplets for chemical computing.

16:00 – Tangen: On the external programming of a self-referential evolving micro-controller system.

16:45 – Chaplin et al.: Implementing conventional logic unconventionally: photochromic molecules as registers and logic gates.

17:15 – McCaskill: Spatially interfaced Chem-IT: towards electronic chemical cells.

17:45 – Rasmussen: ICT and chembio-based replication.

18:15 – COBRA discussion sesión.

18:30 – Close.

Peter Dittrich Martyn Amos

Salon David-Weill

Monday, August 8

Program Time

CoSMoS – 4th Workshop on Complex Systems Modelling and Simulation CoSMoS 2011 will be the fourth in a series of workshops that provide a forum for research examining all aspects of the modelling and simulation of complex systems. This year, we will place a special focus on how complex systems simulations can begin to approach the scale of real-world complex systems. We will accept both full papers (for oral presentation) and abstracts (for poster presentation), which will

be peer-reviewed. We will also have at least one invited speaker, and a panel discussion to close the workshop. As for the previous 3 workshops in the series, accepted papers and abstracts will appear in proceedings published by Luniver Press. Contributing authors and the first 40 attendees will receive a copy of the proceedings free of charge.

9:00-13:00

Open coffee break 10:00-12:00

[Lobby]

09:00 - Workshop arrival 09:15 - Welcome address 09:30 - Andrews et al: CoSMoS process, models and metamodels 10:10 - Evora et al: Agent-based modelling of electrical load at household level 11:20 - McEwan et al: A computational technique to scale mathematical models towards

complex heterogeneous systems 12:00 - Dirk Helbing, Keynote Address: Living Earth Simulator

13:00-14:30 [Halls]

Lunch Break

14:30-18:30

Open coffee break 15:30-17:30

[Lobby]

14:30 - Poster Session:

Mancy et al: Multiscale pairwise approximations for ecological modeling Alden et al: Developing an in silico tool to explore the mechanisms behind mucosal

lymphoid tissue formation Eleftherakis et al: Harnessing emergent properties in artificial distributed networks: an

experimental framework Clayton et al: Simulating cellular automata using Go

15:30 - Guest et al: Plotting a catchy tune: tracing sound meme evolution through visualisation 16:40 - Joint presentation:

Droop et al: Multiple model simulation: modeling cell division and differentiation in the prostate

Polack et al: Simulation validation: exploring the suitability of a simulation of cell division and differentiation in the prostate

17:40 - Panel Discussion

Paul Andrews Susan Stepney Peter Welch Carl Ritson

Salon de l’Argentine

Monday, August 8

Program Time

WAAT - Workshop on Artificial Autonomy: 20 years of practice of autonomous systems Autonomy is a system’s capacity to produce, sustain and regulate itself and its relationship with the environment it co-determines. WAAT will evaluate 20 years of practice of autonomous systems, from the first ECAL (1991) until today, and review the state of the art, future challenges and research milestones. The notions of autonomy, autopoiesis, emergence, enaction, etc., have played a central role in Artificial Life but have also experienced a relative displacement as the field has made progress in more specific and specialized research fields (from network topology to ant intelligence, from evolutionary robotics

to multicellular development). We believe that increasingly specialized trends in Alife should also be compensated with renewed attempts for integrative approaches. In this sense, reviewing and recovering the visionary and pioneering notion of autonomy 20 years later provides a challenging opportunity to re-assemble Artificial Life back into the organism-centered, emergent, holistic yet mathematically and conceptually mature notion of autonomy.

9:00-13:00

Open coffee break 10:00-12:00

[Lobby]

09:00-09:05 Opening remarks by the organizers (Tom Froese, Matthew Egbert, and Xabier Barandiaran)

09:05-09:30 Xabier Barandiaran: “Introduction to the practice of autonomous systems”

09:30-10:15 Paul Bourgine: “Reflections on Varela, ECAL, and artificial autonomy”

10:15-11:00 Ben Shirt-Ediss, Ricard Solé, Fabio Mavelli, and Kepa Ruiz-Mirazo: “On the chemical relevance of compartment ‘self-production’”

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

11:30-12:00 Theije Visser, Rineke Verbrugge, and Tjeerd Andringa: “Affective agents bridge the gap between life and mind”

12:00-12:45 Nathaniel Virgo: “Metabolism and Behaviour in Simple Dissipative Structures”

12:45-13:00 General Discussion

13:00-14:30 [Halls]

Lunch Break

14:30-18:30

Open coffee break 15:30-17:30

[Lobby]

14:30-15:00 Marzena Maria Bihun, Georg Martius, and J. Michael Herrmann: “Closing the Loop: From Self-Organization of Behaviour to Minimal Agency and Back”

15:00-15:30 Norihiro Maruyama, Geoff Nitschke, and Takashi Ikegami [presented by Ikegami]: “A Dynamic Soundscape”

15:30-16:00 Alberto Montebelli: “Ecological autonomy: the case of a robotic model of biological cognition”

16:00-16:30 Coffee break

16:30-17:00 Tom Froese, Takashi Ikegami: “A quantum theory of biological autonomy at the macro-level”

17:00-17:45 Maël Montévil, and Matteo Mossio: “The idea of closure in autonomous systems”

17:45-18:25 General Discussion / Panel discussion

18:25-18:30 Closing Remarks by the organizers (Tom Froese, Matthew Egbert, and Xabier Barandiaran)

Tom Froese Matthew Egbert Xabier Barandiaran

Salle Satsuma

Monday, August 8 morning

Program Time

ACCS Tutorial – Artificial Chemical Computing Systems The theme of the ACCS tutorial, Artificial Chemistry (AChem), is a research approach that implements Alife systems by taking inspiration from bio-chemical systems. In a typical AChem study, we model the behavior of biological molecules, but unlike MD (molecular dynamics) or systems biology, we minimize the computational cost by dramatically simplifying the model, and try to make self-organizing phenomena happen in a computer. Self-organization is one of the most distinctive features of bio-molecular systems, and with this AChem’s approach, we can take one of the most promising pathways towards the design of computational systems with emergent characteristics. The first half of this tutorial summarizes the

fundamental methodology for the AChem design. After prerequisite conditions for a typical AChem system are presented, the chemical reaction’s rate constants are formulated under the gas and liquid phases. In the latter half of the lecture, we we take three representative AChem systems, CGA, NAC, and ATN, and see how chemical approach makes those systems rich from the computational point of view.

9:00-13:00

Open coffee break 10:00-12:00

[Lobby]

Tentative Contents

• Solution space and biological evolution • Classical and recent AChem models • Chemical reaction velocity theory • Topological analysis and spatial models • Chemical Genetic Algorithms (CGA) • Network Artificial Chemistry (NAC) • Algorithmically Transitive Network (ATN)

Hideaki Suzuki Hiroki Sayama

Salle Nathan

Monday, August 8 morning

Program Time

SynBioCCC – Workshop on the Design, Simulation, Construction and Testing of Synthetic Gene Regulatory Networks for Computation, Control and Communications SynBioCCC will be the first workshop on synthetic biology in ECAL, and it aims at providing a forum for electrical and computer science/engineering researchers, who wish to be introduced to, or present their own work in, synthetic biology. This year, we will place a special focus on the three C’s (Computing, Control & Communications). Topics: Evolutionary & automated design of gene

regulatory networks (GRNs); Modeling & simulation of GRNs; Novel GRN designs for computing, control & communication; Results of implemented GRNs (in wet labs); New paradigms of computing using DNA/RNA, genes and cells.

9:00-13:00

Open coffee break 10:00-12:00

[Lobby]

09:00 - Tutorial

N. Kharma, Synthetic Biology: From Genes to Gene Regulatory Networks

10:00 - Invited Talk

F. Romero, Infobiotics workbench, a computational framework for multicellular synthetic biology models

11:30 - Presentation 1

D. Sanassy, Improving Computational Efficiency in Stochastic Simulation Algorithms for Systems and Synthetic Biology

12:00 - Presentation 2

M. Joachimczak, Evolving gene regulatory networks for control of artificial cells: signal processing, chemotaxis, multicellular development

Presentation 3 by Jake Beal, “TASBE: A Tool-Chain to Accelerate Synthetic Biological Engineering” will be exceptionally held on Friday, August 12 at 17:00 in Salle Satsuma.

Nawwaf Kharma Taras Kowaliw

Salle Satsuma

Monday, August 8 afternoon

Program Time

RUTSAC Tutorial – Research Using The Stringmol Artificial Chemistry As in an RNA World, a molecule in the Stringmol Artificial Chemistry can be both genomic and enzymic, facilitating rich interactions between the genome and the phenotype. The hands-on RUTSAC tutorial will equip attendees with the knowledge and experience necessary to set up experiments with the Stringmol Artificial Chemistry. The Stringmol system will be introduced in four stages, corresponding to four interactive tasks. Workshop attendees will participate in these tasks by running the Stringmol code and designing

their own molecules via an interactive website: 1) Bootstrap design: attendees will explore molecule-molecule interactions using the web-based demonstration tool. 2) Molecular diversity in a container: moving from a single molecule design to setting up and running a simulation of a container full of molecules. 3) Container war: observing the mechanisms of container takeovers through mutation and evolution. 4) Fight to the death: finally, the attendees will pit their replicator designs against each other, to see whose molecules will win in the fight to the death for resources!

14:30-18:30

Open coffee break 15:30-17:30

[Lobby]

S. Hickinbotham Ed Clark Adam Nellis

Salle Nathan Salon du Cambodge

Monday, August 8 afternoon

Program Time

SIM-A – System Immunology Models of Autopoesis Artificial life ultimately is the attempt to define the basic characteristics of living systems and emulate them in novel computational and physical means. In the past, the field has been greatly influenced by thinking in the fields of computational neuroscience and molecular evolution. We suggest that the immune system and computational immunology may be better starting points in the attempt to define the core concepts of living systems. Immune dynamics are by nature multiscale, ranging from the molecular through the cellular to the systemic. As such they embody the multicellular cooperativity of second order autopoetic machines, in which local unicellular interactions without specific control lead to

emergent cooperation and individual multicellular integrity. SIM-A is intended to bring together experimentalists and computational immunologists with an emphasis on what would be the best way to create a common language between the different models that have been created over the past years and insure that experimentalists are a driving force of this computational effort.

14:30-18:30

Open coffee break 15:30-17:30

[Lobby]

2:30 – 3:00 pm Hugues Bersini Varela's legacy: From linear to circular causality 3:00 – 3:30 pm Uri Hershberg What do we mean when we say cognitive? Two and a half

steps in the development of a cognitive paradigm to describe immunity

3:30 – 3:40 pm Short break 3:40 – 4:10 pm Véronique Thomas-Vaslin Modeling T lymphocyte population dynamics in mice and

during aging 4:10 – 4:40 pm Sol Efroni Reactive animation in T cell simulation 4:40 – 4:50 pm Short break 4:50 – 5:20 pm David Harel On sensual whiskers 5:20 – 5:50 pm Irun Cohen International lecture 5:50 – 6:00 pm Short break 6:00 – 6:30 pm Moderated panel discussion

Uri Hershberg Sol Efroni

Salle Nathan

Friday, August 12 afternoon

Program Time

CS-Sports – Complex Systems in Sports The main topic of CS-Sports is the intersection between complex systems and sports, for instance the application of complex networks to the description and analysis of team sports, and its application to the prediction of team performance and outcome. The workshop is addressed to computer, social and sports scientists, interested in unraveling the dynamics and emergent patterns of games in team sports. A complex systems approach can also be applied to the evolution of robots playing sports such as Robosoccer. The format is preferably peer reviewed papers, but can also include poster sessions and panel discussions. In addition, the organizers may give an introductory talk to present the main topics and current state of the art in this scope; a round table may close the workshop with brainstorming on the topic of how to apply complex systems to sports analysis and prediction.

13:30-17:30

Open coffee break 14:30-16:30

[Lobby]

13:30 - Introduction to the workshop, by Carlos Cotta

13:45 - Presentation of the We-Sport social network, by Marco Ivaldi and Luca Ferreri

14:30 - Break

15:00 - Basketball scoring in NBA games: a example of complexity, by Yves De Saá Guerra, Juan Manuel Martín González, Samuel Sarmiento Montesdeoca, David Rodríguez Ruiz, Nieves Arjonilla López and Juan Manuel García Manso

15:30 - Onset of coherent attitude layers in a population of sports, by Robert Hristovski, Natàlia Balagué, Josep Juaneda and Pablo Vazquez.

16:00 - Selecting Attributes for Sport Forecasting using Formal Concept Analysis, by Gonzalo A. Aranda-Corral, Joaquín Borrego-Díaz and Juan Galán-Páez

16:30 - The physical condition from the perspective of complexity: Application of a physical activity program for Alzheimer's disease, by Yves De Saá Guerra, Juan Manuel Martín González, Samuel Sarmiento Montesdeoca, David Rodríguez Ruiz and Dario Rodriguez

17:00 – FIFA World Cup 2010: A Network Analysis of the Champion Team Play, by Carlos Cotta, Antonio Mora, Celilia Merelo-Molina and Juan J. Merelo

J. Merelo Guervós A. Mora García C. Cotta Porras

Salle Satsuma

Friday, August 12 afternoon

Program Time

DDLab – Exploring Discrete Dynamics with DDLab: From Cellular Automata to Random Networks Discrete dynamical networks (DDN), which include cellular automata (CA) and random Boolean networks (RBN), are at the very core of complexity and emergent self-organisation, and provided the inspiration for the founding ideas of Artificial Life, notably by Chris Langton. Discrete Dynamics Lab (DDLab) is an open-source interactive graphics software able to explore a huge diversity of behaviour, space-time patterns, and basins of attraction representing the convergent flow in state-space. The latest version of DDLab is documented in the book Exploring Discrete Dynamics, which has just been published. The workshop will include a tutorial to demonstrate DDLab and try out your own experiments (please bring your laptop), and an opportunity for a 10mn presentation of your work involving

DDLab. Selected papers will be published in a special issue of the Journal of Cellular Automata (JCA). See www.ddlab.org for the compiled software, source code, and documentation.

13:30-17:00

Open coffee break 14:30-16:30

[Lobby]

13:30 – 14:30 tutorial/demo showing how to use DDLab and its range of functions,

referring to "Exploring Discrete Dynamics" – the DDlab manual, and including the following topics:

– starting DDLab – CA, RBN, DDN and hybrid networks – – value range – network size – neighborhood – – network geometry – wiring – rules and rulemix – – network architecture – network graph – – initial state – space-time patterns, 1d/2d/3d – – basins of attraction and subtrees (running backward) – learning – – presentation options – measures, parameters and data – filing – – attractor jump graph – chain rules and encryption – – classifying CA rule space – vector PostScript graphics – – source code and algorithms – 14:30 – 15:00 questions, discussions, wish-lists 15:00 – 15:30 coffee break 15:30 – 17:00 short presentations, discussions, and hands on experiments with

personal laptops or with the overhead projector laptop

17:00-17:30

SynBioCCC - Workshop on the Design, Simulation, Construction and Testing of Synthetic Gene Regulatory Networks for Computation, Control and Communications

17:00 – Presentation 3 Jake Beal, TASBE: A Tool-Chain to Accelerate Synthetic Biological Engineering

Andy Wuensche Andy Adamatzky G. Juárez Martínez

Salon du Cambodge

Friday, August 12 afternoon

Program Time

iBioMath – First International Workshop on Integral Biomathics Are we nearly there yet? (This is a common question asked by small children in the back of the car.) Are the definitions of what is life (Schrödinger, Varela), life itself (Rosen) and more than life itself (Louie) convergent? Did we really expect a discovery such as the arsenic-incorporated Mono lake bacteria to start redefining our concept of life? Are not life forms inevitable in the evolution of the Universe? Where is the boundary between the machine and the organism? Is there such a boundary at all? Are our theories of living

and cognitive systems strong enough? Does our underlying understanding of computation and cognition, of the difference between living, non-living and synthetic systems, of sensing and action suffice for building systems that really can mimic living systems, for building systems that really can cope with the vagaries of real environments, of real sensors, and real actuators that don’t always behave quite as model systems do. Or is there a theoretical (or even not so theoretical) underlying area that is still missing? These are some of the basic questions posed by the emerging discipline of Integral Biomathics we wish to address in iBioMath’11.

13:30-17:30

Open coffee break 14:30-16:30

[Lobby]

13:30 – 13:50: Plamen L. Simeonov (JSRC, Berlin) On Integral Biomathics and the INBIOSA project 13:50 – 14:10: Andrée C. Ehresmann (Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens) A dynamic model for emergence and self-organization in multi-scale

systems 14:10 – 14:30: Tatsuya Nomura (Ryukoku University, Shiga) Category Theoretical Formalization of Autopoiesis from Perspective of

Distinction between Organization and Structure 14:30 – 14.45: Coffee Break 14:45 – 15:05: Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson & Roger Vounckx Trans-temporal Cancerous Life 5.05 – 15:25: Anya Yermakova (Oxford University) Process-based agents 15:25 – 15:45: Coffee break 15.45:16:00: Plamen L. Simeonov Introduction to the discussion 16:00 – 17.30: DISCUSSION

Plamen Simeonov Andrée Ehresmann Leslie Smith

Salon de l’Argentine

Friday, August 12 afternoon

Program Time

INCUP – Information Coding in Unconventional Computing Substrates A conventional computing medium is a cleverly prepared semiconductor structure, where two different potential levels represent the logical TRUE and FALSE states. As it is well known, this approach is highly successful and modern society cannot exist without silicon-based computers. An unconventional computer, whether physical, chemical or a living substrate, solves problems in a natural way, i.e. as the result of the time evolution that proceeds according to the laws of physics. Information coding is the translation of system

state into a string belonging to a formal language. We know many types of computing medium like self-assembling nano-particles, chemical far-from-equilibrium systems, interacting microfluids or living organisms. The application of a photosensitive Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction for direct image processing is a beautiful example. INCUP aims to bring together physicists, mathematicians, chemists, biologists and engineers to discuss what the optimal representation of information for unconventional computing could be.

13:30-17:30

Open coffee break 14:30-16:30

[Lobby]

13.40 Peter Dittrich, Friedrich Schiller University Jena TBA 14.10 Ivan Erofeev, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology Digital photo-control of the network of live excitable cells joint work with N. Magome and K. Agladze, Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences, Kyoto University 14.40 Julian Holley, University of the West of England Pathways to learning and adaptation in networks of BZ encapsulated vesicles 15.10 Coffee break and posters 15.40 Gerd Gruenert, Friedrich Schiller University Jena Architectural properties of bioreactor embedded chemical droplet computers 16.00 Jan Szymanski, Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences Chemical pulses in biomimetric droplets 16.20 Konrad Gizynski, Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences Optical control of BZ droplet dynamics 16.30 Jerzy Gorecki, Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences Computer modeling of interacting BZ droplets joint work with Joanna Natalia Gorecka, Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences 17.00 Open discussion

Jerzy Gorecki Andy Adamatzky

Salon David-Weill

Friday, August 12 afternoon

Program Time

MASmms – Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems in Biology at meso or macroscopic scales Multi-agent modeling concerns the study and conception of systems composed of autonomous entities (the agents) in interaction with each other or with their environment. Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) have the capability to simulate complex phenomena and allow to design their distributed solutions by a collectivity of agents. Many domains in computer science, distributed artificial intelligence, software engineering; but also physics, mathematics and, obviously, biology are concerned by multi-agent modeling at the cellular and subcellular level. MASmms aims at organizing interactions among the members of the recently emerging MAS community that works on biological problems at meso or macroscopic scales using in silico experiments. Another aim of this workshop will be to meet European researchers involved in similar topics.

13:30-17:30

Open coffee break 14:30-16:30

[Lobby]

13h30 Opening talk B. Laforge (LPNHE – UPMC) 13h45 Massive multiagent system for multicellular system using multicore

programming P. Ballet (LISyC – UBO) 14h30 Confronting a spatially explicit population model with biased random

walk to agroecosystems complexity N. Parisey (INRA – le Rheu) 15h15 Coffee Break 15h45 Exploration of Synaptic Functional Connectivity in Human Central

Nervous System using Self-Organizing Agents O. Gurcan, O .Dikenelli, C. Bernon, P. Glize and K.S. Turker (Ege University, IRIT and Koc University) 16h15 A Shape-Based Grained Multi-Agent Model to Simulate Electron

Transfer F. Vallee and M. Beurton-Aimar (LaBRI - UBdx) 16h45 GPU implementation of multi-agent system Discussion from experiences of participants – several existing applications

and frameworks in OpenCL will be presented

Pascal Ballet M. Beurton-Aimar Guillaume Hutzler Bertrand Laforge

Salon Gulbenkian

Friday, August 12 afternoon

Program Time

MEW – 3rd Morphogenetic Engineering Workshop On the one hand, phenomena of spontaneous pattern formation are generally random and repetitive, whereas, on the other hand, complicated heterogeneous architectures are the product of human design. Biological organisms are rather unique examples of natural systems that are both self-organized and architectured. Can we export their precise self-formation capabilities to technological systems? To address this issue, MEW 2011 proposes a new field of research called “Morphogenetic Engineering”, which explores the artificial design and implementation of autonomous systems capable of developing complex, heterogeneous morphologies. Particular emphasis is set on the programmability and controllability of self-organization, properties

that are often underappreciated in complex systems science—while, conversely, the benefits of self-organization are often underappreciated in engineering methodologies.

13:30-17:30

Open coffee break 14:30-16:30

[Lobby]

13:30–13:40 - Foreword from the organizers: Rene Doursat — Complex Systems Institute,

Ecole polytechnique, Paris — and Hiroki Sayama — Binghamton University SUNY Morphogenesis in engineering models 13:40–14:10 - Keynote: Jacob Beal — BBN Technologies and CSAIL, MIT, Cambridge

Morphogenesis as a reference architecture for engineered systems (J. Beal, A. Mozeika, J. Lowell & K. Usbeck)

14:10–14:40 - Speaker 2: Wenguo Liu — Bristol Robotics Lab (BRL), University of the West of

England (UWE), Bristol Autonomous docking in a self-assembly robotics system (W. Liu & A.F.T. Winfield)

14:40–15:10 - Speaker 3: Ada Diaconescu — Telecom ParisTech, Paris

Self-growing software from architectural blueprints (A. Diaconescu, B. Debbabi & P. Lalanda)

Models and engineering of morphogenesis 15:30–16:00 - Speaker 4: Borys Wrobel — Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of

Sciences, Poznan Robustness to damage in artificial 3-D multicellular development (M. Joachimczak & B. Wrobel)

16:00–16:30 - Speaker 5: Jae Kyun Shin — School of Mechanical Engineering, Yeungnam University, South Korea One-rule firing cellular automata as a bottom-up pattern design system (J.K. Shin)

16:30–17:00 - Speaker 6: Sebastien Mazac — IRIT, Universite de Toulouse L-System driven Morphogenesis (S. Mazac, S. Cussat-Blanc & Y. Duthen)

17:00–17:10 - Speaker 7: Sylvain Cussat-Blanc — IRIT, Universite de Toulouse

An open-source generic rendering tool for developmental models (S. Tournois, S. Cussat-Blanc, J. Pascalie, H. Luga & Yves Duthen)

17:10–17:40 - Panel discussion

René Doursat Hiroki Sayama