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The objective of this interdisciplinary conference is to bring together researchers in computer science, artificial intelligence, alife, control, robotics, neurosciences, ethology, evolutionary biology, and related fields so as to further our understanding of the behaviors and underlying mechanisms that allow natural and artificial animals to adapt and survive in uncertain environments. The conference will focus on experiments with well-defined models --- robot models, computer simulation models, mathematical models --- designed to help characterize and compare various organizational principles or architectures underlying adaptive behavior in real animals and in synthetic agents, the animats. Contributions treating any of the following topics from the perspective of adaptive behavior will receive special emphasis: The Animat approach, , Motor control, Body and brain co-evolution, Self-assembling and self-replication, Sensory-motor coordination, Action selection & behavioral sequencing, Navigation and mapping, Internal models and representation, Evolution, development and learning, Motivation and emotion, Collective and social behaviour, Communication and language, Emergent structures and behaviours, Neural correlates of behaviour, Evolutionary and co-evolutionary approaches, Autonomous, bio-inspired, and hybrid robotics, Autonomous robotics, Humanoid robotics, Software agents and virtual creatures, Applied adaptive behavior, Animats in education, Philosophical and psychological issues.

Comitato Scientifico:

Stefano Nolfi - ISTC-CNR, Gianluca Baldassarre - ISTC-CNR, Raffaele Calabretta - ISTC-CNR, Davide Marocco - ISTC-CNR, Orazio Miglino - ISTC-CNR, Domenico Parisi - ISTC-CNR, John Hallam - University of Southern Denmark, Jean-Arcady Meyer - Laboratorie d’Informatique de Paris6, France

Comitato Organizzativo:

Gisella Pellegrini, Diana Giorgini

Modalità di iscrizione:

sito web: www.sab06.org

DeadLines:

Conference start - 25th September 2006. Conference end - 29th September 2006. Workshops - 30th September 2006/1st October 2006

Riferimenti:

Stefano Nolfi, Via San Martino della Battaglia 44, 00185, Tel.: +39.06.44.59.52.33, stefano.nolfi@istc.cnr.it Diana Giorgini, Via San Martino della Battaglia 44, 00185, Tel.: +39.06.44.59.52.15, diana.giorgini@istc.cnr.it , sab2006@sab06.org

Monday september 25^th 2006

8:30 - 9:00 Registration 9:00 - 9:10 Welcome Fabio Pistella, President CNR Cristiano Castelfranchi, Director CNR-ISTC Opening Remarks Stefano Nolfi, Chair, CNR-ISTC 9:15 - 10:15 Keynote Christian Balkenius “Building Large-Scale Models of Learning and Attention�? (introduction by Gianluca Baldassarre) 10:15 - 10:45 Coffee break 10:45 - 12:25 Session on Perception and Control (Chair: Randall Beer ) • Modelling the Peripheral Auditory System of Lizards - Lei Zhang, John Hallam, Jakob Christensen-Dalsgaard • A Model of Sensorimotor Coordination in the Rat Whisker System - Ben Mitchinson, Martin Pearson, Chris Melhuish, Tony J. Prescott • Biological Actuators Are Not Just Springs - Thomas Buehrmann, Ezequiel Di Paolo • Synchronization and Gait Adaptation in Evolving Hexapod Robots - Mariagiovanna Mazzapioda, Stefano Nolfi 12:25 - 14:00 Lunch (Aula Arangio Ruiz) 14:00 - 14:50 Session Perception and Control (Chair: Tony Prescott) • The Control of Turning in Real and Simulated Stick Insects - Hugo Rosano, Barbara Webb • Dynamic Generation and Switching of Object Handling Behaviors by a Humanoid Robot Using a Recurrent Neural Network Model - Kuniaki Noda, Masato Ito, Yukiko Hoshino, Jun Tani 14:50 - 15:35 Poster Spotlight Session The Animat Approach to Adaptive Behavior + Perception and Control (Chair: Davide Marocco) • Emotions as a Bridge to the Environment: On the Role of Body in Organisms and Robots - Carlos Herrera Pérez, David C. Moffat, Tom Ziemke • Some Adaptive Advantages of the Ability to Make Predictions - Daniele Caligiore, Massimo Tria, Domenico Parisi • Early Perceptual and Cognitive Development in Robot Vision - Xing Zhang, Mark H. Lee • Visual Control of Flight Speed and Height in the Honeybee - Emily Baird, Mandyam V. Srinivasan, Shaowu Zhang, Richard Lamont, Ann Cowling • Investigation of Reality Constraints: Morphology and Controller of Two-Link Legged Locomotors for Dynamically Stable Locomotion - Kojiro Matsushita, Hiroshi Yokoi, Tamio Arai • Computer Simulation of a Climbing Insectomorphic Robot - Yury F. Golubev, Victor V. Korianov • Adaptive Four Legged Locomotion Control Based on Nonlinear Dynamical Systems - Giorgio Brambilla, Jonas Buchli, Auke Jan Ijspeert • Kinematic Modeling and Dynamic Analysis of the Long-Based Undulation Fin of Gymnarchus Niloticus - Guangming Wang, Lincheng Shen, Tianjiang Hu • An Environmental Adaptation Mechanism for a Biped Walking Robot Control Based on Elicitation of Sensorimotor Constraints - Shunsuke Iida, Toshiyuki Kondo, Koji Ito 15:35 - 16:05 Coffee break 16:05 - 18:00 Poster Session 1 (Aula Passi Perduti)

Tuesday september 26^th2006

8:30 - 9:00 Registration 9:00 - 10:00 Keynote Guy Theraulaz “Collective behaviours in animal societies: a computational approach.�? (introduction by Jean-Arcady Meyer) 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break 10:30 - 12:35 Session Collective and Social Behaviours (Chair: Vito Tranni) • Experimental Study on Task Teaching to Real Rats Through Interaction with a Robotic Rat - Hiroyuki Ishii, Motonori Ogura, Shunji Kurisu, Atsushi Komura, Atsuo Takanishi, Naritoshi Iida, Hiroshi Kimura • Believability Testing and Bayesian Imitation in Interactive Computer Games - Bernard Gorman, Christian Thurau, Christian Bauckhage, Mark Humphrys • Evolved Homogeneous Neuro-controllers for Robots with Different Sensory Capabilities: Coordinated Motion and Cooperation - Elio Tuci, Christos Ampatzis, Federico Vicentini, Marco Dorigo • Cumulative Cultural Evolution: Can We Ever Learn More? - Paul Vogt • Agents Adopting Agriculture: Modeling the Agricultural Transition - Elske van der Vaart, Bart de Boer, Albert Hankel, Bart Verheij 12:35 - 14:00 Lunch (Aula Arangio Ruiz) 14:00 - 14:25 Poster Spotlight Session Collective and Social Behaviours (Chair: Gianluca Baldassarre) • Asynchronous Cyclic Pursuit - Andaçc Tore Samiloglu, Veysel Gazi, Bugra Koku • Robot Learning in a Social Robot - Salvador Dominguez, Eduardo Zalama, Jaime G´omez, Garcìa-Bermejo, Jaime Pulido • Integration of an Autonomous Artificial Agent in an Insect Society: Experimental Validation - Grégory Sempo, Stéphanie Depickère, Jean-Marc Amé, Claire Detrain, José Halloy, Jean-Louis Deneubourg • Collective Decision-Making Based on Individual Discrimination Capability in Pre-social Insects - Jean-Marc Amé, Jesus Millor, José Halloy, Grégory Sempo, Jean-Louis Deneubourg • Economic Optimisation in Honeybees: Adaptive Behaviour of a Superorganism - Ronald Thenius, Thomas Schmickl, Karl Crailsheim 14:25 - 16:00 Poster Session 2 (Aula Passi Perduti) 14:25 - 16:00 Demo New Ties Project (Lobby) - Paul Vogt, Gusz Eiben, Federico Divina, Robert Griffioen, Christian Tsolov and the New Ties team 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break 16:30 – 17:30 ISAB Meeting

Wednesday september 27^th 2006

8:30 - 9:00 Registration 9:00 - 10:00 Keynote George Jeronimidis “Biological sensors: Paradigms for Technological Innovation�? (introduction by John Hallam) 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break 10:30 - 12:10 Session Evolution (Chair: Frank Pasemann) • Why Are Evolved Developing Organisms Also Fault-Tolerant? - Diego Federici, Tom Ziemke • GasNets and CTRNNs – A Comparison in Terms of Evolvability - Sven Magg, Andrew Philippides • Evolving Reaction-Diffusion Controllers for Minimally Cognitive Animats - Kyran Dale • Searching for Emergent Representations in Evolved Dynamical Systems - Thomas Hope, Ivilin Stoianov, Marco Zorzi 12:10 - 12:35 Poster Spotlight Session Evolution (Chair: Takashi Ikegami) • Incremental Evolution of Robot Controllers for a Highly Integrated Task - Anders Lyhne Christensen, Marco Dorigo • An Evolutionary Selection Model Based on a Biological Phenomenon: The Periodical Magicicadas - Marco Remondino, Alessandro Cappellini • Emergence of Coherent Coordinated Behavior in a Network of Homogeneous Active Elements - Gentaro Morimoto, Takashi Ikegami • Evolving Spatiotemporal Coordination in a Modular Robotic System - Mikhail Prokopenko, Vadim Gerasimov, Ivan Tanev • Evolving Robot’s Behavior by Using CNNs - Eleonora Bilotta, Giuseppe Cutrì, Pietro Pantano 12:35 - 14:00 Lunch (Aula Arangio Ruiz) 14:00 - 15:40 Session Evolution (Chair: Marco Mirolli) • Modular Design of Irreducible Systems - Martin Hulse, Frank Pasemann • Spatially Constrained Networks and the Evolution of Modular Control Systems - Peter Fine, Ezequiel Di Paolo, Andrew Philippides • Spiking Neural Controllers for Pushing Objects Around - Razvan V. Florian • Hierarchical Cooperative CoEvolution Facilitates the Redesign of Agent-Based Systems - Michail Maniadakis, Panos Trahanias 15:40 - 16:10 Coffee break 16:10 - 17:25 Session Evolution (Chair: Holk Cruse) • Bubbleworld.Evo: Artificial Evolution of Behavioral Decisions in a Simulated Predator-Prey Ecosystem - Thomas Schmickl, Karl Crailsheim • Incremental Evolution of Target-Following Neuro-controllers for Flapping-Wing Animats - Jean-Baptiste Mouret, Stéphane Doncieux, Jean-Arcady Meyer • Evolution and Adaptation of an Agent Driving a Scale Model of a Car with Obstacle Avoidance Capabilities - Ivan Tanev, Michal Joachimczak, Katsunori Shimohara 17:25 - 18:30 Poster Session 3 (Passi Perduti)

Thursday september 28^th 2006

8:30 - 9:00 Registration 9:00 - 10:00 Keynote Deb Roy “The Whole Linguana�? (introduction by Domenico Parisi) 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break 10:30 - 11:45 Session Action Selection and Behavioral Sequences + Navigation and Internal World Models (Chair: Jean-Arcady Meyer) • A Schema Based Model of the Praying Mantis - Giovanni Pezzulo, Gianguglielmo Calvi • Navigation in Large-Scale Environments Using an Augmented Model of Visual Homing - Lincoln Smith, Andrew Philippides, Phil Husbands • Use Your Illusion: Sensorimotor Self-simulation Allows Complex Agents to Plan with Incomplete Self-knowledge - Richard Vaughan, Mauricio Zuluaga 11:45 - 12:25 Poster Spotlight Action Selection and Behavioral Sequences + Navigation and Internal World Models (Chair: Elio Tuci) • Distributed Action Selection by a Brainstem Neural Substrate: An Embodied Evaluation - Mark Humphries, Tony Prescott • Perceptual-Motor Sequence Learning Via Human-Robot Interaction - Jean-David Boucher, Peter Ford Dominey • POTBUG: A Mind’s Eye Approach to Providing BUG-Like Guarantees for Adaptive Obstacle Navigation Using Dynamic Potential Fields - Michael Weir, Anthony Buck, Jon Lewis • Evolutionary Active Vision Toward Three Dimensional Landmark-Navigation - Mototaka Suzuki, Dario Floreano • Global Navigation Through Local Reference Frames - John Pisokas • Transition Cells for Navigation and Planning in an Unknown Environment - Nicolas Cuperlier, Mathias Quoy, Christophe Giovannangeli, Philippe Gaussier, Philippe Laroque 12:25 - 14:00 Lunch (Aula Arangio Ruiz) 14:00 - 16:05 Session Learning and Adaptation (Chair: John Hallam) • Stabilising Hebbian Learning with a Third Factor in a Food Retrieval Task - Adedoyin Maria Thompson, Bernd Porr, Florentin Worgotter • An Adaptive Robot Motivational System - George Konidaris, Andrew Barto • Piagetian Adaptation Meets Image Schemas: The Jean System - Yu-Han Chang, Paul R. Cohen, Clayton T. Morrison, Robert St. Amant, Carole Beal • Combining Self-organizing Maps with Mixtures of Experts: Application to an Actor-Critic Model of Reinforcement Learning in the Basal Ganglia - Mehdi Khamassi, Louis-Emmanuel Martinet, Agnès Guillot • Modelling Multi-modal Learning in a Hawkmoth - Anna Balkenius, Almut Kelber, Christian Balkenius 16:05 - 16:35 Coffee break 16:35 - 17:05 Poster Spotlight Learning and Adaptation (Chair: Jun Tani) • Investigating STDP and LTP in a Spiking Neural Network - Daniel Bush, Andrew Philippides, Phil Husbands, Michael O’Shea • Spike-Timing Dependent Plasticity Learning for Visual-Based Obstacles Avoidance - Hedi Soula, Guillaume Beslon • Incremental Skill Acquisition for Self-motivated Learning Animats - Andrea Bonarini, Alessandro Lazaric, Marcello Restelli • A Model of Reaching That Integrates Reinforcement Learning and Population Encoding of Postures - Dimitri Ognibene, Angelo Rega, Gianluca Baldassarre • From Motor Babbling to Purposive Actions: Emerging Self-exploration in a Dynamical Systems Approach to Early Robot Development - Ralf Der, Georg Martius • Adaptive Learning Application of the MDB Evolutionary Cognitive Architecture in Physical Agents - Fransisco Bellas, Andres Faina, Abraham Prieto, Richard J. Duro 17:05 - 18:30 Poster Session 4 (Aula Passi Perduti) 17:05 - 18:30 Demo Demonstration of Self-organized Behavior and True Embodiment (Lobby) - Ralf Der and Georg Martius 20:00 SOCIAL DINNER

Friday september 29^th 2006

8:30 - 9:00 Registration 9:00 - 10:00 Keynote J. Kevin O'Regan “Why feels feel the way they do: examples from space, color, and touch�? (introduction by Davide Marocco) 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break 10:30 - 11:45 Session Adaptive Behaviour in Language and Communication (Chair: Paul Vogt) • The Emergence of Communication by Evolving Dynamical Systems - Steffen Wischmann, Frank Pasemann • Origins of Communication in Evolving Robots - Davide Marocco, Stefano Nolfi • The Complexity of Finding an Optimal Policy for Language Convergence - Kiran Lakkaraju, Les Gasser 11:45 - 12:35 Last Minutes Poster Spotlight Session (Chair: Tom Ziemke) • Comparing Robot Controllers Through System Identification - Ulrich Nehmzow, Otar Akanyeti, Roberto Iglesias Rodriguez, Theocharis Kyriacou, Stephen A. Billings • On the Non-phenomenological use of the Word ‘Behaviour’ in Adaptive Behaviour and Robotics Research - Richard Vaughan, Pouya Bastani, John Hutchison, Rose Hutchison • Thoracic Differentiation for the Control of Turning in the Stick Insect - Hugo Rosano, Barbara Webb • An Evolutionary Collision Avoiding Model Based on the Theory of Mind - Franceso Zanlungo • Adaptable Robotic System Used on Tasks for Laboratory Rats - Pavel Jiroutek • From Experiments on Animal Behaviour to Experiments by Animats - Giovanni Laviola, Augusto Vitale • Integration of Monocular and Binocular Data for the Extraction of Action-related Object Properties - Eris Chinellato, Angel P. del Pobil • Are You Interacting With Me? The Embodied Dynamics of Minimal Agency Detection - Hiroyuki Iizuka, Ezequiel Di Paolo • Adaptive Collective Behavior of Swarming Agents in Three Dimensional Space - Rune Vabø, Domenico Parisi • Swarm-Moves: Changing Adaptive Behavior of Customers to Increase Impulse Shopping - Zeeshan-ul-hassan Usmani 12:35 - 14:00 Lunch (Aula Arangio Ruiz) 14:00 - 14:40 Special Session (Chair: Stefano Nolfi) Colette Maloney, Head of Unit E5: Cognition, European Commission, DG Information Society and Media 14:40 - 15:30 Session Applied Adaptive Behaviour (Chair: Alcherio Martinoli ) • Behavioral Analysis of Mobile Robot Trajectories Using a Point Distribution Model - Pierre Roduit, Alcherio Martinoli, Jacques Jacot • Visual Learning of Affordance Based Cues - Gerald Fritz, Lucas Paletta, Manish Kumar, Georg Dorffner, Ralph Breithaupt, Erich Rome 15:30 - 15:45 Poster Spotlight Applied Adaptive Behaviour (Chair: Alcherio Martinoli) • Noisy Preferential Attachment and Language Evolution - Samarth Swarup, Les Gasser • Simbad: An Autonomous Robot Simulation Package for Education and Research - Louis Hugues, Nicolas Bredeche • Adaptive Fuzzy Sliding Mode Controller for the Snorkel Underwater Vehicle - Eduardo Sebastiàn 15:45 - 16:15 Best Paper and Best Poster Awards 16:15 - 16:45 Coffee break 16:45 - 17:05 Closing Remarks 17:05 - 18:05 Poster Session 5 (Aula Passi Perduti) 17:05 - 18:05 Demo on the Emergence of communication in teams of cooperating robots (Lobby) - Davide Marocco, Stefano Nolfi

Saturday september 30^th 2006

Workshop 1 – Swarm Robotics Centro Convegni La Sapienza, Aula B7 Via Salaria 113 – 00198 Roma 9:00 - 9:30 Registration Morning Session 9:30 - 9:45 Opening Remarks 9:45 - 11:00 Invited Talk: • An experiment in swarm robotics: the swarm-bot - M. Dorigo 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break 11:30 - 13:00 Session: Algorithms-I (Chair: To be announced ) • A navigation algorithm for swarm robotics inspired by slime mold aggregation - T. Schmickl, K. Crailsheim • Strategies for energy optimisation in a swarm of foraging robots - W. Liu, A. Winfield, J. Sa, J. Chen, L. Dou • An empirical study on the motion of self-propelled particles with turn angle restrictions - A. Samiloglu, V. Gazi, B. Koku 13:00 - 14:15 Lunch Break Afternoon Session 14:15 – 16:00 Session: Modelling and Analysis (Chair: To be announced) • A macroscopic model for probabilistic aggregation in swarm robotic systems - O. Soysal, E. Sahin • An analytical and spatial model of foraging in a swarm of robots - H. Hamann, H. Woern • Algorithms for the analysis and synthesis of a bio-inspired swarm robotic system - S. Berman, A. Halasz, V. Kumar, S. Pratt • Review of Control and Coordination of Multi-agent dynamic systems: models and approaches - V. Gazi, B. Fidan 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break 16:30 – 18:00 Panel Discussion: Topic will be announced later (Chair: To be announced) Workshop 2 - Behaviour And Mind As A Complex Adaptive System Centro Convegni La Sapienza, Aula Alfa Via Salaria 113 – 00198 Roma 8:30 - 9:00 Registration Morning Session 9:00 - 09:15 Introduction 9:15 - 10:00 What are agents anyway? On life, mind and sensorimotor surfaces - Fred Keijzer 10:00 - 10:45 On the Multi-Level Organization of Behaviour - Stefano Nolfi 10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break 11:15 - 12:00 Transient dynamics and multiple timescales in brain-body-environment systems - Randal Beer 11:30 - 12:15 Emergent Neurodynamics and the Accretion of Embodied Cognitive Capacity - Frank Pasemann 12:15 - 13:45 Lunch Break Afternoon Session 13:45 – 14:30 Enactive Robot Vision - Dario Floreano 14:30 – 15:15 Homeochaos and Emergence of Sensory motor Couplings - Takashi Ikegami 15:15 - 16:00 On the interactions between top-down anticipation and bottom-up regression in cognitive behavior - Jun Tani 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break 16:30 - 17:15 Sense-making and agency: Being and doing intertwined - Ezequiel di Paolo 17:15 - 17:30 An Evolutionary Robotics Simulation of Human Minimal Social Interaction - Marieke Rohde and Ezequiel Di Paolo 17:30 - 17:45 Towards Minimising Design in a Complex Evolving Ecosystem - Peter Paul Pichler 17:45 – 18:30 Discussion Workshop 3 - Evolution And Emergence Of Linguistic Communication Centro Convegni La Sapienza, Aula Cortile Via Salaria 113 – 00198 Roma 8:30 - 9:00 Registration Morning Session 9:00 - 11:00 Invited Speakers • Unify and Merge in Fluid Construction Grammar - Luc Steels • The Human Speechome Project - Deb Roy 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break 11:30 - 12:50 Presentations (Chair: ) • Lexicon Convergence in a Population with and without Metacommunication - Zoran Macura, Jonathan Ginzburg • A hybrid model for learning word-meaning mappings - Federico Divina, Paul Vogt 12:50 - 14:00 Lunch Break Afternoon Session 14:00 – 16:00 Presentations (Chair: ) • Simulating Meaning Negotiation using Observational Language Games - Tiina Lindh-Knuutila, Timo Honkela, Krista Lagus • Utility for Communicability by Profit and Cost of Agreement - Ryuichi Matoba, Makoto Nakamura, Satoshi Tojo • Dialog Strategy Acquisition and Its Evaluation for Efficient Learning of Word Meanings by Agents - Ryo Taguchi, Kouichi Katsurada, Tsuneo Nitta 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break 16:30 – 17:50 Presentations (Chair: ) • Evolving Distributed Representations for Language with Self-Organizing Maps - Simon D. Levy, Simon Kirby • Symbol Grounding through Cumulative Learning - Samarth Swarup, Kiran Lakkaraju,Sylvian R. Ray, Les Gasser Workshop 5 - Anticipatory Behavior In Adaptive Learning Systems (ABiALS 2006) Centro Convegni La Sapienza, Aula Conferenze Via Salaria 113 – 00198 Roma 9:00 - 9:30 Registration Morning Session 9:30 - 9:45 Welcome & Introductions to the workshop (Martin V. Butz) 9:45 -10:25 Presentations: Anticipatory Frameworks (Chair: Giovanni Pezzulo) • 9:45 Cognitively Inspired Anticipation and Anticipatory Learning Mechanisms for Autonomous Agents - Negatu, S. D’Mello, S. Franklin • 10:05 Perception, Logic and Action through Structured Motivated Associative Pandemonium - J. V. Jackson 10:25 - 11:00 Poster Spotlights 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break with Poster Presentations 11:30 - 12:50 Presentations: Forward Predictive Perceptual Models (Chair: Martin Butz) • 11:30 An Information Theory Based Anticipation Architecture - P. Capdepuy, D. Polani, C. L. Nehaniv • 11:50 Learning a Visual Forward Model for a Robot Camera Head - W. Schenck, R. Möller • 12:10 Toward an Implementation of a Biologically Inspired Expected Perception Mechanism - R. Prevete, M. Santoro, E. Catanzarriti, G. Tessitore • 12:30 A Computational Model of Spatial Memory Anticipation during Visual Search - J. Fix, J. Vitay, N. P. Rougier 12:50 - 14:30 Lunch Break Afternoon Session 14:30 – 15:10 Presentations: Anticipations for Improvisation and Evolution (Chair: Christian Balkenius) • 14:30 A Framework for Anticipatory Machine Improvisation and Style Imitation - Cont, S. Dubonov, G. Assayag • 14:50 Evolutionary Robotics: From Simulation to the Real World using Anticipation - C. Hartland, N. Bredeche 15:10 – 16:00 Panel Discussion: Benefits of Anticipatory Mechanisms (G. Baldassarre, M. Butz, & G. Pezzulo) 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break with Poster Presentations 16:30 – 17:30 Presentations: Social Anticipation (Chair: Gianluca Baldassarre) • 16:30 Backward vs Forward-Oriented Decision-Making in the Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma: A Comparison between two Connectionist Models - E. Lalev, M. Grinberg • 16:50 An Anticipatory Trust Model for Open Distributed Systems - M. Gómez, J. Carbó, C. Benac-Earle • 17:10 The Benefits of Anticipation: An Experimental Study - B. Johansson, C. Balkenius 17:30 – 18:00 Panel Discussion: Open Problems in Anticipatory Behavior Systems (G. Baldassarre, M. Butz, G. Pezzulo) 18:00 Farewell – Social Dinner Plans SUNDAY OCTOBER 1st 2006

Sunday october 1^th 2006

Workshop 1 – Swarm Robotics Centro Convegni La Sapienza, Aula B7 Via Salaria 113 – 00198 Roma Morning Session 9:30 - 10:00 Session: Hardware (Chair: To be announced) • Communication in a swarm of miniature robots: The e-Puck as an educational tool for swarm robotics - C. Cianci, X. Raemy, J. Pugh, A. Martinoli • UltraSwarm: A further step towards a flock of miniature helicopters - R. De Nardi, O. Holland • Where are you? - W. Spears, J. Hamann, P. Maxim, T. Kunkel, R. Heil, D. Zarhitsky., D. Spears, C. Karlsson 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break 11:30 - 13:00 Session: Algorithms II (Chair: To be announced) • Collective perception in a robotic swarm - T. Schmickl, C. Moslinger, K. Crailsheim • Distributed task selection in multi-agent based swarms using heuristic strategies - D. Miller, P. Dasgupta, T. Judgkins 13:00 - 14:15 Lunch Break Afternoon Session 14:15 – 16:00 Session: Evolutionary Approaches (Chair: To be announced) • Evolution of signaling in a swarm of robots controlled by dynamic neural networks - C. Ampatzis, E. Tuci, V. Trianni, M. Dorigo • Evolutionary design of specialized aerial explorer controllers - A. Eiben, G. Nitschke, M.Schut • Scalability in evolved neurocontrollers that guide a swarm of robots in a navigation task - F. Vicentini, E. Tuci 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break 16:30 – 18:00 Discussion: Topic will be announced later (Chair: To be announced) Workshop 3 - Evolution And Emergence Of Linguistic Communication Centro Convegni La Sapienza, Aula Cortile Via Salaria 113 – 00198 Roma Morning Session 9:00 - 11:00 Invited Speakers • How do children develop syntactic representations from what they hear? - Elena Lieven • Robots that Learn Language: Developmental Approach to Human-Machine Conversations - Naoto Iwahashi 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break 11:30 - 12:50 Presentations (Chair: ) • Cross-situational learning: a mathematical approach - Kenny Smith, Andrew Smith, Richard A. Blythe, Paul Vogt • Operational aspects of the evolved signalling behaviour in a group of cooperating and communicating robots - Elio Tuci, Christos Ampatzis, Federico Vicentini, Marco Dorigo 12:50 - 14:00 Lunch Break Afternoon Session 14:00 – 16:00 Presentations (Chair: ) • Propositional Logic Syntax Acquisition - Josefina Sierra-Santibáñez • How grammar emerges to dampen combinatorial search in parsing - Luc Steels, Pieter Wellens • Implementation of Biases Observed in Children's Language Development into Agents - Ryo Taguchi, Masashi Kimura, Shuji Shinohara, Kouichi Katsurada, Tsuneo Nitta 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break 16:30 – 17:30 Invited Speaker • Cooperation, Conceptual Spaces and the Evolution of Semantics - Peter Gärdenfors 17:30 – 18:00 Discussion and closing Workshop 4 – Bio-inspired Cooperative and Adaptive Behaviours in Robots Centro Convegni La Sapienza, Aula B8 Via Salaria 113 – 00198 Roma 10:00 - 10:15 Registration 10.15: - 10.30 Introductions 10:30 - 11:00 Bio-Inspired Robotics: A brief overview TM McGinnity Morning Session 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break 11:30 - 13:00 Presentations (Chair: Marnix Nuttin – to be confirmed) • Context-Dependent Control of Adaptive Behavior Selection - Xiaolin Hu and Donald H. Edwards • Genetically selected Neural network for head-eye control Model – N Accornero and M. Capozza • Evolving Cooperative Behaviour – Thaomas D. Jorgensen 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break Afternoon Session 14:00 – 16:00 Presentations (Chair: NH Siddique) • How the Six-Legged Walking Machine OSCAR Handle Leg Amputations - Adam El Sayed Auf, Florian Mösch, and Marek Litza • A cockroach-inspired hexapod robot: performance enhancement through dynamic simulation - P. Arena, M. Calì, L. Fortuna, C. La Spina, S. M. Oliveri, L. Patanè, and G. Sequenzia • Different, biomimetic inspired walking machines controlled by a decentralised control approach relying on artificial neural networks - M. Schilling, L. Patanè, P. Arena, L. Fortuna, A. Schneider, H. Cruse and J. Schmitz • A Bio-inspired Technique Applied to Learning a Docking Task - Xavier Dutoit, Davy Sannen, Hendrik Van Brussel, and Marnix Nuttin 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break 16:30 – 17:00 Concluding Discussion (Chair: TM McGinnity) • Topic: Future of Bio-inspired Robotics Workshop 6 - Adaptive Approaches For Optimizing Player Satisfaction In Computer And Physical Games Centro Convegni La Sapienza, Aula Alfa Via Salaria 113 – 00198 Roma 9:00 - 9:30 Registration Morning Session 9:30 - 11:00 Invited Talk: • Applied AI in computer games: Current and future trends - Hakon Steinø, Technical Producer, IO-Interactive 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break 11:30 - 13:00 Presentations – Adaptive Learning (Chair: Georgios N. Yannakakis) • Utilization of Evolutionary Algorithms to Increase Excitement of the COMMONS Game - Norio Baba, Hisahi Handa • Smarter Teammates – Applying Hidden Markov Models in Sports Games - Christian Thurau, Christian Bauckhage • Using Hierarchical Machine Learning to Improve Player Satisfaction in a Soccer Videogame - Brian Collins, Michael Rovatsos 13:00 - 14:30 Lunch Break Afternoon Session 14:30 – 16:00 Presentations – Examples of Adaptive Games (Chair: John Hallam) • Adaptive Generation of Dilemma-based Interactive Narratives - Heather Barber, Daniel Kudenko • Using Decision Theory for Player Analysis in Pacman - Ben Cowley, Darryl Charles, Michaela Black, Ray Hickey • Where Am I? – On Providing Gamebots with a Sense of Location Using Spectral Clustering of Waypoints - Christian Bauckhage, Martin Roth, Verena V. Hafner 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break 16:30 – 17:00 Presentations – Player Modeling (Chair: Norio Baba) • Making Racing Fun Through Player Modeling and Track Evolution - Julian Togelius, Renzo De Nardi, Simon M. Lucas 17:00 - 17:30 Final Remarks Workshop 7 - Multisensory Integration And Concurrent Parallel Memory Systems For Spatial Cognition Centro Convegni La Sapienza, Aula Conferenze Via Salaria 113 – 00198 Roma 8:30 - 9:00 Registration Morning Session 9:00 - 9:30 Angelo Arleo (CSL Sony, Paris, France) Introduction: Multisensory integration for spatial and goal representations 9:30 - 10:15 Bruno Poucet (CNRS, Marseille, France) Recent data on the neural networks involved in spatial navigation 10:15 - 11:00 Jason G. Fleischer (The Neurosciences Institute, San Diego, USA) Integration and loops: fusing multiple sensory inputs and coding behavioral context in a hippocampal model 11:00 - 11:45 Poster session / Coffee break 11:45 - 12:30 Philippe Gaussier (University of Cergy-Pontoise, France) Place cells, view cells, grid cells, and transition cells 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break Afternoon Session 14:00 - 14:30 Ricardo Chavarriaga (IDIAP, Martigny, Switzerland) Introduction: Parallel memory systems for navigation, action selection, and planning 14:30 - 15:15 Tony Prescott (University of Sheffield, UK) The brain as a layered architecture: modeling parallel cortical and sub-cortical loops through the basal ganglia 15:15 - 16:00 Benoît Girard (CNRS-Collège de France, Paris, France) Coordinating navigation strategies to survive 16:00 - 16:30 Poster session / Coffee break 16:30 - 17:15 Laure Rondi-Reig (CNRS-Collège de France, Paris, France) Complementary functions of hippocampal and cerebellar dependent memory systems during the acquisition of a navigation behavior 17:15 – 18:00 Etienne Koechlin (University Pierre&Marie Curie, Paris, France) Prefrontal executive systems involved in the hierarchical and temporal organization of action and thought 18:00 – 18:30 Final discussion and conclusion