International Conference on “Morphological Computation” took place in March 26-27-28, 2007. The conference was organized by Rolf Pfeifer, University of Zurich, Switzerland and Norman Packard, Protolife, Venice, and was held at Ca’ Minich, Venice.
March 26-28, 2007
European Center of Living Technology (ECLT), Venice Italy.
MARCH 26
0800: Breakfast
0830-0900: Registration
Session 26-1:
Session Chair: Norman Packard
0900 – 0945: Invited Talk: Rolf Pfeifer
Morphological Computation: Basic Concepts
0945 – 1030: Invited Talk: Takashi Ikegami
Autonomy and Dynamic Homeostasis
1035-1115: Coffee Break
Session 26-2:
Session Chair: Mark Bedau
1115 – 1200: Invited Talk: John Reif
Autonomous Programmable Biomolecular Devices Using Self-Assembled DNA Nanostructures
1200 – 1225: Preliminary Steps toward Artificial Protocell Computation
Barry McMullin Ciaran Kelly Darragh O’Brien George G. Mitchell James Decraene
1225 – 1250: Defining the Blob Primitives on Amorphous Computers
Moıse Valvassori, Arab Ali Cherif
1250-1400: Lunch Break
Session 26-3:
Session Chair: Fumiya Iida
1400 – 1445: Invited Talk: Satoshi Murata
Models of Self-Replication
1445 – 1510: Organization of Information Flows in the Perception-Action Loop
Daniel Polani
1510 – 1535: Real-time Requirements and Restricted Resources: The Role of the
Computing Substrate in Robots
Soichiro Tsuda, Klaus-Peter Zauner, and Yukio-Pegio Gunji
1535-1615: Coffee Break
Session 26-4:
Session Chair: John Reif
1615 – 1700: Invited Talk: John McCaskill
Evolving Self-Assembling Molecular Recognition Systems
1700 – 1725:
Mark Bedau and Norman Packard
1830 - 1930: Reception & Panel Discussion (Moderator: Rolf Pfeifer)
MARCH 27
0800: Breakfast
Session 27-1:
Session Chair: Rolf Pfeifer
0900 – 0945: Invited Talk: Jun Tani
Toward "Organic Compositionality": Dynamical Systems Accounts for Cognitive Behaviors
0945 – 1030: Invited Talk: Eric Winfree
In vitro synthetic biology: from self-assembly to biochemical circuits
1030-1115: Coffee Break
Session 27-2:
Session Chair: Jun Tani
1115 – 1200: Invited Talk: Akio Ishiguro
A Modular Robot That Exhibits Amoeboid Locomotion, Self-assembly, and Self-repair
1200 – 1225: Locomotion of a Tensegrity Robot via Dynamically Coupled Modules
John Rieffel, Ryan James Stuk, Francisco J. Valero-Cuevas and Hod Lipson
1225 – 1250: On Passive Adaptive Mechanism in Passive Dynamic Walking
Koichi Osuka, Masastugu Iribe and Yasuhiro Sugimoto
1250-1400: Lunch Break
Session 27-3:
Session Chair: Akio Ishiguro
1400 – 1445: Invited Talk: Rob Shaw
Geometrical constraints, leaky membranes, and the limits of logic
1445 – 1510: Morphological Computation in Behavior Control
Fumiya Iida
1510 – 1535: A quantification of the morphological computations in perception systems
Torbjörn Lundh
1535-1615: Coffee Break
Session 27-4:
Session Chair: Rob Shaw
1615 – 1700: Invited Talk: Thomas Knight
1700 – 1800: Poster Session
1830: Social Event
MARCH 28
0800: Breakfast
Session 28-1:
Session Chair: Takashi Ikegami
0900 – 0945: Invited Talk: Rodney Douglas
The Design of Self-Constructing and -Repairing Artificial Organismo
0945 – 1010: Evolving Self-Assembling Digital Circuitry: Towards Realistic Models
Rudolf M. Füchslin, Thomas Maeke, and John S. McCaskill
1010 – 1035: Membrane as an Interface in a Simple Metabolic Cell
Keisuke Suzuki and Takashi Ikegami
1035-1100: Coffee Break
Session 28-2:
1100 – 1230: Final Discussion
Moderator: Norman Packard
1230- Lunch
Posters Presentations
Tribolon - Water Floating Self-Assembling Units
Shuhei Miyashita, Maik Hadorn and Peter Eggenberger Hotz
A Formula for Network Energy that is Minimized from Random to Small-world
Hideaki Suzuki
Discovering a Running Locomotion Strategy through Body and Neural Dynamics
Simon Bovet, Fumiya Iida
Robotic Self-Assembly and Self-Repair
Daniel J. Arbuckle, Aristides A. G. Requicha
Embodiment, structural coupling and morphological computation: let us not stop
halfway
Matěj Hoffmann
Towards Crowd-Controlled Evolutionary Design and Lamarckian Evolution of
Shapes
Martin Schneider
On the Information Metrics Of Controlled Dynamical Systems
Fabio P. Bonsignorio
Policy Selection Based on Robot’s Embodiment from Multiple Human Teachings
Masato Kotake, Daisuke Katagami, Katsumi Nitta
Virtuality in neural dynamical systems
Francesco Donnarumma, Roberto Prevete, Giuseppe Trautteur
A Functional Model of Development and Expression in an Artificial Organism
Alessandro Fontana
Defining the Blob Primitives on Amorphous Computers
Moıse Valvassori, Arab Ali Cherif
The Lagging Legs: Exploiting Body Dynamics to Steer a Quadrupedal Agent
Mike Rinderknecht, Jonas Ruesch and Maik Hadorn
Experience in the Real World for Incremental Individual Recognition
Lijin Aryananda
On the Robustness of Simple Speed Control for a Quadruped Robot
Alexander Schmitz, Gabriel Gomez, Fumiya Iida and Rolf Pfeifer