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PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME (as of April 19 2004)

Tuesday July 13th 2004
Wednesday July 14th 2004
Thursday July 15th 2004
Friday July 16th 2004
Saturday July 17th 2004

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TUESDAY JULY 13^th 2004
8:30 - 9:00	Registration
9:00 - 9:10	Opening remarks
9:10 - 10:10	Keynote address I: Joseph Ayers, Building a CNS for the lobster robot with electronic neurons
10:10 - 10:40	Coffee break
Session 1: Animat approach and applications
10:40 - 11:05	State of the artificial rat Psikharpax David Filliat, Benoit Girard, Agnes Guillot, Mehdi Khamassi, Loic Lacheze, Jean-Arcady Meyer
11:05 - 11:30	May We Have Your Attention: Analysis of a Selective Attention Task Eldan Goldenberg, Jacob Garcowski, Randall D. Beer
11:30 - 11:55	Evolvable Recovery Membranes in Self-monitoring Aerospace Vehicles Peter Wang, Mikhail Prokopenko
Poster spotlight session 1 (5 minutes per poster)
11:55 - 12:30	Interactions of Environment, Behavior, and Synaptic Patterns in a Neuro-Robotic Model William H. Alexander, Olaf Sporns Comparative Cognitive Robotics: Using autonomous agents as empirical models of animal learning Roul Sebastian John, Christian W. Werner Morphology and Computation Chandana Paul Constructing an animat mind using 505 sub-minds from 234 different authors Ciaran O'Leary, Mark Humphrys, Ray Walshe Formalization of recognition, affordances and learning in isolated or interacting animats Philippe Gaussier, Jean Christophe Baccon, Ken Prepin, Jacqueline Nadel, Laurence Hafemeister Gallery Structure Formation in Conelyborus scarabaeoides Luc Steels Towards a theory of how bats navigate through foliage Jonas Reijniers, Herbert Peremans
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch break

Session 2: Perception
14:00 - 14:25	Simulating Whisker Sensors -- on the Role of Material Properties for Morphology, Behavior and Evolution Simon Bovet, Miriam Fend, Rolf Pfeifer
14:25 - 14:50	From Bat Pinnae to Sonar Antennae: Augmented Obliquely Truncated Horns as a Novel Parametric Shape Model Rolf Mueller, John C. T. Hallam
14:50 - 15:15	Spatiotemporal processing of whisker input supports texture discrimination in a brain-based device Anil K Seth, Jeffrey L. McKinstry, Gerald M. Edelman, Jeffrey L. Krichmar
15:15 - 15:45	Coffee break
Poster spotlight session 2
15:45 - 16:20	Evolving Adaptive, High-Dimensional, Camera-Based Speed Sensors Ralf Salomon Adaptive Object Tracking with an Anthropomorphic Robot Head Hyundo Kim, Boris Lau, Jochen Triesch Morphology and Learning - A Case Study on Whiskers Miriam Fend, Roland Abt, Marco Diefenbacher, Simon Bovet, Martin Krafft A biomimetic whisker for texture discrimination and distance estimation DaeEun Kim, Ralf Moeller GasNets and other Evolvable Neural Networks applied to Bipedal Locomotion Gary McHale, Phil Husbands Adaptive locomotion in a complex environment: simulation of stick insect gap crossing behaviour Bettina Blaesing A simulation model of the locomotion controllers for the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans John Bryden, Netta Cohen
16:20 - 18:30	Poster session and cash-bar

WEDNESDAY JULY 14^th 2004
8:30 - 9:00	Registration
9:00 - 10:00	Keynote address II: Laurent Itti, Automatic Eye and Head Animation for Animats
10:00 - 10:30	Coffee break
Session 3: Motor control
10:30 - 10:55	Planning the Sequencing of Movement Primitives Marcelo Kallmann, Robert Bargmann, Maja Mataric
10:55 - 11:20	A Simple, Adaptive Locomotion Toy-System Jonas Buchli, Auke Jan Ijspeert
11:20 - 11:45	Biologically Inspired Adaptive Dynamic Walking of a Quadruped Robot Hiroshi Kimura, Yasuhiro Fukuoka, Avis H. Cohen
Poster spotlight session 3
11:45 - 12:20	Self-Growth of Basic Behaviors in an Action Selection Based Agent Olivier Buffet, Alain Dutech, Francois Charpillet Optimal and Non-Optimal Compromise Strategies in Action Selection Frederick L. Crabbe Adaptive Motor Primitive and Sequence Formation in a Hierarchical Recurrent Neural Network Rainer W. Paine, Jun Tani Hebbian reinforcement learning in a modular dynamic network Emmanuel Dauce Learning human-like Movement Behavior for Computer Games Christian Thurau, Christian Bauckhage, Gerhard Sagerer Homeostatic Plasticity in Recurrent Neural Networks Hywel Williams Evolving Walking: The Anatomy of an Evolutionary Search Chad W. Seys, Randall D. Beer
12:20 - 14:00	Lunch break

Session 4: Action selection
14:00 - 14:25	Action Selection and Mental Transformation Based on a Chain of Forward Models Heiko Hoffmann, Ralf Moeller
14:25 - 14:50	Using Hormonal Feedback to Modulate Action Selection in a Competitive Scenario Orlando Avila-Garcia, Lola Canamero
14:50 - 15:15	A spiking neuron model of head-direction cells for robot orientation Thomas Degris, Loic Lacheze, Christian Boucheny, Angelo Arleo
15:15 - 15:45	Coffee break
Poster spotlight session 4
15:45 - 16:25	The Force Model: Concept, Behavior, Interpretation Ralf Salomon Evolving a neurocontroller through a process of embryogeny Diego Federici Effects of the topology of social networks on information transmission Jason Noble, Simon Davy, Daniel W. Franks How can a life-like agent evoke its emotions for users? --- A method for inducing users' natural behaviors to establish ``mutual adaptation'' Takanori Komatsu Imitation in embodied agents results in self-organization of behavior Bart Jansen, Tom ten Thij, Tony Belpaeme, Bart De Vylder, Bart de Boer Imitation is not enough for lexicon learning Jason Fleischer, Jonathan Shapiro Evolving Opponents for Interesting Interactive Computer Games Georgios N. Yannakakis, John Hallam Learning to Behave: Adaptive Behavior for Planetary Surface Rovers Terry Huntsberger, Hrand Aghazarian
16:25 - 18:00	Poster session
19:00 - 22:00	Banquet

THURSDAY JULY 15^th 2004
8:30 - 9:00	Registration
9:00 - 10:00	Keynote address III: Michael Arbib, Modeling the Mirror System
10:00 - 10:30	Coffee break
Session 5: Navigation
10:30 - 10:55	Navigation and Cognitive Map Formation Using Aperiodic Neurodynamics Derek Harter, Robert Kozma
10:55 - 11:20	Competitive-Cooperative-Concurrent Reinforcement Learning with Importance Sampling Eiji Uchibe, Kenji Doya
11:20 - 11:45	Estimating Future Reward in Reinforcement Learning Animats using Associative Learning George Konidaris, Gillian Hayes
Last-Minute-Results poster spotlight session 1
11:45 - 12:20
12:20 - 14:00	Lunch break

Session 6: Adaptation
14:00 - 14:25	On Ashby's homeostat: A formal model of adaptive regulation J. Michael Herrmann, Michael Holicki, Ralf Der
14:25 - 14:50	Toward a Dynamical Systems Analysis of Neuromodulation Christopher Buckley, Seth Bullock, Netta Cohen
14:50 - 15:15	Evolving Functional Self-Assembling in a Swarm of Autonomous Robots Vito Trianni, Elio Tuci, Marco Dorigo
15:15 - 15:45	Coffee break
Last-Minute-Results poster spotlight session 2
15:45 - 16:20
16:20 - 18:30	Poster session and cash-bar

FRIDAY JULY 16^th 2004
8:30 - 9:00	Registration
Session 7: Collective behaviors
9:00 - 9:25	Coordination and behaviour integration in cooperating simulated robots Gianluca Baldassarre, Domenico Parisi, Stefano Nolfi
9:25 - 9:50	Hamelin: A model for collective adaptation based on internal stimuli Vincent Thomas, Christine Bourjot, Vincent Chevrier, Didier Desor
9:50 - 10:15	BASC, a bottom-up approach to automated design of spatial coordination Fabien Flacher, Olivier Sigaud
10:15 - 10:45	Coffee break
Session 8: Language and communication
10:45 - 11:10	The More Radical, the Better: Investigating the Utility of Aggression in the Competition among Different Agent Kinds Matthias Scheutz, Paul Schermerhorn
11:10 - 11:35	A Connectionist Approach to Learn Association between Sentences and Behavioral Patterns of a Robot Yuuya Sugita, Jun Tani
11:35 - 11:50	The Sensorimotor Bases of Linguistic Structure: Experiments with Grounded Adaptive Agents Angelo Cangelosi
11:50 - 12:00	Closing remarks

SATURDAY JULY 17^th 2004
Workshops:
	Swarm Robotics
	Anticipatory Behavior in Adaptive Learning Systems (ABiALs 2004)
	Neurorobotics Models in Neuroscience and Neuroinformatics

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