The Second International Workshop on Guided Self-Organisation (GSO-2009)
Program
All lectures will be held in Leibniz-Hörsaal (G 10),
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (Leipzig, Inselstraße 22).
| August 18, 2009 | Concepts and Principles | |
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| 09:50 | Welcome address | |
| 10:00 - 11:15 | Keynote by Susanne Still (University of Hawaii, USA) Interactive learning (see abstract) | |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | Coffee break | |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Ralf Der (MPI MiS Leipzig, Germany) Self-organization of behavior for autonomous robots (see abstract) | |
| 12:00 - 15:00 | Lunch break | |
| 15:00 - 16:15 | Keynote by Daniel Polani (University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom) Be empowered: guiding adaptation through potential information flows (see abstract) | |
| 16:15 - 16:30 | Coffee break | |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Nils Bertschinger (MPI MiS Leipzig, Germany) Autonomy and closure (see abstract) | |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Oliver Obst (CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia) Information transfer in recurrent neural networks (see abstract) | |
| 19:00 | Dinner (à la carte and on individual payment) | |
| August 19, 2009 | Evolution and Structure | |
| 10:00 - 11:15 | Keynote by Larry Yaeger (Indiana University, Bloomington, USA) Determining function from structure in neural networks (see abstract) | |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | Coffee break | |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Mikhail Prokopenko (CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia) Information-theoretic modelling of scaling in genetic code (see abstract) | |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Ivan Tanev (Doshisha University, Japan) Incremental genetic programming incorporating genetic transpositions for efficient coevolution of locomotion and sensing of simulated snake-like robot (see abstract) | |
| 12:30 - 13:00 | Christian Tetzlaff (Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Germany) Self-organized criticality of developing artificial neuronal networks and dissociated cell cultures (see abstract) | |
| 13:00 - 15:00 | Lunch break | |
| 15:00 - 16:15 | Keynote by Tony Bell (University of California, Berkeley, USA) Information flows across levels and the self-organisation of behaviour | |
| 16:15 - 16:30 | Coffee break | |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Mahendra Piraveenan (CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia) Assortativity and information in directed biological networks (see abstract) | |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Joseph Lizier (CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia) Functional and structural topologies in evolved neural networks (see abstract) | |
| August 20, 2009 | Learning and Guidance | |
| 10:00 - 11:15 | Keynote by Florentin Wörgötter (University of Göttingen, Germany) Self-organized adaptation of simple neural circuits enables complex robot behavior (see abstract) | |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | Coffee break | |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Mikhail Prokopenko (CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia) Information transfer and cortical interactions in a visuomotor tracking task (see abstract) | |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | J. Michael Herrmann (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom) Guided self-organization for control of bipedal walking (see abstract) | |
| 12:30 - 13:00 | Paolo Arena (Università degli studi di Catania, Italy) Spatial temporal patterns in nonlinear dynamical systems: from locomotion to perception in biorobots (see abstract) | |
| 13:00 - 15:00 | Lunch break | |
| 15:00 - 16:15 | Keynote by Georg Martius (MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Germany) Goal-oriented behavior from guided self-organization of sensorimotor loops (see abstract) | |
| 16:15 - 16:30 | Coffee break | |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Frank Güttler (Universität Leipzig, Germany) Predictive Information for self-organizing robots using wireless connected embedded-controller-boards: a technical point of view (see abstract) | |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Keyan Zahedi (MPI MiS Leipzig, Germany) Maximizing information in the sensory-motor loop (see abstract) | |
Selected papers will appear in a special journal issue on the topic.
Selected papers for GSO-2008 are under review for a special issue of HFSP Journal.
Date and Location
August 18 - 20, 2009
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
Inselstraße 22
04103 Leipzig
Germany
see travel instructions
Scientific Organizers
Nihat AyMax Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
Leipzig
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Ralf Der
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
Leipzig
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Mikhail Prokopenko
CSIRO
Sydney
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Administrative Contact
Antje VandenbergMax Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
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Phone: (++49)-(0)341-9959-552
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