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)

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)

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)