GSO-2011-Program

Program of GSO-2011

	Thursday, Sept. 8	Friday, Sept. 9	Saturday, Sept. 10
9:00 am	Daniel Polani Welcome and Introduction
9:10 am	Katie Bentley Agent based modelling in symbiosis with biological experimentation: making meaningful insights in the morphogenesis of blood vessels	Chrystopher Nehaniv Hierarchical Coordinate Systems on Symmetry Structures and Automata	Hiroki Sayama Guiding Designs of Self-Organizing Swarms: Interactive and Automated Approaches
10:00 am	Ashish Umre Information Foraging Dynamics: Self-Organisation in Distributed Systems	Michael Herrmann The Control Illusion in Synergist Art	Christoph Salge Digested Information: From Information-Theoretic Behaviour Generation towards Agent-Agent Interaction
10:30 am	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break
11:00 am	Frank Hesse Self-Organization - Guided and Guiding	Mikail Rubinov Directed information transfer in neuronal networks at criticality	David Balduzzi Constructing a spiking currency: constrained utility optimization via wake-sleep STDP
11:30 am	Poramate Manoonpong A Combinatorial Learning Model Using Correlation-Based and Reward-Based Learning for Efficient Control Policy Development: Acquisition of Goal-Directed Behavior	Simón Bize Self-Organizing Exploration in Reinforcement Learning	Sander van Dijk Goal information parsimony gives rise to subgoals, least-commitment and hidden intentions
12:00 pm	Lunch (self-organized)	Lunch (self-organized)	Lunch (self-organized)
2:00 pm	Naftali Tishby The value of future-information - the missing piece in reinforcement learning	Andrew Adamatzky Physarum machines: slime mould solving computational geometry and optimisation problems	Karl Friston Active inference and action observation
3:00 pm	Terry Bossomaier Identifying Phase Transitions in Cognition and Society	Georg Martius Scaling of Guided Self-Organized Behavior	Discussion
3:30 pm	Coffee Break	Coffee Break
4:00 pm	Oliver Obst Self-Organisation in Recurrent Neural Networks using Transfer Entropy	Tobias Jung Empowerment for continuous agent-environment systems
4:30 pm	Spotlights (optional)	Spotlights (optional)
5:20 pm	Dinner (self-organized)	Dinner (self-organized)

Location: University of Hertfordshire, College Lane Campus, Lindop Building, Room A166.