| 2021 | 2021 Conference on Artificial Life, ALIFE 2021, online, July 19-23, 2021 Jitka Cejková, Silvia Holler, Lisa B. Soros, Olaf Witkowski |
| 2021 | A Concept of Full Plant Morphology Modeling for Robot-Plant Bio-Hybrids. Mostafa Wahby, Julian Petzold, Heiko Hamann |
| 2021 | A Design of a Virtual Agent that Facilitates a Spatial and Online Communication by Use of Social Particle Swarm Model. Meito Tsuruta, Reiji Suzuki, Takaya Arita |
| 2021 | A Genome-Wide Evolutionary Simulation of the Transcription-Supercoiling Coupling. Théotime Grohens, Sam Meyer, Guillaume Beslon |
| 2021 | A Monocular Depth Estimator to Perceive Crater Illusions in Several Characteristics. Ryota Mima, Yuki Kubota, Masahiko Inami |
| 2021 | A Probabilistic Game of Life on a Quantum Annealer. Thomas Gabor, Marian Lingsch Rosenfeld, Claudia Linnhoff-Popien |
| 2021 | A Regulation Dilemma in Artificial Intelligence Development. The Anh Han, Francisco C. Santos, Luís Moniz Pereira, Tom Lenaerts |
| 2021 | A Representation of Artificial Spin Ice for Evolutionary Search. Arthur Penty, Gunnar Tufte |
| 2021 | A Sustainable Ecosystem through Emergent Cooperation in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning. Fabian Ritz, Daniel Ratke, Thomy Phan, Lenz Belzner, Claudia Linnhoff-Popien |
| 2021 | A graph-theoretic approach to understanding emergent behavior in physical systems. Alyssa M. Adams |
| 2021 | Active Dynamical Prospection: Modeling Mental Simulation as Particle Filtering for Sensorimotor Control during Pathfinding. Jeremy Gordon, John Chuang |
| 2021 | Acute Citalopram administration alters zebrafish social dynamics in a behavioral teleporting experiment. Mert Karakaya, Simone Macrì, Maurizio Porfiri |
| 2021 | Adaptation-By-Proxy: Contagion Effect of Social Buffering in an Artificial Society. Imran Khan, Lola Cañamero |
| 2021 | Ageing in artificial and real life: can we code a cure? Andrew Steele |
| 2021 | An Artificial Creature Approach to the Origin of Acoustic Communication. Reiji Suzuki, Ryohei Seki, Takahiro Banno, Kouki Kawai, Takaya Arita |
| 2021 | An evolutionary game theory analysis of trust in repeated games and lessons for human-machine interactions. The Anh Han, Cedric Perret, Simon T. Powers |
| 2021 | An organismic inspired strategy for adaptive control. Alvaro Ovalle |
| 2021 | Any colour you like: using animal-robot interaction to unravel mechanisms promoting phenotypically heterogeneous fish aggregations. Donato Romano, Cesare Stefanini |
| 2021 | ArchaeaBot: A Post Singularity and Post Climate Change Life-form. Anna Dumitriu, Alex May |
| 2021 | Architecture of the Genotype-Phenotype Map and the Coevolution of Complexity. Bhaskar Kumawat, Luis Zaman |
| 2021 | Artificial Cognitive Map System based on Generative Deep Neural Networks. Hiroki Kojima, Takashi Ikegami |
| 2021 | Asynchronicity in Neural Cellular Automata. Eyvind Niklasson, Alexander Mordvintsev, Ettore Randazzo |
| 2021 | Bio-Hybrid Systems for Ecosystem Level Effects. Asya Ilgün, Kostadin Angelov, Martin Stefanec, Sarah Schönwetter-Fuchs, Valerin Stokanic, Jutta Vollmann, Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler, Martin H. Kärcher, Heinrich Mellmann, Volha Taliaronak, Armands Kviesis, Vitalijs Komasilovs, Matthias A. Becher, Martina Szopek, David M. Dormagen, Rafael Barmak, Erol Bairaktarov, Matthieu Broisin, Ronald Thenius, Rob Mills, Stamatios C. Nicolis, Alexandre Campo, Aleksejs Zacepins, Sergey Petrov, Jean-Louis Deneubourg, Francesco Mondada, Tim Landgraf, Verena V. Hafner, Thomas Schmickl |
| 2021 | Biohybrid Entities for Environmental Monitoring. Ronald Thenius, Wiktoria Rajewicz, Joshua Cherian Varughese, Sarah Schönwetter-Fuchs, Farshad Arvin, Alexander J. Casson, Chao Wu, Barry Lennox, Alexandre Campo, Godfried Jansen van Vuuren, Cesare Stefanini, Donato Romano, Thomas Schmickl |
| 2021 | Biomimetic robots promote the 3Rs Principle in animal testing. David Bierbach, Fritz Francisco, Juliane Lukas, Tim Landgraf, Moritz Maxeiner, Pawel Romanczuk, Lea Musiolek, Verena V. Hafner, Jens Krause |
| 2021 | Can Being Aware of the Illusion of Self Augment an Agent's Affordances: Integrating Buddhist Philosophy, Cognitive Science, and Artificial Life. Thomas Doctor, Elizaveta Solomonova, Bill Duane, Olaf Witkowski |
| 2021 | Can Robots Inform a Honeybee Colony's Foraging Decision-Making? Dajana Lazic, Thomas Schmickl |
| 2021 | Co-evolution of Initial Configuration and Control in Evolutionary Robotics. Kasper Støy |
| 2021 | Complexity begets complexity. Jessica C. Flack |
| 2021 | Computational Hierarchy of Elementary Cellular Automata. Barbora Hudcová, Tomás Mikolov |
| 2021 | Connections between Noisy Fitness and Selection Strength. Vincent R. Ragusa, Clifford Bohm |
| 2021 | Control of collective behaviours through artificial feedbacks. Stamatios C. Nicolis, Mariano Calvo Martín, Alexandre Campo, Jean-Louis Deneubourg |
| 2021 | Controlling invasive species with biologically-inspired robots. Giovanni Polverino, Maurizio Porfiri |
| 2021 | Creating Artificial Societies through Interaction Analysis: Translating Qualitative Observational Study into Agent-Based Modelling. Selin Zileli, Jiayu Wu, Cyriel Diels, Stephen Boyd Davis |
| 2021 | Decomposing the Prediction Problem; Autonomous Navigation by neoRL Agents. Per Roald Leikanger |
| 2021 | Designing Considerate Swarms. Nishant Ramakuru, Namid R. Stillman |
| 2021 | Differentiable Programming of Reaction-Diffusion Patterns. Alexander Mordvintsev, Ettore Randazzo, Eyvind Niklasson |
| 2021 | Diversity Control in Evolution of Movement. Maciej Komosinski, Konrad Miazga |
| 2021 | Efficient Spike Timing Dependent Plasticity rule for Complex-Valued Neurons. Alex Baranski, Tom Froese |
| 2021 | Emergence of more contagious COVID-19 variants from the interaction of viruses and policy interventions. Aymeric Vié |
| 2021 | Emergence of structures from parasitic species in a spatially distributed molecular system. Nathanaël Aubert-Kato, Guillaume Gines, Teruo Fujii, Yannick Rondelez |
| 2021 | Evaluation of the effect of mimicry on facial expression in Avatar-Mediated Communication. Mikihiro Suda, Mizuki Oka |
| 2021 | Evolution of Neural Complexity in Division of Labor Tasks. Ekaterina Sangati, Soheil Keshmiri, Federico Sangati |
| 2021 | Evolution of morphology through sculpting in a voxel based robot. Kathryn Walker, Helmut Hauser |
| 2021 | Evolving Modular Robots: Challenges and Opportunities. Andrés Faiña |
| 2021 | Experiments in Machine Behavior. Iyad Rahwan |
| 2021 | Exploration in Evolutionary Space by Hashtag Evolution on a Social Network Service. Hiroki Sato, Yasuhiro Hashimoto, Mizuki Oka, Takashi Ikegami |
| 2021 | Exploring collective intelligence in animal fission-fusion dynamics. Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez, Tania M. Palacios-Romo, Sandra E. Smith Aguilar |
| 2021 | Friendly-rivalry solutions for direct reciprocity. Yohsuke Murase, Seung Ki Baek |
| 2021 | Generating Agent Based Models From Scratch With Genetic Programming. Rory Greig, Jordi Arranz |
| 2021 | Generating reward structures on a parameterized distribution of dynamics tasks. Abe Leite, Eduardo J. Izquierdo |
| 2021 | Goals for Self-Replicating Neural Networks. Thomas Gabor, Steffen Illium, Maximilian Zorn, Claudia Linnhoff-Popien |
| 2021 | Growing 3D Artefacts and Functional Machines with Neural Cellular Automata. Shyam Sudhakaran, Djordje Grbic, Siyan Li, Adam Katona, Elias Najarro, Claire Glanois, Sebastian Risi |
| 2021 | Growing Opportunities to Grow: Toward Open-Ended Multi-Agent Communication Learning. Marina Dubova |
| 2021 | Homage to R.U.R.: 100 Ways to Play a Robot. Jana Horáková |
| 2021 | How Artificial Life Researchers Can Help Address Complex Societal Challenges. Hiroki Sayama |
| 2021 | Hyperdescriptions of Quantum Dynamics - A Case Study for Avian Magnetoreception. Dragana Laketic |
| 2021 | Identification of Lifelike Characteristics of Human Crowds Through a Classification Task. Jamie Webster, Martyn Amos |
| 2021 | Imprecise Fusion Operators for Collective Learning. Zixuan Liu, Michael Crosscombe, Jonathan Lawry |
| 2021 | Incentive for Self-Protection in a Collective System: a Swarm Robotics Case Study. Payam Zahadat |
| 2021 | Increased Complexity and Fitness of Artificial Cells that Reproduce Using Spatially Distributed Asynchronous Parallel Processes. Lance R. Williams |
| 2021 | Influence of the geometry on the agglomeration of a polydisperse binary system of spherical particles. Johannes Josef Schneider, Alessia Faggian, Silvia Holler, Federica Casiraghi, Jin Li, Lorena Cebolla Sanahuja, Hans-Georg Matuttis, Martin M. Hanczyc, David A. Barrow, Mathias Sebastian Weyland, Dandolo Flumini, Peter Eggenberger Hotz, Rudolf Marcel Füchslin |
| 2021 | Introducing asymptotics to the state-updating rule in Lenia. Takako Kawaguchi, Reiji Suzuki, Takaya Arita, Bert Chan |
| 2021 | Learning to Penalize Other Learning Agents. Kyrill Schmid, Lenz Belzner, Claudia Linnhoff-Popien |
| 2021 | Liquid Crystal Phase Assembly in Peptide-DNA Coacervates as a Mechanism for Primitive Emergence of Structural Complexity. Tony Z. Jia, Tommaso P. Fraccia |
| 2021 | Listening to Ecosystems as Complex Adaptive Systems: Toward Acoustic Early Warning Signals. Alice Eldridge |
| 2021 | Major transitions in evolution and finite time singularities: Human wealth history. Paolo Sibani, Steen Rasmussen |
| 2021 | Modeling behavioral experiments on uncertainty and cooperation with population-based reinforcement learning - Extended Abstract. Elias Fernández Domingos, Jelena Grujic, Juan C. Burguillo, Francisco C. Santos, Tom Lenaerts |
| 2021 | Monks, Labs, Cyborgs: the Plasticity of Personhood in Tibetan Buddhism. Ana Cristina Lopes |
| 2021 | Objective Sampling Strategies for Generalized Locomotion Behavior with Lexicase Selection. Jared M. Moore, Adam Stanton |
| 2021 | On the Scales of Selves: Information, Life, and Buddhist Philosophy. Carlos Gershenson |
| 2021 | Order from Order: How Life Emerged from a Convection-driven Submarine Spring. Mike Russell |
| 2021 | Physical reservoir computing in a soft swimming robot. Yuta Horii, Katsuma Inoue, Satoshi Nishikawa, Kohei Nakajima, Ryuma Niiyama, Yasuo Kuniyoshi |
| 2021 | Psychophysical Tests Reveal that Evolved Artificial Brains Perceive Time like Humans. Ali Tehrani-Saleh, Christoph Adami |
| 2021 | Quality Evolvability ES: Evolving Individuals With a Distribution of Well Performing and Diverse Offspring. Adam Katona, Daniel W. Franks, James Alfred Walker |
| 2021 | Random Networks with Quantum Boolean Functions. Mário Franco, Octavio Zapata, David A. Rosenblueth, Carlos Gershenson |
| 2021 | Reaction kinetics exploration of a protocellular metabolism. Ditlev Hartmann Bornebusch, Hans-Joachim Ziock, Steen Rasmussen |
| 2021 | Recursively Fertile Self-replicating Neural Agents. Ettore Randazzo, Luca Versari, Alexander Mordvintsev |
| 2021 | Reservoir computing with self-organizing neural oscillators. Sina Khajehabdollahi, Emmanouil Giannakakis, Jan Prosi, Anna Levina |
| 2021 | Resurrecting FPGA Intrinsic Analog Evolvable Hardware. Derek Whitley, Jason A. Yoder, Nicklas Carpenter |
| 2021 | Robots communicating with fish: Integration requires reciprocal interaction. Gerhard von der Emde, Martin Worm |
| 2021 | Robots: The century past and the century ahead, an Introduction to the 2021 ALIFE conference. Jitka Cejková |
| 2021 | SARS-CoV-2 pandemic dynamics and infection tracing in Denmark. Morten W. N. Jørgensen, Niels Høiby, Hans-Joachim Ziock, Steen Rasmussen |
| 2021 | Safer Reinforcement Learning through Transferable Instinct Networks. Djordje Grbic, Sebastian Risi |
| 2021 | Searching for initial parameters in cell colony spatial pattern generation. Nicolás Araya, Guillermo Iglesias, P. Martín Gutiérrez |
| 2021 | Sensorimotor behavior under informational constraints: a robotic model of prey localization in the bat Thinh H. Nguyen, Dieter Vanderelst, Herbert Peremans |
| 2021 | Simulating short- and long-term evolutionary dynamics on rugged landscapes. Leonardo Trujillo, Paul Banse, Guillaume Beslon |
| 2021 | Social Search Evolves with the Emergence of Clustered Environments. Mahi Luthra, Peter M. Todd |
| 2021 | Soft Robots: Increasing Robot Diversity with Soft Materials. Daniela Rus |
| 2021 | Species in Morphogenesis: Introducing Symbiogenesis as an Additional Method for the Evolutionary Process of an Artwork. Tiago Barros Pontes e Silva, Marília Lyra Bergamo |
| 2021 | Spontaneous modular NeuroEvolution arising from a life/dinner paradox. Kevin Godin-Dubois, Sylvain Cussat-Blanc, Yves Duthen |
| 2021 | Studying Embodied Cognition in the Android Alter. Norihiro Maruyama, Atsushi Masumori, Takashi Ikegami |
| 2021 | Supervision and Evolution: Pretraining Neural Networks for Quadrupedal Locomotion. Jared M. Moore, Anthony J. Clark |
| 2021 | The Comparative Hybrid Approach to Investigate Cognition across Substrates. Sarah Albani, Acacia L. Ackles, Charles Ofria, Clifford Bohm |
| 2021 | The Dynamical Landscape of Reservoir Computing with Elementary Cellular Automata. Tom Eivind Glover, Pedro G. Lind, Anis Yazidi, Evgeny Osipov, Stefano Nichele |
| 2021 | The Impact of Early-death on Phenotypically Plastic Robots that Evolve in Changing Environments. Karine Miras, Jim Cuijpers, Bahadir Gülhan, A. E. Eiben |
| 2021 | The Role of Speaker Prestige in Synthetic Language Evolution. Gregory Furman, Geoff Nitschke |
| 2021 | The autonomous Earth: How humans created a planetary civilisation that is beyond their control. James G. Dyke |
| 2021 | The dynamical regime and its importance for evolvability, task performance and generalization. Jan Prosi, Sina Khajehabdollahi, Emmanouil Giannakakis, Georg Martius, Anna Levina |
| 2021 | The effect of selecting for different behavioral traits on the evolved gaits of modular robots. Babak Hosseinkhani Kargar, Karine Miras, A. E. Eiben |
| 2021 | The emergence of collective response to decisions in a group of physical agents. Yara Khaluf |
| 2021 | The methods of biorobotics. Edoardo Datteri |
| 2021 | Toward Population-Level Biohybrid Systems: Bioinspiration and Behavior. Eric Aaron, John H. Long Jr. |
| 2021 | Toward artificial cells/living cells communication in hybrid ensembles. Giordano Rampioni, Yutetsu Kuruma, Livia Leoni, Luisa Damiano, Pasquale Stano |
| 2021 | Towards Autopoietic SB-AI. Luisa Damiano, Pasquale Stano |
| 2021 | Towards Guidelines for Mechatronic Ecosystem Monitoring and Management. Alan Dorin, Hazel R. Parry, James Cook |
| 2021 | Towards animal phenotype transfer into biomimetic robots: the LAMPETRA project. Cesare Stefanini, Donato Romano |
| 2021 | Towards investigating the influence of probabilistic robot motion parameters on archerfish behavior in fish-robot interactions. Alexander A. Brown, Michael F. Brown, Brent A. Utter |
| 2021 | Towards open-ended evolutionary simulator for developing novel tumour drug delivery systems. Igor Balaz, Tara Petric, Namid Stillman |
| 2021 | Tracking Multiple Fast Targets With Swarms: Interplay Between Social Interaction and Agent Memory. Hian Lee Kwa, Jabez Leong Kit, Roland Bouffanais |
| 2021 | Tracking data flow in digital brains exposes coincidental encryption. Douglas Kirkpatrick, Victoria Cao, Clifford Bohm |
| 2021 | Underwater communication with artificial electric sense. Mohamed Boukens, Vincent Lebastard, Godfried Jansen van Vuuren, Frédéric Boyer |
| 2021 | Using MAP-Elites to direct the evolution of desired neural characteristics. Douglas Kirkpatrick, Arend Hintze |
| 2021 | WatchPlant: Networked Bio-hybrid Systems for Pollution Monitoring of Urban Areas. Heiko Hamann, Stjepan Bogdan, Antonio Diaz-Espejo, Laura García-Carmona, Virginia Hernandez-Santana, Serge Kernbach, Andreas Kernbach, Alfredo Quijano-Lopez, Babak Salamat, Mostafa Wahby |
| 2021 | Weird Tales: Early Visions of Machines That Can Reproduce and Evolve, and Their Relevance Today. Tim Taylor |
| 2021 | What is a Parasite? Defining reaction and network properties in an open ended automata chemistry. Susan Stepney, Simon J. Hickinbotham |
| 2021 | When a Robot Writes a Play: Automatically Generating a Theatre Play Script. Rudolf Rosa, Tomás Musil, Ondrej Dusek, Dominik Jurko, Patrícia Schmidtová, David Marecek, Ondrej Bojar, Tom Kocmi, Daniel Hrbek, David Kosták, Martina Kinská, Marie Nováková, Josef Dolezal, Klára Vosecká, Tomás Studeník, Petr Zabka |
| 2021 | World Models and Attention for Reinforcement Learning. David Ha |
| 2021 | You, Robot: Empathy in a Hybrid World. Jesús M. Siqueiros |