Seminars and Contribution to International Conferences

Invited contributions to International Conferences

• Behaviour and Cognition as a Complex Adaptive System: Insights from Evolutionary Robotics Experiments. (invited talk). VIII German Workshop on Artificial Life, Leipzig, Germany, July 30-August 1, 2008.
• Behaviour and Cognition as a Complex Adaptive System: Insights from Evolutionary Robotics Experiments. (invited plenary talk) The European Conference on Evolutionary Computation (Evostar 2008), Napoli, Italy, March 26-28, 2008.
• Behaviour as a complex Adaptive System. (invited talk) International Conference on Living Technology, Venezia, Italy, May 25-26, 2007
• On the relation between cognition and behaviour: An embodied perspective. (invited talk) Second Meeting of the European Network for the Advancement of Artificial Cognitive Systems, Monaco, Germany, January 11-12, 2007
• Neural network models of Categorization. (invited talk) International Summer School on “Neural network models of perception, action and embodied knowledge” Department of Psychology, University of Bologna, Italy. July 13–19, 2005
• Behaviour as a Complex Adaptive System. (invited talk) International School on Semiotic Dynamics, Language and Complexity, Erice (Sicily, Italy). December 12-15, 2005.
• Evolving Swarm-Bots: Coordinated Behavior in Collection of Physically Assembled Robots. (invited talk). International Conference on Complex Systems (ICCS2004), Boston, USA, 16-21 May 2004
• Evolutionary Robotics: Exploiting the Power of Self-Organization. (invited talk). The First Australian Conference on Artificial Life (ACAL 2003), Canberra, Australia, 6-7 December 2003.
• Toward the Synthesis of Embodied and Situated Agents. (invited talk) International Colloquium on Cognition, Meaning and Complexity. Self-Organization in Cognitive Systems, Roma. June 14-15, 2002.
• Evolutionary Robotics: Beyond Reactive Intelligence. (invited talk) International Conference on Evolution and Neural Control of Autonomous Systems, Jena, December 1-2, 2000.
• Power and Limits of Reactive Intelligence. (invited talk) International Colloquium on Language and Cognition: An Interdisciplinary Approach, Roma. May 18-20, 1999.
• Evolutionary Robotics: Exploiting the power of self-organization. (invited talk) First International USA-Italy Conference on Applied Neural and Cognitive Sciences, Boston, MA: USA. October 3-6, 1999.
• Developing robots through artificial evolution. (invited talk) First International Khepera Workshop. Heinz Nixdorf Institute, Paderborn, Germany. December 10-11, 1999.
• Evolutionary Robotics: Exploring the full power of self-organization. (invited talk) International Colloquium on Fluxes of Thought: Self-organizing Dynamics and Semantic Structures in Biological and Cognitive Systems, Rome, 25-27th June, 1998.
• Adaptation is more powerful than decomposition and integration: Experimental evidences from evolutionary robotics, (talk in invited session), IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (FUZZ-IEEE'98), Anchorage, Alaska, 4-9th May, 1998.
• Evolutionary Robotics: Exploiting the full power of Self-Organization, (invited talk), Second Internation Workshop on Self-Learning Robots and Biorobotics, Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE) Seminar Savoy Place, London: February, 12th, 1998.
• Evolving non-trivial behavior on autonomous robots: Adaptation is more powerful than decomposition and integration, (invited talk), International Workshop on Artificial Life and Adaptive Robots, University of Aarhus, Denmark, 29-30th January, 1998.
• Neural Networks in an Artificial Life perspective, (talk in invited session), 7th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, 8-10th October, 1997.
• The adaptive advantage of recombination: the role of modularity, (talk in invited session), International Workshop on Sexual Reproduction and Biodiversity: From Biology to informatics, 1-3 October 1997 - Fribourg, Switzerland
• God Save the Red Queen! Competition in co-evolutionary robotics. (talk in invited session). Second International conference on Genetic Programming, Stanford University - Stanford, California, U.S.A., 13-16th July, 1997.
• Evolving non-trivial behavior on autonomous robots: Adaptation is more powerful than decomposition and integration. (invited talk) The 5th International Conference on Evolutionary Robotics, Canadian Embassy in Tokyo, Japan, April 17-18, 1997.
• Evolving non-trivial behaviors on real robots: a garbage collecting robot (invited talk) IEE Workshop on Self Learning Robots, London 12th February, 1995.
• Phenotypic Plasticity in Evolving Neural Networks (invited talk) International Conference From Perception to Action, Losanna, September 5-9, 1994.
• Learning, Behavior and Evolution (invited talk) First European Conference on Artificial Life, Parigi, 1991.

Tutorials

• Behaviour as a complex Adaptive System: Evolution of coordinated and communicative behaviours, International Summer School on Collective Robotics, Lisboa, August 27-31, 2007
• Behaviour as a Complex Adaptive System: Insights from Evolutionary Robotics Experiments. IEEE Symposium series on Computational Intelligence, April 1, 2007
• Evolutionary Robotics. NTU, Singapore, 2 November, 2002.
• Evolutionary Robotics. Orchard Hotel Singapore, Singapore, 31 October and 1 November, 2002.
• Evolutionary Robotics. Century Novotel, Kuala Lampur, Malaysia, 29-30 October, 2002.
• Evolutionary Robotics. VI International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior and IV International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, Paris, September 10, 2000.
• Evolutionary Robotics. V European Conference on Artificial Life, Losanna, Switzerland, September 13, 1999.
• Evolutionary Robotics: Exploring the full power of self-organization. VIII International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks", Skoevde, Sweden, September 1, 1998.

Seminars

• Sensory-Motor Coordination Sensory-Motor Intelligence and Beyond. Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Department of Information Technology, University of Zurich, Switzerland, January 19, 2001
• Evolutionary Robotics. Ecole Polytechnique Federal of Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, December 15, 2000
• Evolutionary Robotics. Computer Science Department, Center for Complex Systems, Brandeis University. Boston, MA: USA. October 6, 1999
• Adaptation is more powerful than decomposition and integration: Experimental evidences from evolutionary robotics, Center for Neural and Adaptive Systems, School of Computing, University of Plymouth, Plymouth UK, February 13, 1998.
• Evolving non-trivial behavior on autonomous robots: Adaptation is more powerful than decomposition and integration, School of Engeneering, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, June 2, 1997.
• Adaptive Behavior and Evolutionary Robotics research at the Institue of Psychology of the National Research Council, Computer Science Laboratory, SONY, Tokyo, Japan, May 22, 1997.
• Evolving non-trivial behavior on autonomous robots: Adaptation is more powerful than decomposition and integration, Yagami Campus, Keyo University, Tokyo, Japan, May 30, 1997.
• Evolving non-trivial behavior on autonomous robots: Adaptation is more powerful than decomposition and integration, School of Engeneering, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan, April 21, 1997.
• Using emergent modularity to develop control system for mobile robots, LAMI, Ecole Polytechnique Federal of Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, December 4, 1996.

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Stefano Nolfi
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