Venue: Edificio San Niccolò, Via Roma 56, Siena
08:00-08:45 Registrations (CCS25 satellites)
08:45-09:00 Welcome (CCS25)
09:00-09:30 Invited Talk (CCS25)
09:45-10:45 First Keynote talk - Stefano Melacci
Collectionless Artificial Intelligence: Peer-to-Peer Network of Agents for Decentralized Learning Over Time
10:45-11:15 Coffee break
11:30-13:00 First oral session - Artificial life for environment management (Chair: Stefano Melacci)
11:30-12:00 – Uri Hershberg, Juan Juliàn Merelo
Venezia the living city
12:00-12:30 – Davoud Alahvirdi, Elio Tuci
Multi-Agent Learning for Multi-Intersection Traffic Control with a Swarm of Drones
12:30-13:00 – Donato D’Ambrosio, Alessandro Sidero, Valeria Lupiano, Giulio Iovine
Accelerating Landslide Temporal Forecasting through a Re-engineered Software System: GASAKe 2.1
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-14:30 Invited Talk (CCS25)
15:00-16:00 Second oral session - AILife: Artificial Intelligence in Life Sciences (Chair: Marco Villani)
15:00-15:30 – Paolo Andreini, Simone Bonechi, Monica Bianchini, Franco Scarselli, Francesco Manni,
Matilde Quercioli, Barbara Toniella Corradini
A comparison on Cross–Domain Representation Learning for Skin–Lesion Classification
15:30-16:00 – Barbara Toniella Corradini, Monica Bianchini, Franco Scarselli, Lorenzo Nigi, Vittorio Sali, Alessia Lucia Prete
Comparing General and Domain-Specific Pre-trained Language Models for Natural Product Classification
16:15-16:45 Coffee break
Venue: Edificio San Niccolò, Via Roma 56, Siena
08:00-08:45 Registrations (CCS25 satellites)
08:45-09:00 Welcome (CCS25)
09:00-09:30 Invited Talk (CCS25)
09:45-10:45 Second Keynote talk - Diego Garlaschelli
Multi-Scale Node Embeddings for Graph Modeling and Generation
10:45-11:15 Coffee break
11:30-13:00 Third oral session - Going deep in the origin and diversity of life (Chair: Stafano Cagnoni)
11:30-12:00 – Marco Villani, Samuele Carpi, Roberto Serra
Collective autocatalysis in a modified binary polymer model
12:00-12:30 – Bastien Morel, Clément Moulin-Frier, Pascal Barla
Complex System Exploration with Interactive Human Guidance
12:30-13:00 – Fernando Rodriguez, Phil Husbands
Intrinsic information in the Game of Life. The case of the glider
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-14:30 Invited Talk (CCS25)
14:45-16:15 Fourth oral session – ALife in complex environments (Chair: Roberto Serra)
14:45-15:15 – Luisa Damiano, Antonio Fleres
Toward a Gaian Synthetic Approach. Techno-Apoptosis as a Catalyst for Sustainable Robotics
15:15-15:45 – Veronica Lachi, Giovanna Maria Dimitri, Alessandro Di Stefano, Pietro Liò, Monica Bianchini, Chiara Mocenni
Impact of the COVID-19 Outbreak on the Italian Twitter Vaccination Debate: A Network-Based Analysis
15:45-16:15 – Enza Panzardi, Ada Fort, Valerio Vignoli, Marco Mugnaini
Numerical Modeling of Surface Reactions in Chemoresistive Gas Sensors: A Computational Approach to Predictive Behavior
16:15-16:45 Coffee break
16:45-17:45 Presentation of WIVACE 2026
20:00-22:00 Gala Dinner (CCS25)
Venue: Santa Chiara Lab, Via Valdimontone 1, Siena
9:00-10:20. Fifth oral session - Extended abstracts (Chair: Barbara Toniella Corradini)
09:00-09:20 – Roger Jones
Use of the Extended Second Law of Thermodynamics that Includes Information Flow in the Maxwell Demon to Obtain Computational Architecture at the Cell Membrane
09:20-09:40 – Marco Villani, Carlo Uguzzoni
Characterization of bow-tie zones in unknown systems
09:40-10:00 – Andrea Fiorese, Ulysse Marquis, Sebastiano Bontorin, Riccardo Gallotti, Barbara Mazzolai, Nicola Maria Pugno
Coupled Growth and Optimization Model for Biological Networks
10:00-10:20 – Riccardo Pecori, Salvatore Del Basso, Alba Amato, Pietro Squeri, Anna Torelli, Matteo Marieschi, Roberta Ruotolo,
Saksham Sharma, Neil Philips, Andrew Adamatzky, Pasquale D'Angelo, Giuseppe Tarabella
The spontaneous and stimulated electrical activity in Scenedesmus acutus algae
10:20-11:00 Coffee break