Evolution, Criticality and Creativity in Collective Intelligence

Workshop at ALIFE2024,  July 22-26, 2024, Copenhagen, Denmark

Overview

This workshop aims to enhance interdisciplinary dialogue on Collective Intelligence (CI), focusing on "Exploring new frontiers" in Artificial Life research across three areas: Evolution, Criticality, and Creativity. CI, the intelligent behaviour emerging from collective efforts, plays a crucial role in various domains. The event encourages participation from diverse fields—biology to sociology and art—to bring fresh insights into ALIFE conferences. It will delve into how evolution, criticality, and creativity intersect within collective systems to foster CI.

Program

TBA

Call for Abstracts

We invite researchers and practitioners to submit papers that explore the following (and related) areas:

• Autonomous decentralized collective robotics and machine learning methods inspired by biology

• Research in anthropology, evolutionary and social psychology through collective reinforcement learning and multi-agent simulation

• Intervention in human groups by artificial robots or agents

• Theoretical and experimental research on animal collective behavior

• Using game theory in economic research.

• Neuroscience focusing on the criticality of neural activity

• Other approaches to expand the horizon of collective intelligence research

Submission Guidelines:

Original research, summary of published results and opinions are welcome. 

Submissions should be in the form of extended abstracts (maximum 2 pages) or research articles (maximum 8 pages). If your contribution is a summary of previous results, please specify during the submission process. 

Accepted work will be made available in the format of a booklet. 

Deadline for Abstract Submission: 3rd  June
Notification  of Abstract Submission:  10th June

Presentation Time: Each selected speaker will be allocated 15 minutes (12 mins talk + 3 mins Q&A) for their presentation.

Please send the title and abstract of your presentation via email to the event organisers at ECCCI.ALIFE@gmail.com.

Keywords

• Social/Evolutionary Psychology

• Machine learning and robotics in collective intelligence

• Criticality in distributed system

• Creativity in group dynamics

Invited speakers

Organizers and contact

Kazuya Horibe (RIKEN CBS | Osaka University)

Michael Crosscombe (The University of Tokyo)