REAL wins big at GECCO and ALife 2018
Members of the REAL Lab presented a number of works at this year’s editions of the GECCO and ALife conferences and came home with a handful of awards:
- Best student paper award, 2018 Conference on Artificial Life, for Frank Veenstra, Pablo González de Prado Salas, Josh Bongard, Kasper Støy and Sebastian Risi: Intrinsic Mortality Governs Evolvability.
- Best paper award in the DETA+THEORY+GECH track, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2018). for Vanessa Volz, Jacob Schrum, Jialin Liu, Simon M. Lucas, Adam M. Smith, Sebastian Risi: Evolving Mario Levels in the Latent Space of a Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Network.
- Distinguished Young Investigator award 2018 from the International Society for Artificial Life for Sebastian Risi
In addition, the following were presented at GECCO by members of the lab:
- Evolution of Fin Undulation on a Physical Knifefish-inspired Soft Robot
Frank Veenstra, Jonas Jørgensen, Sebastian Risi
To appear in: Proceedings of the Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO 2018). New York, NY: ACM (8 pages). - Towards an experiment on perception of affective music generation using MetaCompose
Marco Scirea, Peter Eklund, Julian Togelius, and Sebastian Risi
To appear in: Companion to the Proceedings of the Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO Companion 2018). New York, NY: ACM (2 pages). - Clustering sensory inputs using NeuroEvolution of augmenting topologies
David Kadish
To appear in: Companion to the Proceedings of the Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO Companion 2018). New York, NY: ACM (2 pages).