Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation [electronic resource] : 15th Italian Workshop, WIVACE 2021, Winterthur, Switzerland, September 15–17, 2021, Revised Selected Papers /

Networks -- Dynamical criticality in growing networks -- Effective Resistance based Weight Thresholding for Community Detection -- An Oracle for the Optimization of Underconstrained Compositions of Neural Networks - The Tick Hazard Use Case -- Droplets, Fluids, and Synthetic Biology -- Obstacles on the Pathway towards Chemical Programmability using Agglomerations of Droplets -- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: droplet recognition by a "shootout"-heuristics -- Exploring the three-dimensional arrangement of droplets -- Geometric restrictions to the agglomeration of spherical particles -- Effectiveness of Dynamic Load Balancing in Parallel Execution of a Subsurface Flow Cellular Automata Model -- Two possible AI-related paths for bottom-up synthetic cell research -- Robot Systems -- A hybrid control system architecture for a mobile robot to provide an energy-efficient and fast data processing -- On the evolution of mechanisms for collective decision making in a swarm of robots -- A novel online adaptation mechanism in artificial systems provides phenotypic plasticity -- Computer Vision and Computational Creativity -- Exploration of Genetic Algorithms and CNN for Melanoma Classification -- Using Genetic Algorithms to optimize a deep learning based system for the prediction of cognitive impairments -- Autonomous inspections of power towers with an UAV -- Self-organizing Maps of Artificial Neural Classifiers - a Brain like Pin Factory -- Evolutionary Music: Statistical Learning and Novelty for automatic improvisation -- Semantic Search -- ARISE: Artificial Intelligence Semantic Search Engine -- Artificial Medicine and Pharmacy -- Influence of the Antigen Pattern Vector on the Dynamics in a Perceptron-based Artificial Immune - Tumour-Ecosystem during and after Radiation Therapy -- Two-level detection of dynamic organization in cancer evolution models -- Artificial chemical neural network for drug discovery applications -- Trade and Finance -- Information Flow Simulations in Multi-Dimensional and Dynamic Systems -- Investigation of the Ramsey-Pierce-Bowman Model -- Ethics in Computational Modelling -- Ethical Aspects of Computational Modelling in Science, Decision Support and Communication.

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