ERLARS 2011 - 4th International Workshop on
Evolutionary and Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Robot Systems

This is the main workshop day, with scientific talks and discussions. Food will be provided on-site for registered participants.

9.15-9:45	Registration
9:45-10:05	Opening
10:05-11:00	Invited Talk: Reinforcement Learning and Real Robots: A Case of Structural Abstraction by Lutz Frommberger
11:00-11:15	Coffee break
11:15-11:45	About the Transformation between Output and Weight Space in Neural Computation by Jörn Fischer, Thomas Ihme and Andreas Knecht
11:45-12:15	Hierarchical Exhaustive Construction of Autonomously Learning Networks awarded with Best Paper Award of ERLARS 2011 by Goren Gordon
12:15-13:00	Lunch break
13:00-13:30	An Application of Genetic Algorithms to Model Leg–Soil Interaction by Malte Römmermann, Mohammed Ahmed, Lorenz Quack and Yohannes Kassahun
13:30-14:00	A Model of Head Direction Cells with Changing Preferred Head Direction by Theocharis Kyriacou, John Butcher and Charles Day
14:00-14:30	Using CMA-ES with Local Models for Difficult Optimisation Problems by Nils T Siebel and Sven Grünewald
14:30-15:00	Coffee break
15:00-15:30	Evolving Augmented Neural Networks in Compressed Parameter Space by Yohannes Kassahun
15:30-approx. 16:15	Open Discussion
approx. 16:15	Closing

On this day there will be a social programme for all interested participants. The actual programme is dependant on weather and preferences of our guests!

The ERLARS 2011 workshop takes place in Berlin, Germany on Friday/Saturday, December 9/10 2011 at the HTW University of Applied Sciences Berlin. This location is N52° 27' 19.2" E13° 31' 30.3" (N52.45533 E13.52507) [WGS]. Please follow the local signs or ask a member of the workshop staff for details.