OEE1 2015 - Open Ended Evolution: Recent Progress and Future Milestones Workshop

Understanding open-ended evolution remains a holy grail in artificial life. There has been progress on a variety of fronts concerning open-ended evolution in the past decade, and the time is ripe to take stock and document recent progress and to identify key remaining milestones for the immediate future. The workshop will create a common framework for discussing and evaluating research on open-ended evolution, with five components: (i) definitions of key concepts concerning open-ended evolution, (ii) actual models that produce (or fail to produce) interesting kinds of open-ended evolution, (iii) quantitative and empirically operational measures of key concepts concerning open-ended evolution, (iv) actual empirical results about models and natural systems that exhibit (or fail to exhibit) open-ended evolution, and (v) critical future research milestones on open-ended evolution.