Dr. Ezequiel Di Paolo

Ikerbasque Research Professor
(Argentinian - Italian)

PhD Degree in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Sussex, UK, 1999
Reader at the Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics (CCNR) and Centre for Research in Cognitive Systems (COGS), University of Sussex, 2000 - 2009. Member of the Board of Directors of the International Society of Artificial Life.
Research line: Embodied and social cognition, Philosophy of Mind, Evolutionary robotics, Complexity, Computational neuroscience, Biological modelling
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Ikerbasque Research Professor, Visiting Senior Research Fellow, University of Sussex

Publications

2011

Hu, X-B and Di Paolo, E. A. (2011)
A ripple-spreading genetic algorithm for the aircraft sequencing problem
Evolutionary Computation

Froese, T. and Di Paolo, E. (2011)
The enactive approach. Theoretical sketches from cell to society
Pragmatics and Cognition

Hu, X-B. Wang, M., Leeson, M. S, Hines, E. L., and Di Paolo, E. A. (2011)
A Deterministic Ripple-Spreading Model for Complex Networks
Physical Review E

2010

Froese, T. and Di Paolo, E. A. (2010)
Modelling social interaction as perceptual crossing: An investigation into the dynamics of the interaction process
Connection Science

Bullock, S., Barnett, L. and Di Paolo, E. A. (2010)
Spatial embedding and the structure of complex networks
Complexity

Husbands, P., Philippides, A., Vargas, P., Buckley, C. L., Fine, P., Di Paolo, E. A., O'Shea, M. (2010)
Spatial, temporal and modulatory factors affecting GasNet evolvability
Complexity

De Jaegher, H., Di Paolo, E. A., Gallagher, S. (2010)
Can social interaction constitute social cognition?
Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Egbert, M. D., Barandiaran, X. E., Di Paolo, E. A. (2010)
A Minimal Model of Metabolism-based Chemotaxis
PLoS Computational Biology

Di Paolo, Ezequiel (2010)
Robotics inspired in the organism
Intellectica

In press

Egbert, M., Barandiaran, X. and Di Paolo, E. A. (2011)
Behavioral Metabolution
Artificial Life

Books and book chapters

Published

Stewart, J., Di Paolo, E. A., Gapenne, O. (2010)
Type: book
Book: Enaction: Toward a New Paradigm for Cognitive Science
Chapter: Introduction
Page numbers: vii - xvii
ISBN: 978-0-262-01460-1 | MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA | Editors: Stewart, J., Gapenne, O., Di Paolo, E. A.
Di Paolo, E. A., Rohde, M. and De Jaegher, H. (2010)
Type: chapters
Book: Enaction: Toward a New Paradigm for Cognitive Science
Chapter: Horizons for the enactive mind: Values, social interaction and play
Page numbers: 33 - 87
ISBN: 978-0-262-01460-1 | MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA | Editors:
Di Paolo, E. A. (2010)
Type: chapters
Book: Living Technology: 5 Questions
Chapter: Living Technology
Page numbers: 67 -76
ISBN: 8792130291 | Copenhagen, Denmark | Editors: Mark Bedau, Pelle Guldborg Hansen, Emily Parke, Steen Rasmussen

In press

Wheeler, M. and Di Paolo, E. A. (2011)
Type: chapters
Book: The Continuum Companion to Existentialism
Chapter: Existentialism and cognitive science
Page numbers: xx
ISBN: 9780826438454 | London | Editors: J. Reynolds, A. Woodward, F. Joseph

Doctoral dissertations

Metabolism, Behaviour and Adaptation: Self-Sensitive Behaviour in Protocells
2011 - 2011
University of Sussex
Matthew Egbert
On the intrinsic control properties of muscles and reflexes
2010 - 2010
University of Sussex
Thomas Buehrmann
Behavioural Robustness and the Distributed Mechanisms Hypothesis
2010 - 2010
University of Sussex
Jose Fernandez-Leon
Sociality and the Life-Mind Continuity Thesis: A Study in Evolutionary Robotics
2009 - 2009
University of Sussex
Tom Froese
Small but Perfectly Formed: Evolutionary Robotics Models of 'Minimal' Developmental Systems
2008 - 2008
University of Sussex
Rachel Wood
Evolutionary Robotics Simulation Models in the Study of Human Behaviour and Cognition
2008 - 2008
University of Sussex
Marieke Rohde
Evolving Dynamical System Models of Path Integration
2008 - 2008
University of Sussex
Robert Vickerstaff
The Evolving Functional Circle Hypothesis: A Study of Autonomous Robots with Evolvable Morphologies
2007 - 2007
University of Sussex
Ian Macinnes
The Evolution of the Chemoton
2007 - 2007
University of Sussex
Chrisantha Fernando
The Evolution of the Omni-Directional Bipedal Robot
2007 - 2007
University of Sussex
Eric Vaughan
Exploring Developmental Dynamics in Evolved Neural Network Controllers
2006 - 2006
University of Sussex
Andy Baalam

Managerial activities

Training Coordinator, Marie-Curie Initial Training Network TESIS: Towards an Embodied Science of InterSubjectivity. FP7-PEOPLE-2010-ITN, no: 264828
Editor-in-chief of Adaptive Behavior since 2009

Congresses, Proceedings & Scientific meetings

Homeostatic plasticity in robots. Barandiaran, X. and Di Paolo, E. A.
4th International Conference on Cognitive Systems. CogSys, 2010 (2010) Congress
ETH Zurich, Switzerland, Jan 27 - 28, 2010 (Poster)
Through the Enactive Eye – Locked-in Syndrome as a Challenge for Embodied Cognition. Kyselo, M. and Di Paolo, E. A.
10th Biannual Conference of the German Society for Cognitive Science, KogWis 2010 (2010) Congress
Potsdam, October 3 - 6, 2010 (Talk)
Behavioral Metabolution: Metabolism based behavior enables new forms of adaptation and evolution. Egbert, M., Barandiaran, X., and Di Paolo, E. A.
Artificial Life XII, The 12th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (2010) Congress
August, 2010, Odense, Denmark (Talk)
Extended life. Di Paolo. E. A.
The First European Summer School on Life & Cognition (2010) Congress
San Sebastián, 22 - 26 June, 2010 (Invited talk)
How the mind shapes the body. Di Paolo. E. A.
Enaction School, 2010 (2010) Congress
27th June - 3rd July 2010. Ballykisteen, Co. Tipperary, Ireland. (Invited talk)
The Social Invisible. E. A. Di Paolo
Embodiment, Intersubjectivity and Psychopathology, International Conference (2010) Congress
University of Heidelberg (Invited talk)

Ikerbasque. Basque Foundation for Science