[alife] 2nd and Final CFP: ACAL03: Australian Conference on Artificial Life

Hussein A. Abbass h.abbass at adfa.edu.au
Sun Jun 8 21:56:12 PDT 2003


Second and Final Call for papers:

ACAL2003: The First Australian Conference on Artificial Life 
AND 
Special Issue in the Artificial Life Journal, MIT Press

http://www.cs.adfa.edu.au/~abbass/acal03/

6-7 December 2003 (Saturday-Sunday before CEC03), 
Australian Defence Force Academy, 
School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, 
Canberra, Australia

Call for Papers
===============

The First Australian Conference on Artificial Life, (ACAL03), will be held
in Canberra, 6-7 December 2003. 

A selection of the best papers at the conference will be published as a
special issue of the Artificial Life journal, MIT Press. Papers to be
submitted to the special issue are expected to be substantially revised. 

The term Artificial Life (Alife) is used to delineate systems that exhibit
some properties of life. Research in Alife ranges from analyzing and
understanding life and nature to modeling biological systems or solving
biological problems. Alife is a large interdisciplinary research area
covering research from computer science, biology, chemistry, physics,
engineering, sociology, and psychology. Research in Alife can be
generically classified into three main areas: 

* Biological behavior as a metaphor for computational models; such as Ant
Algorithms, Ant Colony Optimization, Marriage in Honey-Bees Optimization,
Immune Systems, Neural Networks, Evolutionary Algorithms, Forest, and DNA
computing. 

* Computational models that reproduce/duplicate a biological behavior; such
as Swarm Intelligence, Simulation, Cellular Automaton 

* Computational models to solve biological problems; such as Bio-informatics 

The aim of this conference is to get together Computer Scientists,
Biologists, Chemists, Engineers, Geneticists, Physicists, and others, to
gain more understanding of the mystery hidden in life and to expose
researchers to the recent advances in this fast developing area. Topics of
interest include, but not limited to, 

o	Adaptive robotics 
o	Ant Algorithms 
o	Ant Colony Optimization 
o	Applications of ALife technologies 
o	Bioinformatics 
o	Biological agents 
o	Cellular automaton 
o	Coevolution of Morphology and Mind 
o	Complex systems 
o	Emergence 
o	Ethics and related issues 
o	Evolutionary and adaptive dynamics 
o	Marriage in Honey-Bees Optimization 
o	Multi-agent systems 
o	Neuro-models
o	Origin of life 
o	Self-organization 
o	Self-replication 
o	Simulation and synthesis tools and methodologies 
o	Swarm Intelligence 
o	and Other related topics 

Location
========

University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy,
Canberra, Australia

Important Dates
===============

Submission of papers to the conference:  		30-June-2003
Notification of acceptance/rejection to authors: 	22-August-2003
Camera ready format:	 				12-September-2003
Conference date:	 				6/7-December-2003

Submission to the special issue:			12-December-2004

Paper Format and Review Process
===============================

Each paper will be reviewed by at least two members of the program
committee.  After the final decision is made regarding the papers, authors
will receive the instructions for the final submission of their papers
accompanied with the reports of the reviewers. At least one author is
expected to attend at the conference to present his/her paper. 

All papers must have a title page that includes a title, a 150-250 word
abstract, a list of keywords, the names and addresses of all authors, their
email addresses, and their telephone and fax numbers. 

Submission to the special issue should follow the format of the Artificial
Life Journal that can found on the journal homepage 

http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=4&tid=41

Publication 
===========

Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings with an
ISBN number. The maximum number of pages is 15. 

Authors of all accepted papers are encouraged to substantially revise and
extend their papers and re-submit for consideration to the special issue.
Depending on the number of acceptance at the conference, submission to the
special issue may be restricted to the conference participants. 

Conference Co-Chairs

*Hussein A. Abbass and **Janet Wiles

* School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, Australian
Defence Force Academy Campus, University of New South Wales, Canberra,
ACT2600, Australia. Email: abbass at cs.adfa.edu.au 

** Joint Appointment in the School of Psychology and School of Information
Technology & Electrical Eng, the University of Queensland QLD 4072,
Australia. Email: janetw at itee.uq.edu.au

Conference Program Committee 
=======================
	Hussein Abbass (UNSW at ADFA, Australia) 
	Michael Barlow (UNSW at ADFA, Australia) 
	Mark Bedau (Reed, USA)  
	Eric Bonabeau (Icosystem & Santa Fe, USA)  
	Terry Bossomaier (CSU, Australia)  
	Dipankar Dasgupta (Memphis, USA)  
	Marco Dorigo (Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)  
	Alan Dorine (Monash, Australia)  
	David Fogel (Natural Selection, USA)  
	Tim Hendtlass (Swinburne, Australia)  
	Jun Jo (Griffith, Australia)  
	Nikola Kasabov (Otago, New Zealand)  
	Graham Kendall (Nottingham, UK)  
	Jong-Hwan Kim (KAIST, Korea)  
	Kevin Korb (Monash, Australia)  
	Erhan Kozan (QUT, Australia)  
	Xiaodong Li (RMIT, Australia)  
	Jon McCormack (Monash, Australia)  
	Bob Mckay (UNSW, Australia)  
	Saeid Nahavandi (Deakin, Australia)  
	Akira Namatame (Defence Academy, Japan)  
	Chrystopher Nehaniv (Herts, UK)  
	Stefano Nolfi (CNR, Italy)  
	Russell Standish (UNSW, Australia)  
	Guy Theraulaz (Paul Sabatier, France)  
	Jon Timmis (Kent, UK)  
	Marcus Randall (Bond, Australia)  
	Joaquin Sitte (QUT, Australia)  
	Prahlad Vadakkepat (National University, Singapore)  
	Brijesh Verma (Griffith, Australia)  
	Janet Wiles (UQ, Australia)  
	Xin Yao (Birmingham, UK)  




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