[alife] CFP: WORKSHOP on Artificial Chemistry

[Hideaki Suzuki]

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1st Announcement and Call for Papers

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      WORKSHOP on Artificial Chemistry and Its Applications

                           Part of 
    The 7th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2003)
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    September 14, 2003
    Dortmund, Germany
    Submission deadline: July 1st, 2003
    http://www.his.atr.co.jp/~jqliu/wsac03.html

Organizers: Hideaki SUZUKI, Pietro SPERONI DI FENIZIO, Jian-Qin LIU


As a promising branch of artificial life, artificial chemistry
has been extended into a broad domain that includes the studies
on theories, models, algorithms, software and applications.
Using a strong comparison to biochemical reactions in living
cells, artificial chemistry provides a powerful method to study
why and how complex living ceratures have evolved on the earth,
and at the same time, provides a nice workbench on which we can
deepen an understanding of
(a) emergence -- in the sense of artificial life,
(b) complexity -- in the sense of non-linear complex systems, and
(c) evolvability -- in the sense of generalized evolution for
biologically inspired information processings systems.
Various types of artificial life methods may be related to these
key factors.
This worshop will be arranged as a place for concise tutorials of
estabilished works that present particular uses of artificial
chemistry and active discussion on new progresses in the field of
artificial chemistry.


This workshop is seeking the submission from the
following aspects, but not limited to:

* Modeling chemical processes,
* AlCh algorithms,
* Catalysis and auto-catalysis theory,
* Self-replication and von Neuman machines,
* Origin of genetic information and translation,
* Self-organization,
* Co-evolution and evolvability,
* Membrane and cellular structure,
* Membrane computing (P-systems),
* Abstract machines,
* Applications


Important Dates:

Submission: July 1st, 2003.
Acceptance: July 31st, 2003.
Camera-ready: August 15th, 2003.
Workshop: September 14th, 2003.


Format for paper submission:

please prepare the paper according to 
the Springer-Verlag's LNCS/LNAI format
which "information for authors" is at: 
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.