[alife] Call for Papers: Artificial Chemistry Workshop at ALIFE9

[Tim Hutton]

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1st Announcement and Call for Papers

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        WORKSHOP on Artificial Chemistry and Its Applications

                             Part of
        Ninth International Conference on the Simulation and
        Synthesis of Living Systems (ALIFE9)
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      September 12th, 2004
      Boston, Massachusetts
      Submission deadline: July 15th, 2004
      http://www.his.atr.jp/~hsuzuki/confs/2004_AL9-WS-AC.html

Organizers:
Hideaki SUZUKI (ATR Network Informatics Laboratories, JAPAN)
Tim HUTTON (University College London, UK)

As a promising branch of artificial life, artificial chemistry
has been extended into a broad domain that includes the studies
on theories, models, algorithms 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 creatures 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 processing systems.

Following the success of the previous workshop which was held in
conjunction with ECAL2003 at Dortmund, this workshop will be
arranged as a place for concise tutorials of established works
that present particular uses of artificial chemistry, and for
active discussion on new progress in the field of artificial
chemistry.

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

* Modeling molecular interactions and chemical processes,
* Simulating the chemical evolution of life,
* Catalysis and auto-catalysis,
* Self-replication and von Neumann machines,
* Origin of information and translation,
* Requirements for the evolutionary growth of complexity,
* Self-organization,
* Self-assembly in nanotechnology and abstract systems,
* Membranes and cellular structure,
* Membrane computing (P-systems),
* Co-evolution and evolvability,
* Applications of AC approaches to parallel computation, etc.

Important Dates:

Submission: July 15th, 2004.
Acceptance: July 31st, 2004.
Camera-ready: August 15th, 2004.
Workshop: September 12th, 2004.

Format for paper submission:

Original papers in English are welcome for submission. Papers
should follow the ALIFE9 style (see http://alife9.org), be
formatted in PDF, and be directly emailed to
Hideaki Suzuki <hsuzuki at atr.jp> no later than the deadline shown
above.

Papers should be limited to eight pages, but six pages are
preferable. All presented papers will be included in the
workshop proceedings that will be distributed at the workshop.

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Tim