[alife] [ECAL 2005] First Call For Papers

[Mathieu Capcarrere]

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                        Call for Papers
    VIIIth European Conference on Artificial Life - ECAL 2005
                      5-9 September 2005
             University of Kent, Canterbury, UK
                       www.ecal2005.org
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    Painter: It is a pretty mocking of the life.
             Here is a touch; is't good?

    Poet: I will say of it,
          It tutors nature: artificial strife
          Lives in these touches, livelier than life.
                    Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, Act I, Scene 1.

Artificial Life seeks to understand, extract, use and abuse the
organisational principles and information processing of natural
living systems. Interdisciplinary by nature, it involves researchers
in Computer Science, Biology, Physics, Chemistry, etc. The 8th
European Conference on Artificial Life, to be held in Canterbury,
England, in september 2005, wishes to gather all these communities
to present the latest advances, through a technical track, and
discuss the main directions for the future, through a conceptual
track.


IMPORTANT DATES:
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Submission deadline:            Monday 4th April 2005
Notification to author:         Monday 16th May 2005
Camera-ready  deadline:         Monday 30th May 2005

Conference: Monday 5th to Friday 9th. September 2005


SCOPE:
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The conference encompasses, but is not limited to, the following domains

Self-organisation, Origins of life, Prebiotic evolution, RNA systems,
Autocatalytic systems, Evolutionary chemistry, Fitness landscapes,
Natural selection, Artificial evolution, Ecosystem evolution,
Artificial development, Developmental algorithms, Ontogenetic systems,
Multicellular development, Natural and artificial morphogenesis,
Learning and development, Bio-morphic engineering, Artificial worlds,
Artificial organisms, Artificial (virtual and robotic) humanoids,
Intelligent autonomous robots, Evolutionary Robotics, Applications of
Alife Technologies, Self-repairing hardware, Evolvable hardware,
Emergent collective behaviours, Swarm intelligence, Evolution of
social behaviours, Evolution of communication, Epistemology,
Bio-inspired Art...


PAPER SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS:
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Papers must be submitted electronically following the procedure at
http://www.ecal2005.org before monday 4th april 2005. Further details
and authors guideline will also be available from the main website.

The papers will be carefully reviewed and selected by the Programme
Committee to be published by Springer-Verlag in the  Lecture Notes
in Artificial Intelligence Series (a LNCS subseries).


PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
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The complete programme commitee list is available on:
www.ecal2005.org.


VENUE:
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Canterbury is a town of great historical interest, classified as a
UNESCO world heritage site, and conveniently placed for visits to both
London and Paris. The conference will be hosted on the grounds of the
cathedral which was built in 1070 and many parts of the city,
including the city walls, are Medieval and pedestrian. Chaucer's "The
Canterbury Tales" was written here -- the first piece of English
Literature -- and the city remains England's second-most visited
city. This high tourist activity and its university makes it a vibrant
city in terms of bars and restaurants.

As it is located South East of London in the South East of England,
UK, it is normally warm (20-25oC/70-80oF) in early September, but UK
weather is always changeable.


CONFERENCE HISTORY:
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17 years ago the term "Artificial Life" was coined at a seminal
workshop at the Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, USA. 13 years ago,
in 1991, the first European Conference on Artificial Life was held in
Paris. Since then, alternatively with the International Conference on
Artificial Life traditionally held on even years, ECAL toured Europe
on odd years: 1993, Brussels, Belgium; 1995, Granada, Spain; 1997,
Sussex, England; 1999, Lausanne, Switzerland; 2001, Prague, Czech
Republic and finally in 2003, Dortmund, Germany. For its 15th year of
existence, we are glad to welcome the European Conference in
Artificial Life in Canterbury, England.

Mathieu Capcarrere
Conference chair

Alex Freitas
Program chair

Peter J. Bentley, Jon Timmis, Colin Johnson
Program co-chairs