[alife] METAS Symposium at the AISB 2005 Convention

[Steven M Gustafson]

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                     AISB 2005 Symposium
   
***  Memetic Theory in Artificial Systems and Societies (METAS) ****
			
                       12-13 April 2005 
                  University of Hertfordshire, 
             de Havilland Campus, Hatfield, England
 
     A symposium within the AISB 2005 Convention with the theme: 
 ``Social Intelligence and Interaction in Animals, Robots and Agents''

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http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~smg/metas/
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Memetic Theory and Artificial Societies (METAS) is the first edition of a 
series of international symposia dedicated to qualitative and quantitative 
aspects of memetic research as applied to artificial (and natural) systems 
and societies.

Since Dawkins inception in 1976 of the "meme" concept, we have witnessed 
enormous advances in computational and communication technologies, not 
least the creation and popularisation of the Internet. These computational 
and communication advances allow researchers to simulate large and complex 
systems of interactive agents in scales not dreamt-of a short time ago. 
At the same time, these same resources represent sophisticated evolving 
computational substrates in which artificial societies (could) exist and 
where the science of memetics could be tested, developed and exploited.

This symposium will bring together researcher working at the cutting-edge 
of memetic theory as applied to artificial systems and societies. METAS 
aim is to promote multidisciplinary studies and promote the best science 
on memetics. 

Some of the themes covered by METAS are:

* Fundamental concepts on memetics and theoretical frameworks for Memetics 
  (eg., evolutionary, cognitive, societal and computational mechanisms, etc)
* Memetics as an evolutionary model of information transmission
* Qualitative and Quantitative issues of memetics in artificial and natural 
  societies (eg. the impact of memes in the individual VS the society, etc)
* Computer simulations of memetics systems and dynamics
* The memetics nature of information processing in networks (in general) 
  and the Internet (in particular)
* The memetics of software evolution
* Memetics simulations in economy, marketing, policy-making, conflict 
  resolution, game playing
* Memetics in artificial and natural problem solving, software engineering 
  and multi-agent systems.
* Requirements for effective memetics systems (computational substrates, 
  communication mechanisms, etc)

This symposium will provide a unique opportunity for researchers in 
artificial intelligence, artificial life, robotics, cognitive science, 
biologist, social sciences, political studies and distributed systems 
engineering to interact with memetic scientist and to share a forum for 
discussion. The symposium will also serve as a common publication outlet 
for interdisciplinary research in these areas.

The papers collected in the symposium will be extended and fully reviewed 
and will be published after the symposium in a book (preliminary agreement 
with the Natural Computation Series in Springer). The interdisciplinary 
programme committee will select the papers to be presented during the 
symposium and will also advice on which papers should appear latter 
(in extended version) in the book.
 
The symposium will consist of 2 plenary talks, one on each of the two 
day of the symposium.  The symposium will continue with papers presentations 
where each author will be given the opportunity to speak to the audience 
on his work.  The symposium will finish with a round-panel discussion in 
the last day.

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IMPORTANT DATES

01 Sept. 2004: Call For Papers 
31 Oct.  2004: Paper Submissions Deadline
22 Nov.  2004: Paper Acceptance Notification Deadline
17 Dec.  2004: Camera-ready Deadline 
14 Jan.  2005: Early registration deadline 

12-15 April 2005: AISB 2005 convention

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SUBMITTING A PAPER

Short, self-contained papers, between 3-6 pages, should be emailed to both 
Natalio.Krasnogor at Nottingham.ac.uk and Steven.Gustafson at Nottingham.ac.uk 
with the SUBJECT: AISB 2005 Submission.  The paper format should be similar 
to AAAI style, i.e. two-column.  The symposium chairs strongly recommend 
using Latex (a style file will be provided shortly on the symposium website).  
Papers should be between 3-6 pages in length, although longer submissions 
are possible.   

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PROGRAMME COMMITTEE 

Yaneer Bar-Yam - New England Complex Systems Institute, Boston, USA
Mark Bedau - Editor in Chief of Artificial Life Journal, USA 
Elhanan Borenstein - Dept. of Computer Science, Tel-Aviv University, Israel 
Larry Bull - School of Computer Science, Univ. of the West of England, UK
Agner Fog - Engineering College of Copenhagen, Denmark 
Liane Gabore - Dept. of Psychology, Univ. of CA, Berkeley, USA
Nigel Gilbert - Dept. of Sociology, Univ. of Surrey, UK
Steven Gustafson - Dept. of Computer Science and IT, Univ. of Nottingham, UK
William Hart - Sandia National Laboratories, USA
Natalio Krasnogor - Dept. of Computer Science and IT, Univ. of Nottingham, UK
Eytan Ruppin - Dept. of Computer Science, Tel-Aviv University, Israel 
Sorin Solomon - RACAH Institute of Physics, Hebrew University, Israel
Jim Smith - University of the West of England, UK

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SYMPOSIUM WEBSITE

http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~smg/metas/

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SYMPOSIUM CHAIRS 

Dr. Natalio Krasnogor and Dr. Steven Gustafson
School of Computer Science and Information Technology
Jubilee Campus, University of Nottingham, NG81BB
Nottingham, United Kingdom
Tel.: +115 8467592
Fax : +115 8467591
   
 Natalio.Krasnogor at Nottingham.ac.uk
  Steven.Gustafson at Nottingham.ac.uk

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Dr. Steven GUSTAFSON
School of Computer Science & IT
University of Nottingham, UK
http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~smg


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