[alife] CALL FOR PAPERS: Alife X

[Rocha, Luis M.]

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CALL FOR PAPERS: Alife X

The 10th International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of
Living Systems

June 3-7, 2006
School of Informatics, Indiana University, Bloomington http://alifex.org


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Luis M. Rocha (Chair), Mark Bedau, Dario Floreano, Robert Goldstone,
Alessandro Vespignani, Larry Yaeger.

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission Deadline: November 7th, 2005
Notification of Acceptance: December 14th, 2005 Camera Ready Submission
Deadline: January 12th, 2006 Conference dates: June 3-7, 2006

1-Page CFP flyer: http://www.alifex.org/papers/alifeX_CFP.pdf 

Artificial life is the interdisciplinary enterprise investigating the
fundamental properties of living systems through the simulation and
synthesis of life-like processes in artificial media. The Artificial
Life X conference marks two decades of the birth of this enterprise, a
period marked by vast advances in the life sciences. The conference will
showcase the best current work in all areas of research in Artificial
Life, while highlighting its achievements and challenges, especially in
an age of unparalleled computational power and access to data about
various biological processes.

Each day of the conference will also spotlight a specific theme:
Development and Embodied Cognition (in collaboration with ICDL5),
Achievements and Open Problems, Computational Biology, and Complex
Systems and Networks. All authors of conference papers are encouraged to
explain how their work sheds light on the fundamental properties of
living systems and makes progress on important open questions.

Both oral and poster presentations will be published in a single volume
by MIT Press. ALife X will present top keynote speakers and will also
include a series of workshops and tutorials, which you are invited to
propose. Alife X will be organized in partnership with the 5th
International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL5), May
31-June 3, 2006 (http://www.icdl06.org). June 3 will feature joint
activities with both conferences.

Paper submissions (6 pages single spaced) are welcome in all areas of
the field, including:

Synthesis of life: Origin of life, self-organization, autocatalysis,
self-replication, artificial chemistry, molecular self-assembly,
molecular information processing, nanotechnology. 

Development and regulation: Natural and artificial, morphogenesis,
gene-regulation networks, multicellular development. 

Evolution and adaptation: Modes of selection, artificial ecologies,
evolutionary games, molecular evolution, immune systems, cultural
evolution and learning, coevolution 

Biologically-inspired computing and technology: Product Design, Art,
Security Applications, Knowledge Management and Dissemination,
Self-repair, Financial and Economic Agents, Gaming, Human-Computer
Interaction, recommendation systems, distributed information retrieval,
evolving MEMS technology, educational technologies. 

Bio-inspired robots and embodied cognition: Intelligent agents,
evolutionary and adaptive robots, autonomy 

Collective behavior: Communication, cooperation, swarm intelligence,
social and linguistic systems, social-technical systems, multi-agent
simulation. 

Social and philosophical implications: Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy
of Mind, ethical and social implications of Alife. 

Simulation, tools and methodologies: Languages, simulation environments,
visualization and analysis tools for large data sets, evaluation of
existing methodologies, experimental tools, alife-inspired informatics.

CONTACT
For questions about submissions or reviewing: submissions at alifex.org .
Please direct all other questions to coord at alifex.org .


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Luis Mateus Rocha (Associate Professor)
Informatics, Cognitive Science, Biocomplexity 
School of Informatics, Indiana University 
(Eigenmann Hall, room #905) 1900 East Tenth Street, Bloomington IN 47406
T: 812-856-1832; Fax: 812-856-1995
e-mail: rocha at indiana.edu
www: http://informatics.indiana.edu/rocha
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Before a mad scientist goes mad, there's probably a time when he's only
partially mad. And this is the time when he's going to throw his best
parties. (Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey)
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