[alife] [ECAL: 2005]: Deadline extension: 11th April 2005

[Titus Brown]

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DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND, THE SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR ECAL 2005
HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO:

                  MONDAY 11TH APRIL 2005.
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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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IMPORTANT DATES:
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Due to popular demand, the submission deadline has been
extended to Monday the 11th of April: 

Submission deadline:                Monday 11th April 2005
Notification to author:             Monday 16th May 2005
Camera-ready submission 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 are available from the main website.

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


ORGANISING COMMITTEE:
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Conference chair:     Mathieu Capcarrere (1)
Program chair:        Alex Freitas (1)
    subchairs:        Jon Timmis, Colin Johnson, Mathieu Capcarrere (1) 
                      Peter J. Bentley (2)

Workshop chair:       Peter J. Bentley (2)
Tutorial chair:       Colin Johnson (1)
Local chair:          Jon Timmis 1)

1: Applied Interdisciplinary Informatics group, University of Kent, UK.
2: Digital Biology group, University College London, UK.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
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Please note: this list is provisional and will be subject to regular 
additions. See www.ecal2005.org for an up-to-date information.

Dr Hussein Abbas, University of New South Wales
Prof. Andrew Adamatzky, University of the West of England
Dr Uwe Aickelin, University of Nottingham
Prof Nils A. Baas, University of Trondheim
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Banzhaf, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Prof Mark Bedau, Reed College
Prof Randall Beer, Case Western Reserve University
Dr Peter Bentley, University College London
Dr. Mark Bishop, Goldsmith College
Dr Tim Blackwell, Goldsmith College
Dr. Larry Bull, University of the West of England
Dr Mathieu Capcarrere, University of Kent
Dr. Andre Carvalho, USP Sao Carlos, Brazil
Dr Christopher D. Clack, University College London
Dr. John Clark, University of York
Dr. Pierre Collet, Universite du Littoral
Dr Son K Dao, HRL
Prof. Kerstin Dautenhahn, University of Hertfordshire
Prof Leandro De Castro, UniSantos
Dr. Myriam Delgado, CEFET-PR, Brazil
Dr Ezequiel Di Paolo, University of Sussex
Prof Marco Dorigo, IRIDIA , Universite
Dr Alan Dorin, Monash Univeristy
Prof Dario Floreano, Swiss Federal Inst. of Technology, Lausanne
Dr Alex Freitas, University of Kent
Dr Luca Maria Gambardella, IDSIA
Mr Ivan Garibay, University of Central Florida
Mr Carlos Gershenson, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Prof Inman Harvey , University of Sussex
Prof Takashi Hashimoto, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Tech.
Mr Martin Hemberg, Imperial College
Dr. Owen Holland, University of Essex
Dr Gregory Hornby, NASA Ames Research Center
Prof. Auke Jan Ijspeert, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne
Prof Takashi Ikegami, University of Tokyo
Dr Colin Johnson, University of Kent
Dr. Tatiana Kalganova, Brunel University
Prof. Jozef Kelemen, Silesian University
Dr Sanjeev Kumar, George Mason University
Dr Tom Lenaerts, Universit? Libre de Bruxelles
Dr. John Levine, University of Edinburgh
Dr. Heitor Lopes, CEFET-PR, Brazil
Dr Paul Marrow, BT Exact
Dr James Marshall, Bristol University
Prof Ian Marshall, Univerisity of Kent
Prof. Alcherio Martinoli, Swarm-Intelligent Systems Group, EPFL
Mr Claudio Mattiussi, EPFL, CH
Prof Jon McCormack, Monash University
Dr Barry McMullin, Dublin City University
Prof. Chris Melhuish, University of the West of England
Prof. J.J. Merelo, Geneura, Universidad de Granada
Dr. Martin Middendorf, University of Leipzig, Germany
Dr Julian Miller, University of York
Prof Alvaro Moreno-Bergareche, University of the Basque Country
Dr. Pablo Moscato, The University of Newcastle, Australia
Dr. Slawomir Nasuto, University of Reading
Dr Mark Neal, University of Wales
Prof. Chrystopher Nehaniv, University of Hertfordshire
Dr. Julio Cesar Nievola, PUC-PR, Brazil
Prof. Stefano Nolfi, CNR
Dr Charles Ofria, Michigan State University
Dr Tim Otter, Crowley Davis Research
Dr. Marco Pacheco, PUC-Rio, Brazil
Dr Norman Packard, Prediction Company
Prof Andres Perez-Uribe, Ecole d'Ing?nieurs du Canton de Vaud
Dr Carlos Andres Pe?a-Reyes, Novartis Informationa and Knoweldge Engineering
Dr Daniel Polani, University of Hertfordshire
Prof. Riccardo Poli, University of Essex
Prof Thomas Ray, University of Oklahoma
Prof. James Reggia, University of Maryland
Dr. Katya Rodriguez-Vazquez, National Autonomous University of Mexico
Prof. Eytan Ruppin, Tel Aviv University
Prof. Frank Schweitzer, ETH Zurich
Dr. Ana Sendova-Franks, University of the West of England
Professor Qiang Shen, University of Wales Aberystwyth
Prof. Moshe Sipper, Ben-Gurion University
Dr. George Smith, University of East Anglia
Prof. Russell Standish, University of New South Wales
Dr Andre Stauffer, EPFL, CH
Prof Susan Stepney, Univeristy of York
Dr Hideaki Suzuki, ATR Network Informatics Labs.
Dr Tim Taylor, University of Edinburgh
Prof Gianluca Tempesti, Swiss Federal Inst. of Technology, Lausanne
Dr Christof Teuscher, University of California San Diego
Mr Yann Thoma, EPFL, CH
Dr Jon Timmis, University of Kent
Dr Peter Todd, Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Prof. Marco Tomassini, Universit? de Lausanne
Prof Andy Tyrrell, University of York
Prof Fernando Von Zuben, UNICAMP
Mr Andrew Watkins, University of Kent
Prof. Claus Wilke, Keck Graduate Institute

VENUE:
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Surrounded by beautiful countryside and a varied coastline, easily
reachable from London and its major airports, (Heathrow, Gatwick, City
and Stansted), the channel ports and shuttle/eurostar terminal, the
city of Canterbury, UK, will be the venue of the 8th edition of the
European Conference in Artificial Life.

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.