[alife] 7th GERMAN WORKSHOP ON ARTIFICIAL LIFE, GWAL-7 2006

[Titus Brown]

First Call for Papers
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7th GERMAN WORKSHOP ON ARTIFICIAL LIFE, GWAL-7 2006
Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
July 26-28, 2006

http://gwal.uni-jena.de

Organizing Committee:
 Stefan Artmann (Friedrich-Schiller-University): 
<stefan.artmann at uni-jena.de>
 Peter Dittrich (Friedrich-Schiller-University): 
<dittrich at minet.uni-jena.de>
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IMPORTANT DATES
Submission Deadline: February 15, 2006
Notificiation of acceptance: April 1, 2006
Camera ready copy: May 1, 2006
Early registration deadline: May 1, 2006
Workshop: July 26-28, 2006


GENERAL INFORMATION
Artificial Life is an interdisciplinary field of science 
focused on abstracting
the essential features and dynamics of living systems in 
order to create
artificial, life-like systems. The 7th German Workshop on 
Artificial Life is
intended to provide the opportunity for biologists, 
physicists, information and
computer sciencists, chemists, mathematicians, and 
philosophers interested in
this field. The workshop is open to an international 
audience and will be held
in English.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
* Andrew Adamatzky, University of the West of England 
Bristol
* Wolfgang Banzhaf, Memorial University of Newfoundland 
St. John's
* Clemens Beckstein, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
* Mark Bedau, Reed College Portland
* Stefan Bornholdt, University of Bremen
* Wilfried Brauer, Technical University of Munich
* Thomas Christaller, Fraunhofer Institute, Sankt Augustin
* Claus Emmeche, University of Copenhagen
* Horst-Michael Gross, Technical University of Ilmenau
* Michael Hauhs, University of Bayreuth
* Martin C. Hirsch, interActive Systems Marburg and Berlin
* Jan T. Kim, University of East Anglia Norwich
* Bernd-Olaf Kueppers, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
* Hanspeter A. Mallot, Eberhard-Karls-University Tuebingen
* Thomas Martinetz, University of Luebeck
* Brian Mayoh, University of Aarhus
* John McCaskill, Ruhr-University Bochum
* Martin Middendorf, University of Leipzig
* Christian Mueller-Schloer, University of Hannover
* Chrystopher Nehaniv, University of Hertfordshire 
Hatfield
* Daniel Polani, University of Hertfordshire Hatfield
* Raul Rojas, Free University Berlin
* Kerstin Schill, University of Bremen
* JŸrgen Schmidhuber, Dalle Molle Institute of Artificial 
Intelligence Lugano
* Frank Schweitzer, ETH Zuerich
* Andre Skusa, University of Bielefeld
* Peter F. Stadler, University of Leipzig
* Uwe Tangen, Ruhr-University Bochum
* Jochen Triesch, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies
* Claus Wilke, University of Texas Austin
* Klaus-Peter Zauner, University of Southampton


RELEVANT RESEARCH AREAS
Contributions may cover topics such as artificial 
chemistries, simulations of
ecological and evolving systems, self-organization, swarm 
intelligence,
autonomous life-like robots, complex dynamical systems, 
information
processing in biology, and organic system design.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to

* Modelling of biological processes in evolutionary 
biology, ecology,
  developmental biology, immunology, systems biology, cell 
biology and
  molecular biology
* Adaptive behaviour, pattern recognition, perception and 
evolution of sensors,
  morphology and actuators, learning and intelligence in 
biological and
  artificial systems
* Complexity and its emergence in biological processes
* Self-organization in living and life-like systems (e.g. 
swarms, hypercycles,
  multicellular systems, artificial multi-agent systems)
* Dynamics of information in living and life-like systems
* Application of principles of life (e.g. self-
organization, evolution,
  adaptation, learning and intelligence) to the design of 
artificial systems
  and technical solutions (e.g. mobile robots, adaptive 
hardware,
  autonomous software, organic computing)
* Epistemological foundations for sciences investigating 
living systems

Contributions are not limited to reports of completed 
research, but may also
describe ongoing research, fresh concepts and ideas, or 
identify and discuss
open questions, to allow early interdisciplinary input and 
interactions
with respect to these issues.


SUBMISSION
Contributions are invited for oral and poster sessions. 
They should be submitted
as articles (up to 10 pages) or as extended abstracts 
(typically 2-3 pages),
formatted according to the instructions at gwal.uni-
jena.de.
All submissions will be peer reviewed.
Submission of PDF documents is required.
Submissions should be sent to

    gwal at minet.uni-jena.de

Computer demonstrations accompanying accepted 
contributions are encouraged, as
such demonstrations are frequently a suitable and adequate 
means of
communication about Artificial Life systems. Contributors 
are kindly asked to
identify their needs regarding technical equipment as 
early as possible, and to
make arrangements with the local organizers.

PUBLICATION
Accepted papers will be published by IOS Press.
See, e.g., proceedings of the 6th GWAL:
   
 http://www.iospress.nl/loadtop/load.php?isbn=1586034294

REGISTRATION
Registration will take place through the conference 
website,
    http://gwal.uni-jena.de

ACCOMMODATION
For information about hotels in Jena, please visit the 
conference website,
    http://gwal.uni-jena.de

LOCATION
The GWAL-7 will take place at:

Institute of Systematic Zoology and Evolutionary 
Biology/Phyletical Museum
Vor dem Neutor 1
07743 Jena

For more information about Jena and the Phyletical Museum, 
which was founded by
Ernst Haeckel, please visit the conference website: 
http://gwal.uni-jena.de

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