[alife] CFP: Workshop on Artificial Chemistries and Artificial Life

[Tim Hutton]

CALL FOR PAPERS

Workshop on Artificial Chemistries and Artificial Life
April 5th-6th 2006

http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/research/bioscience/aisb06/

A 2-day symposium to be held as part of: AISB'06: Adaptation in
Artificial and Biological Systems
April 3rd-6th 2006
University of Bristol, Bristol, England

As a promising branch of artificial life, artificial chemistry has
been extended into a broad domain that includes the studies on
theories, models, algorithms and applications. Using a strong
comparison to biochemical reactions in living cells, artificial
chemistry provides a powerful method to study why and how complex
living creatures have evolved on the earth, and at the same time
provides a nice workbench on which we can deepen an understanding of
emergence, complexity and evolvability.

Following the success of previous workshops held in conjunction with
ECAL2005 at Canterbury, and ALIFE9 at Boston, this workshop will be
arranged as a place for concise tutorials of established works that
present particular uses of artificial chemistry, and for active
discussion on new progress in the field of artificial chemistry and
artificial life.

This workshop is seeking the submission on the following aspects but
not limited to:

    * Modelling molecular interactions and chemical processes
    * Simulating the chemical evolution of life
    * Catalysis and auto-catalysis
    * Self-replication and von Neumann machines
    * Origin of information and translation
    * Requirements for the evolutionary growth of complexity
    * Self-organization
    * Self-assembly in nanotechnology and abstract systems
    * Membranes and cellular structure
    * Membrane computing (P-systems)
    * Co-evolution and evolvability
    * Enzymes and chemical engineering
    * Applications of AC approaches to parallel computation, etc.

SUBMISSIONS:

In keeping with the open spirit of AISB, you may submit EITHER a full
paper (max 6000 words) that showcases your work *OR* a two page
summary paper (extended abstract) of more speculative ideas or issues
for discussion. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the programme
committee, and those accepted will appear in the workshop proceedings
and in the published conference volume.

Papers should be submitted as PDF files to tim.hutton at gmail.com by
13th January 2006. Formatting instructions will be available from the
symposium website shortly.

ORGANISERS:

Dr. Tim Hutton, University College London, UK.
Dr. Hideaki Suzuki, ATR Network Informatics Laboratories, Japan.

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:

* Hugues Bersini (IRIDIA-Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
* Dominique Chu (University of Birmingham, UK)
* Peter Dittrich (Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany)
* Rudolf Freund (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
* Tim Hutton (University College London, UK)
* Christian Jacob (University of Calgary, Canada)
* Tom Lenaerts (IRIDIA-Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
* Jian-Qin Liu (ATR, Japan)
* Naoaki Ono (ERATO/Osaka University, Japan)
* Hiroki Sayama (University of Electro-Communications, Japan)
* Barak Shenhav (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
* Moshe Sipper (Ben-Gurion University, Israel)
* Pietro Speroni di Fenizio (University of Jena, Germany)
* Hideaki Suzuki (ATR/NICT, JAPAN)
* Kazuto Tominaga (Tokyo University of Technology, Japan)

IMPORTANT DATES:

Submission of papers by: 13th January 2006
Notification of decision: 30th January 2006
Camera ready copies by: 20th February 2006

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Tim Hutton  -  http://www.sq3.org.uk