[alife] Final Programme Announcement: AISB'06, 3rd-6th April; Early registration ends March 6th

[James Marshall]

(with apologies for crosspostings)

Dear colleague,
   the final programme has now been published for AISB'06: Adaptation in 
Artificial and Biological Systems. The keynote speakers and symposia are 
listed below. Changes to note are the following:

* A new public event, the 'Navigation Debate', has been added to the 
afternoon of the closing day (April 6th)
* 'Exploration vs. Exploitation in Naturally-Inspired Search' has merged 
with 'Nature-Inspired Systems for Parallel Asynchronous and 
Decentralised Environments' to form a one-day 'Naturally Inspired 
Systems' symposium (April 4th)
* 'Adaptation and Learning on the Web' has been cancelled due to lack of 
submissions
* 'Artificial Chemistries and Artificial Life' has been cancelled due to 
lack of submissions

   Early registration closes on March 6th 2006. For further details 
please visit the convention website:

	http://www.aisb.org.uk/convention/aisb06/

   We look forward to welcoming you to Bristol in April,
	James Marshall
	Tim Kovacs (General chairs)

-- 
Dr James A. R. Marshall
Department of Computer Science
University of Bristol
http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~marshall


Programme
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Keynote Talks:
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* Professor Mark Bedau, Protolife SRL; Reed College; European Centre for 
Living Technology
       o Evolutionary Design of Complex Chemical Systems - 3rd April
* Professor Maggie Boden, Centre for Research in Cognitive Science, 
University of Sussex
       o Life and Mind: A Union without Divorce? - 4th April
* Professor Nigel Franks, School of Biological Sciences, University of 
Bristol
       o From Individual to Collective Intelligence - 5th April
* Professor Owen Holland, Department of Computer Science, University of 
Essex
       o Artificial Consciousness and the Simulation of Behaviour - 6th 
April

Symposia:
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* Artificial Immune Systems and Immune System Modelling - 4th April 2006

* Associative Learning and Reinforcement Learning - 3rd April 2006

*  Biologically Inspired Robotics (Biro-net) - 3rd to 4th April 2006

* Machine Consciousness - 5th to 6th April 2006

* Network Analysis in Natural Sciences and Engineering - 5th to 6th 
April 2006

* Motor Development - 5th April 2006

* Narrative AI and Games - 5th to 6th April 2006

* Nature Inspired Systems - 4th April 2006:
     o (A): Nature-Inspired Systems for Parallel Asynchronous and 
Decentralised Environments
     o (B): Exploration vs Exploitation in Naturally Inspired Search

* Navigation Debate - 6th April 2006

* Social Insect Behaviour: Theory and Applications - 5th April 2006

* Grand Challenge 5: Architecture of Brain and Mind - 3rd to 4th April 2006

Co-located Workshops:
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* Automated Reasoning (ARW'06) - 3rd to 4th April 2006

Co-located Events:
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* Adaptive Computing in Design and Manufacture, April 25th to 27th 2006, 
Bristol