[alife] CFPP: 7th German Workshop on Artificial Life, 26.-28. July 2006
Peter Dittrich
dittrich at minet.uni-jena.de
Fri Jun 16 04:26:32 PDT 2006
CFPP - Call for Participation and Poster
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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
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IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission: closed
Poster submission deadline: 1. July 2006
Early registration deadline: 23. June 2006
Workshop: 26.-28. July 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.
INVITED TALKS
* Mark Bedau, Reed College, Portland and Protolife SRL, Venezia
http://www.reed.edu/~mab/
"Automated design of artificial life forms from scratch"
* Sanjay Jain, University of Delhi
http://people.du.ac.in/~jain/
"The emergence and collapse of complexity:
Perspective from an evolving network model"
* Jrgen Schmidhuber, Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Lugano
http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/
"Gdel Machines"
-- TENTATIVE PROGRAM SEE BELOW --
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 Gro, 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 Kppers, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
* Hanspeter A. Mallot, Eberhard-Karls-University Tbingen
* Thomas Martinetz, University of Lbeck
* Brian Mayoh, University of Aarhus
* John McCaskill, Ruhr-University Bochum
* Martin Middendorf, University of Leipzig
* Christian Mller-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
* Jrgen Schmidhuber, Dalle Molle Institute of Artificial Intelligence Lugano
* Frank Schweitzer, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zrich
* Andre Skusa, University of Bielefeld
* Peter F. Stadler, University of Leipzig
* Jochen Triesch, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies
* Claus Wilke, University of Texas Austin
* Klaus-Peter Zauner, University of Southampton
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
* Stefan Artmann (FSU Jena): <stefan.artmann(AET)uni-jena.de>
* Peter Dittrich (FSU Jena): <dittrich(AET)minet.uni-jena.de>
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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-- TENTATIVE PROGRAM --
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
Wednesday July 26th
17:00 Registration Desk Open at the Phyletic Museum
18:00 Official Workshop Opening
18:45 Martin Fischer, FSU Jena, Presentation of the Phyletic Museum
19:30 Welcome Gathering at the Phyletic Museum (included in registration fee)
Thursday July 27th
8:30 Registration Desk Open
9:15 Start
9:30 Mark Bedau, Reed College, Portland and Protolife SRL, Venice,
Automated Design of Artificial Life Forms from Scratch (invited talk)
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Andrew Kuznetsov, Mark Schmitz, Kristian Mller, Freiburg University,
On Bio-Design of Argo-Machine
11:30 Soichiro Tsuda, Klaus-Peter Zauner, Yukio-Pegio Gunji, Kobe University
and Southampton University,
Computing Substrates and Life
12:00 Tomoya Miura and Kazuto Tominaga, Tokyo University of Technology,
An Approach to Algorithmic Music Composition with an Artificial Chemistry
12:30 Lunch Break
14:00 Jrgen Schmidhuber, IDSIA Lugano,
Gdel Machines (invited talk)
15:00 Coffee Break
15:30 Nils Bertschinger, Eckehard Olbrich, Nihat Ay, Jrgen Jost, MPI
Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig,
Information and Closure in Systems Theory
16:00 Tatsuya Nomura, Ryukoku University,
Category Theoretical Formalization
of Autopoiesis from Perspective of Distinction between Organization and
Structure
16:30 Posterpresentation with Coffee & Cake
17:30 Sven Magg, Rene te Boekhorst, University of Hertfordshire,
Interaction and Emergent Behavior in Heterogeneous Groups of Artificial Agents
18:00 Alexander Scheidler, Daniel Merkle, Martin Middendorf, University of Leipzig,
Emergent Sorting Patterns and Individual Differences of Randomly
Moving Ant-Like Agents
19:30 Conference Dinner (included in registration fee)
Friday July 28th
9:00 Sanjay Jain, University of Delhi,
The Emergence and Collapse of Complexity:
Perspective from an Evolving Network Model (invited talk)
10:00 Coffee Break
10:30 Johannes F. Knabe, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, Maria J. Schilstra,
University of Hertfordshire,
Evolutionary Robustness of Differentiation in Genetic Regulatory Networks
11:00 Moritz Buck, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, University of Hertfordshire,
Effect of Multi-Level Fitnesses on the Evolution of Multicellularity
in Artificial Organisms
11:30 Jan T. Kim, University of East Anglia,
A Rule-Based Approach to Selecting Developmental Processes
12:00 Coffee Break
12:30 N. Parisey, M. Beurton-Aimar, C. Lales, J. P. Mazat, University of Bordeaux,
Multi-Agent Design to Reduce Complexity of Biological Processes Description
13:00 Naoki Matsumaru, Pietro Speroni di Fenizio, Florian Centler, Peter
Dittrich, FSU Jena,
On the Evolution of Chemical Organizations
13:30 General Discussion
14:00 End of Official Workshop Program
Afternoon: Self-organizing Discussion Groups, Hiking, ...
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Peter Dittrich |
Jena Centre for Bioinformatics (JCB) & |
Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena |
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science |
Bio Systems Analysis Group |
http://www.informatik.uni-jena.de/csb |
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