[alife] GWAL-8 Call for Papers

[Eckehard Olbrich]

CFP - Call for Papers
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8th GERMAN WORKSHOP ON ARTIFICIAL LIFE, GWAL-8 2008
July 30-August 01, 2008, Leipzig

http://gwal.izbi.uni-leipzig.de
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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 8th German Workshop on Artificial Life addresses 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.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to

    * Understanding the origin of life: models of prebiotic evolution,
        protocells and minimal models of reproducing cells
    * Modelling of biological processes in evolutionary biology, ecology,
        developmental biology, immunology, cell biology and molecular 
biology
    * Systems 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, multi-agent systems)
    * Information processing in biological 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. robots, hardware, and 
software)
    * Communication, social behaviour and its evolution in artificial 
societies
    * 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, such
as to allow early interdisciplinary input and interactions with respect 
to these issues.

SUBMISSIONS

Contributions are invited for oral and poster sessions. They should be 
formatted according
to the instructions below. The length of a contribution must not exceed 
12 pages.
No minimum length is required. For poster contributions, typically a 
length of four pages
will be appropriate.
For further details please see http://gwal.izbi.uni-leipzig.de

The submission deadline is MARCH 14, 2008.

Selected contributions will be published in Advances in Complex Systems.

INVITED SPEAKERS

Doron Lancet, Weizmann Institute of Sciences, Rehovot
Stefano Nolfi, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Rome
Ricard Solé (to be confirmed), ICREA, Barcelona
Uwe Tangen, BioMIP research group, Bochum

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

    * Andrew Adamatzky, University of the West of England Bristol
    * Stefan Artmann, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
    * Nihat Ay, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, 
Leipzig
    * Thomas Bartz-Beielstein, Cologne Univ. of Applied Sciences
    * Christian Blum, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
    * Stefan Bornholdt, University of Bremen
    * Kerstin Dautenhahn, University of Hertfordshire Hatfield
    * Ralf Der, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, 
Leipzig
    * Peter Dittrich, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
    * Marco Dorigo, Université Libre de Bruxelles
    * Michael Hauhs, University of Bayreuth
    * Juergen Jost, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the 
Sciences, Leipzig
    * Bernd-Olaf Küppers, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
    * Hanspeter A. Mallot, Eberhard-Karls-University T?bingen
    * Martin Middendorf, University of Leipzig
    * Christian Müller-Schloer, University of Hannover
    * Chrystopher Nehaniv, University of Hertfordshire Hatfield
    * Maxi San Miguel, University of the Balearic Islands, Palma de Mallorca
    * Daniel Polani, University of Hertfordshire Hatfield
    * Bernd Porr, University of Glasgow
    * Alexander Scheidler, University of Leipzig
    * Hartmut Schmeck, University of Karlsruhe
    * Jürgen Schmidhuber, Dalle Molle Institute of Artificial 
Intelligence Lugano
    * Heinz-Georg Schuster, University of Kiel
    * Frank Schweitzer, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
    * Peter F. Stadler, University of Leipzig
    * Thomas Stützle, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium
    * Jochen Triesch, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies



The Organizers
 Konstantin Klemm
 Daniel Merkle
 Eckehard Olbrich
gwal at izbi.uni-leipzig.de