[alife] ACAL 2007 CFP

Titus Brown titus at caltech.edu
Tue May 1 11:47:38 PDT 2007


Call For Papers
 
The Third Australian Conference on Artificial Life (ACAL2007)
(Published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 
- LNAI)
 
Gold Coast, Australia
 
December 4-6, 2007
 
http://www.it.bond.edu.au/acal2007/ 
 


The Third Australian Conference on Artificial Life, (ACAL07), will be  
held at the Holiday Inn, Surfers Paradise, 4th to 6th December 2007 in conjunction with  
the 20th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI07). 

The Programme Committee of ACAL07 invites technical papers on  
substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects of  
Artificial Life and Complex Adaptive Systems. Topics of particular  
interest to ACAL07 include, but are not limited to:  

* Adaptive robotics  
* Artificial Chemistry 
* Artificial societies and markets 
* Ant colony optimisation  
* Applications of ALife technologies  
* Bioinformatics  
* Biological agents  
* Cellular automata  
* Coevolution of morphology and mind  
* Collaborative behaviour  
* Complex systems  
* Complexity 
* Coordination 
* Embodied cognition 
* Emergence  
* Ethics of artificial life  
* Evolutionary and adaptive dynamics 
* Evolutionary computation  
* Fitness landscapes 
* Games 
* Hierarchical dynamics 
* Marriage in Honey-Bees optimisation  
* Modularity 
* Multi-agent systems  
* Neural networks and connectionism 
* Neurobiology 
* Origin of life  
* Philosophy of artificial life  
* Percolation  
* Self-organisation  
* Self-replication  
* Simulation and synthesis tools and methodologies  
* Social networks 
* Swarm Intelligence 

All papers will be reviewed by at least two members of the programme  
committee and proceedings will be published by Springer in their  
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series.  Papers must be 
submitted in LNCS format and be up to 12 pages in length.  Formatting  
instructions may be found at: http://www.springer.com/lncs 

The important dates are: 

Deadline for paper submissions: 13th July 2007  
Notification of acceptance: 31st August 2007  
Deadline for camera ready copies: 14th September 2007  

Please direct any enquiries to A/Prof Marcus Randall on  
mrandall at bond.edu.au 



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