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[Chrystopher L. Nehaniv]

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2009 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life

March 30  April 2, 2009 Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville, TN, USA
at the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence 2009

IEEE ALIFE 2009
http://homepages.feis.herts.ac.uk/~nehaniv/IEEE_ALIFE_2009.html

IEEE ALIFE 2009 brings together researchers working on the emerging areas 
of Artificial Life and Complex Adaptive Systems, especially connections 
and applications to Biology, Robotics, Space Sciences and Predictive 
Methods for Understanding and Synthesizing Life-like Systems.

Artificial Life is the study of the simulation and synthesis of living 
systems. In particular, this science of generalized living and life- like 
systems provides engineering with billions of years of design expertise to 
learn from and exploit through the example of the evolution of organic 
life on earth. Increased understanding of the massively successful design 
diversity, complexity, and adaptability of life is rapidly making inroads 
into all areas of engineering and the Sciences of the Artificial. Numerous 
applications of ideas from nature and their generalizations from 
life-as-we-know-it to life-as-it-could- be continually find their way into 
engineering and science.
Important Dates:

Submissions Due: Oct. 31, 2008
Symposium Dates: March 30 - April 2, 2009
Submit via the IEEE SCCI website to IEEE ALIFE 2009
(see http://homepages.feis.herts.ac.uk/~nehaniv/IEEE_ALIFE_2009.html )

We invite submissions of high-quality contributions on a wide variety of 
topics relevant to the wide research areas of Artificial Life.

Some sample topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the 
following aspects of Artificial Life:

* Systems Biology, Astrobiology, Origins of Replicators and Life
* Major Evolutionary Transitions
* Applications in Nanotechnology, Compilable Matter, or Medicine
* Genetic Regulatory Systems
* Predictive Methods for Complex Adaptive Systems
* Self-reproduction, Self-Repair, and Morphogenesis
* Robotic and Embodiment: Minimal, Adaptive, Ontogenetic and/or Social
   Robotics,
* Human-Robot Interaction
* Constructive Dynamical Systems and Complexity
* Evolvability, Heritability, and Multicellularity
* Information-Theoretic Methods in Life-like Systems
* Sensor and Actuator Evolution and Adaptation
* Wet and Dry Artificial Life (e.g. artificial cells; non-carbon based 
life)
* Non-Traditional Computational Media
* Emergence and Complexity
* Multiscale Robustness and Plasticity
* Phenotypic Plasticity and Adaptability in Scalable, Robust Growing
   Systems
* Predictive Methods for Complex Adaptive Systems and Life-like Systems
* Automata Networks and Cellular Automata
* Ethics and Philosophy of Artificial Life
* Co-evolution and Symbiogenesis
* Simulation and Visualization Tools for Artificial Life
* Replicator and Interaction Dynamics
* Network Theory in Biology and Artificial Life
* Synchronization and Biological Clocks
* Methods and Applications of Evolutionary Developmental Systems (e.g.
   developmental genetic-regulatory networks (DGRNs), multicellularity)
* Games and Generalized Biology
* Self-organization, Swarms and Multicellular Systems
* Emergence of Signaling and Communication



Program Chairs:
Chrystopher Nehaniv, University of Hertfordshire, U.K.
Hussein Abbass, University of New South Wales, Australia
Masanori Sugisaka, Oita University, Japan

Program Committee:
Andrew Adamatzky, University of the West of England, UK
Andreas Albrecht, Queen's University Belfast, UK
Takaya Arita, Nagoya University, Japan
Ruth Aylett, Heriot-Watt University, UK
Randall Beer, Indiana University, USA
Axel Bender, Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Australia
Rene te Boekhorst, University of Hertfordshire, UK
Terry Bossomaier, Charles Sturt University, Australia
Larry Bull, University of the West of England, UK
Martin V. Butz, University of Wuerzburg, Germany
Lola Canamero, University of Hertfordshire, UK
Angelo Cangelosi, University of Plymouth, U.K.
Peter A. Cariani, Eaton Peabody Laboratory of Auditory Physiology, USA
Tan Kay Chen, National University of Singapore, Singapore
David Cornforth, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research
   Organisation (CSIRO), Australia
Kerstin Dautenhahn, University of Hertfordshire, UK
Alan Dorin, Monash University, Australia
Margaret J. Eppstein, University of Vermont, USA
Dario Floreano, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Robert A. Freitas, Institute for Molecular Manufacturing, USA
Steve Grand, Cyberlife Research, UK
Pauline Haddow, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Inman Harvey, University of Sussex, UK
Christian Jacob, University of Calgary, Canada
Per Kristian Lehre, University of Birmingham, UK
Kazuhiko Kawamura, Vanderbilt University, USA
Jan T. Kim, University of East Anglia, UK
Benjamin Kuipers, University of Texas, USA
Xavier Llora, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Vittorio Loreto, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy
Bruce MacLennan, University of Tennessee, USA
Paul Marrow, British Telecom, UK
Alcherio Martinoli, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Bob McKay, Seoul National University, Korea
Peter McOwan, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Giorgio Metta, University of Genoa, Italy
Assif Mirza, Italian Institute of Technology, Italy
Amiram Moshaiov, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Jason Noble, University of Southampton, UK
Stefano Nolfi, CNR, Italy
Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, INRIA Bordeaux Sud- Ouest, France
Daniel Polani, University of Hertfordshire, UK
Thomas S. Ray, University of Oklahoma, USA
James A. Reggia, University of Maryland, USA
Hiroki Sayama, Binghamton Univeristy (SUNY), USA
Brian Scassellati, Yale University, USA
Adrian Stoica, NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, USA
Tim Taylor, Timberpost Ltd., UK
Jason Teo, University of Malaysia Sabah, Malaysia
Guy Theraulaz, Universite Paul Sabatier, France
Kazuto Tominaga, Tokyo University of Technology, Japan
Hugo Touchette, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Andrew Tyrrell, University of York, UK
Olaf Sporns, Indiana University, USA
Russell Standish, University of New South Wales, Australia
Juyang (John) Weng, Michigan State University, USA
Tom Ziemke, University of Skovde, Sweden

IEEE SSCI 2009     March 30  April 2, 2009     Sheraton Music City Hotel, 
Nashville, TN, USA


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Prof. Dr. Chrystopher L. Nehaniv
Research Professor of Mathematical & Evolutionary Computer Sciences
Adaptive Systems, Algorithms, & BioComputation Research Groups
School of Computer Science
University of Hertfordshire
College Lane
Hatfield, Hertfordshire AL10 9AB
United Kingdom
e-mail: C.L.Nehaniv at herts.ac.uk
phone:  +44-1707-284-470
fax:    +44-1707-284-303
URL:    http://homepages.feis.herts.ac.uk/~nehaniv/welcome.html

Director, EPSRC Network on Evolvability in Biological & Software Systems
Associate Editor, BioSystems
Associate Editor, Interaction Studies