[alife] CFP: 'Evolution of Personality' theme at Artificial Life XI

[James Marshall]

Dear colleague,
   this is a follow-up to the recently circulated call-for-papers for 
ALife XI (www.alifexi.org). I am soliciting papers for the 'Evolution of 
Personality' theme. I have recently been working with several 
behavioural ecology and animal behaviour colleagues in this area, and 
this theme at ALife XI is an experiment, to see who else out there in 
the ALife community is interested in similar issues. The motivation for 
the theme is as follows:

'Animals exhibit personalities, yet why they should do so is far from 
clear. A personality, or behavioural syndrome, is a tendency for an 
individual's behaviours in different contexts to be correlated: for 
example, risk-taking and aggressiveness are often seen together in 
animals. Emotions, for which we struggle to find an adaptive 
explanation, also lead to correlations across behaviours, and change the 
nature of animal-animal interactions. The fundamental question is: why 
are animals not perfectly flexible? Perfect flexibility in behaviour 
would appear optimal. Deviating from this ideal means game theoretic and 
other analyses must be modified, and attention must be paid to the 
computational costs of implementing behaviour. Such a research programme 
is closely aligned with the questions asked and approaches used in 
Artificial Life.'

If you would be interested in submitting a full paper or talk abstract 
on your work in this area, then the deadlines are 29th February and 25th 
April respectively.

   Best wishes,
	James Marshall

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