[alife] Alife XI Themed Session: 'Information in Complex Systems and Artificial Life'

[Daniel Polani]

Dear Alifers,

we apologize in advance should you encounter this posting more than
once,
-- 
Daniel Polani

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Announcement of Alife XI (Winchester, UK) Themed Session: 'Information
in Complex Systems and Artificial Life'

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BRIEF SYNOPSIS:
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	  Information in Complex Systems and Artificial Life

In the last years, a number of novel information-theoretic techniques
have been developed that allow to address increasingly intricate
aspects of Artificial Life scenarios.  In this themed session, we are
looking for contributions that will address issues including, but not
limited to:

Analysis: scenarios analysed/interpreted using information-theoretic
	  tools.

Modelling: scenarios involving information-theoretic quantities for
	   their formulation.

Concepts/Methods: novel information-theoretic concepts, methods and
		  approaches for Alife scenarios.

Alternatives: expressive quantitative alternatives to (Shannon-type)
	      information-theoretic modelling.

Vision: far-reaching and visionary approaches, applications, scenarios
	and perspectives for the use of information-theoretic and related
	approaches to model, understand, and develop Alife systems, both for
	the understanding of biological systems as well as the development of
	artificial ones.

For a more detailed description of rationale and agenda of the
envisaged themed session, please see

  http://alifexi.wikispaces.com/Theme+-+Information

For a link to the main conference page, please see

  http://www.alifexi.org/


ORGANIZATION
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The session is organized by Daniel Polani (Hertfordshire, UK),
Chrystopher Nehaniv (Hertfordshire, UK) and Mikhail Prokopenko (CSIRO,
Australia).

SUBMISSION
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Alife XI Themed Sessions are integrated as focal topics of particular
timeliness into this year's Artificial Life conference. Papers
intended for the themed session are to be submitted as regular Alife
conference papers and undergo peer-review, and, if accepted,
publication in the regular conference proceedings.

Deadline: 29. February 2008