[alife] GWAL-8 Call for Papers - Deadline Extended

[Eckehard Olbrich]

SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO: March 26, 2008


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 extended to MARCH 26, 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 Tübingen
   * 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, ETH Zurich
   * Peter F. Stadler, University of Leipzig
   * Thomas Stützle, stuetzle at ulb.ac.be, 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

-- 
Dr. Eckehard Olbrich

Max Planck Institute
for Mathematics in the Sciences
Inselstrasse 22
D-04103 Leipzig
Germany

Tel.: +49 341 9959 568
Fax:  +49 341 9959 658
E-mail: olbrich at mis.mpg.de


-- 
Dr. Eckehard Olbrich 

Max Planck Institute 
for Mathematics in the Sciences
Inselstrasse 22
D-04103 Leipzig
Germany

Tel.: +49 341 9959 568
Fax:  +49 341 9959 658
E-mail: olbrich at mis.mpg.de