[alife] Generative and Developmental Systems Track, GECCO 2010, 2nd Call for Papers and Participation

[Jeff Clune]

Generative and Developmental Systems Track, GECCO 2010, Call for Papers and
Participation

              GENERATIVE AND DEVELOPMENTAL SYSTEMS TRACK
    2010 GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE (GECCO-2010)

                   http://www.sigevo.org/GECCO-2010


Dear Generative and Developmental Systems (GDS) Researcher,

We invite you to submit a paper to the GDS track at GECCO 2010, which we
believe is the premier conference for GDS-related work worldwide.

Our program committee of GDS experts means that your paper will be
reviewed by many leaders in the field. Moreover, the attendance at the
GDS track has been high ever since it started in 2007. The size and
prestige of the GECCO conference will allow many researchers to learn
about your work, both at the conference and via the proceedings (GECCO
has the highest impact rating of all conferences in the field of
Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life*).

This track focuses on work which has gone by many names, such as
artificial development, artificial embryogeny, computational embryology,
generative systems, indirect encodings, developmental encodings, genetic
regulatory networks (GRNs), Lindenmayer Systems (L-Systems), genotype to
phenotype mappings, etc. We invite papers on these topics or related
subjects.  

We also want to alert you to the historical importance of this track.
Many of you share our excitement about this field and its connection to
the powerful capabilities of biological encoding and development. For
many years, there was no consistent annual venue to which researchers in
this area could submit papers to be reviewed by a committee of GDS
researchers.

Most opportunities to present work in this area have been through one-
time workshops or symposia that do not carry the same weight as a GECCO
conference publication.

To address this gap, a committee of GDS researchers encouraged GECCO to
establish an official conference track in 2007. With the establishment of
the track, we now have an opportunity to build a strong and consistent
community that can improve and flourish over time.

However, the track can only survive with your submissions.   It is
important to note that GECCO permanently cancels tracks that fail to
attract sufficient submissions.  Therefore, our community can preserve
this new resource only by contributing papers.  We know that you have
many options for submitting your GDS-related ideas, and we hope that you
will consider the long-term investment that GDS represents for the
community.  Our program committee is selected from among the top GDS
researchers in the world, and we hope that our track will continue to
flourish with your enthusiasm.


IMPORTANT DATES
* Submission deadline: January 13, 2010
* Notification of paper acceptance: March 10, 2010
* Camera-ready submission: April 5, 2010
* GECCO-2010 Conference: July 7-11, 2010


The conference will be held July 7-11, 2010 in the very nice city of
Portland, Oregon, USA.


For more information, please see the GECCO homepage at
http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2010


Best Regards,

Jeff Clune and Julian Miller

2010 GECCO GDS Track Chairs

* http://www.cs-conference-ranking.org/conferencerankings/topicsii.html




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