[alife] Final Call For Papers: 4th Australian Conf on ALIFE

[Kevin Korb]

The Fourth Australian Conference on Artificial Life (ACAL2009)

Melbourne, Australia

December 1-4, 2009

http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/about/news/conferences/acal/index.html
 The Fourth Australian Conference on Artificial Life, (ACAL09), will be
held at the University of Melbourne from 1-4 December 2009 in
conjunction with the 22nd Australian Joint Conference on Artificial
Intelligence (AI'09). Invited speakers include Mark Bedau (Reed)
and Andries Engelbrecht (Pretoria).

The Programme Committee of ACAL09 invites technical papers on
substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects of
Artificial Life and Complex Adaptive Systems. Special sessions are
being organised on Artificial Ecology and on ALife art. Other
topics of interest to ACAL09 include, but are not limited to:

* Adaptive robotics
* Artificial chemistry
* Artificial societies and markets
* Ant colony optimisation
* Applications of ALife technologies
* Bioinformatics
* Biological agents
* Cellular automata
* Coevolution of morphology and mind
* Collaborative behaviour
* Complex systems
* Complexity
* Coordination
* Embodied cognition
* Emergence
* Epistemology of simulation
* Ethics of artificial life
* Evolutionary and adaptive dynamics
* Evolutionary computation
* Fitness landscapes
* Games
* Hierarchical dynamics
* Individual- and agent-based modelling
* Modularity
* Multi-agent systems
* Neural networks and connectionism
* Neurobiology
* Origin of life
* Philosophy of artificial life
* Self-organisation
* Self-replication
* Simulation and synthesis tools and methodologies
* Social networks
* Swarm Intelligence

All papers will be reviewed by at least two members of the programme
committee and proceedings will be published by Springer in their
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series.  Papers must
be submitted in LNCS format and be up to 10 pages in length.
Formatting instructions may be found at: http://www.springer.com/lncs

The important dates are:

Deadline for paper submissions: 16 June, 2009
Notification of acceptance: 18 August, 2009
Deadline for camera ready copies: 12 September 2009
Conference: 1-4 December, 2009

Contact

ACAL 2009 Program Committee
Faculty of Information Technology
Monash University
Clayton 3800, Vic, Australia
email: ACALadmin at infotech.monash.edu.au


-- 
Dr Kevin Korb, Reader
School of Info Tech
Monash University
Clayton, Victoria 3800
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~korb <http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/%7Ekorb>