[alife] CfP: Artificial Life, Robotics, Evolvable Hardware Track @ GECCO 2011

[Carlos Gershenson]

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Call for Papers
Artificial Life, Robotics, Evolvable Hardware Track @ GECCO 2011
Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference
July 12-16, Dublin, Ireland
http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2011/

This track promotes evolutionary computation and bio-inspired  
heuristics as instruments able to face engineering problems and  
scientific questions in different areas that include (but are not  
limited to): artificial life, robotics, and evolvable hardware.

Artificial life studies artificial systems (software, hardware, or  
chemical) with properties similar to those of living systems. There  
are two main complementary goals: to better understand living systems  
and to use this understanding to build artificial systems with  
properties of living systems, such as adaptability, evolvability,  
active perception, communication, organization.

Evolutionary computation techniques can be particularly useful for a  
large branch of robotics. The evolution of controllers, morphologies,  
sensors, and communication protocols is being used to build systems to  
provide robust, adaptive and scalable solutions to different problems  
in robotics.

Finally, the term “evolvable hardware” has been used in the past to  
denote both the design of electronic devices able to evolve  
themselves, and the generic exploitation of evolutionary techniques  
for creating hardware. While the first task sounds ambitious, the  
second is routinely applied by industries. The track will show both  
real and potential applications.

Important Dates:
* Submission deadline: January 26, 2011
* Notification of paper acceptance: March 23, 2011
* Camera-ready submission: April 8, 2011
* GECCO-2010 Conference: July 12-16, 2011

Submission guidelines:
http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2011/papers.html

Track chairs:
Carlos Gershenson	http://turing.iimas.unam.mx/~cgg/
Giovanni Squillero	http://www.cad.polito.it/~squillero/