[alife] Call for Papers Virtual Worlds 2012

[Alain Lioret]

 *Virtual Worlds III*

*3-5 July, 2012, Paris, France*

http://www.virtual-worlds.net/vw2012/


 Dear colleagues,


 We are delighted to announce and call for papers for the Third
International Conference on Virtual Worlds (VW’2012) which will be held from
July 3 to 5, 2012 in Paris (La Défense).


 *Background*


 A Virtual World can be defined as a computer-simulated environment with its
own physical and biological laws, populated by dynamic interacting entities
such as artificial creatures and human avatars. Whereas Virtual Reality
largely focuses on the design of 3D immersive spaces, and Artificial Life on
the modeling and study of life-like systems, Virtual Worlds embrace both
dimensions by synthesizing an entire digital universe. Their design and
realization requires competency in various fields from Virtual Reality and
Physics to Artificial Life and Ecology, Computer Graphics, High Performance
Computing, and more.


 Virtual Worlds have many applications in 3D simulation, computer games and
online business. However, the approach is still broader and more
fundamental. It also addresses the crucial problem of elucidating the
constitutive principles by which large numbers of interacting elements can
self-organize and produce emergent phenomena as they are observed in the
natural world. Therefore the study of Virtual Worlds is particularly
concerned with the formal basis of synthetic universes and offers a
promising new way to contribute to the understanding of Nature and of
complex systems in general.


 *Subjects*


 Topics of interest for the conference include, but are not limited to:


 *Virtual World applications*

- Video games and entertainment

- Educational, medical and business solutions

- Virtual economies

- Social and philosophical implications

- Virtual Worlds and Ecology

*Virtual World technologies*

- High performance and low latency solutions

*Virtual and Augmented Reality*

- “Avatarization”

- Human-machine interfaces

*Virtual World fundamentals*

- Artificial physics and chemistries

- Complex systems, emergence, self-organization

*Artificial Life*

- Artificial life and ecosystems

- Evolution, co-evolution and adaptation

- Collective intelligence, cooperation, communication



 *Submissions*


 The Program Committee of VW’2012 is looking forward to high quality papers
on substantial, original, and unpublished research. Full papers may be
submitted electronically from 14 September 2011 to 14 November 2011 via the
conference website. All submitted work will be assigned for double blind
peer review. Authors of accepted papers will be asked to register to the
conference and present their work.


 The proceedings will be published by Springer in their Lecture Notes in
Computer Science (LNCS) series. Therefore, papers must be submitted in LNCS
format and be up to 10 pages in length including abstract, figures and
references. Formatting instructions are available at :
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Short papers (4 pages including abstract, figures and references) can also
be submitted and selected ones will be presented as posters during demos
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 Artistic and technical demos are also welcome and can be submitted by
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Final demos has to be set up before 05 May 2012.


 *Important Dates*


 Paper submission deadline: 14 November 2011

Notification of acceptance : 09 January 2012

Early registration before : 16 January 2012

Final paper deadline: 05 March 2012

Conference days : 03 July to 05 July 2012


 *Demos and Posters *


 Short Paper submission deadline: 14 November 2011

Notification of acceptance : 09 January 2012

Early registration before : 16 January 2012

Final poster and demo deadline: 05 May 2012


 We look forward to welcoming you at the conference!


 *Steering Committee*


 - Alain Lioret, Université Paris 8 (Chairman)

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- Jean-Claude Heudin , Institut International du Multimédia (Co-chairman)

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- Stefan Bornhofen, EISTI (Co-chairman)

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- Jean-Claude Torrel, Institut International du Multimédia (Co-chairman)

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 *Provisional Program Committee*


 Bruce Damer, DigitalSpace, USA

Jeffrey Ventrella, CDM, Vancouver, Canada

Sébastien Barot, Bioemco, France

Jacques Gignoux, Bioemco, France

Evelyne Lutton, INRIA, France

Emmanuel Cayla, ESTP, France

Yves Duthen, IRIT, Univ. France

Kevin Korb, Monash, Australia

Marc Métivier, Univ. Paris Descartes, France

Daniel Polani, Univ. Hertfordshire, GB

Tom Barbalet, BIOTA, USA

Frederic Fol Leymarie , University of London, GB

Pierre Berger, Paris ACM Siggraph, France

Penousal Machado, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Jon Mc Cormack, Monash, Australia

Julien Piedpremier, ESRA, France

Maciej Komosinski, Poznan University, Poland

Mathew Lewis, Ohio State University, USA

Robyn Taylor, Alberta, Canada

Simon Richir, Ensam Angers, France

Marc Ebner, Univ. Tübingen, Germany

Gerald de Jong, Darwin @Home, USA

Joseph Nechvatal, BIOTA, France

Alan Dorin, Monash, Australia