[alife] GECCO-2012: Artificial Life, Evolutionary Robotics, Evolvable Hardware Track - Call for Paper

[C. Titus Brown]

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You are cordially invited to contribute to the Artificial Life /
Evolutionary Robotics / Evolvable Hardware Track at GECCO 2012, the Genetic
and Evolutionary Computation Conference to take place in Philadelphia
(USA), 7-11 July 2012.

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ALIFE Track - GECCO 2012 - CALL FOR PAPER

Artificial Life, Robotics, Evolvable Hardware (ALIFE TRACK)
2012 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2012)
July 7-11, Philadelphia, USA
http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2012/

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. This track welcomes contributions addressing problems
from control to morphology, from single robot to swarm of robotic
units.  Contributions are expected to deal explicitly with
Evolutionary Computation, with experiments either in simulation or
with real robots.

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. Contributions in this area are
expected to show either real and potential applications.

IMPORTANT DATES
* Submission deadline: January 13th, 2012
* Notification of paper acceptance: Mid-March, 2012
* Camera-ready submission: April 9th, 2011
* GECCO-2012 Conference: July 7-11, 2012

For more information, including submission guidelines,
please see the GECCO homepage at http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2012/

Best regards,

Track chairs:
Nicolas Bredeche        <http://www.lri.fr/~bredeche>
Giovanni Squillero      <http://www.cad.polito.it/staff/squillero/>

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