[alife] CFP: Artificial Life, Robotics, Evolvable Hardware @ GECCO-2011

[C. Titus Brown]

Subject: CFP: Artificial Life, Robotics, Evolvable Hardware @ GECCO-2011
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 19:05:20 +0100

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*** JANUARY 26, 2011 ***

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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
http://twitter.com/GECCO2011

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.

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/staff/squillero/