[alife] ECAL'11: Full Program is Now Online - Call for Participation

Thu Jul 7 03:54:36 PDT 2011

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!!! REGISTER BY JULY 23 FOR BETTER RATES !!!
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*** FULL PROGRAM NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE
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*** 177 SUBMISSIONS TOTAL: 128 accepted papers
    (72 oral presentations, 56 posters)
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*** 6 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS - A PANEL OF ALIFE PIONEERS -
    ART EXHIBIT & SHOW - 14 WORKSHOPS
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*** ECAL UNITED WITH ALIFE:
    MIT Press Proceedings, Best papers in Alife Journal
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<< Back to the origins of Alife >>

ECAL'11, European Conference on Artificial Life,
an international conference on the simulation and synthesis of living systems 

8-12 August 2011, Paris, France
http://ecal11.org                         

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Artificial Life is an interdisciplinary undertaking that investigates the fundamental properties of living systems through the simulation and synthesis of biological entities and processes. It also attempts to design and build artificial systems that display properties of organisms, or societies of organisms, out of abiotic or virtual parts. ECAL, the European Conference on Artificial Life, is a biennial event that alternates with the US-based Alife conference series.  

Welcome to ECAL'11! Back then, in the early 1990's, the first two ECAL conferences in Paris and Brussels were mainly centered on theoretical biology and the physics of complex systems. Today, we feel that Alife can look back on these origins and take more inspiration from new developments at the intersection between computer science and theoretical biology ó thus it is our wish to refocus the conference on complex biological systems. Closing a loop, this ECAL will mark the 20th anniversary of the 1st ECAL and will be framed as a tribute to the late Francisco Varela, co-organizer in 1991 with two of this year's committee members (Paul Bourgine, CREA, and Hugues Bersini, IRIDIA). We look forward to seeing you in Paris.

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN
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http://ecal11.org/registration (better rates through July 23)

FULL PROGRAM ONLINE
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http://ecal11.org/program

6 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
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* Eric Wieschaus, Princeton University, 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology
* Ricard SolÈ, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
* Jordan Pollack, Brandeis University
* James D. Murray, Universities of Princeton, Washington and Oxford
* David Harel, Weizmann Institute of Science
* Jacques Demongeot, UniversitÈ Joseph Fourier, Grenoble

A PANEL DISCUSSION WITH ALIFE PIONEERS
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* Mark Bedau, Reed College & Portland State University, Oregon
* Takashi Ikegami, University of Tokyo
* Norman Packard, European Center for Living Technology, Venice
* Steen Rasmussen, University of Southern Denmark, Odense
* Luc Steels, Free University Brussels & Sony Labs, Paris
* Susan Stepney, University of York

ART EXHIBIT AND PERFORMANCE
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* Louis Bec, Zoosystematician ( http://www.v2.nl/archive/people/louis-bec )
* Francois Pachet, Jazz Player & Researcher, Sony Labs, Paris ( http://www.csl.sony.fr/~pachet/ )

72 TALKS (IN 9 SESSIONS OF 2 PARALLEL TRACKS EACH)
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* Agents: Mind, motion and evolution
* Autopoietic Systems
* Biochemical Modeling
* Cellular & Biochemical Networks
* Complex Networks
* Complexity
* Ecological Modeling
* Evolution & Games
* Evolutionary Robotics
* Language Evolution
* Morphologies & Development (1,2)
* Robot Control
* Robotics 
* Selection Dynamics
* Swarms
* Systems Biology
* Towards Artificial Agency and Cognition

56 POSTERS (ON PERMANENT DISPLAY)
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* 2 "poster pitch" sessions
* 1 poster inauguration/welcome reception

14 WORKSHOPS & TUTORIALS
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* AAALE - Alife Approaches to Artificial Language Evolution
* ACCS - Artificial Chemical Computing Systems
* BioChemIT - 1st COBRA Workshop on Biological and Chemical Information Technologies
* Closure - Metabolic closure: From (M,R) systems and autopoiesis to self-referential equations
* CoSMoS - 4th Workshop on Complex Systems Modelling and Simulation
* CS-Sports - Complex Systems in Sports
* iBioMath - First International Workshop on Integral Biomathics
* INCUP - Novel Computing Substrates: Information Coding Perspective
* MASmms - Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems in Biology at meso or macroscopic scales
* MEW - 3rd Morphogenetic Engineering Workshop
* RUTSAC - Research Using The Stringmol Artificial Chemistry
* SIM-A - System Immunology Models of Autopoesis
* SynBioCCC - Synthetic Gene Regulatory Networks for Computation, Control and Communications
* WAAT - Workshop on Artificial Autonomy: 20 years of practice of autonomous systems

IMPORTANT DATES
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o End of standard registration rates: July 23, 2011
o Start of late registration rates: July 24, 2011
o Conference: August 8-12, 2011
o (Banquet: August 11, 2011)

THEMES
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Over the past two decades, biological knowledge has grown at an unprecedented rate, giving rise to new disciplines such as systems biology ó- testimony of the striking progress of modeling and quantitative methods across the field. During the same period, highly speculative ideas have matured, and entire conferences and journals are now devoted to them. Synthesizing artificial cells, simulating large-scale biological networks, storing and making intelligent use of an exponentially growing amount of data (e.g., microarrays), exploiting biological substrates for computation and control, and deploying bio-inspired engineering are all cutting-edge topics today.

ECAL'11 will leverage the remarkable development of biological modeling and extend the topics of Artificial Life to the fundamental properties of living organisms: their multiscale pattern-forming morphodynamics, their autopoiesis, robustness, capacity to self-repair, cognitive capacities, and co-adaptation at all levels, including ecological ones. ECAL'11 will bring together a large interdisciplinary community of biologists, computer scientists, physicists, and mathematicians. It will invite them to reflect on how traditional boundaries between disciplines have become blurred, and to revisit in depth what constitutes "life".

VENUE & REGISTRATION
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The conference will be held at the CitÈ Internationale Universitaire de Paris (CIUP), located on a wooded park at the southern edge of the French capital. See more information at http://ecal11.org/venue

** Registration information is posted at http://ecal11.org/registration (better rates through July 23) **

ORGANIZATION
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* RenÈ Doursat (chair), Complex Systems Institute/CREA, Ecole Polytechnique & CNRS, Paris
* Hugues Bersini, IRIDIA, UniversitÈ Libre de Bruxelles
* Paul Bourgine, Complex Systems Institute/CREA, Ecole Polytechnique & CNRS, Paris
* Tom Lenaerts (program chair), Department of Computer Science, UniversitÈ Libre de Bruxelles
* Mario Giacobini (program co-chair), Molecular Biotechnology Center, University of Torino
* Marco Dorigo, IRIDIA, UniversitÈ Libre de Bruxelles

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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* Hussein Abbass  * Joachim De Beule  * Pedro U. Lima  * Matthias Scheutz
* Andy Adamatzky  * Bart De Boer  * Daniel Lobo  * Thomas Schmickl
* Chris Adami  * Ralf Der  * Fernando Lobo  * Marc Schoenauer
* Andreas Albrecht  * Gianni Di Caro  * Robert Lowe  * Luis Seabra Lopes
* Fernando Almeida E Costa  * Cecilia Di Chio  * Penousal Machado  * Roberto Serra
* Lee Altenberg  * Peter Dittrich  * Steven Maere  * Cosma Shalizi
* Paul Andrews  * Marco Dorigo  * Davide Marocco  * Ricard Sole
* Takaya Arita  * Alan Dorin  * John McCaskill  * Antoine Spicher
* Wolfgang Banzhaf  * RenÈ Doursat  * Chris McEwan  * Peter Stadler
* Xabier E. Barandiaran  * Marc Ebner  * Barry McMullin  * Susan Stepney
* Andrea Baronchelli  * Arantza Etxeberria  * Jose Mendes  * Charles Taylor
* Jacob Beal  * Nazim Fates  * Olivier Michel  * Tim Taylor
* Mark Bedau  * Christoph Flamm  * Martin Middendorf  * Gianluca Tempesti
* Randall Beer  * Luca Gambardella  * LuÌs Moniz Pereira  * Christof Teuscher
* Tony Belpaeme  * Carlos Gershenson  * Sara Montagna  * Jon Timmis
* Peter Bentley  * Mario Giacobini  * Jason Moore  * Peter Todd
* Hugues Bersini  * Roderich Gross  * Federico Moran  * Marco Tomassini
* Luc Berthouze  * Thilo Gross  * Chrystopher L. Nehaniv  * Arne Traulsen
* Luigi Bertolotti  * Pauline C Haddow  * Jason Noble  * Vito Trianni
* Mauro Birattari  * Emma Hart  * Stefano Nolfi  * Elio Tuci
* Joris Bleys  * Inman Harvey  * Ann Nowe  * Gunnar Tufte
* Josh Bongard  * Paulien Hogeweg  * Charles Ofria  * Ali Emre Turgut
* Paul Bourgine  * Phil Husbands  * Joshua Payne  * Karl Tuyls
* Seth Bullock  * Fumiya Iida  * Andrew Philippides  * Jon Umerez
* Stefano Cagnoni  * Yaochu Jin  * RaphaÎl Plasson  * Patricia A. Vargas
* Alexandre Campo  * Colin Johnson  * Daniel Polani  * Mirko Viroli
* Philippe Capdepuy  * Istvan Karsai  * Paolo Provero  * Paul Vogt
* Ciro Cattuto  * Jozef Kelemen  * Charles Richter  * Richard Watson
* Anders Christensen  * Serge Kernbach  * Luis M. Rocha  * Alan Winfield
* Dominique Chu  * Daeeun Kim  * Miguel Rocha  * Rachel Wood
* Netta Cohen  * Taras Kowaliw  * Pierre Rouze  * Andrew Wuensche
* Luis Correia  * Kalevi Kull  * Kepa Ruiz Mirazo  * Larry Yaeger
* Ernesto Costa  * Renaud Lambiotte  * Erol Sahin  * Tom Ziemke
* Tam·s Cz·r·n  * Doron Lancet  * Francisco C. Santos
* Christian Darabos  * Tom Lenaerts  * Hiroki Sayama

ADDITIONAL REVIEWERS
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* Philipp Altrock  * Danilo Pianini
* Joshua Auerbach  * Gabriel Piedrafita
* Julian Garcia  * Flavio Pinheiro
* Heather Goldsby  * Stuart Rossiter
* Laura Grabowski  * Pedro Santana
* Nanda Maheshwari  * Porfirio Silva
* Pedro Mariano  * Nikolaos Vlassopoulos
* Hugi Marques  * Liyu Wang
* Bj¯rn ÿstman  * Nicolae-Radu Zabet

CONTACT    
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* To register: http://ecal11.org/registration
* Questions about registration, onsite logistics & workshops: contact at ecal11.org
* Questions about the proceedings & program: ecal11 at easychair.org