[alife] [ECAL 2011] Registration is open! - Call for Papers (deadline April 6)

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!!! REGISTRATION FOR ECAL 2011 IS NOW OPEN !!!
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http://www.ecal11.org/registration

CALL FOR PAPERS: ECAL 2011

<< Back to the origins of Alife >>

ECAL 2011, European Conference on Artificial Life,
an international conference on the simulation and synthesis of living systems

8-12 August 2011, Paris, France
www.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.

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Welcome to ECAL 2011! 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 ? 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.

** You are invited to submit papers (full and abstract) to this exciting 
event! **


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


IMPORTANT DATES
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o PAPER & ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: April 6, 2011
o Paper & abstract notification: May 20, 2011
o Camera-ready versions: June 10, 2011
o Late registration: June 10, 2011
o End of registration: July 31, 2011
o Conference: August 8-12, 2011


THEMES
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"A new body of disciplines": Over the past two decades, biological  
knowledge has grown at an unprecedented rate, giving rise to new  
disciplines such as systems biology ?- 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.

"Life itself": ECAL 2011 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 2011 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?.

Papers are welcome in all areas of Artificial Life, including, but not  
limited to:

- (Chemical) Self-Assembly & Complexity
- Artificial Chemistries
- Biological & Chemical Information Processing and Production
- Biosemiotics
- Complex Networks
- Emergent Engineering
- Evolutionary & Learning Dynamics
- Minimal (Bottom up) Synthetic Cells
- Minimal Cognition & Physical Intelligence
- Mixed Living (Technology) Systems
- Modular Robotics
- Morphogenesis, Generative & Developmental Systems
- Multilevel Ecologies
- Organizations & Collective Intelligence
- Origins of Life
- Philosophy of Artificial Life & Living Technology
- Protocellular Energetics & Metabolic Networks
- Robotic Energy Autonomy
- Robotic Self-Assembly
- Socio-Technical Systems
- Swarm Intelligence
- Systems Biology
- Theoretical & Computational Frameworks
- Top-Down Artificial Cells

Authors are encouraged to explain how their work sheds light on the  
fundamental properties of living systems and makes progress on the  
important open questions identified during previous meetings.


PAPER/ABSTRACT FORMAT
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Detailed information concerning the formatting guidelines, templates,  
online submission process, and proceedings can be found at  
http://www.ecal11.org/submission

There are two options for submission: either *full paper* or *abstract*. 
Note that the format is exactly the same for both options. The only 
difference resides in the number of pages and type of contents:

1. Full papers have an *8-page* maximum length and should report on new, 
unpublished work

2. Abstracts are limited to a *2-page* length and should discuss work  
previously published in a journal. It is therefore essential that a  
reference to the previous article is clearly cited in the abstract.

All submissions will be subject to peer review, and all accepted  
submissions will be allocated either an oral presentation slot or a poster 
slot with no distinction being made between the two submission options 
(full paper or abstract).


PUBLICATION
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Every accepted full-paper and abstract, which was submitted to the main 
conference (not the satellite workshops), will be published by MIT Press in 
a single online open-access proceedings volume.

The top 10 accepted publications will have the opportunity to publish a 
revised and expanded version of their conference paper in the Artificial 
Life journal.


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

** Registration information is posted at http://www.ecal11.org/registration **


ORGANIZATION
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* Ren? Doursat (chair)
  Complex Systems Institute/CREA, Ecole Polytechnique & CNRS, Paris

* Hugues Bersini
  IRIDIA, Universit? Libre de Bruxelles

* Paul Bourgine
  Complex Systems Institute/CREA, Ecole Polytechnique & CNRS, Paris

* Tom Lenaerts (program chair)
  Department of Computer Science, Universit? Libre de Bruxelles

* Mario Giacobini (program co-chair)
  Molecular Biotechnology Center, University of Torino

* Marco Dorigo
  IRIDIA, Universit? Libre de Bruxelles


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


CONTACT
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For further information about the conference program and travel  
arrangements, please see the website, http://www.ecal11.org. For questions 
about the submission, reviewing process and other issues, email to: 
contact at ecal11.org.


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