[alife] Call for Papers: Special Session on "Information Processing, Inference and Learning” at the Fifth Australian Conference on Artificial Life (ACAL11)

Oliver Obst oliverobst at gmail.com
Tue May 17 19:10:02 PDT 2011


We are organising a special session “Information Processing, Inference
and Learning” at the Fifth Australian Conference on Artificial Life
(ACAL11).

Keynote speaker (tentatively): Prof. Martin Riedmiller, Albert-Ludwigs
University Freiburg, Germany

Learning is one of the most important capabilities of living systems,
and processes involved in inference and learning are ingrained in many
levels of organisation scale, e.g., from single neurons to
organisations or societies. Much of the information processing
involved in these processes is consequently distributed, and relies on
local interactions among individual entities. On the other hand, many
successful approaches from machine learning require some centralised
processing, while in living systems no such requirement exists.

In this special session, we are looking for contributions that will
address issues that involve information processing, inference, and
learning, with a perspective on their application to Alife scenarios.
These include for example methods to help characterising relevant
information, self-organised encoding of information, decentralised
approaches to learning, and inference mechanisms. Possible topics
include, but are not limited to,

- information theoretic methods for analysing/describing Alife scenarios
- interactions between genetic evolution, and individual learning
- self-organised information processing
- intrinsically motivated learning
- guided self-organisation

Organisers: Oliver Obst, Mikhail Prokopenko (CSIRO ICT Centre)

To submit papers to this special session, please use the ACAL 2011
submission system and use Information Processing, Inference and / or
Learning as a keyword.


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ACAL11 -- The Fifth Australian Conference on Artificial Life
6-8 December 2011, Perth, Western Australia
http://robots.newcastle.edu.au/ACAL11/

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IMPORTANT DATES
Full Paper Submission: 28 June 2011
Acceptance/Rejection Notification: 15 August 2011
Camera Ready Submission: 10 September 2011

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PAPER SUBMISSION AND AUTHOR INFORMATION

The ACAL11 proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the
"Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNCS/LNAI/LNBI)" Series.

Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers in English with
no more than 12 pages in Springer LNAI style including results,
figures and references. All papers for ACAL11 must be submitted
electronically through the easychair conference management system:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acal11

All correctly submitted papers will be peer reviewed by at least three
members of the international programme committee.

Paper templates in LNCS/LNAI format are available at Springer-Verlag's website

http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0

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