[alife] CFP: IEEE CEC2013 Special Session on "Evolutionary Developmental Systems"

[yaochu.jin at surrey.ac.uk]

Call for Paper

2013 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation
June 20-23 2013, Cancun, Mexico

Special Session on “Evolutionary Developmental Systems”

http://www.soft-computing.de/CEC2013_SS_EDS.html

Motivation and Scope

Computational modeling of biological development has received increasing interests in evolutionary computation, artificial life and computational systems biology. In the evolutionary computation community, evolutionary algorithms using an indirect coding or generative coding are believed to be more scalable in evolving highly complex systems, compared to those using a direct coding. A variety number of models for neural and morphological development have been proposed, ranging from a set of re-writing rules to gene regulatory network models including metabolic reactions. Meanwhile, all developmental models must be evolved to perform a particular function, which are known as evolutionary developmental systems (EDS).

Evolution of developmental models is of great interest not only to efficient optimization of large-scale systems, but also to the understanding of the evolution of the body plan and neural control in living systems. This special session aims to promote cross-disciplinary research in evolutionary computation, artificial life, computational neuroscience and computational systems biology. Topics of the special session include but are not limited to:
•       Evolutionary algorithms using indirect or generative encoding
•       Evolution of computational models for morphological and neural development
•       Computational models of neural development and neural plasticity
•       Evolution of neural development
•       Developmental approach to reservoir computing
•       Co-evolution of neural control and body plan
•       Morphogenetic robotics and evolutionary developmental robotics
•       Analysis of evolvability and robustness of developmental systems
•       Evolutionary synthesis of regulatory dynamics
•       Evolutionary and developmental approaches to engineering design

Special Session Organizers:

Professor Yaochu Jin
Department of Computing
University of Surrey, UK
Email: yaochu.jin at surrey.ac.uk

Professor Yongsheng Ding
College of Information Sciences and Technology
Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, China
Email: ysding at dhu.edu.cn


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Professor Yaochu Jin
Head of the Nature-Inspired Computing and Engineering (NICE) Group
Department of Computing, University of Surrey
Guildford, GU2 7XH, United Kingdom
Room 35 BB02
Phone: +44(0)1483 686037   Fax:    +44(0)1483 686051
Email:  yaochu.jin at surrey.ac.uk
http://www.surrey.ac.uk/computing/people/yaochu_jin/
Group Website:
http://www.surrey.ac.uk/computing/research/nice/index.htm
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