[alife] Special Session on Evolutionary Computation in Cellular Automata (ECCA 2012)

[Genaro Martinez]

Special Session on Evolutionary Computation in Cellular Automata (ECCA 2012)
05 - 07 October, 2012 - Barcelona, Spain

In conjunction with the International Conference on Evolutionary Computation Theory and Applications (ECTA 2012)

CO-CHAIRS:
Emmanuel Sapin, CNRS, France
Ed Keedwell, University of Exeter, United Kingdom

IMPORTANT DATES:
Paper Submission: July 5, 2012
Authors Notification (regular papers): July 18, 2012
Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: July 30, 2012

http://www.ecta.ijcci.org/ECCA.aspx

Evolutionary computation (EC) in Cellular Automata (CA) has attracted the interest of many researchers in recent years. EC is known to provide very good results when applied to Cellular Automata (CA). The EvCA group was a pioneer in this new field of research and their question "How does evolution produce sophisticated emergent computation in systems composed of simple components limited to local interactions?" is still a fundamental issue in the theory of complex systems. Evolutionary computation has been shown to be a remarkable tool in the search for computing patterns as well as in the search for automata performing various computing tasks. This session is open to papers dealing with any research in which stochastic algorithms are used to search the space of cellular automata and will also consider for publication research dealing with unconventional computing using an evolutionary approach.