[alife] CfP: IEEE ALIFE 2013 in Singapore (paper submission deadline: Oct. 10, 2012)

Hiroki Sayama sayama at binghamton.edu
Fri Sep 21 11:29:46 PDT 2012


(Apologies for multiple postings)

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                           Call for Papers

                           IEEE ALIFE 2013:
              The 2013 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life

                         April 15 - 19, 2013
             Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel, Singapore

      At the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence

                   Hosted by IEEE CIS Task Force on
             Artificial Life and Complex Adaptive Systems

        http://bingweb.binghamton.edu/~sayama/ieee-alife2013/
                      http://www.ieee-ssci.org/

                               Sponsor:
                        Wolfram Research, Inc.


[Symposium Overview]

IEEE ALIFE 2013 brings together researchers working on the emerging
areas of Artificial Life and Complex Adaptive Systems, aiming to
understand and synthesize life-like systems and applying bio-inspired
synthetic methods to other science/engineering disciplines, including
Biology, Robotics, Social Sciences, among others.

Artificial Life is the study of the simulation and synthesis of living
systems. In particular, this science of generalized living and
life-like systems provides engineering with billions of years of
design expertise to learn from and exploit through the example of the
evolution of organic life on earth. Increased understanding of the
massively successful design diversity, complexity, and adaptability of
life is rapidly making inroads into all areas of engineering and the
Sciences of the Artificial. Numerous applications of ideas from nature
and their generalizations from life-as-we-know-it to
life-as-it-could-be continually find their way into engineering and
science.

We invite submissions of high-quality contributions on a wide variety
of topics relevant to the wide research areas of Artificial Life.

[Important Dates]

Paper submission due: October 10, 2012
Notification to authors: January 5, 2013
Camera-ready papers due: February 5, 2013
Early registration due: February 5, 2013
Symposium dates: April 15-19, 2013

More information about paper formatting and submission instructions
will be available at the IEEE SSCI website: http://www.ieee-ssci.org/

[Best Paper/Best Student Paper Awards]

We are glad to announce that the following awards will be made to best
quality papers selected from the submissions to IEEE ALIFE
2013. Prizes will be kindly offered by Wolfram Research, Inc.

Best Paper Award
Prize: Wolfram Research Mathematica complimentary one-year licenses to
all authors of the paper

Best Student Paper Award
Prize: Wolfram Research Mathematica student license to the lead
student authors of the paper

[Keynotes and Tutorials (tentative)]

* Mikhail Prokopenko (CSIRO, Australia): "Information Dynamics at the Edge 
of Chaos"
* Katie Bentley (Cancer Research UK): "Artificial Life in the Fight Against 
Cancer"
* Chrystopher Nehaniv (University of Hertfordshire, UK): "Interaction and 
Experience in Enactive Intelligence and

Humanoid Robotics"

[Topics]

Some sample topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the
following aspects of Artificial Life:

* Systems Biology, Astrobiology, Origins of Replicators and Life
* Major Evolutionary Transitions
* Applications in Nanotechnology, Compilable Matter, or Medicine
* Genetic Regulatory Systems
* Predictive Methods for Complex Adaptive Systems
* Self-reproduction, Self-Repair, and Morphogenesis
* Robotic and Embodiment: Minimal, Adaptive, Ontogenetic and/or Social 
Robotics
* Human-Robot Interaction
* Constructive Dynamical Systems and Complexity
* Evolvability, Heritability, and Multicellularity
* Information-Theoretic Methods in Life-like Systems
* Sensor and Actuator Evolution and Adaptation
* Wet and Dry Artificial Life (e.g. artificial cells; non-carbon based life)
* Non-Traditional Computational Media
* Emergence and Complexity
* Multiscale Robustness and Plasticity
* Phenotypic Plasticity and Adaptability in Scalable, Robust Growing Systems
* Predictive Methods for Complex Adaptive Systems and Life-like Systems
* Automata Networks and Cellular Automata
* Ethics and Philosophy of Artificial Life
* Co-evolution and Symbiogenesis
* Simulation and Visualization Tools for Artificial Life
* Replicator and Interaction Dynamics
* Network Theory in Biology and Artificial Life
* Synchronization and Biological Clocks
* Methods and Applications of Evolutionary Developmental Systems (e.g. 
developmental genetic-regulatory networks

(DGRNs), multicellularity)
* Games and Generalized Biology
* Self-organization, Swarms and Multicellular Systems
* Emergence of Signaling and Communication
* Applications in Sociology, Economics and Behavioral Sciences

[Organization]

Symposium Co-Chairs:
Chrystopher Nehaniv, University of Hertfordshire, UK
Terry Bossomaier, Charles Sturt University, Australia
Hiroki Sayama, Binghamton University, State University of New York, USA

Program Committee:
Hussein Abbass, University of New South Wales, Australian Defence Force 
Academy, Australia
Andrew Adamatzky, University of the West of England, UK
Andreas Albrecht, Middlesex University in London, UK
Lee Altenberg, University of Hawaii, USA
Takaya Arita, Nagoya University, Japan
Wolfgang Banzhaf, Memorial University, Canada
Randall Beer, Indiana University, USA
Axel Bender, Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Australia
Katie Bentley, Cancer Research, UK
Josh Bongard, University of Vermont, USA
Martin V. Butz, University of Würzburg, Germany
Angelo Cangelosi, University of Plymouth, UK
Dominique Chu, University of Kent, UK
Kerstin Dautenhahn, University of Hertfordshire, UK
Alan Dorin, Monash University, Australia
René Doursat, Complex Systems Institute, Paris, France
Margaret J. Eppstein, University of Vermont, USA
Robert A. Freitas, Jr., Institute for Molecular Manufacturing, USA
Carlos Gershenson, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico
David Green, Monash University, Australia
Inman Harvey, University of Sussex, UK
Takashi Ikegami, University of Tokyo, Japan
Christian Jacob, University of Calgary, Canada
Joseph Lizier, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Germany
Bob McKay, Seoul National University, Korea
Peter William McOwan, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Stefano Nolfi, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, CNR, Italy
Joshua L. Payne, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Daniel Polani, University of Hertfordshire, UK
Steen Rasmussen, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Thomas S. Ray, University of Oklahoma, USA
John Rieffel, Union College, USA
Luis Rocha, Indiana University, USA
Reiji Suzuki, Nagoya University, Japan
Christof Teuscher, Portland State University, USA
Tatsuo Unemi, Soka University, Japan
Sebastian von Mammen, University of Calgary, Canada
Juyang Weng, Michigan State University, USA
Justin Werfel, Harvard University, USA
Jason Teo Tze Wi, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Malaysia
Janet Wiles, University of Queensland, Australia
Hector Zenil, University of Sheffield and Wolfram Research, UK

[For More Information]

Check the conference websites
    http://bingweb.binghamton.edu/~sayama/ieee-alife2013/
    http://www.ieee-ssci.org/

Contact Hiroki Sayama, Co-Chair IEEE ALIFE 2013
(Email: sayama at binghamton.edu) 




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