[alife] Call for Papers ECAL 2013 2-6 September 2013, Italy

[Giuseppe Nicosia]

ECAL 2013, European Conference on Artificial Life,
an International Conference on the Designing, Programming, 
Evolving, Simulation and Synthesis of Natural and Artificial Living Systems

2-6 September 2013, Taormina, Italy - http://www.dmi.unict.it/ecal2013/

Paper Submission: April 15, 2013


* Plenary Speakers

Roberto Cingolani, IIT, Italy (confirmed)

Dario Floreano, EPFL, Swiss (confirmed)

Martin Hanczyc, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark (confirmed)

Henrik Hautop, Lund, Denmark (confirmed)

Didier Keymeulen, Caltech - JPL NASA, USA (TBC)

Rolf Pfeifer, ETH, Swiss (confirmed)

More Keynote Speakers to be Announced

http://www.dmi.unict.it/ecal2013/keynote.php



* Workshops

Artificial Life Based Models of Higher Cognition
    Onofrio Gigliotta, onofrio.gigliotta at unina.it
    Davide Marocco, davide.marocco at plymouth.ac.uk

Artificial Consciousness
    Igor Aleksander, i.aleksander at imperial.ac.uk
    Raul Arrabales Moreno, raul.arrabales at u-tad.com
    Pietro Perconti, perconti at unime.it
    Alessio Plebe, aplebe at unime.it

Artificial Life in Massive Data Flow
    Takashi Ikegami, ikeg at sacral.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp
    Mizuki Oka, mizuki at cs.tsukuba.ac.jp
    Norman Packard, n at protolife.net, packard at illinois.edu
    Mark Bedau, mab at reed.edu 
    Rolf Pfeifer, pfeifer at ifi.uzh.ch 

Collective and Swarm Robotics
    Stefano Nolfi, stefano.nolfi at istc.cnr.it
    Marco Dorigo, mdorigo at ulb.ac.be
    Francesco Mondada, francesco.mondada at epfl.ch
    Tom Wenseleers, tom.wenseleers at bio.kuleuven.be

EvoDevoNet 2013 - Evolution and Development of Networks, from Systems Biology to Computational Neuroscience
    Borys Wróbel, wrobel at evosys.org

2nd International Workshop on the Evolution of Physical Systems
    John Rieffel, rieffelj at union.edu
    Nicolas Bredeche, nicolas.bredeche at isir.upmc.fr
    Jean-­Baptiste Mouret, mouret at isir.upmc.fr
    Evert Haasdijk, e.w.haasdijk at vu.nl

ERLARS 2013 - 6th International Workshop on Evolutionary and Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Robot Systems
    Nils T. Siebel, siebel at htw-berlin.de
    Yohannes Kassahun, kassahun at informatik.uni-bremen.de

Fundamentals of Collective Adaptive Systems
    Emma Hart, e.hart at napier.ac.uk
    Ben Paechter, b.paechter at napier.ac.uk

HSB - 2nd International Workshop on Hybrid Systems and Biology
    Thao Dang, thao.dang at imag.fr
    Carla Piazza, carla.piazza at uniud.it

Protocells: Back to the Future
    Timoteo Carletti, timoteo.carletti at fundp.ac.be
    Alessandro Filisetti, alessandro.filisetti at unibo.it
    Norman Packard, n at protolife.net, packard at illinois.edu
    Roberto Serra, rserra at unimore.it

What Synthetic Biology can offer to Artificial Intelligence? Perspectives in the Bio-Chem-ICT and other scenarios
    Luisa Damiano, luisa.damiano at unibg.it
    Pasquale Stano, pasquale.stano at uniroma3.it
    Yutetsu Kuruma, kuruma at k.u-tokyo.ac.jp


http://www.dmi.unict.it/ecal2013/workshops.php



* Tutorials

Cell Pathway Design for Biotechnology and Synthetic Biology

Exploring Prebiotic Chemistry Spaces

Designing Adaptive Humanoid Robots Through the FARSA Open-Source Framework

New Generation Sequencing Data Production, Analysis, and Archiving

PyCX: A Python-Based Simulation Code Repository for Complex Systems Education

http://www.dmi.unict.it/ecal2013/tutorials.php


We look forward to seeing you in Taormina!

Best wishes,
    Pietro Lio', Orazio Miglino, Giuseppe Nicosia, Stefano Nolfi & Mario Pavone.