[alife] CFP: EvoEvo workshop at ECAL 2015

Guillaume Beslon guillaume.beslon at inria.fr
Tue Mar 10 07:02:23 PDT 2015


CALL FOR PAPERS/ABSTRACTS

EvoEvo workshop

Satellite workshop of the 13th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL
2015)

Friday July 24th 2015, University of York, York, UK

Variation and Selection are the two core processes of Darwinian Evolution.
Yet, both are directly regulated by many processes that are themselves
products of evolution (e.g. DNA repair, mutator genes, transposable
elements, horizontal transfer, stochasticity of gene expression, sex,
network modularity, niche construction...). This results in the ability of
evolution to self-modify its operators, hence its dynamics. We call this
process "Evolution of Evolution" or EvoEvo. Different EvoEvo strategies
have been proposed in the literature, including regulation of variability,
robustness/evolvability strategies, bet-hedging... However, most of these
strategies are poorly characterized and the conditions under which they
evolve as well as their consequences are generally unknown.

The aim of the EvoEvo workshop is to seek for a unified theory of Evolution
of Evolution by studying its biological mechanisms, evolutionary
consequences and possible applications to bioinspired computation. The
workshop will take place as a satellite workshop of ECAL 2015: the 13th
European Conference on Artificial Life (http://ecal2015.alife.org),
University of York, York, UK. The EvoEvo workshop is an initiative of the
EvoEvo consortium (http://www.evoevo.eu) funded by the FP7 EU-FET grant
EvoEvo (ICT-610427).

 AREAS OF INTEREST

 We are seeking submissions that explore all aspects of “Evolution of
Evolution”, including theoretical and experimental works (including in
vivo, in vitro and in silico experiment). Topics include but are not
limited to:

-    Evolution of robustness and evolvability, evolution of pleiotropy
-    Evolution of mutation rates, regulation of variability, mutators,
transposable elements,
     chromosomal rearrangements
-    Open-ended evolution
-    Evolution of the genotype-to-phenotype mapping
-    Niche construction, evolution of trophic networks, evolution of
cooperation
-    Evolution of genes and metabolic networks, evolution of modularity
-    Evolution of stochastic gene expression and bet-hedging
-    Modeling and simulation of EvoEvo, EvoEvo and fitness
landscapes/seascapes
-    Experimental characterization of EvoEvo
-    Application of EvoEvo to evolutionary computation
-    Philosophical, theoretical and practical aspects of EvoEvo

SUBMISSIONS

EvoEvo will accept full papers (10-15 pages) and extended abstracts (up to
3 pages). All submissions (either full papers and abstracts) will be peer
reviewed, and accepted full papers and abstracts will appear in the
workshop proceedings. Accepted papers will be selected for long or short
oral presentation during the workshop.

-    Full papers submission of 10 to 15 pages of Lecture Notes in Computer
Sciences (LNCS) format. Full papers must present original researches.
-    Abstract submission will be less than 3 pages of LNCS format. Abstract
may present work-in-progress or already published results.

Papers should be submitted via EasyChair ((
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=evoevo2015).

LNCS formatting details can be found at
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0.

IMPORTANT DATES

-    Paper Submission: 24 April 2014
-    Notification of acceptance: 15 May 2014
-    Camera-ready copies: 29 May 2014
-    EvoEvo Workshop: 24 July 2014

WORKSHOP CHAIRS

-    Guillaume Beslon, INSA, Université de Lyon (FR), LIRIS/Beagle team
-    Santiago Elena, CSIC and Polytechnic University of Valencia (SP), IBMCP
-    Paulien Hogeweg, Utrecht University (NL), Bioinformatics group
-    Dominique Schneider, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble (FR), LAPM
-    Susan Stepney, University of York (UK), Centre for Complex Systems
Analysis

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Guillaume Beslon, Professor
IXXI - Institut Rhône-Alpin des Systèmes Complexes (http://www.ixxi.fr)
INRIA - LIRIS - équipe Beagle (http://team.inria.fr/beagle -
http://liris.cnrs.fr)
INSA-Lyon Computer Science dept. (http://if.insa-lyon.fr)


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