[alife] CfP: Evolutionary Physical SYstems and Matter (EPSyM) at IEEE WCCI CEC 2016

[Stefano Nichele]

IEEE WCCI 2016 Special session: EVOLUTIONARY PHYSICAL SYSTEMS AND MATTER



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CALL FOR PAPERS



Paper deadline: JANUARY 15, 2016



Special Session CEC-43 on "Evolutionary Physical SYstems and Matter"
(EPSyM)

at the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence 2016 (IEEE WCCI
2016)

25-29 July 2016, VANCOUVER, Canada



Papers submitted to this special session track (if accepted and presented)

will be published in the IEEE CEC proceedings.



More details: http://www.nichele.eu/WCCI_EPSyM/SS-EPSyM-IEEE_CEC_2016.html



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Scope and Call for Papers



The special session on Evolution of Physical SYstems and Matter (EPSyM)

encompasses understanding, modeling and applying biologically inspired

mechanisms to physical systems, where evolution occurs entirely in the

real-world physical substrates rather than in simulation. Using real

physical systems or materials for computation may allow evolution to

exploit underlying physical properties that may not be available in

simulation (e.g. due to «reality gap»), thus allowing the discovery of

novel evolutionary solutions.



The aim of this special session is to bring together researchers in order

to share ideas and innovations on biologically inspired mechanisms applied

to physical systems. Application areas include bio-inspired algorithms

applied to physical systems, the creation of novel physical devices,

novel or optimized designs for physical systems, adaptive physical systems,

novel evolutionary techniques for embedded evolution and embedded
computation,

and novel material substrates that may support computation.



This special session is inspired by overlapping principles that emerged in

several domains, such as Evolution-in-Materio (Pask, 1959; Miller and
Downing,

2002), where underlying physics of materials is used as computation
substrate.



Notable examples of evolution of physical systems and matter range from

novel nanoscale materials for computation (Broersma et al., 2012), to FPGAs

(Thompson, 1996), embodied evolution (Watson et al., 2002), 3D printers

(Rieffel and Sayles, 2010), EHW (Yao and Higuchi, 1996; Greenwood and
Tyrrell,

2006), electronic devices (Hornby at al., 2006) and robotics (Zykov et al.,
2004).



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Topics



The special session on Evolutionary Physical Systems and Matter intends to

collect both theoretical machines and contributions/principles, and
practical

applications. Real application scenarios, from nanotechnology to buildings,

are welcome. The topics of this special issue include (but are not limited
to):



*    Evolution of Physical Systems

*    Evolution-in-Materio

*    Computational Matter

*    Evolution of Micro/Nano-Devices

*    Embodied Evolution

*    Morphological Computation (e.g. Tensegrity, 3D printers) and Embodied
Computation

*    Slime Mould Computing

*    Physical Implementations of Reservoir Computing

*    Exploitation of Evolutionary Techniques for Creating Physical Circuits
(Design and Fabrication)

*    Micro and Nano-scale Electronic Chemistry

*    Evolvable Systems Techniques

*    Self-reconfiguration, fault tolerance, self repair, adaptation

*    Artificial Generative and Developmental Systems

*    Evolution / Co-evolution of Controllers and Morphologies

*    Bio-Inspired Computation for new Materials Engineering

*    Bio-Inspired Computation for Fabrication of Novel Physical Devices



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Submission Instructions



We welcome original contributions describing ongoing projects or completed
work.

The instructions for authors, and LaTeX and Word templates can be found at

http://www.wcci2016.org/submission.php . You can also upload your paper
directly here:

http://ieee-cis.org/conferences/cec2016/upload.php  (please specify that
you are

submitting your paper in this special track: CEC-43).



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Important dates



Paper submission: January 15, 2016

Author notification: March 15, 2016

Final Submission: April 15, 2016

Conference dates: 25-29 July, 2016

Location: Vancouver, Canada



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Organizers:



Stefano Nichele, PhD, nichele at idi.ntnu.no

Department of Computer and Information Science,

Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim (Norway)

http://www.nichele.eu/



Gunnar Tufte, PhD, gunnart at idi.ntnu.no

Department of Computer and Information Science,

Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim (Norway)

https://www.ntnu.edu/employees/gunnar.tufte



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http://www.nichele.eu/WCCI_EPSyM/SS-EPSyM-IEEE_CEC_2016.html



http://www.wcci2016.org/



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Best Regards,

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Stefano Nichele, PhD

http://www.nichele.eu

Post-Doc, Group for Computer Architecture and Design

Department of Computer and Information Science (IDI)

Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)