[alife] [Fwd: 1st Call for Abstracts: the 8th Int'l Workshop on Guided Self-Organization (GSO-2016, Cancun, Mexico, 7 July 2016)]

[Joseph Lizier]

This is an announcement and Call for Abstracts for the Eighth
International Workshop on Guided Self-Organization (GSO-2016) to be held
on July 7, 2016 at ALIFE XV in Cancun, Mexico:
http://guided-self.org/gso8/

The GSO Workshop will bring together invited experts and researchers in
self-organizing systems, with particular emphasis on the information-
and network-theoretic foundations of GSO and the information dynamics of
complex systems.  The following topics are of special interest:
information-theoretic measures of complexity, nonlinear dynamics,
complex networks, information-driven self-organization (IDSO),
applications of GSO to complex networks, distributed computation,
machine learning, swarm intelligence, bio-inspired systems,
computational neuroscience, systems biology, cooperative and modular
robotics, etc. 

Submissions to the workshop are extended abstracts (one page). If
interested in participating, please send an extended abstract (by May
29, 2016) by email to:

prokopenko.mikhail at gmail.com

The notifications are expected by June 10, 2016.  Authors of accepted
submissions will present the content to the workshop. We expect that
selected papers of GSO-2016 will be published in a special issue
(research topic) of Frontiers of Robotics and AI, or Artificial Life
journals.   Please consult above website for more information.

Best wishes,
Mikhail Prokopenko
Carlos Gershenson
Daniel Polani

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