[alife] 2nd EvoEvo Workshop - call for extended abstract

[Guillaume Beslon]

CALL FOR  EXTENDED ABSTRACTS

EvoEvo workshop

Satellite workshop of the 2016 Conference on Complex Systems (CCS16)
http://www.ccs2016.org/

Tuesday 20 Sep 2016, Beurs Van Berlage, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

AIMS AND SCOPE

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 and bet-hedging, but finding traces of
these strategies in extant organisms is difficult. Moreover all these
strategies are likely to interact one with the others, blurring their
respective outcomes. However, new tools are now available that help
understanding EvoEvo. On the one hand, large scale bioinformatic data
analysis can be used to recognize signatures of evolution of evolution. On
the other hand, large scale computational modelling of multi-level
evolution is now becoming feasible, and promises to shed light on the
conditions under which evolutionary mechanisms evolve as well as their
consequences.

The aim of the EvoEvo workshop is to seek for a unified theory of Evolution
of Evolution and bring together researchers from various fields in
computational biology to tackle this challenge. The workshop will take
place as a satellite workshop of CCS 2016, Amsterdam, NL. The EvoEvo
workshop is an initiative of the EvoEvo consortium 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 extended abstracts of maximum 2000 words in LNCS format. All
submissions will be peer reviewed by at least two members of the workshop
committee. Accepted papers will be selected for long or short oral
presentation during the workshop.

Abstracts should be submitted via EasyChair
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=evoevo2016>.

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

IMPORTANT DATES

-    Abstract Submission: 30 June 2016
-    Notification of acceptance: 10 July 2016
-    EvoEvo Workshop: 20 September 2016

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)