[ec2m] Computer & Graphics journal CFP

[Taylor, Tim]

Special Issue of the Elsevier Journal "Computers & Graphics" 
Artificial Life: Towards New Generation of Computer Animation 

Submission Deadline: May 30, 2001 
Journal URL: http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/cag 
Computer animation techniques have achieved a very high level of physical
realism and nowadays provides a wide character model control capability.
Despite of the high quality of the resulting animations, their creation
still requires the intervention of good programers and graphic designers to
buid a custom character controller or to manually generate the character
movements and behavior. 
In many cases the Artificial Life paradigm can provide a natural way to
produce computer generated animations. Artificial Life is a rich research
area and may provide fruitfull results when combined with computer
animation. 
In this approach a computer animated character is an individual pertaining
to some species that could have its behavior optimized after an evolutionary
process carried over many generations of individuals. 
The behavior could be learned by each individual and its characteristics can
be inherited by the offsprings. A selection criteria should be used to
preserve the behavioral aspects that makes the character suited to the
animation purposes. 
The modelling and analysis of complex societies of simple characters is also
another interesting application of the Artificial Life paradigm.
These aplications come up straightly, and besides them several other less
direct aplications of artificial life may be presented using computer
animation. 

We welcome contributions addressing one or more of the following topics: 
Innovative Applications of Artificial Life 
Behavioral Animation 
Societies of Simple Characters 
Modeling of Behavior 
Evolution and Genetic Algorithms 
Computer Animation 
Visualisation of Evolutionary Patterns 
Evolutionary Art and Design 
Applications of Artificial Life 
Important Dates: 

E-mail Expression of Interest     As Soon As Possible 
Submission of Contributions   May 30, 2001  
Notification of Acceptance / Rejection   June 30, 2001  
Submission of Final Manuscripts   July 30, 2001  
Scheduled Publication date   January/March, 2002  

Guest Editors For This Issue: 

Marcio Lobo Netto Electronic Systems Engineering Department Politechnic
School - University of São Paulo São Paulo, Brazil lobonett at lsi.usp.br 
João Eduardo Kogler Jr. College of Computer Sciences and Technology SENAC
São Paulo, Brazil kogler at cei.sp.senac.br 
While it is not required, authors are strongly encouraged to e-mail the
Guest Editors indicating their intent to submit an article. 
Please carefuly check the guidelines for authors available from Elsevier at:
http://www.elsevier.nl/inca/publications/store/3/7/1/371.pub.istaut.shtml#is
taut 

For authors who wish to submit their manuscript in the Elsevier-Latex-style,
the following URL may be helpful:
http://www.elsevier.co.jp/homepage/about/ita/styles 
We also encourge contributions with complementary multimedia material
(images, videos, or applets). 
They shall be available with the electronic version of the paper, at the C&G
web site. 

All papers will be peer reviewed by multiple experts. Electronic submission
is *strongly* encouraged. Contributions should be submitted by (preferably)
emailing the URL where the submission can be retrieved or by emailing the
paper itself as one file (PDF or Compressed Postscript) to Marcio Lobo Netto


If this is *impossible* please send 4 copies to: Prof. Marcio Lobo Netto
Depto. Eng. Sistemas Eletrônicos Escola Politécnica da USP 05508-900 -
Cidade Universitária São Paulo, BRAZIL 
Phone: +5511 3818-5661 
Fax: +5511 3031-4574 
URL http://www.lsi.usp.br/~lobonett 
email lobonett at lsi.usp.br 

Whathever the submission method, you should send an email to the editors
with the title of the paper, the authors' names and affiliations, the
contact author's address, the abstract and the submission method URL,
attached file, the filename used for ftp, or surface mail tracking
information. 


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