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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Special Issue of the Elsevier Journal "Computers & Graphics" </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Artificial Life: Towards New Generation of Computer Animation </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Submission Deadline: May 30, 2001 </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Journal URL: <A HREF="http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/cag" TARGET="_blank">http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/cag</A> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>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. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>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. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>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. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>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. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>The modelling and analysis of complex societies of simple characters is also another interesting application of the Artificial Life paradigm.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>These aplications come up straightly, and besides them several other less direct aplications of artificial life may be presented using computer animation. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>We welcome contributions addressing one or more of the following topics: </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Innovative Applications of Artificial Life </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Behavioral Animation </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Societies of Simple Characters </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Modeling of Behavior </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Evolution and Genetic Algorithms </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Computer Animation </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Visualisation of Evolutionary Patterns </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Evolutionary Art and Design </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Applications of Artificial Life </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Important Dates: </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>E-mail Expression of Interest As Soon As Possible </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Submission of Contributions May 30, 2001 </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Notification of Acceptance / Rejection June 30, 2001 </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Submission of Final Manuscripts July 30, 2001 </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Scheduled Publication date January/March, 2002 </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Guest Editors For This Issue: </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Marcio Lobo Netto Electronic Systems Engineering Department Politechnic School - University of São Paulo São Paulo, Brazil lobonett@lsi.usp.br </FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>João Eduardo Kogler Jr. College of Computer Sciences and Technology SENAC São Paulo, Brazil kogler@cei.sp.senac.br </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>While it is not required, authors are strongly encouraged to e-mail the Guest Editors indicating their intent to submit an article. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>Please carefuly check the guidelines for authors available from Elsevier at: <A HREF="http://www.elsevier.nl/inca/publications/store/3/7/1/371.pub.istaut.shtml#istaut" TARGET="_blank">http://www.elsevier.nl/inca/publications/store/3/7/1/371.pub.istaut.shtml#istaut</A> </FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>For authors who wish to submit their manuscript in the Elsevier-Latex-style, the following URL may be helpful: <A HREF="http://www.elsevier.co.jp/homepage/about/ita/styles" TARGET="_blank">http://www.elsevier.co.jp/homepage/about/ita/styles</A> </FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>We also encourge contributions with complementary multimedia material (images, videos, or applets). </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>They shall be available with the electronic version of the paper, at the C&G web site. </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>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 </FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>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 </FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>Phone: +5511 3818-5661 </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Fax: +5511 3031-4574 </FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2>email lobonett@lsi.usp.br </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>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. </FONT></P>
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