Call for Papers
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Artificial life is the interdisciplinary enterprise investigating the fundamental properties of living systems through the simulation and synthesis of life-like processes in artificial media.
The Artificial Life X conference marks two decades of the birth of this enterprise, a period marked by vast advances in the life sciences. The conference will showcase the best current work in all areas of research in Artificial Life, while highlighting its achievements and challenges, especially in an age of unparalleled computational power and access to data about various biological processes.
Each day of the conference will also spotlight a specific theme: Development and Embodied Cognition (in collaboration with ICDL5), Achievements and Open Problems, Computational Biology, and Complex Systems and Networks.
All authors of conference papers are encouraged to explain how their work sheds light on the fundamental properties of living systems and makes progress on important open questions.
Paper submissions (6 pages single spaced) are welcome in all areas of the field, including:
- Synthesis of life: Origin of life, self-organization, autocatalysis, self-replication, artificial chemistry, molecular self-assembly, molecular information processing, nanotechnology.
- Development and regulation: Natural and artificial, morphogenesis, gene-regulation networks, multicellular development.
- Evolution and adaptation: Modes of selection, artificial ecologies, evolutionary games, molecular evolution, immune systems, cultural evolution and learning, coevolution
- Biologically-inspired computing and technology: Product Design, Art, Security Applications, Knowledge Management and Dissemination, Self-repair, Financial and Economic Agents, Gaming, Human-Computer Interaction, recommendation systems, distributed information retrieval, evolving MEMS technology, educational technologies.
- Bio-inspired robots and embodied cognition: Intelligent agents, evolutionary and adaptive robots, autonomy
- Collective behavior: Communication, cooperation, swarm intelligence, social and linguistic systems, social-technical systems, multi-agent simulation.
- Social and philosophical implications: Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Mind, ethical and social implications of Alife.
- Simulation, tools and methodologies: Languages, simulation environments, visualization and analysis tools for large data sets, evaluation of existing methodologies, experimental tools, alife-inspired informatics
Both oral and poster presentations will be published in a single volume by MIT Press. ALife X will present top keynote speakers and will also include a series of workshops and tutorials, which you are invited to propose. Alife X will follow and share one day of overlapping workshops and tutorials with the 5th International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL5), May 31-June 3, 2006. June 3 will feature joint activities with both conferences.