Workshops & Tutorials
Workshop program and proceedings available (pdf).
Also Check the Res-Art: Robotics and Emergent Systems exhibit, being presented in conjunction with the
ALIFE X conference
Approved Workshops
- Artificial Autonomy
Chairs: Xabier Barandiaran and Kepa Ruiz-Mirazo - Designing ALife Challenges: What can ALife show about biological evolution?
Chairs: Zann Gill and Mark Bedau - The Evolution Prize For a demonstration of Open-Ended Evolutionary Innovation in a Closed System
Chairs: Brig Klyce and Mark Bedau - Ethical Agents
Chairs: Colin Allen, Wendell Wallach, and Michael Brady - The Evolution of Complexity
Chairs: Carlos Gershenson and Tom Lenaerts. - Machine Self-replication
Chair:Adrian Bowyer - Modeling Environment Construction
Chairs: Peter Todd - Molecular Information Processing in Nature
Chair: Peter Wills - Morphologies, Motion and Cognition
Chairs: Fernando Almeida e Costa and Ian Macinnes - Neurodynamic Methods for analysis and control of cognitive behaviors
Chairs: Robert Kozma, Anil Seth, Jun Tani
Approved Tutorials/Demos
- Not just another piece of software. Artificial Life modeling with COBWEB
by Brad Bass - The Complete Idiot’s Tutorial to In Theorio, In Silico, and In Vivo Computation
by Christof Teuscher - Evolution of Sensors and the Perception-Action Loop
by Daniel Polani - Computational Chemistry for Self-organization
by Hideaki Suzuki and Hugues Bersini
Call for Workshops and Tutorials
Download flyer (8.5" x 11", PDF)
We are soliciting proposals for workshops and tutorials for ALIFE X to be held in Bloomington, Indiana, June 3-6, 2006. Proposals should include a brief description (1-2 paragraphs) of the topic and objectives of the session, as well as a list of potential presenters. Visit our website for an up-to-date description of the conference. The workshops and tutorials will be held on June 3, 2006. Workshops are typically full-day events with 7-12 speakers.
Workshop proposals will usually be 1-2 pages and should include a rationale for the timeliness, importance, and relevance of the topic, as well as organizational details concerning the program committee, organizers, and format. Tutorial proposals should describe the content material covered and intended audience.
The due date for all proposals is February 1, 2006, and notification of acceptance will be given by March 1, 2006. Proposals received after February 1 will be considered as time and space permit. If a workshop proposal is accepted, camera-ready papers are due April 15, 2006, and should be in the same format as the conference papers. Workshop papers will be distributed to conference attendees in a Workshops Proceedings, but will not appear in the MIT Press book based on the conference proceedings. Workshop organizers are free to independently arrange journal special issues. Leaders of accepted tutorials are expected to provide either a paper covering the material, or a set of formatted notes not exceeding 20 pages by April 15, 2006.
Proposals should be in plain text. Proposals and questions concerning proposals should be sent to workshops@alifex.org.