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From: "Fernando Almeida e Costa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu 1 Feb 2007 11:41:48 GMT+01:00
Subject: ECAL2007 kind request
Dear PC member of ECAL2007 - 9th European Conference on Artificial
Life,
You will find below the 2nd CFP for the conference. Could you
please distribute it to lists or individuals you think may be
interested.
Our deep thanks!
All the best,
Fernando Almeida e Costa
ECAL2007 Chair
ECAL2007 - 9th European Conference on Artificial Life
September 10-14, 2007
Lisbon, Portugal
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2nd Call for Papers
Submission deadline: April 9, 2007 | www.ecal2007.org
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Artificial Life aims at the study of all phenomena characteristic
of natural living systems, through methodologies of synthesis
implemented in computational, robotic or other artificial
architectures. Its wide scope ranges from the investigation of how
life or life-like properties develop from inorganic components to
how cognitive processes emerge in natural or artificial systems.
The ″European″, in European Conference on Artificial Life -
ECAL, merely refers to the conference location, but participation
is worldwide. In this ECAL we envisage maintaining and enlarging
this worldwide scope and want to emphatically encourage novelty and
daring ideas, particularly amongst young researchers. We welcome
both technical and conceptual papers, in all areas of the field,
including but not restricted to:
Origin and synthesis of Life: artificial chemistries, autocatalytic
systems, pre-biotic evolution, self-replication, self-organization,
molecular self-assembly; Information and Measures of Complexity;
Networks and Complex Systems;Evolutionary Robotics and Autonomous
Agents: exploitation and evolution of morphologies, 3D rapid
prototyping printers, non-holonomic robot control, bio-morphic
engineering, self-assembly, evolvable hardware, collective
robotics;Models of Brain-Body-Environment interaction: the question
of the boundaries, the dynamical systems approach, agency,
homeostasis and autopoiesis, sensorimotor coordination, action-
perception loops; Morphogenesis and Development: artificial
systems, natural systems; Learning, Adaptive Behaviour and
Evolution: learning and development, learning and evolution;Social
Behavior: language, social interaction, communication, swarm
intelligence, ant systems; A-Life Art; Epistemological Issues,
Tools and Methodologies: modeling in A-life, synthetic vs analytic
models; Philosophical Issues; Ethical and Social Issues;
· Proceedings Publication:
All the papers accepted for talks or poster presentations will be
published by Springer in the LNCS/LNAI series
· Format and submissions:
Papers must not exceed 10 pages in the Springer format and should
be submitted as a pdf file, through the ECAL2007 website automated
submission system. More instructions, namely about the camera-ready
version format can be find in the Springer page for authors at
www.springer.com/lncs or in the conference website [check the ″
Submissions″ and ″Proceedings″ pages].
· Questions:
Questions about submissions or reviewing must be emailed to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] For all the information on the conference,
check the website at www.ecal2007.org
· More Information:
The ECAL2007 conference will present top keynote speakers and
include a diversity of workshops, tutorials, and other associated
events. For more information, check the website at www.ecal2007.org
· Organizing Committee:
Fernando Almeida e Costa (Chair), Luis Mateus Rocha, Ernesto Costa,
Inman Harvey, António Coutinho
Carlos Gershenson
Centrum Leo Apostel, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Krijgskundestraat 33. B-1160 Brussels, Belgium
