From owner-comp-bio@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Thu Nov 8 01:51:37 2001 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 051FA17B8D for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 01:51:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id D999617B89 for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 01:51:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 6023) id 56D7C17B7F; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 01:51:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id E191017D40 for ; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 22:08:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sprettur.isnet.is (sprettur.isnet.is [193.4.58.19]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C4B817D3A for ; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 22:08:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from tomahawk.comms.unsw.edu.au (tomahawk.comms.unsw.EDU.AU [149.171.96.30]) by sprettur.isnet.is (8.11.1/8.11.0/isnet) with ESMTP id fA5M87T18269 for ; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 22:08:07 GMT (envelope-from news@tomahawk.comms.unsw.edu.au) Received: (from news@localhost) by tomahawk.comms.unsw.edu.au (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) id JAA14291 for bionet-biology-computational@moderators.isc.org; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 09:06:51 +1100 (EST) To: bionet-biology-computational@moderators.isc.org From: Russell Standish Newsgroups: bionet.biology.computational Subject: CFP: Artificial Life VIII Organization: The University of New South Wales Message-ID: <9s72hq$dug$1@tomahawk.unsw.edu.au> X-Trace: tomahawk.unsw.edu.au 1004998010 14288 129.94.176.241 (5 Nov 2001 22:06:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@unsw.edu.au NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 22:06:50 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: tin/1.4.3-20000502 ("Marian") (UNIX) (Linux/2.2.16 (i686)) Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 01:51:24 +0000 (GMT) Sender: owner-comp-bio@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Artificial Life VIII: Call for Papers UNSW, Sydney, Australia, 9th-13th December, 2002 Artificial life is an interdisciplinary scientific and engineering enterprise investigating the fundamental properties of living systems through the simulation and synthesis of life-like processes in artificial media. The Artificial Life VIII conference will showcase the best current work in this area of research and highlight promising new avenues of investigation. It continues a successful series of international conferences started in 1987 by Chris Langton. All authors of contributed papers are strongly encouraged to explain how their work sheds light on the fundamental properties of living systems. In addition, authors should take note of the list of fundamental open problems in artificial generated after a special roundtable discussion at the previous Artificial Life conference (Bedau et al., "Open problems in artificial life", Artificial Life _6_ (2000): 363-376). Authors are encouraged either to link their work to one of the problems listed there, or to identify another important open problem that their work addresses. Papers are welcome in (but not limited to) the following topic areas: * Origin of life, self-organization, self-replication * Development and differentiation * Evolutionary and adaptive dynamics * Robots and autonomous agents * Communication, cooperation and collective behavior * ALife simulation and synthesis tools and methodologies * Applications of ALife technologies * Philosophical, ethical, social, and cultural implications Full information about conference paper format and submission procedures is available through the conference web site http://alife8.alife.org. In addition to a variety of social and cultural events taking advantage of the venue in Sydney, the Conference will include a series of workshops and tutorials for special interest groups. An Artificial Life VIII Workshop Proceedings will be published at the Conference. Anyone interested in organizing or participating in a workshop or tutorial should contact the Workshops and Tutorials Chair: Dr. Hussein Abbass (abbass@cs.adfa.edu.au). See you in Sydney, Russell Standish Conference Chair -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Russell Standish Director High Performance Computing Support Unit, Phone 9385 6967, 8308 3119 (mobile) UNSW SYDNEY 2052 Fax 9385 6965, 0425 253119 (") Australia R.Standish@unsw.edu.au Room 2075, Red Centre http://parallel.hpc.unsw.edu.au/rks International prefix +612, Interstate prefix 02 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- .