From owner-comp-bio@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Sat Apr 20 05:03:32 2002 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id F18A317B54 for ; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 05:03:27 +0100 (BST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E66A17AA9 for ; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 05:03:15 +0100 (BST) Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 6023) id EABAC17ADD; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 05:03:06 +0100 (BST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70FE417AA6 for ; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 03:09:50 +0100 (BST) Received: from mailbox1.ucsd.edu (mailbox1.ucsd.edu [132.239.1.53]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id E169617A69 for ; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 03:09:45 +0100 (BST) Received: from tomahawk.comms.unsw.edu.au (tomahawk.comms.unsw.EDU.AU [149.171.96.30]) by mailbox1.ucsd.edu (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g3I29h8S020272 for ; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 19:09:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from news@localhost) by tomahawk.comms.unsw.edu.au (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) id MAA13985 for bionet-biology-computational@moderators.isc.org; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 12:07:55 +1000 (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: X-Trace: tomahawk.unsw.edu.au 1019095675 13978 129.94.176.241 (18 Apr 2002 02:07:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@unsw.edu.au NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 02:07:55 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: tin/1.4.3-20000502 ("Marian") (UNIX) (Linux/2.4.19-pre3-ac1 (i686)) Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 05:03:06 +0100 (BST) Sender: owner-comp-bio@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Precedence: bulk +----------------------------------------------------+ | Artificial Life VIII: 2nd Call for Papers | | UNSW, Sydney, Australia, 9th-13th December, 2002 | | Deadline for submissions: 6th May 2002 | | http://alife8.alife.org | +----------------------------------------------------+ 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 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 -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- A/Prof 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- .