From dadapapa at googlemail.com Mon Feb 8 08:35:05 2010 From: dadapapa at googlemail.com (dadapapa@googlemail.com) Date: Mon Feb 8 08:35:09 2010 Subject: 2nd Call for Papers: Artificial Life XII - August 19-23, 2010, Odense, Denmark Message-ID: 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS: Artificial Life XII The Twelfth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems 19th - 23rd August 2010, Odense, Denmark http://www.alifexii.org You are invited to submit papers to the upcoming Twelfth International Conference on Artificial Life. Please forward this call responsibly. Important Dates PLEASE NOTE THE EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS * March 31, 2010: Full paper/abstract submission deadline * May 7, 2010: Notice of acceptance for full papers * May 31, 2010: Camera ready deadline * 19-23 August 2010: Conference dates Overview -------- It is a great pleasure for the Center for Fundamental Living Technology (FLinT) at University of Southern Denmark (SDU) to host the 12th International Conference on Artificial Life. The conference will be organized around the theme of identifying and synthesizing the critical properties of living and life-like systems (e.g., self-replication, self-assembly, self-organization, metabolism, adaptation, evolution). The meeting will reflect all of the main areas of artificial life research, including "wet" systems based on carbon chemistry, "soft" systems realized just in software, and "hard" systems consisting of autonomous robotic agents, as well as a variety of social and technical systems that embody the critical properties of living systems. The conference will have broad interdisciplinary interest, because "living" processes are found virtually everywhere. It has been a decade since the last organized effort to identify the key open problems in artificial life. So, another important goal of the workshop is to review progress on the open problems and re-evaluate what are the key open problems today. Some sessions in the conference will be devoted to detailed discussion of specific subjects. We envision a variety of smaller forums, which will address such topics as the chemistry of assembling protocells, the energetics and mechanical implementation of robots, or software and social issues for collective intelligence platforms. In addition, a poster session will give the opportunity to discuss selected works peer-to-peer. In this manner, we hope the conference can increase both the depth and breath of the scientific work presented. The conference will be held in Odense, one of the oldest cities of Denmark. As Denmark's third-largest city, it offers a mixture of night-life, beautiful street-scapes, great shopping opportunities and a rich cultural heritage. Prospective participants will have two tracks for participating in the conference: 1. submitting a paper to be presented at the conference and published in the conference proceedings (tentatively to be published by MIT Press), 2. submitting an abstract for a presentation or poster at the conference, All submissions will be subject to peer review, and submissions to tracks 1 and 2 have an equal chance of being accepted as presentations. Revised and expanded versions of excellent presentations at the conference will be placed on a fast-track for submission to the Artificial Life journal. Paper/Abstract Format --------------------- There are two options for submission: either full paper format or abstract format. Full papers have an 8 page maximum length, while abstracts are limited to 500 words. Every submission will be subject to full peer review. All accepted submissions will be allocated an oral presentation slot with no distinction being made between the two submission formats. All formatting guidelines (including word and latex style files) and submission instructions are available on the conference submission page. Publication ----------- Every accepted full-paper and abstract submission will be published by MIT Press in a single online open-access proceedings volume. The best 15-20 papers will have the opportunity to be published in special issues of the MIT Press journal Artificial Life. Organization ------------ Steen Rasmussen (chair), Lone Ladegaard (administrative chair), Martin Hanczyc, Pierre-Alain Monnard, Kasper St?y, Daniel Merkle, Harold Fellermann, Mark D?rr, Sarah Maurer Host Institution: FLinT Center for Fundamental Living Technology, Department of Physics and Chemistry University of Southern Denmark Contact ------- For further information about the conference program, travel, accommodation, and local arrangements, please see the conference website http://www.alifexii.org. For questions about the submission and reviewing process, please email submissions@alifexii.org. For all other questions, contact questions@alifexii.org.