Last Call for Papers: Artificial Life XII (deadline extended)

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         LAST 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
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Due to popular demand, we have extended the abstract and paper
submission deadline.

    * April 9, 2010: Full paper/abstract submission deadline
    * May 7, 2010: Notice of acceptance for full papers
    * 7 May 2010 May 31, 2010: Camera ready deadline
    * 19-23 August 2010: Conference dates

Overview
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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 featured subjects in all areas of artificial life. A comprehensive
list of organized sessions can be found on the official conference
website http://alifexii.org/themes/. Additional sessions will be
formed in response to received submissions. 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.

Please stay tuned for the call for conference submissions and
submission deadlines.

Paper/Abstract Format
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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
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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
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Steen Rasmussen (chair), Lone Ladegaard (administrative chair), Martin
Hanczyc, Pierre-Alain Monnard, Kasper Støy, Daniel Merkle, Harold
Fellermann, Mark Dörr, Sarah Maurer

Host Institution
FLinT Center for Fundamental Living Technology,
Department of Physics and Chemistry
University of Southern Denmark

Contact
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For further information about the conference program, travel,
accommodation, and local arrangements, please see the rest of this
website, http://www.alifexii.org.  For questions about the submission
and reviewing process, please email submissions at alifexii.org.  For all
other questions, contact questions at alifexii.org.