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WORKSHOP on Artificial Chemistry and Its Applications
Workshop date: September
12th, 2004
Organised by
Hideaki SUZUKI
(ATR Network Informatics Laboratories, JAPAN)
Tim HUTTON
(University College London, UK) |
Aims and Scope
As a promising branch of artificial life, artificial chemistry
has been extended into a broad domain that includes the studies
on theories, models, algorithms and applications. Using a strong
comparison to biochemical reactions in living cells, artificial
chemistry provides a powerful method to study why and how complex
living creatures have evolved on the earth, and at the same time
provides a nice workbench on which we can deepen an understanding
of:
(a) emergence -- in the sense of artificial life,
(b) complexity -- in the sense of non-linear complex systems,
and
(c) evolvability -- in the sense of generalized evolution for
biologically inspired information processing systems.
Following the success of the
previous workshop which was held in conjunction with ECAL2003
at Dortmund, this workshop will be arranged as a place for concise
tutorials of established works that present particular uses of
artificial chemistry, and for active discussion on new progress
in the field of artificial chemistry.
This workshop is seeking the submission
on the following aspects but not limited to:
- Modeling molecular interactions and chemical processes
- Simulating the chemical evolution of life
- Catalysis and auto-catalysis
- Self-replication and von Neumann machines
- Origin of information and translation
- Requirements for the evolutionary growth of complexity
- Self-organization
- Self-assembly in nanotechnology and abstract systems
- Membranes and cellular structure
- Membrane computing (P-systems)
- Co-evolution and evolvability
- Applications of AC approaches to parallel computation, etc.
Important Dates
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Paper submission in PDF |
July 15th, 2004 |
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Acceptance notices |
July 31st, 2004 |
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Camera-ready submission in PDF |
August 15th, 2004 |
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Workshop at ALIFE9 |
September 12th, 2004 |
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Paper Format
Original papers in English are welcome for submission. Papers
should follow the ALIFE9 style,
be formatted in PDF, and be directly emailed to Hideaki Suzuki
<hsuzuki@atr.jp> no
later than the deadline shown above.
Papers should be limited to eight pages, but six pages are
preferable. All presented papers will be included in the workshop
proceedings that will be distributed at the workshop.
Workshop website: http://www.his.atr.jp/~hsuzuki/confs/2004_AL9-WS-AC.html
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