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Artificial life is the interdisciplinary enterprise investigating
the fundamental properties of living systems through the simulation
and synthesis of life-like processes in artificial media. The
Artificial Life IX conference will showcase the best current
work in this area of research, highlight promising new avenues
of investigation, provide leading edge workshops, and present
top keynote speakers. All authors of conference papers are encouraged
to explain how their work sheds light on the fundamental properties
of living systems and makes progress on important open questions.
Paper submissions (6 pages single spaced) are welcome in all
areas of the field, including:
Origin of life, self-organization, self-replication
Astrobiology, exobiology, artificial chemistry, autocatalytic
systems, synthetic and supramolecular chemistry, molecular
self-assembly, molecular information processing, nanotechnology |
Development and differentiation
Multicellular development, gene-regulation networks,
natural and artificial morphogenesis |
Evolutionary and adaptive dynamics
Pattern and mode of evolution, radiation and extinction modes
of selection (natural, sexual, neutral, kin, etc.),artificial
ecologies, evolutionary games, molecular (e.g. RNA) evolution,
immune systems evolvability, cultural evolution and learning,
coevolution |
Applications of ALife technologies
Genetic product design. ALife-inspired art, self-repairing and
autonomic systems, evolving MEMS technology, financial and economic
agents, adaptive gaming and educational technologies |
Robots and agents
Bio-inspired robots, embodied cognition, autonomous and adaptive
robots, software agents, evolutionary robotics |
Communication, cooperation and collective behavior
Emergent collective behaviors, swarm intelligence evolution of
communication and cooperation, social and linguistic systems,
economic systems, social-technical systems |
Simulation and synthesis tools and methodologies
Clarification and evaluation of ALife methodologies, new simulation
languages, experimental tools, simulative worlds for ALife research,
analysis and visualization tools for large data sets. |
The broader context
Mathematical and philosophical foundations and implications of
ALife, ethical and social implications of ALife |
New and creative syntheses
Novel work illustrating fundamentally new approaches. |
Both oral and poster presentations will be published in a single
volume by MIT Press. ALife 9 will also include a series of workshops
and tutorials, which you are invited to propose.
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