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
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

• February 28, 2010 April 9, 2010: Full paper/abstract submission deadline
• April 16, 2010 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

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

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 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

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