Themes
Critical Properties of Living Systems
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 in software, “hard” systems consisting of autonomous robotic agents, integration of the above area, 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.
Looking backward, looking forward
It has been a decade since the last organized effort to identify the key open problems in artificial life. An important goal of the workshop is to review progress on the open problems and re-evaluate what are the key open problems in artificial life today.
Nuts and bolts
Some sessions in the conference will be devoted to detailed discussion of state-of-the-art topics in all areas of artificial life research. More sessions will be organized in response to submitted contributions.
- (Chemical) Self-Assembly & Complexity
Chair: Jerzy Maselko - Protocellular Energetics & Metabolic Networks
Chair: Liaohai Chen - Minimal (Bottom up) Synthetic Cells
Chair: Pierre-Alain Monnard - Top Down Artificial Cells
Chair: Andrés Moya - Biological & Chemical Information Processing and Production
Chair: John McCaskill - Minimal Cognition and Physical Intelligence
Chair: Martin Hanczyc - Origins of Life
Chair: David Deamer and Bruce Damer - Theoretical and Computational Frameworks
Chair: Martin Jacobi - Artificial Chemistries
Chair: Wolfgang Banzhaf and Bruce Damer - Evolutionary Dynamics
Chair: Chris Adami - Systems Biology
Chair: N.N. - Multilevel Ecologies
Chair: N.N. - Complex Networks
Chairs: Mikhail Prokopenko and Carlos Gershenson - Modular Robotics
Chair: Kasper Støy - Robotic Energy Autonomy
Chairs: Chris Melhuish and Richard Vaughan - Robotic Self-Assembly
Chair: Gregory Chirikjian - Intelligence & Learning
Chair: N.N. - Philosophy of Artificial Life & Living Technology
Chair: Mark Bedau - Emergent Engineering
Chair: Norman Packard - Mixed Living (Technology) Systems
Chair: N.N. - Socio-Technical Systems
Chair: N.N. - Organizations & Collective Intelligence
Chair: N.N.