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, August 19-23, 2010. Please reserve the dates!
Theme: 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 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.
Status: Looking backward, looking forward
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.
Science: Nuts and bolts
Some sessions in the conference will be devoted to detailed discussion of specific subjects. We envision a variety of smaller forums, which will address such topics as the chemistry of assembling protocells, the energetics and mechanical implementation of robots, or software and social issues for collective intelligence platforms. In this manner, we hope the conference can increase both the depth and breath of the scientific work presented.
Submissions: Tracks and Deadlines
Prospective participants will have four tracks for participating in the conference:
- submitting a paper to be presented at the conference and published in the conference proceedings (tentatively to be published by MIT Press),
- submitting an abstract for a presentation at the conference,
- proposing a conference session of a number of people presenting work on a specific subject,
- proposing a self-organized satellite workshops, which would take place immediately before, during or immediately after 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.
Organization
Conference Chair: Steen Rasmussen
Administrative Chair: Lone Ladegaard
Local Organizing Committee: Martin Hanczyc, Pierre-Alain Monnard, Kasper Støy, Daniel Merkle, Harold Fellermann, Mark Dörr, Sarah Maurer, Filippo Caschera
Scientific Advisory Committee: TBA
Program Committee: TBA
Conference venue: University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
Web site: http://www.alife12.org/