http://www.itee.adfa.edu.au/~alar/ieeealife07/

My quick summary - Artificial Life research seeks to understand the processes of life via simulation and synthesis. As well, it attempts to harness biological principles for engineering purposes.. See the link above and the call for papers below for more information.



Call for Papers



The IEEE-Alife'07 brings together researchers working on the emerging areas of Artificial Life and Complex Adaptive Systems. In particular, the conference focuses on Artificial life in silico including artificial chemistry, multi-agent systems, and robotics; ant colony systems; biological and evolutionary systems; evolutionary art, immune systems; neuro- biology and neuro-computing; network theory; swarm intelligence; and other topics.
Authors are invited to submit previously unpublished work to IEEE-ALife'07. All papers will be subject to a peer review process. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and the attendance of at least one author of an accepted paper at the conference is a condition for publications. The maximum number of pages is 8. Only PDF files are accepted.
PAPER SUBMISSION
We invite high quality technical papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects of Artificial Life and Complex Adaptive Systems.


IMPORTANT DATES
Submission of papers : 31 October 2006
Decisions sent to authors: 30 November 2006
Camera ready format : 15 January 2007
Conference date : 1-5 April 2007


ORGANIZATION

Conference Co-Chairs
Hussein Abbass (UNSW, Australia, abbass@itee.adfa.edu.au)
Mark Bedau (Reed, USA, mab@reed.edu)
Stefano Nolfi (CNR, Italy, stefano.nolfi@istc.cnr.it)
Janet Wiles (UQ, Australia, j.wiles@itee.uq.edu.au)

Publicity chair
Chrystopher Nehaniv (Herts, UK, C.L.Nehaniv@herts.ac.uk)

Web Masters
Lam Thu Bui (UNSW@ADFA, l.bui@student.adfa.edu.au)
Kamran Shafi (UNSW@ADFA, k.shafi@student.adfa.edu.au)

Topics
Adaptive robotics
Artificial Chemistry
Artificial societies and markets
Ant colony optimization
Applications of ALife technologies
Bioinformatics
Biological agents
Cellular automata
Coevolution of morphology and mind
Collaborative behaviour
Complex systems
Complexity
Coordination
Embodied cognition
Emergence
Ethics of artificial life
Evolutionary and adaptive dynamics
Evolutionary computation
Fitness landscapes
Games
Hierarchical dynamics
Marriage in Honey-Bees optimization
Modularity
Multi-agent systems
Network theory
Neural networks and connectionism
Neurobiology
Origin of life
Philosophy of artificial life
Percolation
Robotics
Self-organization
Self-replication
Simulation and synthesis tools and methodologies
Social networks Swarm Intelligence
Visualization Wet Alife