ACAL 2011 - The Fifth Australian Conference on Artificial Life (ACAL 2011)

The Fifth Australian Conference on Artificial Life, (ACAL11), will be held in Perth, 5-7 December 2011. ACAL is organised in conjunction with The 2011 Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI11). The conferences will be colocated at Murdoch University in Perth. Maps and instructions can be found (later) here.

Background and Topics

Artificial life (Alife) refers to models and simulations of living systems as they appear in nature as well as to possible alternative life forms and concepts that may not have occurred in natural evolution. ACAL is a biennial conference that was organised for the first time in 2003. It has become an exciting, interdisciplinary forum for innovative, emerging and sometimes exotic ideas associated with the computational and algorithmic concepts underlying living systems. The focus of ACAL 11 is on software-based and agent-based forms of artificial life. These are often associated with the areas of computational intelligence but may also include computational aspects of synthetic life in biochemistry. Artificial life concepts can occur on sub-cellular, cellular, cell assembly/network, organism, or society levels. ACAL11 invites high-quality papers relevant to artificial life where topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Adaptive Ecologies
Affective Computing
Alife Art, Design and Music
Ant Colony Optimization
Anthropocentric Biocybernetic Computing
Applications of ALife Technologies
Autonomous Agents and Robotics
Artificial Chemistry
Artificial Evolution
Artificial Insects
Artificial Neural Networks
Artificial Societies and Markets
Autonomous Agents
Behaviour Simulations and Analysis
Bioinformatics
Biologically-Inspired Optimisation Methods
Braintheory
Cellular Automata
Coevolution
Cognitive Neuroscience
Collective Intelligence
Complex Systems
Complexity of Alife Systems
Computational Intelligence
Computational Neuroscience
Connectionism
Data Mining in Alife and Biosystems
Deep Learning
Developmental Learning
Dimensionality Reduction and Visualisation
Embodiment and Robotics
Emergence of Collaborative Behaviour
Engineering of Consciousness and Mind
Epidemiology Simulations
Ethics of Artificial Life
Evo-Devo Modelling
Evolutionary and Adaptive Dynamics
Evolutionary Computation
Evolutionary Design
Facial Expression and Behaviour Analysis
Forecasting of Complex Systems
Game Playing Agents
Generative Design in ALife
Genetic Algorithms
Human Machine Interaction
Humanoids
Information Theoretic Approaches in Alife
Learning Systems
Legged and Crawling Robots
Machine Learning
Manifold Learning
Mathematical Models of Complex Systems and Alife
Memetic Algorithms
Metalearning and Emotions
Models of Emotional Intelligence
Multi-Agent Systems
Natural Language Processing
Neural Information Processing Systems
Neurodynamic Programming
Networks in Alife and Biology
Optimisation and Heuristics
Organic Computing
Origins of Life
Philosophy of Artificial Life
Self-Organization
Self-Replication
Social Networks and Alife
Sociogenetic Dynamics
Spiking Network Models
Smart Devices
Smart Grid Simulations and Technologies
Swarm Algorithms and Intelligence
Synthetic Life Computations
Systems Biology
Visual Information Processing
Contact

For enquiries please send an email to Stephan Chalup or call +61 2 4921 6080.