["Even Robots Have Fun" by Keith Russell]

The Fifth Australian Conference on Artificial Life (ACAL11)

5th - 8th December 2011, Perth, Western Australia.

Programme and Organisation, Special Sessions, Registration, Submission

News

IMPORTANT: The Fifth Australian Conference on Artificial Life (ACAL11) has been merged into The 24th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI11). I.e. in 2011 there is no separate ACAL11 conference but only the AI11 conference where some sessions may relate to artificial life topics. Paper submission, review, publication and registration will be run via the AI11 process. For all details please follow the above links to the AI11 pages.

Location and Dates

See AI11 webpage.

Important Dates:

Full paper submission deadline extended to 15 July 2011

For all other dates and details please see the AI11 webpage.

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 ACAL11 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
Embodiment and Robotics
Emergence of Collaborative Behaviour
Engineering of Consciousness and Mind
Epidemiology Simulations
Ethics of Artificial Life
Evo-Devo Modelling

Evolutionary Computation
Evolutionary Design
Facial Expression Analysis
Forecasting of Complex Systems
Fractal Techniques
Game Playing Agents
Generative Design
Human Machine Interaction
Humanoid Robots
Image and Video Analysis
Information Theoretic Learning
Legged and Crawling Robots
Machine Learning
Manifold Learning
Mathematical Models in Alife
Memetic Algorithms
Metalearning
Models of Emotions

Multi-Agent Systems
Neural Information Processing
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
Smart Devices
Smart Grid Techniques
Swarm Algorithms
Synthetic Life Computations
Systems Biology
Visual Information Processing

Contact

For enquiries about ACAL11 please send an email to ACALPerth2011@gmail.com.