<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Dear Connectionists community,</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>**Extended deadline**</b></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Call for Papers for the workshop:</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="https://www.gu.se/en/event/alifeworkshop"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>ALife in organisations:</b> ALife methods in modeling and analyzing social and socio-technical organizations - from small and medium-sized enterprises to communities and whole economies.</span></a></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 14px;">This is a joint event with ALIFE 2024 - The International Conference on Artificial Life -- Copenhagen, Denmark (July 22-26, 2024).</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 14px;">The scope of the workshop includes, although it is not limited to, the following exemplary questions:</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><ul class="MailOutline"><li><span style="font-size: 14px;">Can the methods of Artificial Life (e.g. the simulation and analysis of relatively complex ecologies) contribute to better representing cognitive and affective aspects within social or socio-technical organizations, the individuals who constitute them, or the ones who use their services?</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 14px;">Can synergies between modeling techniques and machine-learning-enhanced analysis promote efficient and effective allocation and use of resources by complex organizations that operate in industry, management, public administration, public health, etc.?</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 14px;">Can modeling complex organizations in a globalized market identify the conditions for the emergence of dynamics such as competition, deception, reciprocity, collaboration, solidarity, diversity, etc., and evaluate their impact on the well-being of its symbiotic constitutive members and service users?</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 14px;">Can systems thinking support globally sustainable operations?</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 14px;">Can we test innovative organizational and economic models for a more balanced and ethically sound society?</span></li></ul></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 14px;">For more information, please visit the <a href="https://www.gu.se/en/event/alifeworkshop">workshop webpage</a>. Should you have any questions or need further details, please don't hesitate to contact us (email to </span><a href="mailto:alberto.montebelli@gmail.com"><span style="font-size: 14px;"></span><span style="font-size: 14px;">alberto.montebelli@gmail.com</span></a><span style="font-size: 14px;">).</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>Key dates:</b></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><ul class="MailOutline"><li><span style="font-size: 14px;">Extended paper submission deadline: June 20, 2024.</span></li><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="font-size: 14px;">Notification of acceptance: papers submitted by the initial deadline (May 26) will </span><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="font-size: 14px;">be reviewed</span><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="font-size: 14px;"> by June 2, 2024 / papers submitted according to the extended deadline will be notified as soon as </span><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="font-size: 14px;">possible,</span><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="font-size: 14px;"> and anyway by June 30.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 14px;">Workshop date: July 25, 2024.</span></li></ul></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Please submit your contribution to: </span><a href="mailto:alifeinorg@gmail.com" style="font-size: 14px;"><b>alifeinorg@gmail.com</b></a><span style="font-size: 14px;">. We welcome your participation and look forward to hearing from you. </span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Warm regards,</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 14px;">The organizers:</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Alberto Montebelli (University of Gothenburg)</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Imran Khan (University of Gothenburg)</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Gary Linnéusson (University of Skövde) </span></div></body></html>