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We are excited to invite you to submit your work to the annual<b> Conference on Artificial Life (ALIFE 2025)</b>, taking place in
<b>Kyoto, Japan, and online </b>from 6-10 October 2025.</div>
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Artificial life research focuses on understanding, replicating, and extending the fundamental principles of life. Much of this research involves creating artificial systems that exhibit life-like behaviors.</div>
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This year’s conference theme, <b><i>Ciphers of Life, </i></b>encourages participants to explore the many ways that life encodes information, creates internal languages, and interacts in encrypted ways with its environment. </div>
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We encourage submissions across all areas of Artificial Life research, including (but not limited to):</div>
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<b>Key Submission Deadlines:</b></div>
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Full Papers and Summaries: <b>May 11th, 2025</b></div>
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Late Breaking Abstracts: <b>September 8th, 2025</b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; background-color: white;"><b>Please note that the submission types differ significantly from previous years -
</b></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">visit the <a href="https://2025.alife.org/submit" id="OWA2240bc27-d423-a6d5-233c-4051a2ac0ade" class="x_OWAAutoLink" title="https://2025.alife.org/submit" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0" style="margin: 0px;">
ALIFE 2025 website </a>for full details on the different submission types.</span></div>
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<b>REMINDER:</b> Papers accepted into the Artificial Life Journal (MIT Press) are automatically accepted into the ALIFE 2025 program as oral presentations. </div>
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Regular registration is still required for in-person attendance, however online participants can attend their session for free.</div>
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<b>IMPORTANT: </b>All the submission are meant to undergo double-blinded review process. Please do not write authors' names until paper is accepted, furthermore redact any identifying information, such as the authors, their institutions, and acknowledgements
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Paper templates - <a href="https://www.overleaf.com/read/fvmzytmzwmrg#f2566f" id="OWAe25d25db-2d65-290b-6321-855021322ae2" class="x_OWAAutoLink" title="https://www.overleaf.com/read/fvmzytmzwmrg#f2566f" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="1" style="margin: 0px;">
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PDF</a> - <a href="https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/673470f3683eebf779996e38/67f997ff24b41b717ec7170b_ALIFE%20template.docx" id="OWA928e6f17-144e-14cb-72ad-f83dd1faab0e" class="x_OWAAutoLink" title="https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/673470f3683eebf779996e38/67f997ff24b41b717ec7170b_ALIFE%20template.docx" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="3" style="margin: 0px;">
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Submission Pages - <a href="https://ssl.linklings.net/conferences/ALIFE/?page=Submit&id=FullPaperSubmission&site=alife2025" id="OWAe7208076-47e7-4c67-52f0-3d50de3b6cd1" class="x_OWAAutoLink" title="https://ssl.linklings.net/conferences/ALIFE/?page=Submit&id=FullPaperSubmission&site=alife2025" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="4" style="margin: 0px;">
Full Papers</a> - <a href="https://ssl.linklings.net/conferences/ALIFE/?page=Submit&id=FullPaperSubmission&site=alife2025" id="OWA7c8979a3-de95-db21-8058-7839bf5528fe" class="x_OWAAutoLink" title="https://ssl.linklings.net/conferences/ALIFE/?page=Submit&id=FullPaperSubmission&site=alife2025" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="5" style="margin: 0px;">
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Please contact <u><a href="mailto:science2025@alife.org" id="OWA0719c34c-fe41-b1c8-b8ec-0cccdbbb110c" class="x_OWAAutoLink" title="mailto:science2025@alife.org" data-linkindex="6" style="margin: 0px;">science2025@alife.org</a></u><a href="mailto:science2025@alife.org" id="OWA685388de-f0d6-a937-b1dd-533a3fccce61" class="x_OWAAutoLink" title="mailto:science2025@alife.org" data-linkindex="7" style="margin: 0px;"> </a>with
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We look forward to your submissions!</div>
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