CFP: The Inaugural workshop on Artificial Life (AL'01), Adelaide, Australia. 11-Dec-2001

[Hussein A. Abbass]

Dear colleague

I would appreciate it very much if you can post our first call for papers
to your colleague and students. Best Regards, Hussein. 

The Inaugural workshop on Artificial Life (AL'01) 
http://www.cs.adfa.edu.au/~abbass/ALL/
Adelaide, Australia. 
11-Dec-2001

To be held within the 14th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial
Intelligence (AI'01)
http://www.cs.adelaide.edu.au/AI2001/ December 2001 

IMPORTANT ******* A special issue in an outstanding journal is being
investigated 

Call For Papers
===============

The Inaugural workshop on Artificial Life, (AL'01), will be held in
conjunction with the Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
in December 2001. 

Usually, the term "Artificial Life" (Alife) is used to delineate systems
that exhibit some properties of life. Research in Alife ranges from
analyzing and understanding life and nature - at least as we may believe it
is - to modeling biological systems or solving biological problems. Alife
is a large interdisciplinary research area covering research from computer
science, biology, chemistry, physics, engineering, sociology, and
psychology. Research in Alife can be generically classified into three main
areas: 

·	Biological behavior as a metaphor for computational models; such as Ant
Algorithms, Ant Colony Optimization, Marriage in Honey-Bees Optimization,
Immune Systems, Neural Networks, Evolutionary Algorithms, forest, and DNA
computing. 

·	Computational models that reproduce/duplicate a biological behavior; such
as Swarm Intelligence, Simulation, Cellular Automaton 

·	Computational models to solve biological problems; such as Bio-informatics 

The aim of this workshop is to get together computer scientists,
biologists, chemists, engineers, geneticists, physicists, and others, to
gain more understanding of the mystery hidden in life and to expose
researchers to the recent advances in this fast developing area. Topics of
interest include, but not limited to, 

*	Ant Algorithms
*	Ant Colony Optimization 
*	Applications of ALife technologies 
*	Bioinformatics 
*	Biological agents and robotics
*	Cellular automaton 
*	Complex systems 
*	Emergence 
*	Evolutionary and adaptive dynamics 
*	Marriage in Honey-bees Optimization
*	Multi-agent systems 
*	Origin of life 
*	Self-organization 
*	Self-replication 
*	Simulation and synthesis tools and methodologies 
*	Swarm Intelligence 
*	and Other related topics 
 

Location
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University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia 

Important Dates
===============

Submission of papers:  15-Sep-2001
Notification to authors: 26-Oct-2001
Camera ready format:	 09-Nov-2001
Workshop date:	 11-Dec-2001


Paper Format and Review Process
===============================

Each paper will be reviewed by at least two members of the program
committee.  After the final decision is made regarding the papers, authors
will receive the instructions for the final submission of their papers
accompanied with the reports of the reviewers. At least one author is
expected to attend at the workshop to present his/her paper. 

All papers must have a title page that includes a title, a 300-400 word
abstract, a list of keywords, the names and addresses of all authors, their
email addresses, and their telephone and fax numbers. 

Publication 
===========

Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings with an ISBN
number. The maximum number of pages is 10. A special issue in an
outstanding journal is currently being negotiated.  All papers submitted to
the workshop will be considered to the special issue. Depending on the
number of submissions to the workshop, submission to the special issue will
most likely be restricted to the workshop participants. 

Workshop Chair 
==============

Hussein A. Abbass
University of New South Wales, 
School of Computer Science,
Australian Defence Force Academy Campus,
NorthCott Drive, Canberra, ACT2600, Australia.
Email: abbass at cs.adfa.edu.au 
Fax: 	+61-2-62688581

Workshop Program Committee
==========================

Eric Bonabeau (Icosystem & Santa Fe, USA) 
Dipankar Dasgupta (Memphis, USA)
Marco Dorigo (Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) 
David Fogel (Natural Selection, USA) 
Tim Hendtlass (Swinburne, Australia) 
Jun Jo (Griffith, Australia) 
Nikola Kasabov (Otago, New Zealand) 
Jong-Hwan Kim (KAIST, Korea) 
Erhan Kozan (QUT, Australia) 
Xiaodong Li (RMIT, Australia) 
Bob Mckay (UNSW, Australia) 
Saeid Nahavandi (Deakin, Australia) 
Akira Namatame (Defence Academy, Japan) 
Marcus Randall (Bond, Australia) 
Guy Theraulaz (Paul Sabatier, France) 
Prahlad Vadakkepat (National University, Singapore) 
Brijesh Verma (Griffith, Australia)
Xin Yao (Birmingham, UK)


Dr. Hussein A. Abbass 
(BA, BSc, PG-Dip, M.Phil., M.Sc., Ph.D.)
	
University of New South Wales, 
School of Computer Science,
Australian Defence Force Academy Campus,
NorthCott Drive, Canberra, ACT2600, Australia.
Email: abbass at cs.adfa.edu.au 	http: http://www.cs.adfa.edu.au/~abbass
Tel.(M) (+61) 0402212977	Tel.(H) (+61) (2) 62578757
Tel.(W) (+61) (2) 62688158	Fax.(W) (+61) (2) 62688581