Connectionists: Final CFP: Generative and Developmental Systems (GDS) track at GECCO 2015

[Sebastian Risi]

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*** CALL FOR PAPERS
*** 2015 GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE (GECCO-2015)
*** Generative and Developmental Systems (GDS) Track
*** July 11-15, 2015, Madrid, Spain
*** Organized by ACM SIGEVO
*** http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2015/organizers-tracks.html
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As artificial systems continue to grow in size and complexity, the
engineering traditions of rigid top-down design are reaching the
limits of their applicability. In contrast, biological evolution is
responsible for an apparently unbounded complexity and diversity of
living organisms. The Generative and Developmental Systems (GDS) track
seeks to unlock the full potential of in silico evolution as a design
methodology that can scale up to systems of great complexity and meet
our specifications with minimal manual programming effort. Major
themes are genotype-phenotype maps, interactions between developmental
processes and evolution, alternatives to the classic fitness function
to drive the selection process, and success metrics that go beyond
task-based benchmarks (e.g., generating/measuring complexity,
evolvability, regularity, etc.).

GECCO is the main conference in evolutionary computation. With a
selection rate of about 35%, it is the premier place for high-quality
contributions about artificial evolution. The GDS track at GECCO
invites all papers addressing the challenges of scaling up evolution
to life-like complexity, including, but not limited to the areas of:

- artificial development, artificial embryogeny
- neural development, neuroevolution
- evo-devo robotics, morphogenetic robotics
- evolution of evolvability
- gene regulatory networks
- grammar-based systems, generative systems, rewriting systems
- indirect mappings, compact encodings, novel representations
- morphogenetic engineering
- diversity preservation, novelty search
- competitive co-evolution (arms races)
- measures of evolved complexity (theoretical or practical)
- open-ended evolution

IMPORTANT DATES:

January 21, 2015 Abstract submission
February 4, 2015 Full paper submission
March 20, 2015 Notification of paper acceptance
April 14, 2015 Camera ready submission
July 11-15, 2015 GECCO 2015 Conference in Madrid, Spain

Join the GDS Google Group,
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/gds-gecco,  to see the latest
updates.

TRACK CHAIRS:

JB Mouret, University Pierre and Marie Curie (France), mouret at isir.upmc.fr
Sebastian Risi, IT University of Copenhagen (Denmark), sebr at itu.dk

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