EUR. CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL LIFE 1995

First Announcement 3rd. EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL LIFE ECAL95 Granada, Spain, 4-6 June, 1995 It is a pleasure to announce the forthcoming 3rd European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL95). Despite its short life, Artificial Life (AL) is already a mature scientific field. In trying to discover the rules of life and extract its essence so that it can be implemented in different media, AL research has led us to a better understanding of a large set of interesting biology-related problems, such as self organization, emergence, origins of life, self-reproduction, computer viruses, learning, growth and development, animal behavior, ecosystems, autonomous agents, adaptive robotics, etc. The Conference will be organized into Scientific Sessions, Demonstrations, Videos and Comercial Exhibits. Scientific Sessions will consist of Lectures (invited), Oral Presentations, and Posters. The site of ECAL95 will be the city of Granada, located in the south of Spain, in the region of Andalucia. Granada was the last moors site in the Iberic Peninsula, and it has the inheritance of their culture with the legacy of marvelous constructions such as the Alhambra and the Gardens of Generalife. ECAL95 will be organized in collaboration with the International Workshop on Artificial Neural Networks (IWANN95) to be held at Malaga (Costa del Sol, Spain), June 7-9, 1995. These places are only one hour apart by car. Special inscription fees will be offered to those attending both meetings. Scientific Sessions and Topics 1. Foundations and Epistemology: Philosophical Issues. Emergence. Levels of organization. Evolution of Hierarchical Systems. Evolvability. Computation and Dynamics. Ethical Problems. 2. Evolution: Prebiotic Evolution. Origins of Life. Evolution of Metabolism. Fitness Landscapes. Ecosystem Evolution. Biodiversity. Evolution of Sex. Natural Selection and Sexual selection. Units of Selection. 3. Adaptive and Cognitive Systems: Reaction, Neural and Immune Networks. Growth and Differentiation. Self-organization. Pattern Formation. Multicellulars and Development. Natural and Artificial Morphogenesis. 4. Artificial Worlds: Simulation of Adaptive and Cognitive Systems. System-Environment Correlation. Sensor-Effector Coordination. Environment Design. 5. Robotics and Emulation of Animal Behavior: Sensory and Motor Activity. Mobile Agents. Adaptive Robots. Autonomous Robots. Evolutionary Robotics. Ethology. 6. Societies and Collective Behavior: Swarm Intelligence. Cooperation and Communication among Animals and Robots. Evolution of Social Behavior. Social Organizations. Division of Tasks. 7. Applications and Common Tools: Optimization. Problem Solving. Virtual Reality and Computer Graphics. Genetic Algorithms. Neural Networks. Fuzzy Logic. Evolutionary Computation. Genetic Programming. Inscription / Information Those interested please send (mail/fax/e-mail) the Intention Form to the Programme Secretary, Juan J. Merelo, at the following address: Dept. Electronica | Facultad de Ciencias | Phone: +34-58-243162 Campus Fuentenueva | Fax: +34-58-243230 18071 Granada, Spain | E-mail: ecal95(a)ugr.es Organization Committee Federico Moran. UCM. Madrid (E) Chair Alvaro Moreno. UPV. San Sebastian (E) Chair Arantza Etxeberria Univ. Sussex (UK) Julio Fernandez. UPV. San Sebastian (E) Francisco Montero. UCM. Madrid (E) Alberto Prieto. UGr. Granada (E) Carme Torras. UPC. Barcelona (E) Programm Committee Francisco Varela. CNRS/CREA. Paris (F) Chair Juan J. Merelo. UGr. Granada (E) Secretary (Definitive list of this Committee will be completed and announced in the forthcoming Call-for-Papers) -------------------------------- cut here -------------------------------- INTENTION FORM 3rd. EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL LIFE ECAL95 Granada, Spain, 4-6 June, 1995 Family Name: First Name: Institution: Address: Phone No.: Fax No.: e-mail: Signature: Date: