[agents] CFP: Artificial Life and Intelligent Agents (ALIA) 2016

[Peter Lewis]

***  ALIA -- Artificial Life and Intelligent Agents --  2016  ***

***  Call For Papers and Demos  ***

 We invite you to submit papers to ALIA 2016, the Second International
 Symposium on Artificial Life and Intelligent Agents.

 http://2016.aliasymposium.com/


*** Important Dates ***

 4th March 2016       -     Deadline for submissions (via Easychair).
 13th May 2016        -     Authors receive reviews and decisions.
 14th-15th June 2016  -     ALIA 2016, Aston University, UK.
 July 2016 (tbc)      -     Camera-ready deadline for post-proceedings.


*** About ALIA ***

 ALIA is a vibrant event which aims at bringing together researchers
 from the artificial life and intelligent agents communities, which
 have significant scope for cross-pollination of ideas and techniques.

 ALIA will showcase high quality research and facilitate discussion
 aimed at fostering collaboration, providing feedback on early stage
 work and identifying new research directions. This will be
 complemented by keynote talks by internationally renowned experts,
 demo and poster sessions and a PhD workshop. ALIA 2016 will be a
 two-day event held at Aston University in central Birmingham in the
 UK, on the 14th and 15th June 2016.

 We invite the submission of full papers, short position papers and
 demos. Full papers should describe relevant novel work, and should be
 no more than 14 pages in total. Short position papers are limited to 6
 pages and should present research directions and questions based on
 early-stage work, and are an ideal way to obtain feedback on your
 ideas from the wider community. Demos should be submitted as summary
 papers limited to 2 pages, and will be presented during a dedicated
 demo session. All papers should be set in Springer LNCS style,
 guidelines for which can be found here:
 http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-12-73062-0

 All submitted papers will be peer reviewed by at least three members
 of the Programme Committee. ALIA offers a post-proceedings model for
 publication, where authors of accepted papers are invited first to
 present their paper at the symposium. Following the event, authors are
 then invited to revise their papers for the post-proceedings, in line
 with their peer reviews as well as feedback from the event itself.
 Accepted papers will be published by Springer.

 More information can be found at the symposium's home page:

 http://2016.aliasymposium.com/


*** Topics ***

 ALIA solicits papers on topics of interest to researchers and
 practitioners in artificial life and intelligent agents, including but
 not limited to:

 Autonomous Robotic Systems
 Bio-inspired and evolutionary robotics
 Learning, adaptation, evolution
 Cellular automata
 Embodied interactive systems
 Agent behaviour and learning
 Swarm intelligence
 Artificial Societies
 Agent-based simulation
 Non-Player Characters in games and simulations
 Collective intelligence
 New models and sources of inspiration
 Dynamics of evolutionary and swarm systems
 Evolutionary computation
 Evolutionary and artificial life-based art
 Artificial ecosystems and ecology-inspired systems
 Methodologies and tools
 Theory of life, agency, self-awareness and consciousness
 Socio-technical and hybrid human-agent systems
 Verification and validation of agent-based systems
 Agent communication and cooperation
 Methodologies for the teaching of ALIA subjects
 Applications to games and the creative sector
 Application of high performance and cloud computing to ALIA research areas
 Ethical issues in artificial life and socio-technical agent-based systems
 Software engineering for artificial life and intelligent agents
 Artificial life-based software engineering