[agents] ** Deadline Extended ** Artificial Life and Intelligent Agents (ALIA) 2016

[Peter Lewis]

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

***  Deadline Extended 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/

** Deadline extended until the 18th March **


*** Important Dates ***

18th March 2016       -    Extended 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.


*** Keynotes announced! ***

We are delighted to confirm that ALIA 2016 will feature two keynote
talks: Professor José Halloy (Université Paris Diderot) on
animal-robot hybrid collective behaviour, and Professor Alan Winfield
(University of the West of England) on robot ethics.

This will be complemented by 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.

*** Call for Papers ***

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 4 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