[agents] CFP: 2nd ALife in Organizations Workshop (ALife ∈ Org) | @Artificial Life Conference | Oct 6th - 10th | Kyoto, Japan

[Nathan Lloyd]

The second International Workshop on ALife in Organizations

   (ALife ∈ Org) 2025

                               to be held in

                  Kyoto, Japan, Oct 6-10, 2025 (TBD)

              https://cosocials.org/alifeorg-2025/

                        In conjunction with

                The Artificial Life Conference

                            ALIFE'2025

                    https://2025.alife.org/

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IMPORTANT DATES

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Submission deadline                   August 15, 2025

Authors Notification                     August 29, 2025

Camera-ready                             September 12, 2025

ALife ∈ Org Workshop                October 6-10, 2025 (TBD)


ABOUT ALife ∈ Org

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Modern organizations face increasing pressure to adapt to complex societal
transition challenges — challenges that demand new forms of collaboration
and decision-making. Climate change, demographic shifts, energy
transitions, and digital transformation are driving the need for
organizations to reconfigure their structures, goals, and strategies. In
this evolving landscape, organizations can no longer operate in isolation.
Instead, they must improve their capacity to orient themselves in dynamic
environments, balancing internal adaptability with increased awareness of
their interactions with surrounding systems. Achieving this requires
developing both:

  - Micro-level (bottom-up) capabilities — empowering local teams,
departments, and individuals to self-organize and respond to change in real
time.

  - Macro-level (top-down) capabilities — strengthening collective goals,
systemic awareness, and strategic alignment to steer broader transformation.

Addressing these challenges requires new approaches that integrate insights
from Artificial Life (ALife), complexity science, and cybernetics to
navigate wicked problems, where we believe expanded understanding around
concepts such as the following can be fruitful:



 - Relational interfaces — the boundaries where internal organizational
processes intersect with external societal systems. Expanding these
interfaces is crucial to enhancing adaptability and unlocking new
collaboration spaces across stakeholder groups.

 - Co-creation arenas — emergent spaces that foster collaboration by
identifying and connecting shared challenges, fostering collective goals,
and creating conditions for constructive dialogue and innovation.

 - Generative AI and Multi-Agent Systems — as potential tools to increase
self-organizing capacities, enabling systems to dynamically adapt while
balancing structure and flexibility.


TARGET AUDIENCE

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We welcome submissions from diverse disciplines — including computer
science, complexity science, organization theory, and systems thinking — as
well as practitioners working on societal transition challenges. Our aim is
to create a space for transdisciplinary dialogue, where participants
collectively explore new strategies for enhancing adaptive capacity,
maneuverability, and collaborative problem-solving in complex
socio-technical environments.


SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

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The full instructions for authors is available on our web page:

(ALife∈Org @ALife2025 | CoSOCiALS
<https://cosocials.org/alifeorg-2025/#submit>).

We admit three types of papers:

  - Original research

  - Summary of published results

  - Position papers



across two forms (excluding references):

  - Short research papers (6 pages)

  - Extended Abstracts (2 pages)


All papers must be written in English and submitted in PDF format.

Papers must be electronically submitted before the submission deadline
through the workshop conference system available at:

https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=alifeorg25.

All contributions will be single-blind peer-reviewed by at least two
independent PC members. The evaluation criteria of contributions will be
based on originality, quality, clarity, and its relevance to the workshop.

Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the
paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will attend the workshop to
present the work.

PROCEEDINGS

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Accepted papers are encouraged to self-archive. Following the conclusion of
the workshop a joint ‘revised and extended’ style volume is planned with
our sister workshop, the Third International Workshop on Sustainability and
Scalability of Self-Organisation (SaSSO), see our umbrella organisation for
more details: https://cosocials.org/.


PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

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- Gary Linnéusson (University of Skövde, Sweden)

- Asimina Mertzani (Imperial College London, UK)

- Nathan Lloyd (Ontario Tech University, Canada)
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