FriAM list folks, I am getting this call for papers out to
you as it would be great to have some of your members submitting to this
newly minted "Computational Origins" session at Alife XII. Feel
free to get in touch with me directly with any questions about what would
be appropriate content for the conference. You can submit up to 8 page
long papers, or the other option is 500 word abstracts (on work in
progress).
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Artificial Life XII Conference, Odense, Denmark, Aug 19-23, 2010
Conference web site:
http://www.alife12.org/
Call for Papers or Abstracts (deadline March 31st):
http://www.alife12.org/cfp/
Call for Papers and Abstracts for new session (conference
track):
CompOrigins: A New Generation of Computing Supporting Origin of Life
Research
Co-chairs: Bruce Damer (DigitalSpace), David Deamer (UC Santa
Cruz)
Members of the scientific computing, bio-simulation, virtual
environments, and artificial life communities are invited to submit
papers or abstracts to the upcoming Artificial Life 12 conference. This
year a new session on the emerging field of Computational Origins of Life
(or "CompOrigins") is being organized for the conference
program. CompOrigins is conceived of as a new branch of simulation
science aimed at studying emergent complexity in structures and
interaction sequences that could provide insights in the quest for the
Origin of Life (OOL) and to study the early steps towards the evolution
of life on Earth. Of particular interest to the Alife XII conference
CompOrigins session are simulation systems for computational chemistry
that could serve as an experimental framework to aid in "wet"
chemical Alife and protocell research.
The use of massive grids of multi-core processors or GPUs and
computational chemistry simulation to support virtual experimentation of
specific living systems including: whole life cycle models, membrane
formation, RNA Worlds, Lipid Worlds, autocatalytic sets, minimal
cells/viruses/prions, protocell/n-mer paired experiments in wet-dry
cycles, and others, are all of relevance. "Hard" (robotic)
Alife systems, abstract universes with evolvable entities, coarse
graining and supramolecular approaches, multi-scale multi-physics,
"strong" vs "weak" Alife discussions, and
philosophical questions are also of interest to this session, though with
the emphasis on the transition from nonlife to life.
Contact for questions on the CompOrigins session: Bruce Damer,
[hidden email], phone: +1 (831) 338-9400, Skype: bdamer
For details about submissions to Alife XII see:
http://www.alife12.org/cfp/
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