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,
[email protected], phone: +1 (831) 338-9400, Skype: bdamer
For details about submissions to Alife XII see:
http://www.alife12.org/cfp/
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