12th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, Odense, Denmark
19 August 2010 - 19 August 2010
Denmark
The 12th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems will take place from 19 to 23 August 2010 in Odense, Denmark.
The conference will be organised around the theme of identifying and synthesizing the critical properties of living and life-like systems (e.g. self-replication, self-assembly, self-organisation, metabolism, adaptation, evolution). The meeting will reflect all of the main areas of artificial life research, including 'wet' systems based on carbon chemistry, 'soft' systems realised in software, and 'hard' systems consisting of autonomous robotic agents. The integration of the above areas, as well as a variety of social and technical systems that embody the critical properties of living systems, will also be covered.
The event will have broad interdisciplinary interest, because living processes are found virtually everywhere. An important goal of the event is to review progress on challenges and to re-evaluate what are the key open problems in the artificial life community today.
Selected conference sessions will be devoted to such topics as the chemistry of assembling protocells, the energetics and mechanical implementation of robots, or software and social issues for collective intelligence platforms. In addition, a poster session will give the opportunity to discuss selected work.For further information on registration, please visit:
http://www.alifexii.org/(opens in new window)
The conference will be organised around the theme of identifying and synthesizing the critical properties of living and life-like systems (e.g. self-replication, self-assembly, self-organisation, metabolism, adaptation, evolution). The meeting will reflect all of the main areas of artificial life research, including 'wet' systems based on carbon chemistry, 'soft' systems realised in software, and 'hard' systems consisting of autonomous robotic agents. The integration of the above areas, as well as a variety of social and technical systems that embody the critical properties of living systems, will also be covered.
The event will have broad interdisciplinary interest, because living processes are found virtually everywhere. An important goal of the event is to review progress on challenges and to re-evaluate what are the key open problems in the artificial life community today.
Selected conference sessions will be devoted to such topics as the chemistry of assembling protocells, the energetics and mechanical implementation of robots, or software and social issues for collective intelligence platforms. In addition, a poster session will give the opportunity to discuss selected work.For further information on registration, please visit:
http://www.alifexii.org/(opens in new window)