European Conference on Artificial Life - 20th Anniversary 'Back to the Origins of Life', Paris, France
8 August 2011 - 8 August 2011
France
The European Conference on Artificial Life - 20th Anniversary 'Back to the Origins of Life' will be held from 8 to 12 August 2011 in Paris, France.
Over the past two decades, biological knowledge has grown at an unprecedented rate, giving rise to new disciplines such as systems biology. During the same period, highly speculative ideas have matured, and entire conferences and journals are now devoted to them. Examples include synthesizing artificial cells, simulating large-scale biological networks, storing and making intelligent use of an exponentially growing amount of data (e.g. microarrays), exploiting biological substrates for computation and control, and deploying bio-inspired engineering.
The event will leverage the remarkable development of biological modeling and extend the topics of artificial life to the fundamental properties of living organisms: their multiscale pattern-forming morphodynamics, their autopoiesis, robustness, capacity to self-repair, cognitive capacities, and co-adaptation at all levels, including ecological ones.
The European Conference on Artificial Life is a biennial event that alternates with the US-based 'Alife' conference series.For further information, please visit: http://www.ecal11.org/(opens in new window)
Over the past two decades, biological knowledge has grown at an unprecedented rate, giving rise to new disciplines such as systems biology. During the same period, highly speculative ideas have matured, and entire conferences and journals are now devoted to them. Examples include synthesizing artificial cells, simulating large-scale biological networks, storing and making intelligent use of an exponentially growing amount of data (e.g. microarrays), exploiting biological substrates for computation and control, and deploying bio-inspired engineering.
The event will leverage the remarkable development of biological modeling and extend the topics of artificial life to the fundamental properties of living organisms: their multiscale pattern-forming morphodynamics, their autopoiesis, robustness, capacity to self-repair, cognitive capacities, and co-adaptation at all levels, including ecological ones.
The European Conference on Artificial Life is a biennial event that alternates with the US-based 'Alife' conference series.For further information, please visit: http://www.ecal11.org/(opens in new window)