2013 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life (ALife)
The Fourth IEEE International Symposium on Artificial Life (IEEE ALIFE 2013) held for the first time in Asia, in the international, intercultural center of Singapore, brings together researchers working on the emerging areas of Artificial Life and Complex Adaptive Systems, aiming to understand and synthesize life-like systems, applying bio-inspired synthetic methods and foundational issues to other scientific and constructive disciplines, including Biology, Medicine, Developmental and Social Robotics, Computational Intelligence, various branches of Engineering, Social Sciences, among others.
Artificial Life is the study of the simulation and synthesis of living and life-like systems. In particular, this science of generalized living and life-like systems provides engineering with billions of years of design expertise to learn from and exploit through the example of the evolution of organic life on earth. Increased understanding of the massively successful design diversity, complexity, and adaptability of life is rapidly making inroads into all areas of engineering and the Sciences of the Artificial. Numerous applications of ideas from nature and their generalizations from life-as-we-know-it to life-as-it-could-be are thus continually finding their way into engineering and science via Artificial Life and its spin-off fields. Moreover, these advances are feeding back to the natural sciences and medicine.
We are honored to present an intellectually stimulating program of excellent contributed papers, as well as two keynote addresses by distinguished researchers: Dr. Katie Bentley (USA) on “Artificial Life in the Fight against Cancer”, Dr. Mikhail Prokopenko (Australia) on “Information Dynamics at the Edge of Chaos”, in addition to Prof. Chrystopher L. Nehaniv's (UK) keynote for the Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence on “Interaction and Experience in Enactive Intelligence and Humanoid Robotics”. Wolfram Research has kindly agreed to continue sponsoring the Best Paper and Best Student Paper awards for IEEE ALIFE 2013 for which we are grateful.
We thank everyone who has contributed to making this IEEE Artificial Life Symposium a success, including the participants; members of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Task Force on Artificial Life and Complex Adaptive Systems; all the authors who submitted papers reporting exciting original research pushing the boundaries of artificial life, its foundations and applications; the program committee for advice and timely but rigorous, constructive reviews; and as well as the additional anonymous reviewers. As part of the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence 2013, IEEE Artificial Life has also benefitted greatly from excellent, tireless work and dedication of the IEEE SSCI 2013 organizers.