Artificial Life and Evolutionary Algorithms

Sara Silva (INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal)
Francisco B. Pereira (Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra, Portugal)
Leonardo Vanneschi (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy)

Nature is able to evolve robust and adaptable solutions for complex problems, surpassing any supercomputer available today. It relies on simple processes and entities, whose interactions and synergies promote the emergence of intelligent behaviour.

Artificial Life and Evolutionary Algorithms deals with the study and simulation of life and evolution. Inspired by a range of different domains including biology, chemistry, physics and social sciences, it captures the main processes of natural systems and recreates them in artificial environments, leading to the development of new computational approaches that can address large, complex and dynamic problems from different domains.

This is a young and fast growing interdisciplinary research field, yet already well established and sufficiently mature to solve an ever growing number of difficult optimization problems in various industrial, economic and scientific domains, that conventional approaches are not able to address.

ALEA is specifically dedicated to the theory and applications of Artificial Life and Evolutionary Algorithms. It has been a track of the biennial international EPIA conferences since 2003, aiming to bring together researchers and practitioners from different backgrounds and domains, and providing a pleasant venue for the fruitful discussion of current developments and applications.

Topics of Interest

ALEA invites contributions in all aspects related to Artificial Life and Evolutionary Algorithms, ranging from theoretical work to innovative applications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

-         Artificial Chemistries

-         Artificial Immune Systems

-         Classifier Systems

-         Complex Networks

-         Emergent Behaviours

-         Evolution and Learning Dynamics

-         Evolutionary Algorithms

-         Evolutionary Optimization

-         Evolutionary Robotics

-         Genetic Programming

-         Hybrid Approaches

-         Multi-objective Optimization

-         Origins of Life

-         Parallel Evolutionary Algorithms

-         Self-organizing Systems

-         Swarm Intelligence

Submission and Review Details

Submissions must be original and not published elsewhere. Papers should not exceed fifteen (15) pages in length and must be formatted according to Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) instructions for authors. Papers must be submitted in Adobe’s Portable Document Format (PDF) and will not be accepted in any other format. Papers that exceed 15 pages or do not follow the LNCS guidelines risk being rejected automatically without a review. More information and templates of the LNCS format is available on this Springer website:

http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0

The submissions will be peer reviewed by at least three members of the Programme Committee. The reviewing process is double blind, so authors should remove names and affiliations from the submitted papers, and must take reasonable care not to indirectly disclose their identity. References to own work can be included in the paper, but should be referred to in the third person.

Publication and Presentation Details

The authors of accepted papers will have to improve their paper on the basis of the reviewers’ comments and will be asked to send a camera ready version of their manuscripts. Even if the submissions can be made in PDF (preferable) or PS, we encourage authors to prepare their papers in TEX or LATEX because these are more convenient source formats for the camera ready final version. At least one author of each accepted work must register for the conference and present the work.

Accepted papers will be presented orally or as posters. The best accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. The remaining accepted papers will be published in a local edition, both in hard-copy, CD-ROM and on the web.

Important Dates

Paper submission: May 10

Abstract submission: May 10

Full Paper submission: May 17

Acceptance notifications: June 10

Camera-ready papers: July 1

ALEA @ EPIA 2011: October 10-13

Organising Committee

Programme Chairs: 

* Sara Silva, INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal 

* Francisco B. Pereira, Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra, Portugal

* Leonardo Vanneschi, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy

Programme Committee: 

Stefania Bandini, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Wolfgang Banzhaf, Dept. of Computer Science, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Helio J.C. Barbosa, Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica, Brazil
Daniela Besozzi, University of Milano, Italy
Christian Blum, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Juergen Branke, Warwick Business School, UK
Stefano Cagnoni, University of Parma, Italy
Philippe Caillou, LRI, University of Paris Sud 11, France
Luís Correia, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Ernesto Costa, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Carlos Cotta, Universidad de Málaga, Spain
Ivanoe De Falco, ICAR - CNR, Italy
Kalyanmoy Deb, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
Antonio Della Cioppa, University of Salerno, Italy
Anikó Ekárt, Aston University, UK
Anna I. Esparcia-Alcázar, S2 Grupo & Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
Carlos M. Fernandes, University of Granada, Spain
Francisco Fernandez de Vega, Universidad de Extremadura, Spain
Carlos M. Fonseca, University of Coimbra, Portugal
James A. Foster, University of Idaho, USA
António Gaspar-Cunha, Institute for Polymers and Composites /I3N, University of Minho, Portugal
Carlos Gershenson, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
Mario Giacobini, University of Torino, Italy
Jin-Kao Hao, Université Angers, France
Inman Harvey, Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems Group, University of Sussex, UK
William B. Langdon, University of Essex, UK
Arnaud Liefooghe, Université Lille 1, France
Fernando Lobo, University of Algarve, Portugal
Penousal Machado, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Ana Madureira, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
Pedro Mariano, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Rui Mendes, CCTC - University of Minho, Portugal
Telmo Menezes, CNRS, Paris, France
Juan Julián Merelo Guervós, University of Granada, Spain
Zbigniew Michalewicz, University of Adelaide, Australia
Alberto Moraglio, University of Kent, UK
Shin Morishita, University of Yokohama, Japan
Una-May O'Reilly, MIT, USA
Luís Paquete, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Agostinho Rosa, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
Marc Schoenauer, INRIA, France
Roberto Serra, University of Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
Anabela Simões, Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra, Portugal
Thomas Stuetzle, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium
Ricardo H. C. Takahashi, Dep. of Mathematics - Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Jorge Tavares, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Leonardo Trujillo Reyes, Instituto Tecnológico de Tijuana, Mexico