The Second Australian Conference on Artificial Life

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"Artificial Life" (Alife) is used to delineate systems that exhibit some properties of life. Research in Alife ranges from analysing and understanding life and nature - at least as we may believe it is - to modelling biological systems or solving biological problems. Alife is a large interdisciplinary research area covering research from computer science, biology, chemistry, physics, engineering, sociology, and psychology.

The Second Australian Conference on Artificial Life, (ACAL05), will be held in Sydney, 5-8 December 2005. ACAL is held in conjunction with The 18th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI2005). The first ACAL was held in 2003 in Canberra, Australia.

A selection of the best papers at the conference will be published as a special issue in a journal.

ACAL 2005 will be held on the 5th and 6th of December 2005. The conference will take place at The University of Sydney Technology (UTS). Maps and instructions can be found HERE.

Research in Alife can be generically classified into three main areas:

• Biological behaviour as a metaphor for computational models; such as Ant Algorithms, Ant Colony Optimization, Marriage in Honey-Bees Optimization, Immune Systems, Neural Networks, Evolutionary Algorithms, DNA computing, etc.
• Computational models that reproduce/duplicate a biological behaviour; such as Swarm Intelligence, Simulation, Cellular Automaton
• Computational models to solve biological problems; such as Bio-informatics

The aim of this conference is to get together computer scientists, biologists, chemists, engineers, geneticists, physicists, and others, to gain more understanding of the mystery hidden in life and to expose researchers to the recent advances in this fast developing area.