We have received confirmation from Mark Bedau that we can organize a special issue of Artificial Life based on the proceedings of this workshop.
Authors of the best selected abstracts will be invited to present full-length papers at a follow-up workshop, and these papers will be published in the journal.
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The scientific committee has been assembled and the following CFP has been released:
CFP for Workshop on Artificial Autonomy: 20 years of practice of autonomous systems
- WAAT: Official Workshop for ECAL2011 -
http://autonomyworkshop.wordpress.com/
8th August 2011, Paris, France
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 2nd May 2011
SHORT INTRODUCTION
This year’s European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL) in Paris celebrates the 20th anniversary of the first ECAL and is dedicated to Francisco Varela’s work on biological autonomy. We are taking advantage of this opportunity to set up an ECAL satellite event, a Workshop on Artificial Autonomy (WAAT) to highlight the state of the art in the practice of autonomous systems.
IMPORTANT DATES
May 2 (Monday): Submission of abstracts deadline
June 15 (Wednesday): Announcement of editors decision
August 8 (Monday): Workshop starts
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Good news! The ECAL organizers have accepted our satellite workshop proposal and kindly given us two 4-hour slots before the main conference.
We are now in the process of assembling the scientific committee for the workshop. A call for papers will be sent out soon.
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How to model mind in life and life in mind? Much progress has been made in two directions, biological autonomy (protocell research) and behavioural autonomy (cognitive/adaptive robotics), but integrating the progress made in these two areas remains an open challenge. How can we model an integrated autonomous system capable of displaying both self-production and flexible, self-regulating behaviour?
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We have finished writing the proposal for the workshop. It has now been submitted to the organizers of ECAL who will evaluate it as a potential satellite workshop. More news soon!
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Welcome to the new Autonomy Workshop website! Here you will find information about an upcoming workshop associated with the next European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 2011) in Paris.
Since that conference celebrates the 20th anniversary of the first ECAL and is dedicated to Francisco Varela’s work on biological autonomy, we are taking advantage of this opportunity to set up a special meeting to highlight the state of the art in the practice of autonomous systems.
If you want to read more about the motivations behind this workshop, please have a look at the About page. If you want to know more about the specific topics of the workshop, please check out the Themes page.
More information will be coming soon.
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