ECAL 2011, European Conference on Artificial Life is an international conference on the simulation and synthesis of living systems and is a biennial event that alternates with the US-based Alife conference series. In the early 1990′s, the first two ECAL conferences in Paris and Brussels were mainly centered on theoretical biology and the physics of complex systems. ECAL 2011 will look back on these origins and take more inspiration from new developments at the intersection between computer science and theoretical biology. Closing a loop, this ECAL will mark the 20th anniversary of the 1st ECAL and will be framed as a tribute to the late Francisco Varela, co-organizer in 1991 with two of this year’s committee members (Paul Bourgine and Hugues Bersini).
Paper and abstract submission due 6 April 2011.
ECAL 2011: Back to the origins of Alife will be held 8-12 August 2011 in Paris, France
