"Hybrid Life III: Approaches to integrate biological, artificial and cognitive systems" is a special session of the ALIFE2020 conference that will take place in Montréal (Canada) as a virtual event (more details TBA), July 13 - 18, 2020. This session aims to cover traditional artificial life areas as well as new directions and ideas to connect artificial life to other research fields.
Our goal is twofold, on the one hand to propose the application of artificial life methodologies to less traditional a-life areas, such as psychology, neuroscience and control engineering. On the other hand, we also work towards extending the list of standard a-life research areas to include topics from these disciplines. We thus welcome submissions from classical artificial life areas as well as less traditional areas that however share research questions related to the understanding of life and cognition.
Special sessions accept submissions through the main conference submission system. Papers and abstracts submitted to this special sessions will be reviewed by a selected group of experts from the a-life community as well as from other areas key to our proposal, specifically chosen for this review process.
If you are submitting to a special session you will be given the opportunity to select it during the submission process. Submissions to special sessions follow the same format, instructions and deadlines of regular ALife papers.
Accepted submissions will be published as part of the main conference proceedings.
The main focus of ALife research is the study of natural systems with the goal of understanding what life is. More concretely, ALife defines ways to investigate processes that contribute to the formation and proliferation of living organisms. In this session we focus on three common approaches used to tackle this investigation, proposing ways to integrate, extend and possibly improve them. More specifically we refer to: 1) the formalisation of the necessary properties for the definition of life, 2) the implementation of artificial agents, and 3) the study of the relation between life and cognition.
For this special session we propose to start from these well-established Alife methodologies, and extend them through:
This special session aims to invite contributions from the fields of psychology, computational neuroscience, HCI, theoretical biology, artificial intelligence, robotics and cognitive science to discuss current research on the formalisation, combination and interaction of artificial/living/cognitive systems from theoretical, modelling and implementational perspectives.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
(Covid-19 updates: deadline extended to 1st May)
Please follow the instructions provided at http://2020.alife.org/