We invite you to submit papers to ALIA, the British symposium on Artificial Life and Intelligent Agents. ALIA is being supported by HPC Wales, the Welsh national supercomputing service and Bangor University. ALIA accepts submissions in either full paper (14 pages) or short papers (6 pages) including references. All accepted publications will be included in the conference proceedings.

Topics of interest

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following research areas.

Autonomous Robotic Systems
Bio-inspired and evolutionary robotics
Learning and Adaptation
Cellular Automata
Embodied, Interactive Systems
Swarm Dynamics
Artificial Societies
Evolutionary Dynamics
Evolutionary Computation
Evolutionary and Artificial Life Based Art
Methodologies and Tools
Methodologies for the Teaching of ALIA Subjects
Agent Theory
Humans and Agents
Agent Behaviour
Verification and Validation of Agent-Based Systems
Agent-Based Simulation
Agent Communication and Cooperation
Applications to Games and the Creative Sector
Application of High Performance Computing to ALIA Research Topics
Philosophical and Ethical issues
It is planned to publish the proceedings with Springer in their Communications in Computer and Information Science series (approval pending).

Important Dates

4th August – Submission System Opens
14th September – Submission Deadline
5th October – Notification to Authors

Submission of Papers and Style Instructions

It is our intention to publish all papers post-proceedings with Springer which we are waiting to confirm. It is therefore recommended that authors use the standard springer paper template. Papers must be prepared in either Microsoft Word or Latex. Initial versions of papers should be submitted in PDF format only and uploaded to the submission system by the deadline provided above at the latest. Please note that at least one author must register for and attend the conference to present their work.

Submission is now open - http://alia.project-amber.co.uk/submission/

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Awards and prizes will be available for best paper awards.