This year’s European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL) in Paris celebrates the 20th anniversary of the first ECAL and is dedicated toFrancisco Varela’s work on biological autonomy. We are taking advantage of this opportunity to set up an ECAL satellite event, aWorkshop 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
WORKSHOP THEMES
The themes of the workshop can be grouped into broadly overlapping categories: theory, history, modelling, measurement and implementation of autonomous systems. A goal of the workshop is to address these issues with empirical and computational modelling approaches wherever possible. In this vein, integrative models are particularly encouraged. Possible themes include but are not limited to the following topics:
a) To asses the progress made after 20 years of modelling, measuring, conceptualizing and synthesizing autonomous systems
b) To further clarify conceptually and pragmatically the notion of autonomy (and related concepts such as autopoiesis, closure to efficient causation, enaction, emergence, agency, etc.).
c) To review and advance current methods of formalizing and measuring autonomy (e.g. with information theory, category theory, dynamical systems theory, etc.)
d) To evaluate the current state of the art on the modelling of specific types of autonomy: protocellular or autopoietic autonomy, cognitive or behavioural autonomy, multicellular autonomy, social autonomy, etc.
e) To address the issue of modeling different levels of autonomy (metabolic, behavioural, social) and their relationship (inclusive, mutually-dependent, hierarchical, etc.)
For more information see:
http://www.risc.cnrs.fr/detail_lesechos.php?ID=15163
http://autonomyworkshop.wordpress.com/
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