ALifeVIII: Open Problems in Artificial Life

ALife VIII Proceedings ALife VIII Workshops Proceedings Call for Papers Topics Open Problems Instructions for Authors Paper Submission Critical Dates Exchange Rates Registration Programme Plenary Speakers Abstracts Oral Guidelines Poster Guidelines Workshops/Tutorials Social Programme Accomodation Sydney Buses and Ferries Venue Staying in touch Contact Information Organising Committee Programme Committee Artificial Life Links AI02 affiliated conference Restricted area Organizer's Corner Collar Admin

As published in Bedau et al., Open problems in artificial life, Artificial Life 6 (2000): 363-376: How does life arise from the nonliving? Generate a molecular proto-organism in vitro Achieve the transition to life in an artificial chemistry in silico Determine whether fundamentally novel living organisms can exist Simulate a unicellular organism over its entire lifecycle Explain how rules and symbols are generated from physical dynamics in living systems What are the potentials and limits of living systems? Determine what is inevitable in the open-ended evolution of life Determine minimal conditions for evolutionary transitions from specific to generic response systems Create a formal framework for synthesizing dynamical hierarchies at all scales Determine the predictability of evolutionary consequences of manipulating organisms and ecosystems Develop a theory of information processing, information flow and information generation for evolving systems How is life related to mind, machines and culture? Demonstrate the emergence of intelligence and mind in an artificial living system Evaluate the influence of machines on the next major evolutionary transition of life Provide a quantitative model of the interplay between cultural and biological evolution Establish ethical principles for artificial life