Is there an overall “theme” for ALIFE XII?
The conference will be organized around the theme of identifying and synthesizing the critical properties of living and life-like systems (e.g., self-replication, self-assembly, self-organization, metabolism, adaptation, evolution). The meeting will reflect all of the main areas of artificial life research, including “wet” systems based on carbon chemistry, “soft” systems realized just in software, and “hard” systems consisting of autonomous robotic agents, as well as a variety of social and technical systems that embody the critical properties of living systems. The conference will have broad interdisciplinary interest, because “living” processes are found virtually everywhere. It has been a decade since the last organized effort to identify the key open problems in artificial life. So, another important goal of the workshop is to review progress on the open problems and re-evaluate what are the key open problems today.
