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** Lifelike Computing Systems **
Special issue of the Artificial Life Journal
This special issue will focus on ‘lifelike computing systems’: how
we can learn from the study of life and living systems to develop
new, practical, and valuable computing systems that possess
lifelike properties.
* Submission, Timeline & Review Process *
Accepted papers will be published by MIT Press in a special issue
of the Artificial Life journal.
Expression of Interest: 1 December 2021
(optional, but helps the review process)
Paper Submission Deadline: 31 March 2022
Initial Reviews Returned by: 31 July 2022
Anticipated Publication Date: Spring 2023
Please submit your expressions of interest and manuscripts by
email to
lifelikecs@protonmail.com.
All submissions will receive a minimum of two reviews, with at
least one reviewer from an ALife background and another reviewer
with an engineering or systems background.
* What are Lifelike Computing Systems? *
The Lifelike Computing Systems initiative [1] aims to learn from
the study of life and living systems to develop new, practical,
computing systems that possess ‘lifelike' properties; a further
goal is to identify when such complex features are of particular
value to people, society, and the world. The initiative's focus
lies primarily on engineered technological systems broadly within
the domain of computing.
The notion of ‘lifelike computing’ [2] is not intended to separate
itself from or replace previous initiatives; in a large number of
cases, there are already technologies and research efforts that
strongly lean towards lifelike computing systems in specific
aspects. Building on a long and highly successful tradition in
biologically-inspired computing, the ‘lifelike’ vision not only
seeks inspiration in the living world, but also seeks to replicate
its qualities explicitly in technological systems. Indeed, we
cannot claim that all bio-inspired systems remain lifelike, nor
has this in-general even always a desirable outcome for those
designing bio-inspired systems. The agenda also goes beyond
fundamental ALife research, often rightly exploratory in nature,
since it focuses explicitly on building purposeful and reliable
technological systems for people, based on ALife principles.
Therefore, the vision of explicit replication of lifelike
qualities in technological systems of value to humanity, marks a
sharpening of focus.
In this special issue of the Artificial Life journal, we welcome
submissions that explore and contribute to the discussion on
questions such as:
- Which qualities of life are of high relevance and benefit for
the engineering of lifelike computing systems useful to people?
Why? And how?
- How can we integrate and combine insights and methodological
approaches from existing, related research initiatives such as
cybernetics, self-aware computing, organic computing, or autonomic
computing?
- Which methods from domains such as artificial life, bio-inspired
computing, artificial intelligence, self-adaptive and
self-organizing systems contribute to achieving lifelike features
of computing systems?
- When is more ‘lifelike’ technology appropriate? What are the
challenges associated with embedding technology that is more
‘lifelike’ in society? How can these be tackled?
We welcome contributions of interest to theoreticians and
practitioners alike, as well as those that showcase how
technological systems can implement the various approaches and
insights from research on artificial life, and how and when these
artificial life principles can support better technology for
people. Fully novel contributions, as well as significantly
extended versions of papers from the broader ALife community are
welcome.
[1]
https://lifelikecs.organic-computing.de/
[2] Anthony Stein, Sven Tomforde, Jean Botev, Peter R. Lewis.
Lifelike Computing Systems. In Proceedings of the Lifelike
Computing Systems Workshop (LIFELIKE 2021) at the 19th
International Conference on Artificial Life (ALIFE 2021), Prague,
Czech Republic, July 2021.
Available at:
https://www.organic-computing.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/LIFELIKE-2021_Lifelike-Computing-Systems.pdf
* Guest Editors *
Anthony Stein, University of Hohenheim (DE)
Sven Tomforde, Kiel University (DE)
Jean Botev, University of Luxembourg (LU)
Peter Lewis, Ontario Tech University (CA)
Please email
lifelikecs@protonmail.com with any questions you may
have. You can also follow us on Twitter at
https://twitter.com/lifelikecs for news about the workshop and
other related events.
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