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                   CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: ALIFE VI

         The Sixth International Conference on Artificial Life
          (Life and Computation: the Boundaries are Changing)

                    June 26th - June 29th, 1998
                       UCLA, Los Angeles, USA

ALIFE VI will bring together people interested in constructing
life-like systems and exploring the boundaries of life/non-life.  The
conference will include material of interest to biologists, computer
scientists, physicists, chemists, geneticists, and more, all hoping to
learn from one another about questions of mutual interest. Some of the
subjects spotlighted in previous conferences (such as neural networks,
genetic algorithms, and agents) have now grown in stature so that
entire meetings are devoted to them. The emphasis of ALIFE VI will be
on some of the new developments in this area -- the boundaries are
changing.  Keynote speakers include Leonard Adleman, Gerald Joyce and
Christos Papadimitriou.

ALIFE VI will be held in June of 1998 on the campus of the University
of California, Los Angeles, at the Sunset Village conference center,
which is a self-contained facility with hotel-style lodging and
conference rooms. Over 40 papers will be presented, and approximately
20 posters will be set up for viewing during the conference, with a
special demo and poster presentation scheduled for the evening of
Saturday, June 27th. In addition, workshops on a wide variety of
subjects will be offered during Friday, June 26th, for those who can
come early.  Concurrently, ALIFE VI will be co-sponsoring an Artificial
Life art show at the UCLA Center for Digital Arts.

Complete information on the contents of the conference, as well as
information on the workshops, registration instructions, and a pointer
to the art show, is available on the World Wide Web at the URL:

		http://alife6.alife.org/

If you are interested in competing in a cooperative robotics contest,
please fill out the form on the Web site detailing the types of robots
you have.

The lowest registration rates for the conference are offered to those
who register before May 8th, 1998 - so register soon!

Conference Organizers
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Chris Adami (General Chair)

Richard K. Belew (Program Co-Chair)
Hiroaki Kitano (Program Co-Chair)
Charles Taylor (Local Arrangements)

C. Titus Brown (Conference Secretary)
Peary Brug (Program Coordinator)
Nick Gessler (Art Show and Local Arrangements)

Advisory Board
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David Ackley
Leonard Adleman
Ted Case
Daniel Dennett
Manfred Eigen
Jeffrey Elman
Tetsuyo Higuchi
Danny Hillis
David Hillis
Pauline Hogeweg
Gerald Joyce
Kunihiko Kaneko
Richard Lenski
John Roughgarden
J.W. Schopf
Peter Schuster
Terry Sejnowski
Luc Steels

Program Committee
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Chris Adami
Takaya Arita
Jens Astor
Wolfgang Banzhaf
Mark Bedau
Randall D. Beer
Rik Belew
Rob de Boer
Hamid Bolouri
Eric Bonabeau
Rodney Brooks
C. Titus Brown
Leo Buss
Raffaele Calabretta
Duilio Cascio	
Dave Cliff
Travis Collier
Gary Cottrell
Jim Crutchfield
Michael G. Dyer
Innes Ferguson
Kurt Fleischer
Dario Floreano
William M. Hamner
Inman Harvey
Katherine Hayles
Paulien Hogeweg
Takashi Ikegami
Gerald Joyce
Brian Keeley
Hiroaki Kitano
Mark Land
Marc Lange
Rod Langman
Chris Langton
Blake LeBaron
Niles Lehman
Herbert Levine
Michael L. Littman
Pier Luigi Luisi
Henrik Hautop Lund
Carlo Maley
Maja Mataric
Craig Mautner
Filippo Menczer
Jean-Arcady Meyer
Stefano Nolfi
Charles Ofria
Una-May O'Reilly
Jordan Pollack
Chris Preist
Tom Ray
Mitch Resnick
Craig Reynolds
Chris Rosin
Nicol N. Schraudolph
Heinz Schuster
Moshe Sipper
Ed Stabler
Peter Stadler
Luc Steels
Chuck Taylor
Mark W. Tilden
Peter M. Todd
Yukihiko Toquenaga
Barbara Webb

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E-mail <alife6@alife.org> with any questions or comments.

-- 
Titus Brown, brown@krl.caltech.edu.