steven gustafson mlacsnottacuk aisb 2005 symposium memetic theory artificial systems societies metas 1213 april 2005 university hertfordshire de havilland campus hatfield england symposium within aisb 2005 convention theme social intelligence interaction animals robots agents httpwwwcsnottacuksmgmetas memetic theory artificial societies metas first edition series international symposia dedicated qualitative quantitative aspects memetic research applied artificial natural systems societies since dawkins inception 1976 meme concept witnessed enormous advances computational communication technologies least creation popularisation internet computational communication advances allow researchers simulate large complex systems interactive agents scales dreamtof short time ago time resources represent sophisticated evolving computational substrates artificial societies could exist science memetics could tested developed exploited symposium bring together researcher working cuttingedge memetic theory applied artificial systems societies metas aim promote multidisciplinary studies promote best science memetics themes covered metas fundamental concepts memetics theoretical frameworks memetics eg evolutionary cognitive societal computational mechanisms etc memetics evolutionary model information transmission qualitative quantitative issues memetics artificial natural societies eg impact memes individual vs society etc computer simulations memetics systems dynamics memetics nature information processing networks general internet particular memetics software evolution memetics simulations economy marketing policymaking conflict resolution game playing memetics artificial natural problem solving software engineering multiagent systems requirements effective memetics systems computational substrates communication mechanisms etc symposium provide unique opportunity researchers artificial intelligence artificial life robotics cognitive science biologist social sciences political studies distributed systems engineering interact memetic scientist share forum discussion symposium also serve common publication outlet interdisciplinary research areas papers collected symposium extended fully reviewed published symposium book preliminary agreement natural computation series springer interdisciplinary programme committee select papers presented symposium also advice papers appear latter extended version book symposium consist 2 plenary talks one two day symposium symposium continue papers presentations author given opportunity speak audience work symposium finish roundpanel discussion last day important dates 01 sept 2004 call papers 31 oct 2004 paper submissions deadline 22 nov 2004 paper acceptance notification deadline 17 dec 2004 cameraready deadline 14 jan 2005 early registration deadline 1215 april 2005 aisb 2005 convention submitting paper short selfcontained papers 36 pages emailed ngjfoekfnuawusoanottinghamacuk luyggmegikykwlynottinghamacuk subject aisb 2005 submission paper format similar aaai style ie twocolumn symposium chairs strongly recommend using latex style file provided shortly symposium website papers 36 pages length although longer submissions possible programme committee yaneer baryam new england complex systems institute boston usa mark bedau editor chief artificial life journal usa elhanan borenstein dept computer science telaviv university israel larry bull school computer science univ west england uk agner fog engineering college copenhagen denmark liane gabore dept psychology univ ca berkeley usa nigel gilbert dept sociology univ surrey uk steven gustafson dept computer science univ nottingham uk william hart sandia national laboratories usa natalio krasnogor dept computer science univ nottingham uk eytan ruppin dept computer science telaviv university israel sorin solomon racah institute physics hebrew university israel jim smith university west england uk symposium website httpwwwcsnottacuksmgmetas symposium chairs dr natalio krasnogor dr steven gustafson school computer science information technology jubilee campus university nottingham ng81bb nottingham united kingdom tel 115 8467592 fax 115 8467591 ngjfoekfnuawusoanottinghamacuk luyggmegikykwlynottinghamacuk message scanned guarantee attachments free viruses damaging content advised perform checks email communications university nottingham may monitored permitted uk legislation tue 05 aug 2008 164353 0700 uai cfp metas symposium aisb 2005 convention