IEEE International Symposium on Artificial Life (IEEE Alife) - Call for Papers

The IEEE SSCI symposium on Artificial Life and Cooperative Intelligent Systems (IEEE ALIFE-CIS) is part of the IEEE SSCI 2025, hosted in Trondheim, Norway. The city offers a blend of historical richness and innovative progress, making it a stunning winter location with easy walkability.

Scope

The symposium brings together researchers working on Artificial Life and Complex Adaptive Systems, as well as Cooperative Intelligent Systems. The aim is to understand and synthesize life-like systems and apply bio-inspired synthetic methods to various disciplines, including Biology, Robotics, and Social Sciences. It also focuses on Cooperative Intelligence, inspired by social, economic, and multicellular systems, emphasizing coordination, performance, efficiency, and distributed optimization in multi-agent systems.

Topics of Interest

Topics include, but are not limited to:

Technologies:

• Artificial Life
• Systems biology
• Astrobiology
• Origins of replicators and life
• Major evolutionary transitions
• Applications in nanotechnology and medicine
• Genetic regulatory systems
• Predictive methods for complex adaptive systems
• Self-reproduction, self-repair, and morphogenesis
• Constructive dynamical systems and complexity
• Evolvability, heritability, and multicellularity
• Sensor and actuator evolution and adaptation
• Wet and dry artificial life
• Emergence and complexity
• Multiscale robustness and plasticity
• Phenotypic plasticity and adaptability
• Automata networks and cellular automata
• Ethics and philosophy
• Co-evolution and symbiogenesis
• Simulation and visualization tools
• Replicator and interaction dynamics
• Synchronization and biological clocks
• Evolutionary developmental systems
• Games and generalized biology
• Emergence of signalling and communication
• Synthetic cells and biomedical applications
• Computational and physical autopoiesis

Multi-Agent Systems:

• Modelling, identification and optimisation
• Consensus, flocking and containment
• Robust distributed control
• Sampled-data and event-triggered control
• Distributed diagnosis and fault tolerant control
• Distributed optimisation
• Coverage, searching and tracking
• Agent-based data mining
• Multi-agent UAV swarm
• Agent-based swarms
• Holonic agents
• Semantic web agents
• Multi-agent coordination
• Multi-agent planning and re-planning
• Communication networks in multi-agent systems
• Social interactions

Intelligent Agents:

• Embedded and robotic agents
• Mobile agents
• Autonomous knowledge and information agents
• Autonomous auctions and negotiations
• Agent-based market places
• Agents for E-commerce
• Agents for dialogue systems
• Environment aware agents
• Interaction histories and autobiographic agents
• Agents for smart environments
• Swarm intelligence
• Self-maintenance, self-production, self-repair
• Narrative and affective intelligence

Vehicles:

• Distributed control autonomous vehicle networks
• Agent-based UAV modelling
• Agent-based unmanned vehicles
• Self-* properties in vehicles, satellites and space-probes

Human-like Intelligence:

• Human-agent interaction
• Human-like intelligent behaviour
• Cognitive-plausible architectures and systems
• Human-like problem solving
• Future generation computing models
• Ambient intelligence
• Human-centred robotic systems
• Human-robot interaction

Robot Intelligence:

• Adaptive, learning and evolutionary robotics
• Networked intelligent robotics
• Multi-robot systems
• Collective decision making
• Swarm robotics
• Tele-operated robots
• Minimal, adaptive, ontogenetic robotics
• Social robotics
• Sensor and actuator evolution and adaptation
• Neurorobotics
• Evolutionary robotics
• Embodiment
• human-robot interaction
• Modular and self-reconfiguring robotics
• Shape-morphing and soft robotics
• Empowerment and information-theoretic methods
• Perception-action loop and temporal horizon

Submission Opportunities and Paper Formats

General Submission Instructions:

• See submission instructions.
• Poster Instructions.
• Camera-ready Submission Instructions.

Full Papers:

• Description: Complete papers describing novel research.
• Length: Up to 6 pages, plus 1 page for references. A maximum of two extra content pages per full paper is allowed (i.e., up to 8 pages plus 1 page for references), at an additional charge per extra page.
• Publication Format: To be submitted for publication in the respective symposium proceedings.
• Presentation Format: Lightning talk + poster.

Short Papers:

• Description: Papers with novel insights, approaches, or ideas which may not have been fully tested yet.
• Length: Up to 4 pages, plus 1 page for references.
• Publication Format: To be submitted for publication in the respective symposium proceedings.
• Presentation Format: Poster.

Late-Breaking Papers:

• Description: Extended abstracts (up to 2 pages) to share preliminary research, ideas, or critiques, fostering interactive discussions.
• Publication Format: For presentation at the conference but not to be included in the proceedings. Titles and author names will be listed on the IEEE SSCI 2025 website. Authors have the option to have their papers linked from the SSCI page if uploaded to a preprint repository.
• Presentation Format: Poster.

Poster-Only Submissions:

• Description: Short abstracts (up to 250 words) to present early-stage concepts or challenges for constructive feedback.
• Publication Format: For presentation at the conference but not to be included in the proceedings. Titles and author names will be listed on the IEEE SSCI 2025 website.
• Presentation Format: Poster.

Journal to Conference (J2C) Submissions:

• Description: Summary (up to 1 page) of recent IEEE Transactions journals sponsored by CIS and first appeared in IEEE Xplore within the past 2 years, highlighting relevance to SSCI themes.
• Publication Format: For presentation at the conference but not to be included in the conference proceedings.
• Presentation Format: Lightning talk + poster.

Deadlines

Specific deadlines for general submissions are not explicitly provided in this text. However, Late Submission Opportunities are available.

Important Links

• Call For Papers and Abstracts
• Submission Instructions
• Poster Instructions
• Camera-ready Submission Instructions
• Download Call for Papers and Abstracts