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Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 18:45:02 -0500
From: spaf@CS.PURDUE.EDU(Gene Spafford)
Subject: File 7--Soliciting Articles for New Journal

I'm on the editorial board of a new journal.  One of the areas I'll be
coordinating is computer viruses and autonomous agents in computing
systems.

I'd like to encourage any of you with interesting research ideas or
results to write them up for submission.

Enclosed is a call for papers for the journal with more details.
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         CALL FOR PAPERS

         ARTIFICIAL LIFE

   Premiering in March with double Fall/Winter 1993 issue

      Edited by Christopher G. Langton
   Los Alamos National Laboratory and Santa Fe Institute

Artificial Life, a new quarterly from The MIT Press, is the first
unifying forum for the dissemination of scientific and engineering
research in the field of artificial life. It reports on synthetic
biological work being carried out in any media, from the familiar
"wetware" of organic chemistry, through the inorganic "hardware" of
mobile robots, all the way to the virtual "software" residing inside
computers. Covering topics from the origin of life, through self-
reproduction, evolution, growth and development, and animal
behavior, to the dynamics of whole ecosystems, its articles present
novel approaches to the theory and application of biological
phenomena.


Artificial Life  will be an essential resource for scientists, academics,
and students researching artificial life, biology, evolution, robotics,
artificial intelligence, neural networks, genetic algorithms, ecosystem
dynamics, and the origin of life.


Selected Articles from Volume 1, Numbers 1 & 2

Kristian Lindgren and Mats Nordahl
        Cooperation and Community Structure in Artificial Ecosystems
Luc Steels
        The Artificial Life Roots of Artificial Intelligence
Pattie Maes
        Autonomous Agents and AL
Tom Ray
        An Evolutionary Approach to Synthetic Biology
Eugene Spafford
   Computer Viruses as Artificial Life
Stephanie Forrest and Melanie Mitchell
   Genetic Algorithms and Artificial Life

Quarterly, Volume 1 forthcoming, fall/winter/spring/summer
96 pages per issue 7 x10, illustrated, ISSN 1064-5462

Yearly Rates: $45 Individual; $125 Institution, $25 Student

For Submission Information    To order Subscriptions
please contact:         please contact:

Christopher G. Langton        Circulation Department
Santa Fe Institute         MIT Press Journals
1660 Old Pecos Trail          55 Hayward Street
Santa Fe, NM 87501 U.S.A.     Cambridge, MA 02142 U.S.A.
TEL: 505-984-8800       TEL: 617-253-2889
FAX: 505-982-0565          FAX: 617-258-6779
cgl@santafe. edu        journals-orders@mit.edu


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