We invite you to submit a proposal for a workshop at ALIFE 2025 “Ciphers of Life”, which will be held from October 6 to 10in Kyoto, Japan.

Workshops aim to promote and discuss new ideas and topics inthe field of artificial life in a more informal context.  Workshops might be organised as invited talks, panel discussions, or contributed talks. Each workshop slot will be 1.5 hours long.

ALIFE will provide the on-site logistics and links from the main conference website. The tutorial and workshop organisers are responsiblefor all other organisational issues.

Submission Process

Every workshop proposal should include:

• Title of the workshop
• Name(s) and affiliation(s) of the organizer(s) with contact details
• Short CV of the organizer(s)
• Type of workshop (contributed talks, invited talks, interactive session, panel discussion, etc.)
• A proposaldescribing the content and its importance for the ALIFE community (1-2 pages)
• Potential target participants and audience
• Roughly approximated number of participants
• An indication whether the workshop should run for one or two 1.5 hour slots
• Whether you have a plan for preparing online (or pdf) proceedings or abstract booklets of the workshop or not
  

All proposals must be sent to: program2025@alife.org until deadline: 28 February, 2025.

We invite you to submit a proposal for a tutorial at ALIFE 2025 “Ciphers of Life”, which will be held from October 6 to 10in Kyoto, Japan.

Tutorials cover current topics relevant to the artificiallife community, such as an introduction to state-of-the-art methods and software. Each tutorial slot will be 1.5 hours long. We encourage tutorial organisers to maintain a website that collects the content, demos, andinteractive material.

ALIFE will provide the on-site logistics and links from the main conference website. The tutorial and workshop organisers are responsiblefor all other organisational issues.

Submission Process

Every tutorial proposal should include:

• Title of the tutorial
• Name(s) and affiliation(s) of the organizer(s) with contact details
• Short CV of the organizer(s)
• Brief description (half-page) of the tutorial topics

All proposals must be sent to: program2025@alife.org until deadline 28 February, 2025.

The ALIFE 2025 conference, to be held on 6-10 October in Kyoto, Japan, is looking for proposals for special sessions.

Special sessions will be specially-themed tracks in the main conference. The idea is to attract high-quality submissions on topics of particular interest to our community. We are particularly interested in sessions that will set new directions for future research and bring new voices into our community. These sessions will be part of the main conference and will run alongside other conference sessions.

Organizing a special session provides an opportunity to explore in depth a particular topic within the main conference, and to bring new ideas and new people into the ALife community. We are open to any ideas you might have that might create a buzz around your topic or the conference in general, such as advertising the session outside of the usual ALife community or holding panel or group discussions as part of the session.

Submissions to your session will go through the main conference review system. As a session organizer, you would set the topic of the session, attract submissions through whatever means you wish, and chair the session at the conference.

Please note that special sessions are different from workshops. The main difference is that special sessions are part of the main conference - they share its review process and accepted submissions will appear in the proceedings. There will also be workshop sessions at ALIFE 2025, and a call for workshop proposals will be sent out separately.

We welcome session proposals on any topic.

Submission Process

Every special session proposal should include:

• Title of the special session
• Name(s) and affiliation(s) of the organizer(s) with contact details
• Short CV of the organizer(s)
• Description of the session theme, including why tis session theme deserves special attention from the ALife community (about 250 words)
• What you propose to do to support the session, such as advertising it or in terms of organisation (about 150 words)
• List of 3-5 senior reviewers suggestions relevant for your session

All proposals must should be submitted through following form until deadline: 28 February 2025.

The Call for Papers opens: TBA
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Note that the following differs significantly from previous years.‍

The 2025 edition of the International Conference on Artificial Life will be held in a hybrid format in Kyoto, Japan October 6-10, 2025. The ALife 2025 Chairs invite you to prepare your contributions (submission platform opening soon!) as follows:

• Full Papers [Deadline May 4th]
  Full Papers are 3 to 8 pages long (not including references) and should report on new, unpublished work. Full Papers will be reviewed as self-contained work, with the same review criteria as a journal paper. Accepted papers will be published by MIT press as open access conference proceedings. Accepted submissions will be assigned an oral or poster presentation.
• Summaries [Deadline May 4th]:
  Summaries summarize a previously published work. These are limited to a maximum of 2 pages (not including references). Summaries must report on work that has been peer reviewed and published already, e.g. in another conference or a journal. If the work has only been published as a preprint it should be submitted as a full paper. Summaries will not be included in the proceedings. They will be made publicly available but will not receive DOIs. Summaries will be reviewed for relevance to the conference. Accepted submissions will be assigned an oral or poster presentation, but full papers will be given priority for oral presentations.
• Late Breaking Abstracts [Deadline July 4th]:
  Late Breaking Abstracts are limited to a maximum of 2-pages (not including references). They can report on new ideas and work in progress. Late Breaking Abstracts will be reviewed for relevance to the conference and quality. Late breaking abstracts will not be included in the proceedings. Accepted Late Breaking Abstracts will be presented as posters during the conference.

LaTeX templates will be made available for download at: TBA

Submission Process

Instructions coming soon.

The Call for Art Pieces opens: TBA

Instructions coming soon.

Submission Process

Instructions coming soon.