IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
Evolutionary Computation Technical Committee (ECTC)

Task Force on Artificial Life and Complex Adaptive Systems

Chair: Eric Medvet Associate Professor, Computer Engineering University of Trieste, Italy
Vice Chairs: Stefano Nichele Professor, Machine Learning research group Østfold University College, Norway
Hiroki Sayama SUNY Distinguished Professor, Systems Science and Industrial Engineering Director, Bighamton Center of Complex Systems Binghamton University, State University of New York, United States

About

The Task Force on Artificial Life and Complex Adaptive Systems was established in October 2003 to promote and encourage research in the areas of Artificial Life and Complex Adaptive Systems. The group aims at promoting better understanding of these areas by organizing special sessions and conferences worldwide. The group members are expected to have an active role in the group as well as the activities run by the technical committee.

Task Force Members

• Hussein Abbass (Founder and Former Chair, 2003-2012), University of New South Wales @ Australian Defence Force Academy, Australia
• Lee Altenberg, University of Hawaii, HI, USA
• Claus Aranha, University of Tsukuba, Japan
• Terry Bossomaier, Charles Sturt University, Australia
• Matthew Egbert, University of Auckland, New Zealand
• Hiroyuki Iizuka, Hokkaido University, Japan
• Takashi Ikegami, University of Tokyo, Japan
• Joseph Lizier (Former Chair, 2018-2022), University of Sydney, Australia
• Eric Medvet (Chair, 2026-), University of Trieste, Italy
• Amiram Moshaiov, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
• Chrystopher Nehaniv (Former Chair, 2012-2018), University of Waterloo, Canada
• Stefano Nichele (Former Chair, 2022-2026), Østfold University College, Norway
• Mizuki Oka, University of Tsukuba, Japan
• Mario Pavone, University of Catania, Italy
• Daniel Polani, University of Hertfordshire, UK
• Mikhail Prokopenko, University of Sydney, Australia
• Hiroki Sayama, Binghamton University, NY, USA
• Lana Sinapayen, SONY CSL, Japan

Events

• The Australian Conference on Artificial Life (ACAL 2003), Canberra, Australia
• Australian Conference on Artificial Life (ACAL 2005), Sydney, Australia
• Special Session on Artificial Life, CEC 2005
• Special Session on Complex Adaptive systems, CEC 2006
• First IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life (IEEE ALIFE 2007), Honolulu, HI, USA
• Second IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life (IEEE ALIFE 2009), Nashville, TN, USA
• Third IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life (IEEE ALIFE 2011), Paris, France
• Fourth IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life (IEEE ALIFE 2013), Singapore
• Fifth IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life (IEEE ALIFE 2015), Cape Town, South Africa
• Sixth IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life (IEEE ALIFE 2017), Honolulu, HI, USA
• Seventh IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life (IEEE ALIFE 2019), Xiamen, China
• Eighth IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life (IEEE ALIFE 2020), Canberra, Australia
• Ninth IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life (IEEE ALIFE 2022), Singapore
• ALIFE 2023 Workshop: The Distributed Ghost -- Cellular Automata, Distributed Dynamical Systems, and Their Applications to Intelligence, Sapporo, Japan
• WCCI/CEC 2024 Special Session: Artificial Life, Yokohama, Japan
• ALIFE 2024 Special Session: The Distributed Viking -- Cellular Automata, Distributed Dynamical Systems, and Their Applications to Intelligence, Copenhagen, Denmark
• IEEE ALIFE-CIS 2025: IEEE Symposium on CI in Artificial Life and Cooperative Intelligent Systems
• ALIFE 2025 Special Session: The Distributed Ciphers -- Cellular Automata, Distributed Dynamical Systems, and Their Applications to Intelligence, Kyoto, Japan

Contact

About the Task Force: Eric Medvet (Chair, emedvet@units.it)
About this website: Hiroki Sayama (Vice Chair, sayama@binghamton.edu)