Artificial Cognitive and Evolutionary Systems

Dear Colleagues,

Artificial life studies natural living systems in artificial environments with the aim of understanding the processes underneath their behavioural characteristics. Soft artificial systems try to simulate natural systems and their evolution. In the last few years, interest has been growing in cognitive systems, that is, systems that are able to learn from experience, adapt, hypothesize, and suggest answers to problems. Evolutionary computing is a computational model that draws inspiration from natural evolution. It plays a central role in both artificial life systems and cognitive systems, since it provides powerful techniques to mimic natural processes giving rise to knowledge and cognition.

This Special Issue aims to bring together interdisciplinary approaches that focus on the fundamental and practical issues within the research field of artificial life, evolutionary computing and cognitive computing, and their inter-relations. The Special Issue is devoted to the exploitation of the multiple facets of the above research fields and will explore the current related state-of-the-art. Its topics of interest cover the scope of the XIV International Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation WIVACE 2019 workshop (https://wivace.org/2019/index2019.html). Extended versions of papers presented at WIVACE 2019 are sought, but this call for papers is also fully open to all who want to contribute by submitting a relevant research manuscript.

Dr. Clara Pizzuti
Dr. Edoardo Serra
Dr. Giandomenico Spezzano
Dr. Andrea Vinci
Guest Editors

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