Call for Papers
Special Issue of the Elsevier Journal "Computers & Graphics"
Artificial Life: Towards New Generation of Computer Animation
- Submission Deadline: May 30, 2001
- Journal URL: http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/cag
Computer animation techniques have achieved a very high level of
physical
realism and nowadays provides a wide character model control
capability.
Despite of the high quality of the resulting animations, their creation
still requires the intervention of good programers and graphic
designers
to buid a custom character controller or to manually generate the
character
movements and behavior.
In many cases the Artificial Life paradigm can provide a natural way to
produce computer generated animations. Artificial Life is a rich
research
area and may provide fruitfull results when combined with computer
animation.
In this approach a computer animated character is an individual
pertaining
to some species that could have its behavior optimized after an
evolutionary process carried over many generations of individuals.
The behavior could be learned by each individual and its
characteristics
can be inherited by the offsprings.A selection criteria should be used
to
preserve the behavioral aspects that makes the character suited to the
animation purposes.
The modelling and analysis of complex societies of simple characters is
also another interesting application of the Artificial Life paradigm.
These aplications come up straightly, and besides them several other
less
direct aplications of artificial life may be presented using computer
animation.
We welcome contributions addressing one or more of the following
topics:
* Innovative Applications of Artificial Life
* Behavioral Animation
* Societies of Simple Characters
* Modeling of Behavior
* Evolution and Genetic Algorithms
* Computer Animation
* Visualisation of Evolutionary Patterns
* Evolutionary Art and Design
* Applications of Artificial Life
Important Dates:
E-mail Expression of Interest: As Soon As Possible
Submission of Contributions: May 30, 2001
Notification of Acceptance / Rejection: June 30, 2001
Submission of Final Manuscripts: July 30, 2001
Publication: January/March, 2002
Guest Editors For This Issue:
Marcio Lobo Netto
Electronic Systems Engineering Department
Politechnic School - University of São Paulo
São Paulo, Brazil
lobonett@lsi.usp.br
João Eduardo Kogler Jr.
College of Computer Sciences and Technology
SENAC
São Paulo, Brazil
kogler@cei.sp.senac.br
While it is not required, authors are strongly encouraged to e-mail the
Guest Editors indicating their intent to submit an article.
Please carefuly check the guidelines for authors available from
Elsevier
at:
http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/cag
For authors who wish to submit their manuscript in the
Elsevier-Latex-style, the following URL may be helpful:
http://www.elsevier.co.jp/homepage/about/ita/styles
We also encourge contributions with complementary multimedia material
(images, videos, or applets). They shall be available with the
electronic
version of the paper, at the C&G web site.
All papers will be peer reviewed by multiple experts. Electronic
submission
is *strongly* encouraged. Contributions should be submitted by
(preferably)
emailing the URL where the submission can be retrieved or by emailing
the
paper itself as one file (PDF or Compressed Postscript) to Marcio Lobo
Netto
If this is *impossible* please send 4 copies to:
Prof. Marcio Lobo Netto
Depto. Eng. Sistemas Eletrônicos
Escola Politécnica da USP
05508-900 - Cidade Universitária
São Paulo, BRAZIL
Phone: +5511 3818-5661
Fax: +5511 3031-4574
URL http://www.lsi.usp.br/~lobonett
email mailto:lobonett@lsi.usp.br
Whathever the submission method, you should send an email to the
editors
with the title of the paper, the authors' names and affiliations, the
contact author's address, the abstract and the submission method URL,
attached file, the filename used for ftp, or surface mail tracking
information.