Alife event coming up: ECAL'99

[Dario Floreano]

***Apologies if you receive this announcement more than once***

Call for Participation - ECAL'99

THE 5th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL LIFE
13-17 September 1999, Lausanne, Switzerland
http://www.epfl.ch/ecal99 

Registration includes:
- Keynote lectures: H. Meinhardt, W. Hamilton, L. Steels, T. Lenton
- Evening talk at conference banquet: C. Langton
- 50 contributed + 2 invited talks
- 40 posters
- 6 tutorials
- 12 demonstrations (robots, living ants, software, etc.)
- Artificial Life Contest
- 2 workshops

+ and also:
- conference banquet
- all lunches
- refreshments and parties
- local transportation tickets (or parking ticket)
- proceedings by Springer Verlag
- discounted tickets on Swissair, ECAL'99 Official Carrier

Full program and registration forms available on the web site:
http://www.epfl.ch/ecal99 or ecal99 at epfl.ch
*Student Discounts*

Organised by: Dario Floreano, Francesco Mondada, Jean-Daniel Nicoud
LAMI-Mantra, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL)

*Satellite Events at ECAL'99 site*: 
- 8-10 September: International Course on Behavior-Based and 
  Bio-inspired Robotics, organized by Dario Floreano
  Lecturers: R. Arkin, D. Floreano, T. Gomi
  Theory and exercises. Informations at http://www.epfl.ch/ecal99
- 18 September: EWLR'99, 8th European Workshop on Learning Robots,
  organised by J. Wyatt and J. Demiris, 
  http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~jlw/ewlr