Welcome to the International Society for Artificial Life

We are pleased to announce that nominations for the 2022 International Society for Artificial Life Awards are now open! In order to have a diverse and representative list of nominees, it is important that we get nominations from within the ISAL membership and without. We would therefore appreciate it if you could share this announcement […]

The International Society for Artificial Life (ISAL) is seeking proposals to host the Conference on Artificial Life in 2023 and 2024. We will select two teams, one to organize ALIFE 2023 and one for ALIFE 2024. Proposals for both years are being solicited at once to allow maximum flexibility in light of general global uncertainty. […]

The Special Interest Group for Artificial Life, “Alife-Japan” will hold Workshop 02 on December 06th, Monday. Workshop 02 is a space for Alife students and young researchers to present their current research work, and obtain feedback, following a more traditional scientific Workshop style. Participants from outside of Japan are welcome to attend.

In biology, a phenotype is some observable property of an individual that is encoded by its genes (often in combination with its environment). In artificial life, phenotype means roughly the same thing, but this word is sometimes used in ways that feel inconsistent to newcomers. To help clarify, here is a lightly-edited version of a […]