Fernando Almeida e Costa

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Organisation of Scientific Meetings

•   2007 Organising Committee (Chair) of ECAL2007, 9th European Conference on Artificial Life, held in Lisbon, Portugal, 10 - 14 September 2007
•   2006 Co-chair of a workshop on Morphologies, Motion and Cognition held during AlifeX in June 2006, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA
•   2005 Co-chair of the workshop Active Agents and Their Environments as Dynamical Systems @ ECAL2005, 8th European Conference on Artificial Life
•   2005 Co-chair of the Dynamical Systems approach to Life and Cognition - activate.d Workshop, University of Sussex
•   2002 Co-chair of IISREEC, International Interdisciplinary Seminar on New Robotics, Evolution and Embodied Cognition, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal

Programme Committee member of

•   2011 ECAL 11 - 11th European Conference on Artificial Life, Paris, France, Aug 8 - Aug 12, 2011.
•   2011 IEEE ALIFE 2011 - IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life [part of IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence 2011], Paris, France, Apr 11 - Apr 15, 2011.
•   2010 ICEC 2010, International Conference on Evolutionary Computation [part of IJCCI, 2nd International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence], Valencia, Spain, 24 - 26 October 2010.
•   2010 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence - IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (Main Conference), Barcelona, Spain, 18th-23rd of July, 2010.
•   2010 IEEE CEC 2010 - Special Session on Evolutionary Robotics, Barcelona, Spain, 18th-23rd of July, 2010.
•   2009 IEEE CEC 2009 - Special Session on Evolutionary Robotics, Trondheim, Norway, 18th-21st of May, 2009.
•   2008 Alife XI, Eleventh International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, Winchester, UK, 5-8 August, 2008.
•   2007 ECAL2007, 9th European Conference on Artificial Life, held in Lisbon, Portugal, 10 - 14 September 2007
•   2006 Alife X, Tenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA, June 2006, 3-7.

Publications

•   List of publications here

Reading and research groups

•   Co-founder and organiser of the Morphodynamics and Cognition research group
•   Co-founder and organiser of the activate.d reading group

Participation in Scientific Meetings

•   Alife XI, Eleventh International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, Winchester, UK, 5-8 August, 2008.
•   ECAL2007, 9th European Conference on Artificial Life, held in Lisbon, Portugal, 10 - 14 September 2007
•   Cognitio 2006, Beyond the brain: embodied, situated & distributed cognition, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Montreal, Canada, August 2006, 19-21.
•   Alife X, Tenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA, June 2006, 3-7.
•   Ecal 2005, 8th European Conference on Artificial Life, University of Kent, UK, September 2005, 5-9
•   IISREEC - International Interdisciplinary Seminar on New Robotics, Evolution and Embodied Cognition , 12 - 15 November 2002, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon. Proceedings published in Vol 11 (1,2) of the Artificial Life Journal, MIT Press
•   ″Is the process of belief located within the skull? Within the skin?″, communication to the international seminar The Process of Belief, July 2002, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon
•   Talk, as invited speaker, on Artificial Life and Cognitive Science in the academic year opening ceremony of the Department of Informatics, Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Lisbon, October, 2002
•   Organisation and presentation of the fifth session (Artificial Life) of the cycle of conferences ″A ciência tal qual se discute″ with Inman Harvey and Marco Dorigo as invited speakers, 25 Jan 2002, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon
•   Talk, as invited speaker, on Philosophy of Cognition and Artificial Life, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon, 8 February, 2002
•   ECAL 2001, 6th European Conference on Artificial Life, University of Economics, Prague, September 2001
•   Workshop The View from Elsewhere: Perspectives on Alife Modelling, September 2001, University of Economics, Prague
•   EWLR 9, 9th European Workshop on Learning Robots, September 2001, University of Economics, Prague
•   Artificial Life VII - The Seventh International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, 1- 6 August 2000, Reed College Portland, EUA
•   ICES 2000 - Third International Conference on Evolvable Systems: from Biology to Hardware, April 2000, Napier University, Edinburgh
•   Evorob 2000 (Evoworkshops2000), April 2000, Napier University, Edinburgh
•   International Seminar Fichte: belief, imagination, temporality, 26 - 28 October 2000, Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, New University of Lisbon
•   ECAL 1999, 5th European Conference on Artificial Life, September 1999, EPFL - École Polytéchnique Féderale de Lausanne
•   EWLR 8, 8th European Workshop on Learning Robots, September 1999, EPFL - École Polytéchnique Féderale de Lausanne