The ninth Italian Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation aims to bring together researchers working in Artificial Life, Evolutionary Computation and Complex Smart environment to present and share their relevant novel researches in a strongly multidisciplinary context. The workshop provides a forum for the discussion of new research directions and applications in these fields. This year there will be a special emphasis on the use of computational intelligence approaches for modelling and development of complex and smart systems.

This year, WIVACE 2014 will be held in conjunction with the conference WIRN 2014 (15-16 May). Participation to both workshops is strongly encouraged in order to favour the interdisciplinary viewpoint of our communities. It will be possible to attend to both conferences by paying a small additional fee.

Interested authors are invited to contribute papers on theory and applications of Artificial Life, Evolutionary Computation, and complex smart systems.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Genetic and Evolutionary Algorithms
Self-consciousness in Autonomous Systems
Bioinformatics and computational biology
Emerging Behaviour
Dynamics of Evolutionary Systems
Hybrid Optimization Methods
Collective Model Behaviour
Bioinspired algorithms
Parallel implementation of Bioinspired Models
Computational Bioinspired Paradigms
Bioinspired Robotics
Economic-Finantial Systems
Complex System Science for smart environments
Smart adaptive systems
Evolutionary based solutions for green computing
Cognitive systems and applications
Energy applications and evolutionary computation
Computational Intelligence for Cloud Computing