[Ann.] ALife V : Expiration date(March 31)
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<<<< Artificial Life V >>>>
May 16-18, 1996
Nara-ken New Public Hall, Nara, Japan
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Please look at REGISTRARION as shown below.
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We have arranged for an AlifeV group flight plan - round trip
from Los Angeles to Osaka Kansei airport will be $672 plus tax.
The flight leaves LA in the early afternoon on Monday May 13th,
arriving in Osaka on the 14th. It returns from Osaka to LA on
Monday, May 20th.
Reservations must be made and paid for by March 31.
To make a reservation, you must call the Westwind Travel Agency in
Santa Fe NM (1-800-283-0122.) Ask for Martha Stewart, and tell her
that you want to
sign up for the AlifeV group flight to Japan.
If Martha is not there, other agents at that agency should be able
to sign you up, but you must ask for the AlifeV group plan. Try to
get Martha first, as she is the one who has made all the arrangements.
Martha can also make arrangements for connecting flights into and
out of Los Angeles from wherever you will be starting from.
The earlier you make flight arrangements, the better the rates will
be, so make them soon - this is a great rate to get to Japan!
<<Preliminary Program>>
Oral Presentation
<S. 1 Coevolution, Symbiosis>
Horizontal Gene Transfer in Endosymbiosis
Lawrence Bull and Terence C Fogarty
Why the Peacock's Tail is So Short Limits to Sexual Selection
Gregory M. Werner
Coevolution of a Backgammon Player
Jordan B. Pollack, Alan D. Blair, and Mark Land
<S. 2 Diversity, Complexity>
Distance Distribution Complexity: A Measure for the Structured
Diversity of Evolving Populations
Jan T. Kim
Biodiversity through Sexual Selection
Peter M. Todd and Geoffrey F. Miller
Repairing Genetic Algorithm and Diversity in Artificial Ecosystems
Yukihiko Toquenaga, Takuya Saruwatari, and Tsutomu Hoshino
An Individual-based Model that Reproduces Natural Distribution of
Species Abundance and Diversity
C. Ilia Herraiz, J.J. Merelo, Sergio Olmeda, A. Prieto
<S. 3 Evolutionary Theory & Dynamics>
Manifestation of Neutral Genes in Evolving Robot Navigation
Tsutomu Hoshino and Masahiro Tsuchida
On Evolutionary Dynamics
Christian V.Forst and Christian Reidys
Propagation of Information in Populations of Self-Replicating Code
Johan Chu and Chris Adami
<S. 4 VR, Art, Games>
Playing Games through the Virtual Life Network
Igor S. Pandzic, Tolga K.Capin, Nadia M. Thalmann, and Daniel
Thalmann
The Esthetics of Artificial Life Characters - NEURO-BABY '95, "MIC &
MUSE"
Naoko Tosa and Ryohei Nakatsu
Artificial Life: A New Way to Build Educational and Therapeutic Games
Luigi Pagliarini, Henrik H. Lund, Orazio Miglino, and Domenico
Parisi
<S. 5 Artificial Worlds>
Managing the Evolution of Complexity Increase
T. Ray
Spatial Analysis of Artificial Worlds
Atsushi Shinjoh and Masanao Takeyama
Functional Emergence with Multiple von Neumann Computers
Hideaki Suzuki
An Introduction to ccr Version 0.1
David H. Ackley
Gaia: An Artificial Life Environment for Ecological Systems
Simulation
Jose Allen Lima, Henrique Pereira, Nuno Gracias, and Agostinho
Rosa
<S. 6 Robotics, Animats>
Mother Operations to Evolve Embodied Robots Based on the
Remote-Brained Approach
M. Inaba, S. Kagami, F. Kanehiro, K. Nagasaka, and H. Inoue
Grey Walter: The Pioneer of Real Artificial Life
Owen Holland
Towards Evolution of Electronic Animals Using Genetic
Programming
John R. Koza, Forrest H. Bennett III, David Andre, Martin A. Keane
Generalist and Specialist Behavior due to Individual Energy
Extracting Abilities
Henrik H. Lund and Domenico Parisi
Bottom-up/Top-down Driven Learning of Hierarchical Control
Structures
Bruce L. Digney
Perception and Learning in Artificial Animals
Demetri Terzopoulos, Tamer Rabie, and Radek Grzeszczuk
A First Result of the Brachiator III - A New Brachiation Robot
Modeled on a Siamang
Fuminori Saito and Toshio Fukuda
Self-Assembling Microstructures
Kazuo Hosokawa, Isao Shimoyama, and Hirofumi Miura
A Robot that Behaves like a Silkworm Moth in the Pheromone
Stream
Yoshihiko Kuwana, Isao Shimoyama, and Hirofumi Miura
<S. 7 Cooperation & Competition>
Self-organizing Vocabularies
Luc Steels
How Do Selfish Agents Learn to Cooperate ?
Akira Ito
Evolution of Communication and Strategies in an Iterated
Three-person Game
Eizo Akiyama and Kunihiko Kaneko
Our Meeting with Gradual: A Good Strategy For The Iterated
Prisoner's Dilemma
Bruno Beaufils, Jean-Paul Delahaye, and Philippe Mathieu
<S. 8 Multi-Agents, Collective Dynamics>
Behaviour of Multiple Generalized Langton's Ants
Olivier Beuret and Marco Tomassini
Amoeba Like Self-Organization Model Using Vibrating Potential Field
Hiroshi Yokoi, Takafumi Mizuno, Masatoshi Takita, and Yukinori
Kakazu
Getting the Most from the Least: Lessons for the Nanoscale from
Minimal Mobile Agents
O.E. Holland and C. R. Melhuish
A Formation Mechanism of Pheromone Pattern and a Control of
Foraging Behavior in an Ant Colony Model
Mari Nakamura and Koichi Kurumatani
<S. 9 Evolvable Hardware>
Evolving Large Scale Digital Circuits
Hitoshi Hemmi, Jun'ichi Mizoguchi, and Katsunori Shimohara
Towards Evolvable Electro-Biochemical Systems: Concept and
Morphogenesis
Hiroaki Kitano
<S. 10 Morphogenesis, Embryology>
Game of Morphogenesis: What Can We Learn from the Pattern-Form
Interplay Model?
A. V. Spirov
Investigations with Multicellular Developmental Models
Kurt Fleischer
Structural Formation by Enchanced Diffusion Limited Aggregation
Model
Akira Onitsuka and Jari Vaario and Kanji Ueda
Synthesis of Environment Directed and Genetic Growth
Jari Vaario, Naoko Ogata, Katsunori Shimohara
<S. 11 CA, Biological Networks>
The Application of Cellular Automata to Economies with Network
xternalities: a Generalisation of Life Game
Sobei H. Oda, Ken Miura, and Kanji Ueda
Modelling Nano-Scale Phenomena with Cellular Automata
Edward Rietman
A Simple Self-Reproducing Cellular Automaton With
Shape-Encoding Mechanism
Kenichi Morita and Katsunobu Imai
Frustration and Clustering in Biological Networks
Hugues Bersini
Dynamical Networks which Depend on Each Other
J. N. Yoshimoto
Evolution of Intricate Long-Distance Communication Signals in
Cellular Automata Using Genetic Programming
David Andre, Forrest H. Bennett III, and John R. Koza
Analysis of Cycles in Symbolic Chemical System based on Abstract
Rewriting System on Multisets
Yasuhiro Suzuki, Shusaku Tsumoto, and Hiroshi Tanaka
<S. 12 Origin of Life>
Chasing: A Mechanism for Resistance against Parasites in
Self-replicating Systems
Mikael Cronhjort and Clas Blomberg
Atomoid: A New Prospect in Reaction-Formation System
Spontaneous Hypercycles Guided by Dissipative Structural Properties
Shinichiro Yoshii, Hiroaki Inayoshi, and Yukinori Kakazu
Replication and Diversity Machine-Tape Coevolutionary Systems
Takashi Ikegami and Takashi Hashimoto
Igniting the Cycle of Creation - An Approach to Create Metabolism
with Tile Automaton
Tomoyuki Yamamoto and Kunihiko Kaneko
<S. 13 Biology>
Evolutionary Optimization of Biopolymers and Sequence Structure
Maps
Christian Reidys, Stephan Kopp, and Peter Schuster
Computer Simulation of Dispersal by Anopheles Gambiae in West Africa
John M. Carnahan, Song-gang Li, Carlo Costantini, Yeya T. Toure,
Charles E. Taylor
An Approach to Molecular Artificial Life: Bacterial Intelligent
Behavior and its Computer Model
H. Ohtake, T. Yako, T. Tsuji, J. Kato, M. Kaneko
In Vitro Self-Replication System as a Minimum Set of Life
Tetsuya Yomo, Toshiyuki Habu, Shiro Soga, Tomoaki Matsuura, and
Itaru Urabe
Simulating Evolution of the Vitality by the Biased Mutation Model
Yasuhiro Kikuchi and Hirofumi Doi
<S. 14 Philosophical Session>
Further Steps towards a Realistic Description of the Essence of Life
Federico Moran, Alvaro Moreno, Eric Minch, and Francisco Montero
Evaluating Artificial Life and Artificial Organisms
Brian L. Keeley
Differentiation of the Realms of Artifacts and Information: How Does
It Relate to Parts/Whole and Inside/Outside ?
Kanji Ueda
Poster Presentation
Ecolab: Where to Now?
Russell K. Standish
Cellular Programming: the Co-evolution of Cellular Computation
Moshe Sipper
EUZONE: An Evolutionary Aquatic Ecosystem Environment
Keith Downing
Shaping Emergent Control Structures with Scaffolding Actions and Staged
Learning
Bruce L. Digney
Toward A Formal Framework for Collective Intelligence
William Sulis
New View on Mass Extinction
Kei Tokita and Ayumu Yasutomi
Synthesis of Herding and Specialized Behavior by Modular Q-learning
Animats
Norihiko Ono, Osamu Ikeda, Adel T. Rahmani
Acquisition of Swimming Motion by RBF Fuzzy Neuro with Unsupervised
Learning
Toshio Fukuda, Atsushi Kawamoto, and Koji Shimojima
Proposal of Consensus-Making Network Based on Immune System
- -Application to Action Arbitration for Autonomous Mobile Robots-
Akio Ishiguro, Yuji Watanabe, Toshiyuki Kondo, and Yoshiki Uchikawa
Evolution of Neural Networks to Play the Game of Dots-and-Boxes
Lex Weaver and Terry Bossomaier
Evolution of Associative Memory with Environmental Change
Akira Imada and Keijiro Araki
SEARCH, Evolution, and The Gene Expression Messy Genetic Algorithm
Hillol Kargupta
Evolution of Interacting Instances toward Cooperation
Ilko Michler
Morphogenesis and Computation
Kazuo Takagi
An Architecture for Soccer Shooting Robot
Hironori Mizuno, Masakatu Kourogi, Yosuke Kuroda, and Yoichi Muraoka
Survivability, 'Shell', and the 'Environmental Independence Princple'
Hiroaki Inayoshi
A Constrained Space for Emergence of Computable Functions within a Class
of Multi-Agent Architectures
Pedro P. B. de Oliveira
Advanced Control for Air Conditioner using Artificial Life Model
Takeshi Nishimura, Shinichi Sakamoto, Takehiko Hiei, Hiroyuki Itoh,
Toshinori Shimadzu
Loss of Robustness in Evolution of Robot Navigation
Tsutomu Hoshino, Daisuke Mitsumoto, Tohru Nagano, and Didier Keymeulen
Character Recognition Agents II
Lijia Zhou and Stan Franklin
Population Dynamics in Ecological Systems: A Cellular Automata Approach
to the Prey - Predator Model
S. Bandini, R. Casati, G. Mauri, M. Milani
Balancing Deliberation and Reactiveness in an Evolutionary System
Joachim Baczewski and Jun Tani
Godel's Incompleteness Theorems and Artificial Life
John Sullins
Bio-Machines
Patricio Lerena
A Study on Self-Generation of Individuality in an Artificial Organism
Population
Keiki Takadama
Genetic Evolution of the Subsumption Architecture which Controls an
Autonomous Mobile Robot
Ryoichi Odagiri, Taku Naito, Yutaka Matsunaga, Manabu Tanifuji and
Kazuyuki Murase
Genetic Evolution of a Logic Circuit which Controls an Autonomus Mobile
Robot
Taku Naito, Ryoichi Odagiri, Yutaka Matsunaga, Manabu Tanifuji, and
Kazuyuki Murase
Generation of Relations Between Individuals based on a Stochastic
Automaton and Analogy from Social Psychology
Tatsuya Nomura
"CAM-BRAIN" ATR's Artificial Brain Project A Progress Report
Hugo de Garis
Applying Evolutionary Systems to Design Aid System
Yasuto Nakanishi
Multi-agent Reinforcment Learning with Adaptive Mimetism
Tomohiro Yamaguchi, Masahiro Miura, and Masahiko Yachida
Emergent Information Processing in Collective Intelligence Modeled on
Honeycomb Furcation
Yasuo Yonezawa and Tadatoshi Tamiya
Genomic Stochastic Chain Model based on DNA-Histone Complex
Generated on Biotic Adaptive Complexity
Akihisa Kasamizukami and Yasuo Yonezawa
Evolutionary Computing by Multi-Stage Genetic Operation and its
Application to Optimal Scheduling Problem
Koichi Nara and Hyunchul Kim
An Evolutionary Inductive Inference Scheme by Using the Boltzmann
Machine Accompanied with Genetic Algorithm
Masahiro Agu, Shinya Ohbuchi, and Mitsuhiro Yamada
Evolutional Approach for Optimal Constructions of Hybrid Algorithms
Takashi Kido and Masakazu Nakanishi
An Evolutionary Synthesis of Autonomous Agents with Modular Neural
Networks
Sung-Bae Cho and Katsunori Shimohara
Hardware Evolution with Genetic Diversity
Tomofumi Hikage, Hitoshi Hemmi, and Katsunori Shimohara
Artificial Life based on Programmed Self-Decomposition Model
Tsutomu Oohashi, Hiroki Sayama, Osamu Ueno, and Tadao Maekawa
Simulating Invasions in a Spatially Structured Ecosystem
Carlo Maley
ALIFE-RELATED EVENTS
Several ALife-related events are being planned by the "event organizers"
listed below. In these events, you are encouraged to participate as an
active agent of the Nintendo-like game, or by submitting an original game
strategy to the non-zero-sum game tournament. In virtual reality or music
or art events, you will be able to experience the ALife-related world, not
just as a looker/listener, but as a more embedded ALifer.
** Non-zero-sum Game World Championships **
Send in your own strategies as mini-programs in C, and participate in the
world championship computer tournaments!!
1.Leader's Dilemma -- To bluff or not to bluff? The choice between power
and peace. Leader's Dilemma is a close relative of the famous Prisoner's
Dilemma. It uses only a slightly different payoff matrix, but causes
entirely new dramas and traumas. Be a part of the first world-wide Leader's
Dilemma computer tournament!
http://www.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~hisashi/project.html
2.Prisoner's Dilemma with Noise -- Conceive or just believe? Is the
opponent's defection really intentional? This game uses the same payoff
matrix as Prisoner's Dilemma, but each player's move may be wrongly
communicated with a certain probability. The standard Tit-For-Tat will no
longer do the job. Give your novel strategy for the world championship.
http://darwin.esys.tsukuba.ac.jp/index_eng.html
fights...@darwin.esys.tsukuba.ac.jp
The Non-zero-sum game contest finals will be held at ALife-V, May 17, 1996,
at Nara New Public Hall, Japan, shown realtime with a UNIX workstation and
a screen projector.
The deadline for entry is April 15, 1996. For computer program specification
and other details, access the web sites or request by email. (Note: Program
specifications are different for each contest.)
** Entertainment-Game Contest and/or Demonstration **
Ken'nosuke Wada (kw...@hip.atr.co.jp) , and Hitoshi Hemmi
(he...@hip.atr.co.jp)
** Virtual Reality **
Virtual reality enables real-time and multi-sensory interaction with artificial
life. Participants of this venue can communicate with life-like virtual objects
and can feel behabior of them.
Hiroo Iwata (iw...@kz.tsukuba.ac.jp)
Expected demos are:
1.Virtual Bonsai (Hiroo Iwata (Univ. of Tsukuba))
2.Telecommunication with Realistic Sensation (ATR)
3.Neuro Baby (Naoko Tosa (ATR))
4.Virtual Kitchen (Matsushita Electric Works)
** Music **
Godo Irukayama (MAF0...@niftyserve.or.jp)
1.Emergination: Sound installation works with Globally coupled map.
Saburo Hirano (i&i CO.,LTD , Multimedia division)
Chaos elements which is connected by "globally coupled map"(= GCM) are
used in my sound installation work.
"Emergination" was created as a GCM application for sound installation.
Another point of view, it is a sonification of GCM.
2. nomadische harmonie
Godo Irukayama and Masahiro Miwa (International Academy of Media Arts
and Sciences Kunsthochschule fuer Medien, Koeln)
** ALife related art - video show and interactive installations **
Machiko Kusahara (kusa...@aqu.bekkoame.or.jp)
Life has been always a main theme of art. Realtime computer technology and
ALife concept opened a new and important genre in contemporary art. Art is,
in many case, (as in film or novel) a simulation of life through artists'
imagination, or, to put it in another way, it tells about life in a
virtual(imaginery) world. Therefore, it is not surprising that some artists had
already worked on it before Chris Langton stated the concept of ALife. ALife
has been inspiring many artists. On the other hand, artists have been
surprising researchers as well as general public by visualizing ALife ideas and
algorythms in briliant and enjoyable manner.
Program (tentative)
1.Artist Talk: ALife from artists' point of view
speakers: Yoichiro Kawaguchi, Christa Sommerer and Laurent Migonneau
2.Video Show
Program A: Classics
Computer graphics animations with artistic quality by artists/researchers
who developed algorythms such as boid, growth, graftal, L-System, etc. You
read about these works, but have not many chances to see them. They were
conceived in
parallel to the developement of ALife concept.
Program B: Contemporary
Recent artistic computer graphics animations based on ALife concept.
The show will bring delicate mixture of reality and imagination.
Program C: Documentation from Installations
Most interesting part of ALife related art can be seen as interactive
insatallation. Not many people have chances to see those pieces, but
unfortunately it is too difficult to install them at the conference site.
Videotapes from such installation and performance works will give an idea
on the cutting edge of ALife related art. Printed information (either
technical or conceptual) will be provided from artists for better
understandings of the pieces.
3.Installations
Under programming.
** ALife Related Robots **
1.Dario Floreano, University of Trieste, Italy/Francesco Monda, EPFL,
Switzerland
Evolution of Navigation and Homing behaviors using Khepera robot.
The world's first embodied and situated evolution of robot control
programs using physical robots.
2.Kerstin Dautenhahu, Artificial Intelligence Research Division, GMD,
Germany and VUB-AI Lab, Autonomous Agents Group
An interaction between two robots ``species'', the FT robots from
GMD and a Lego-VUB robot. The Lego/VUB robots are originally
designed to survive in their ``ecosystem'' but here they are used in a
group behavior context.
3.Phil Husbands, Inman Harvey, Dave Cliff, Evolutionary Robotics Group,
COGS, Sussex University, England
1) On-board evolution of Khepera robot using FPGA.
2) Simulation package which follows high speed evolution on
workstation followed by physical evolution on actual robot.
4.Applied AI Systems, Inc., Canada/AAI japan Joint Demonstration
1) Evolved gait control using OCT-I lobster robot
2) Cooperative task achieving behavior by multiple Khepera robots
** PHILOSOPHY RELATED EVENTS **
General organiser: Chris Langton
1.Paper Session
Chair: to be announced.
2.Panel Discussion: "What is Life? West and East"
Chair: Osamu Sakura
Panel: Mark Bedau, Claus Emmeche, Brian Keely, Masahiro Morioka,
Noriyuki Ueda
This panel discussion aims to deepen our understanding of the
concept of Life. It also focuses on the differences between the western
and eastern cultures.
3.Night Session "ALife Cafe"
Charles Taylor and others present more specific and longer papers on
ethical aspects and/or philosophical background of ALife.
Encouraging more free discussion and stimulation about the theme.
<<REGISTRATION >>
Pre-registration will save your money.
Every person attending ALife V activities should submit a
registration form.
Please print legibly or type all requested information.
The registration fees are as follows :
Before March 31 On and after April 1
Non Student 30,000 yen 35,000 yen
Student 15,000 yen 20,000 yen
Accompanying persons (wife, husband, fiance, etc.) will be
allowed to attend at ALife V free, but they will not be
given the proceedings nor related documents.
The conference registration fee allows you to
*attend all technical sessions and related events
* receive a copy of the conference proceedings
* get refreshments during breaks, and a banquet
(Lunch during the conference)
During the conference, we are able to prepare the Japanese box
lunch if you would have a request on the registration form.
(There is a restaurant on the conference site, but it has not
enough capacity for all participants.)
* Please sign up on the Lunch Reservation beforehand.
* Please make sure that you would mark for your request date and
how many lunches do you need.
* The cost of box lunch is 1,000 yen for each.
* We will not sell it at the conference site. The payment will be
requested on-site.
* If you have a request more than one for each day, please inform
us the number of your request.
(How to register)
There are 4 ways you can register.
* By using this web page. (http://www.hip.atr.co.jp/cgi-atr/alife_reg/)
1. Provide the requested information.
2. Click the "Register Me" button.
* By using email.
Send requested information (to obtain a registration form,
see "Secretariat" below) to "igc...@po.iijnet.or.jp"(for
registration only).
* By sending the registration form to [+81-6-372-6127] by fax.
* By sending the registration form by snail mail to
ALife V Secretariat
C/O Inter Group Corp.
5F, Builco Building, 3-7-3, Nakatsu,
Kita-ku, Osaka 531, JAPAN
(Confirmation of registration)
You can confirm your registration by looking at the list of
ALife V participants.
This list can be found on the web by pressing the button
"ALife-List".
Once the secretariat has received your registration form and
confirmed your payment, you will be sent a registration card.
Please bring this registration card to the registration desk
at the conference.
(Payment)
For participants from Countries outside Japan
Payment is accepted in Japanese yen only, either by:
1. Credit card (VISA, Mastercard, American Express),
2. Cash, on the spot at the Conference Registration Desk.
If you pay by bank transfer or check, the handling charge must
be paid at the registration desk on the day of the conference.
If you don't have a credit card and if you register before
March 31, the registration fee to be paid on the day of
the conference is 30,000 yen (for non student), or
15,000 yen (for student).
For participants from Japan
(Attention!) Participants from Japan cannot pay by credit card.
Payment is accepted in Japanese yen only, either by:
The remittance of the registration fee is preferably by bank transfer.
1. Money transfer to ALife V:
Sumitomo Bank, Heijo Branch, Nara, Japan,
Account number : 530897 (ordinary deposit account)
Account Name : ALife V
When you remit your registration fees, please indicate
the name of participant(s), and the date of your remittance,
(If you would remit the fees with only company's name, it will
take time confirmation.)
2. Cash, on the spot at the Conference Registration Desk.
Invoice
If you need the invoice, please also indicate on the form.
Cancellation
No refund will be given on cancellation. Those people who cancel,
will have their proceedings delivered to them after the conference.
Registation Secretariart
Application forms can be obtained either electronically or via
snail mail from:
ALife V Secretariat
C/O Inter Group Corp.
5F, Builco Building, 3-7-3, Nakatsu,
Kita-ku, Osaka 531, JAPAN
Phone: +81-6-376-2963
Fax : +81-6-372-6127
email: igc...@po.iijnet.or.jp
Filled application forms should be sent to the same address.
ACCOMMODATION
The Japan Travel Bureau, Inc. (JTB) has been appointed the Official
Travel Agent for the Workshop and will handle all travel arrangements
to, from and within Japan. All inquires and application forms for
hotel accommodation should be addressed to:
Japan Travel Bureau, Inc. (JTB), Nara branch
28 Nishimikado-cho, Nara-shi, Nara, 630 Japan
Phone : +81 742 23 2521
Fax : +81 742 26 2521
*JTB doesn't yet have email. Please contact them by fax.
Hotel Accommodations
JTB has reserved a number of rooms at the following hotels for
the workshop participants. Those who wish to apply for hotel
reservation are requested to complete the application form shown below,
and return it to JTB before 15 April 1996 with the necessary deposit
(10,000 yen per room). Hotel assignment will be made on a first-come-
first-served basis. Daily room charges (including breakfast, service
charge and tax) are as follows:
Type Name of Hotel Single Room(yen) Twin Room (yen)
A Nara Hotel 18,000 33,000
B Hotel Fujita Nara 15,000 28,000
C Nara Garden Hotel ------ 28,000
D Nara Royal Hotel 13,000 24,000
E Hotel Sunroute Nara 11,000 20,000
F Nara City Hotel 10,000 18,000
G Shinomiya Business Hotel 8,000 ------
Cancellation
In case of hotel cancellation, written notification should be sent
directly to JTB. When the notification is received by JTB, your
deposit will be refunded after deducting the following
cancellation charges.
Up to 9 days before the first night of stay-----1,000 yen per room
8-2 days before-----20% of the daily room charge
One day before-----80% of the daily room charge
On the day, or no notice given-----100% of the daily room charge
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<Participants from Countries outside Japan>
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<Participants from Japan>
_Money transfer to ALife V.
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_Cash on the spot at the Conference Registration Desk,
< Lunch reservation>
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Please send this form by fax, +81-742 26 2521
Please type or print in BLOCK LETTERS.
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Payment (Please check one of these.)
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total amount in Japanese Yen drawn on a Japanese bank, payable to
the Japan Travel Bureau, Inc. (Personal Checks will not be accepted.)
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ATR Human Information Processing Research Labs.
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Kyoto 619-02, JAPAN
al...@hip.atr.co.jp
Jorn Barger
Alife <al...@hip.atr.co.jp> wrote:
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[nasty font! track down figlet, or email me and i'll whip you up something]
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Are any particular reports here rumored to be especially hot???
j