ALife in Organizations
(ALife ∈ Org)

6-10th October, Kyoto, Japan

In conjunction with ALIFE 2025
Important Dates
  • Submission deadline: August 15th
  • Notification to authors: August 29th
  • Camera-ready deadline: September 12th
  • Workshop: TBA

All times End of Day in Anywhere on Earth (AoE) timezone.

Call For Papers

ALife in Organizations: Navigating Societal Transitions Through Co-Creation

Modern organizations face increasing pressure to adapt to complex societal transition challenges — challenges that demand new forms of collaboration and decision-making. Climate change, demographic shifts, energy transitions, and digital transformation are driving the need for organizations to reconfigure their structures, goals, and strategies.

In this evolving landscape, organizations can no longer operate in isolation. Instead, they must improve their capacity to orient themselves in dynamic environments, balancing internal adaptability with increased awareness of their interactions with surrounding systems. Achieving this requires developing both:

  • Micro-level (bottom-up) capabilities — empowering local teams, departments, and individuals to self-organize and respond to change in real time.
  • Macro-level (top-down) capabilities — strengthening collective goals, systemic awareness, and strategic alignment to steer broader transformation.
Addressing these challenges requires new approaches that integrate insights from Artificial Life (ALife), complexity science, and cybernetics to navigate wicked problems, where we believe expanded understanding around concepts such as the following can be fruitful:
  • Relational interfaces — the boundaries where internal organizational processes intersect with external societal systems. Expanding these interfaces is crucial to enhancing adaptability and unlocking new collaboration spaces across stakeholder groups.
  • Co-creation arenas — emergent spaces that foster collaboration by identifying and connecting shared challenges, fostering collective goals, and creating conditions for constructive dialogue and innovation.
  • Generative AI and Multi-Agent Systems — as potential tools to increase self-organizing capacities, enabling systems to dynamically adapt while balancing structure and flexibility.
We welcome submissions from diverse disciplines — including computer science, complexity science, organization theory, and systems thinking — as well as practitioners working on societal transition challenges.

Our aim is to create a space for transdisciplinary dialogue, where participants collectively explore new strategies for enhancing adaptive capacity, maneuverability, and collaborative problem-solving in complex socio-technical environments.

Join us in Kyoto at ALife 2025 to explore how ALife principles can foster self-adaptiveness and co-creation in organizations — and beyond.

Information for Authors

We invite all contributions aligned with the workshop’s theme. Original research, summary of published results, and position papers are welcome. Submissions should have the form of extended abstracts (maximum two pages) or research articles (maximum six pages). If your contribution summarizes previous results, please specify that in your submission. With your permission, all accepted contributions will be made available in electronic format. Please follow the Artificial Life Overleaf Template or Doc Template.
Please submit through EasyChair
Invited Speaker

Invited Speaker

TBA

Program Information

Our workshop focuses on inclusivity and diversity, promoting interaction, participation, and knowledge exchange on core topics. It will feature a keynote speaker, paper presentations, a panel, and a breakout session where participants collaborate in small groups to explore challenges and opportunities for ALife in organizations. Activities will include a variety of engaging formats:

  • 1-minute presentations from participants (voluntary);
  • Invited keynote speaker;
  • Regular paper presentations;
  • Panel with Q&A session;
  • Working groups: mapping the landscape of potential challenges and opportunities of ALife∈Org.
Organizing Team
Gary

Gary Linnéusson

University of Skövde

Asimina

Asimina Mertzani

Imperial College London

Nathan

Nathan Lloyd

Ontario Tech University

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Programme Committee
  • Aishwaryaprajna, University of Exeter, UK
  • Chloe M. Barnes, Aston University, UK
  • Ada Diaconescu, Telecom Paris, France
  • Imran Khan, Independent, UK
  • Peter R. Lewis, Ontario Tech University, Canada
  • Alberto Montebelli, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
  • Luis Gustavo Nardin, IMT Mines Saint-Etienne, France
  • Jeremy Pitt, Imperial College London, UK
  • Matthew Scott, Imperial College London, UK
  • Ciske Smit, Imperial College London, UK