*WIVACE 2022* *XVI International Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation * *Gaeta (LT), Italy* *14-16 **September** 2022* Web site: http://wivace2022.unicas.it/ The International Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation aims at bringing together researchers working in Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation to present and share their research in a multidisciplinary context. The workshop provides a forum for the discussion of new research directions and applications in these fields, where different disciplines could effectively meet. It was first held in 2007 in Sampieri (Ragusa), as the incorporation of two previously separately running workshops (WIVA and GSICE). After the success of the first edition, the workshop was organized in the following years in Venice (2008), Naples (2009), Parma (2012), Milan (2013), Vietri (2014), Bari (2015), Salerno (2016), Venice (2017) and Parma (2018). Interested authors are invited to contribute papers on theory and applications of Artificial Life, Evolutionary Computation, and complex smart systems. Contributions solicited cover a variety of topics including but not limited to: - Bioinspired Algorithms - Bioinspired Robotics - Coevolution and Collective Behavior - Complex Systems - Data-driven Self-regulating Systems - Evolutionary Computation - Evolutionary Approaches to Big Data and Big Data Streams - Evolutionary Learning Systems - Evolutionary Agents - Modeling and Simulation of Artificial and Biological Systems - Modeling and Simulation of Social and Economical Systems - Modeling of Business Intelligence Systems - Neural Computers - Neuroevolution: Improving Deep Learning with Evolutionary Computation - Self-organizing Cyber-Physical Systems - Socio-inspired Swarm Intelligence Algorithms - Synthetic and Systems Biology - Systems Chemistry - Theories and Applications of Artificial Life *SUBMISSION DETAILS* Contributions may be submitted in one of the following forms: - Full research papers (up to 12 pages). - Simple Abstracts (1-4 pages). Full research papers should present original unpublished work. Simple abstracts should describe original work in progress or a summary of a full paper. The submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. The authors of accepted papers or abstracts will have to improve their papers on the basis of reviewers’ comments and will be asked to send a camera-ready version of their manuscripts. At least one author of each accepted work has to register for the conference, attend the conference and present his work. We have contacted Springer to publish the proceedings of Wivace 2022 in Springer's Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) proceedings series, which is abstracted/indexed in DBLP, Google Scholar, EI-Compendex, Mathematical Reviews, SCImago, Scopus. Accepted abstracts describing unpublished work will be considered for publication of extended versions (up to 12 pages) in the same volume. Submission instructions can be found here: http://wivace2022.unicas.it/submission.html *IMPORTANT DATES* Abstract/paper submission deadline: 25 July 2022 (*extended*) Notification of acceptance: 12 August 2022 Early Registration: 22 August 2022 *GENERAL CHAIRS* Claudio De Stefano (University of Cassino and Southern Lazio) - destefano@unicas.it Francesco Fontanella (University of Cassino and Southern Lazio) - fontanella@unicas.it *CONTACTS* Francesco Fontanella (fontanella@unicas.it)