IAS-7 - The 7th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems. Marina del Rey, California, USA; 25--25 March 2002. RASTA'02 - International Workshop on Regulated Agent-Based Social Systems: Theories and Applications; part of AAMAS 2002. Bologna, Italy; 15--19 July 2002. EuroGP2003 / EvoWorkshop2003 - A combined event for theoretical and applied research in evolutionary computing. Essex, UK; 14-16 April 2003. ICES 2003 - The 5th International Conference on Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware. Trondheim, Norway; 17--20 March 2003. Artificial Life VIII - The 8th International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems. University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia; 9--13 December 2002. CAST'01 - Living in Mixed Realities - Conference on artistic, cultural and scientific aspects of experimental media spaces. Sankt Augustin, Bonn, Germany; 21--22 September 2001.