FROM ANIMALS TO ANIMATS 10
The 10th International Conference
on the SIMULATION OF ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR (SAB'08)
7-12 July 2008, Osaka, Japan
http://sab08.org

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

General Chair: Minoru Asada

PC Chair: Jun Tani

General Co-Chairs: John Hallam, Jean-Arcady Meyer

IMPORTANT DATES

Call for workshop deadline, Februay 1st, 2008

Paper submission deadline, January 14th, 2008

Conference dates, July 7-10, 2008

Workshops date, July 11-12, 2008

The objective of this interdisciplinary conference is to bring together researchers in computer science, artificial intelligence, alife, control, robotics, neurosciences, ethology, evolutionary biology, and related fields so as to further our understanding of the behaviors and underlying mechanisms that allow natural and artificial animals to adapt and survive in uncertain environments. The conference will focus on experiments with well-defined models --- robot models, computer simulation models, mathematical models --- designed to help characterize and compare various organizational principles or architectures underlying adaptive behavior in real animals and in synthetic agents, the animats.

Contributions treating any of the following topics from the perspective of adaptive behavior will receive special emphasis:

·The Animat approach

·Motor control

·Body and brain co-evolution

·Self-assembling and self-replication

·Sensory-motor coordination

·Action selection & behavioral sequencing

·Navigation and mapping Internal models and representation

·Evolution, development and learning

·Motivation and emotion

·Collective and social behavior

·Communication and language

·Emergent structures and behaviors

·Neural correlates of behavior

·Evolutionary and co-evolutionary approaches

·Autonomous, bio-inspired, and hybrid robotics

·Autonomous robotics

·Humanoid robotics

·Cgonitive developmental robotics

·Software agents and virtual creatures

·Applied adaptive behavior

·Animats in education

·Philosophical and psychological issues

Authors should make every effort to suggest implications of their work for both natural and artificial animals, and to distinguish the portions of their work which use simulation from those using a physical agent.

Papers that do not deal explicitly with adaptive behavior will be rejected.

CONFERENCE FORMAT:

Following the tradition of SAB conferences, the conference will be single track, with additional poster sessions. Each poster session will start with poster spotlights giving presenters the opportunity to orally present their main results.

PUBLISHER:

Springer Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence (To Be Confirmed) Both oral and poster presentations will be published in conference proceedings.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:

Submitted papers must not exceed 10 pages (double columns). Detailed submission instructions will be available from the conference Web site.

CONTACT US:

Please contact us at sab2008@sab08.org for the paper submission and sab08@intergroup.co.jp for general questions.