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10.call For Papers (2012)
10.call For Papers (2012)
History
The AROB was founded in 1996 under the support of Science and International Affairs Bureau, Ministry
of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japanese Government. Since then, the symposium
organized by the AROB has been held every year at B‐Con Plaza, Beppu, Japan except AROB 5th ’00 (Oita)
and AROB 6th ’01 (Tokyo). The seventeenth symposium will be held on January 19–21, 2012, at B‐Con
Plaza, Beppu, Japan.
Objective
This symposium will bring together researchers to discuss development of new technologies concerning
Plenary Speakers artificial life and robotics based on computer simulations and hardware designs of state‐of‐the‐art
We will upload it to our technologies, and to share findings on how advancements in artificial life and robotics technologies that
website as soon as it has relate to artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and computer science are creating the basis for exciting new
been decided. research and applications in various fields listed in the following Topics.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to
Artificial brain research Artificial intelligence Artificial life
General Chair Artificial living Artificial mind research Bioinformatics
Masanori Sugisaka Bipedal robot Brain science Chaos
Cognitive science Complexity Computer graphics
Program Chair Control techniques Data mining DNA computing
Hiroshi Tanaka Evolutionary computations Fuzzy control Genetic algorithms
Human‐machine cooperative systems Human‐welfare robotics Image processing
Intelligent control & modeling Learning Management of technology
Vice Chairs
Medical surgical robot Micromachines Mobile vehicles
John L. Casti
Molecular biology Multi‐agent systems Nano‐biology
Yingmin Jia Nano‐robotics Neurocomputing technologies Neural networks
Ju‐Jang Lee Pattern recognition and its application for hardware Quantum computing
Henrik Hautop Lund Robotics Soccer robot Virtual reality
Hiroshi Tanaka Visualization
and also workshop, tutorial, and robotics exhibition will be held at the same time during the
Workshop Chair symposium (AROB 17th ’12). The workshop committee and robotics exhibition committee members
Jang‐Myung Lee will be announced soon.
Advisory Committee Chair
Fumio Harashima Important Dates
September 1, 2011 Deadline for abstract submissions
Assistant General Chair
Takao Ito September 15, 2011 Notification of acceptance
October 1, 2011 Author’s kit except final camera‐ready papers
October 15, 2011 Final camera‐ready papers
Conference Language
English
Publication
Accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings of the AROB. Extended versions of the selected papers will be
published in the international journal:ARTIFICIAL LIFE AND ROBOTICS and in the special issue on special topics of
Artificial Life and Robotics, Applied Mathematics and Computation.
All correspondence related to the symposium should be addressed to:
AROB Secretariat
ALife Robotics Corporation Ltd.
1068‐1 Oaza Oshino, Oita, 870‐1121, JAPAN
Tel / Fax: +81‐97‐594‐0181 Email: arobsecr@isarob.org
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Organized By AROB 17th 2012
International Organizing Committee of International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics (AROB)
Co‐Operated by
The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE, Japan) IEEE Japan Council (IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Japan Chapter)
The Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ, Japan) Japan Robot Association (JARA)
The Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan (IEEJ, Japan) Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems (ICROS, Korea)
The Institute of Systems, Control and Information Engineers (ISCIE) Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI, P. R. China)
The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE)
General Chair Program Chair
M. Sugisaka (Nippon Bunri University and ALife Robotics Co., Ltd., Japan) H. Tanaka (Tokyo Medical & Dental University, Japan)
Vice‐Chairs Workshop Chair
J. L. Casti (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria) J. M. Lee (Pusan National University, Korea)
Y. Jia (Beihang University, P. R. China)
J. J. Lee (KAIST, Korea)
Assistant General Chair
H. H. Lund (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)
H. Tanaka (Tokyo Medical & Dental University, Japan) T. Ito (Ube National College of Technology, Japan)
Advisory Committee Chair
F. Harashima (Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan)
Advisory Committee
B. Eisenstein (Drexel University, Former IEEE President, USA) M. Kam (Drexel University, IEEE President, USA)
R. Fischl (Drexel University, USA) H. Kimura (RIKEN, Japan)
T. Fukuda (Nagoya University, Japan) P. Oh (Drexel University, USA)
F. Harashima (Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan) M. Tomizuka (University of California Berkeley, USA)
P. Kalata (Drexel University, USA) Y. G. Zhang (Academia Sinica, P. R. China)
International Organizing Committee
H. Abbass (University of New South Wales, Australia) M. H. Lee (Pusan National University, Korea)
K. Aihara (The University of Tokyo, Japan) M. Nakamura (Research Institute of Systems Control, Japan)
C. Barrett (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA) M. Oswald (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
M. Bedau (Reed College, USA) S. Rasmussen (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)
M. Eaton (University of Limerick, Ireland) T. S. Ray (University of Oklahoma, USA)
J. M. Epstein (The Brookings Institution, USA) K. Shimohara (Doshisha University, Japan)
A. Grzech (Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland) C. Taylor (University of California‐Los Angeles, USA)
H. Hashimoto (The University of Tokyo, Japan) J. Wang (Beijing Jiaotong University, P. R. China)
D. J. G. James (Coventry University, UK) C. Zhang (Tsinghua University, P. R. China)
K. Kyuma (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan)
International Program Committee
T. Arita (Nagoya University, Japan) K. Naitoh (Waseda University, Japan)
R. Belew (University of California‐San Diego, USA) W. Nistico (University of Dortmund, Germany)
S‐ M. Chen (National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan) N. Okada (Kyushu University, Japan)
Y. I. Cho (The University of Suwon, Korea) S. Omatu (Osaka Institute of Technology, Japan)
M. Chow (North Carolina State University, USA) H. Oogai (Waseda University, Japan)
Y. Y. Fan (University of California‐Davis, USA) L. Pagliarini (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)
T. Fuchida (Kagoshima University, Japan) R. Pfeifer (University of Zurich‐Irchel, Switzerland)
H. Hamdan (SUPELEC, France) M. Rozailan (TATi University College, Malaysia)
S. H. Han (Kyungnam University, Korea) S. Sagara (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)
N. Homma (Tohoku University, Japan) P. Sapaty (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine)
Y. Ishida (Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan) J. Y. Sim (Kangnam University, Korea)
S. Ishikawa (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan) M. Svinin (Kyushu University, Japan)
T. Iwamoto (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Advanced K. Sugawara (Tohoku Gakuin University, Japan)
Technology R&D Center, Japan) H. Suzuki (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
J. Johnson (The Open University, UK) I. Tanev (Doshisha University, Japan)
H. Kinjyo(University of the Ryukyus, Japan) T. Tsuji (Hiroshima University, Japan)
M. Kono (University of Miyazaki, Japan) H. Umeo (Osaka Electro‐Communication University, Japan)
K. Kurashige (Muroran Institute Technology, Japan) K. Uosaki (Fukui University of Technology, Japan)
H. H. Lee (Waseda University, Japan) K. Watanabe (Okayama University, Japan)
J. M. Lee (Pusan National University, Korea) H. Yanagimoto (Osaka Prefecture University, Japan)
K. J. Mackin(Tokyo University of Information Sciences, Japan) I. Yoshihara (University of Miyazaki, Japan)
K. Merrick (University of New South Wales and ADFA, Australia) M. Yokota (Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan)
C. Mi (University of Michigan‐Dearborn, USA) Y. Yu (Kagoshima University, Japan)
J. Murata (Kyushu University, Japan) T. Zhang (Tsinghua University, P. R. China)
K. Nakano (The University of Electro‐Communications, Japan)
Local Arrangement Committee
F. Dai (Tianjin University of Science & Technology, P. R. China) M. Sugisaka (ALife Robotics Co., Ltd, Japan) (Chair)
Z. Ibrahim (TATi University College, Malaysia) J. Wang (Beijing Jiaotong University, P. R. China)
M. Rizon (King Saud University, Saudi Arabia) H. Zhao (Shanghai Institute of Technology, P. R. China)
S. Sagara (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)
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