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Date: Thu, 18 May 1995 11:08:14 -0400
From: Maja Mataric
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Conference Announcement and Call For Papers
FROM ANIMALS TO ANIMATS
Fourth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB96)
Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA, September 9-13, 1996
The objective of the conference is to bring together researchers in ethology, psychology, ecology, artificial intelligence, artificial life, robotics, 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 particularly on well-defined models, computer simulations, and robotics demonstrations, in order to help characterize and compare various organizational principles or architectures capable of inducing adaptive behavior in real animals or synthetic agents.
Contributions treating any of the following topics from the perspective of adaptive behavior will receive special emphasis:
Action selection Learning and development Perception and motor control Evolutionary computation Neural correlates of behavior Coevolutionary models Emergent structures and behaviors Parallel and distributed models Motivation and emotion Collective and social behavior Internal world models Autonomous robots Characterization of environments Applied adaptive behavior
Authors should make every effort to suggest implications of their work for both natural and artificial animals. Papers which do not deal explicitly with adaptive behavior will be rejected.
Submission Instructions
Authors are requested to send five copies (hard copy only) of a full paper to the Program Chair (Pattie Maes) arriving no later than Feb 9th, 1996. Late submissions will not be considered. Papers should not exceed 10 pages (excluding the title page), with 1 inch margins all around, and no smaller than 10 pt (12 pitch) type (Times Roman preferred). The Web site listed below contains the latex .sty file producing the preferred format for submissions. Each paper must include a title page containing the following: (1) Full names, postal addresses, phone numbers, email addresses (if available), and fax numbers for each author, (2) A 100-200 word abstract, (3) The topic area(s) in which the paper could be reviewed (see list above). Camera ready versions of the papers, in two-column format, will be required by May 10th.
Computer, video, and robotic demonstrations are also invited for submission. Submit a 2-page proposal plus a title page as above to the program chair. Indicate equipment requirements and relevance to the themes of the conference.
Conference Chairs Pattie Maes, Program MIT Media Lab 20 Ames Street Rm 305 Cambridge, MA 02139 USA email: pattie@media.mit.edu
Maja Mataric, Local Arrangements Volen Center for Complex Systems Computer Science Department Brandeis University Waltham, MA 02254 USA email: maja@cs.brandeis.edu
Jean-Arcady Meyer, Publicity Groupe de Bioinformatique URA686.Ecole Normale Superieure 46 rue d'Ulm 75230 Paris Cedex 05 France email: meyer@wotan.ens.fr
Jordan Pollack, Local Arrangements/Financial Volen Center for Complex Systems Computer Science Department Brandeis University Waltham, MA 02254 USA email: pollack@cs.brandeis.edu
Herbert Roitblat, Financial Department of Psychology University of Hawaii 2430 Campus Road Honolulu, HI 96822 USA email: roitblat@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu
Stewart Wilson, Proceedings The Rowland Institute for Science 100 Edwin H. Land Blvd. Cambridge, MA 02142 USA email: wilson@smith.rowland.org
(Tentative) Program Committee:
M. Arbib, USA; R. Arkin, USA; R. Beer, USA; A. Berthoz, France; B. Blumberg, USA; L. Booker, USA; R. Brooks, USA; D. Cliff, UK; P. Colgan, Canada; T. Collett, UK; H. Cruse, Germany; J. Delius, Germany; A. Dickinson, UK; J. Ferber, France; D. Floreano, UK; N. Franceschini, France; S. Giszter, USA; S. Goss, Belgium; J. Hallam, UK; I. Harvey, UK; I. Horswill, USA; P. Husbands, UK; L. Kaelbling, USA; H. Klopf, USA; L-J. Lin, USA; M. Littman, USA; D. McFarland, UK; J. Millan, Spain; G. Miller, UK; R. Pfeifer, Switzerland; J. Slotine, USA; T. Smithers, Spain; O. Sporns, USA; J. Staddon, USA; L. Steels, Belgium; L. Stein, USA; F. Toates, UK; P. Todd, USA; S. Tsuji, Japan; W. Uttal, USA; D. Waltz, USA.
Official Language: English Publisher: MIT Press/Bradford Books
Important Dates
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FEB 9, 1996: Submissions must be received APR 12: Notification of acceptance or rejection (via email) MAY 10: Camera ready revised versions due JUN 10: Early registration deadline AUG 8: Hotel reservations and regular registration deadline SEP 9-13: Conference dates
General queries to: sab96@cs.brandeis.edu WWW Page: http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/conferences/sab96
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