[alife] SAB2004: calls for participation and abstracts (ext'd deadline)

[Auke Jan Ijspeert]

-----SAB2004 Call for participation and abstracts (ext'd deadline)-----

SAB2004, From Animals to Animats 8, The Eighth International Conference
on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior

Santa Monica (Los Angeles), July 13-17 2004
http://www.isab.org/sab04/


----- Call for participation -----

The objective of this interdisciplinary conference is to bring together
researchers in computer science, artificial intelligence, alife,
control, robotics, neurosciences, ethology, 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.

The preliminary technical program can be found at
http://www.isab.org/sab04/program/

See http://www.isab.org/sab04/ for registration and more details.


-----Call for abstracts for the Last-Minute-Results poster session-----

SAB2004 introduces a new feature: the Last-Minute-Results poster session
(July 9th, extended deadline).

This special session will offer researchers in Adaptive Behavior the
opportunity to present their most recent results at SAB2004
(http://www.isab.org/sab04/). The goal of this session is to provide an
informal setting in which participants can reveal and discuss their
latest results and developments at the time of the conference (13-17
July 2004).

Researchers are invited to submit a two-page abstract describing recent
results/developments. Abstracts should be sent electronically as a PDF
file to the conference general email address, sab2004 at isab.org, with
"Last Minute Results" in the email Subject line.

The call for abstracts is open to all (i.e. to people both with and
without an accepted paper at the conference). There is a limit of one
abstract/poster per participant as a first author. After review by the
conference chairs, authors of accepted abstracts will be allowed to
present their results as a poster in a special Last-Minute-Results
session. Note that the abstracts will not be considered as publications
and will not be included in the conference proceedings. This also means
that you keep the abstracts' copyrights.

Deadlines:

July 9th: 	Abstract submission deadline (but note that there is a
limited number of slots, and that posters will be accepted after a short
review on a first come, first served basis)

July 13-17 2004:  SAB'04 conference

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

The Animat approach
Characterization of agents and environments
Passive and active perception
Motor control
Visually-guided behaviors
Action selection
Behavioral sequencing
Navigation and mapping
Internal models and representation
Learning and development
Motivation and emotion
Collective and social behavior
Emergent structures and behaviors
Neural correlates of behavior
Evolutionary and co-evolutionary approaches
Autonomous robotics
Humanoid robotics
Software agents and virtual creatures
Applied adaptive behavior
Animats in education
Philosophical and psychological issues