[alife] Call for Papers: SAB06-Swarm Robotics Workshop
Erol Sahin
erol at ceng.metu.edu.tr
Thu Mar 9 05:09:02 PST 2006
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Dear All,
Below you can find the CfP for the Swarm Robotics Workshop to be
organized within SAB'06.
Erol Sahin, William M. Spears, Alan F.T. Winfield
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Erol Sahin
Asst. Professor
KOVAN Research Lab. - Dept. of Computer Engineering
Middle East Technical University,
Inonu Bulvari, 06531, Ankara, Turkey
http://www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr/~erol
E-mail: erol at ceng.metu.edu.tr
Tel: +90-312-210 5539 Fax: +90-312-210 1259
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Call for Papers
SAB'06 (From Animals to Animats)
Workshop on Swarm Robotics
Rome, Italy, September 30, 2006
Organized by: Erol Sahin, William M. Spears and Alan F.T. Winfield
http://swarm-robotics.org/SAB06/
Scope:
Swarm robotics is the study of how large numbers of relatively simple
physically embodied agents can be designed such that a desired
collective behavior emerges from the local interactions among agents
and between the agents and the environment. It emerged as a novel
approach to the coordination of large numbers of robots. It is
inspired from the observation of social insects -ants, termites, wasps
and bees- which stand as fascinating examples of how a large number of
simple individuals can interact to create collectively intelligent
systems. Social insects are known to coordinate their actions to
accomplish tasks that are beyond the capabilities of a single
individual: termites build large and complex mounds, army ants
organize impressive foraging raids, ants can collectively carry large
preys. Such coordination capabilities are still beyond the reach of
current multi-robot systems.
Research on swarm robotics has been on the rise during the last
decade. A number of successful swarm robotic systems have already been
developed and the study of coordination in swarm robotic systems has
become a hot topic of research. The workshop will be a sequel to the
first swarm robotics workshop organized within SAB 2004 with great
success and will aim to review the recent advances on the topic.
Papers on any aspect of swarm robotics would be welcome, but especially
* Experimental swarm robotics systems, in the lab or simulation;
* Swarm Intelligence algorithms for robotics applications;
* Actual or proposed real-world applications of swarm robotics;
* Modeling and mathematical analysis of swarm robotics;
* Simulation or design tools for swarm robotics;
* Architectural/hardware advances that aid the development of
swarm robotics systems;
* Principled design approaches to engineering emergence;
* Approaches for assuring dependability or stability of swarms.
Although the initial motivation for much of the work in swarm robotics
stems from ethological metaphors, this workshop is not limited to
this. Swarm robotics systems based on immune systems,
chemical/physical systems, etc. are welcome, as long as the robotics
aspect is clear.
The workshop will accept review and research papers based on blind
review. During first workshop, the emphasis was to provide a review of
the field, and reviews of major projects and major research tracks
were invited, with a relatively fewer number of research papers. This
workshop will focus on the recent results from swarm robotics
research.
Important dates
Full paper submission July 1, 2006
Notification of Acceptance August 1, 2006
Revised paper (to be distributed at the workshop) September 1, 2006
Workshop September 30, 2006
Proceedings and manuscript preparation
The post-proceedings of the workshop will be published by Springer in
the Lecture Notes in Computer Science as a sequel to the
post-proceedings of the first workshop.
Complete and up-to-date information about the workshop is available at:
http://swarm-robotics.org/SAB06/
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