[alife] CfP: Special Issue on Swarm Robotics

[Erol Sahin]

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                      Swarm Intelligence
               Special Issue on Swarm Robotics

        Guest Editors:  Erol Sahin and Alan FT Winfield

Scope:
Swarm robotics is a new approach to the coordination of multi-robot  
systems
consisting of large numbers of relatively simple physical robots. The  
goal of
this approach is to study the design of robots (both their physical  
embodiment
and their controlling behaviors) such that desired collective  
behaviors emerge
from the interactions between robots and the interactions of the  
robots with
the environment. Swarm robotics is inspired by (but not limited to)  
the emergent
behaviors observed in social insects. This journal special issue  
solicits
high-quality scientific contributions on swarm robotics. While papers  
on any
aspect of swarm robotics are welcome, of special interest are  
submissions on:
*Design: Advances in the development of swarm intelligence algorithms  
for
robotic systems; principled approaches to engineering emergence;  
evolutionary
approaches to swarm robot control; swarm robot hardware and/or  
software design;
*Modelling and Analysis: Advances in mathematical models for  
analysis, and
prediction of the behaviors of swarms; approaches for assuring  
dependability or
stability of swarm robotic systems;
*Tools: Advances in both experimental hardware and simulation tools  
that aid
the development of swarm robotic systems;
*Applications: Actual or proposed applications of swarm robotics to  
real-world
problems; the use of swarm robotic systems as working models for  
advancing the
science or understanding of complex systems.

Submission:
All researchers are invited to submit original work on topics  
relevant for this
special issue. The submission deadline is:
                           December 1, 2007.
The publication of the special issue is tentatively scheduled for  
autumn 2008.
Authors should submit their manuscripts to the Swarm Intelligence  
Editorial
Manager at http://www.editorialmanager.com/swrm/. Please, select  
"Special Issue
on Swarm Robotics" as the article type. When submitting a paper  
please also send
an email to the guest editors (erol at metu.edu.tr,  
alan.winfield at uwe.ac.uk), with
paper title and author list, to alert us of your submission.

A page with up-to-date information regarding the special issue is  
maintained at:
                    http://swarm-robotics.org/swrm/ .
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