[alife] CFP: Special Issue on "Swarm Robotics"

[C. Titus Brown]

CALL FOR PAPERS

Special Issue on “Swarm Robotics”
International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics

This special issue on “Swarm Robotics” will be published
in the “International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics”
(http://www.emeraldinsight.com/ijicc.htm).

Guest Editors:
Prof. S. Hettiarachchi, Eastern Oregon University,
USA                         
Prof. William M. Spears, University of Wyoming, USA


Scope
The focus of Swarm Robotics is to study how a swarm of
relatively simple physically embodied robots can be
controlled to collectively accomplish tasks that are
beyond the capabilities of a single robot.  The advantages
of swarm robotics are that (1) complex control is achievable
through simple local interactions of the swarm members,
(2) the results scale well with larger numbers of robots,
and (3) the swarm is robust to failure of individual members.
Algorithms, techniques and methods based on swarm robotics
principles have been successfully applied to a wide range of
complex problems. This special issue aims at exhibiting the
latest research achievement, findings and ideas in the area
of Swarm Robotics.

Possible topics for the issue include but are not limited to:

Modeling and analysis
Coordination and control
Formation configuration and stabilization
Self-organization and self-assembly
Simulation tools and hardware
Optimization
Emergent behavior
Evolutionary swarms
Adaptive swarm architectures
Swarm communication
Distributed swarm applications

Important Dates:
Submission of Manuscripts: January 10, 2009
Notification of Acceptance: April 20, 2009
Submission of Final Papers: June 10, 2009


Please see the link for further information on submission.
http://info.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/call_for_papers.htm?id=387

-- 
C. Titus Brown, ctb at msu.edu