[alife] CFP for special session in WCCI 2010

Yan Meng yan.meng at stevens.edu
Mon Sep 21 12:32:59 PDT 2009


Dear Colleagues,

We are going to organize a special session on "Bio-Inspired Self-Organizing
Multi-Agent System" on the 2010 World Congress on Computational Intelligence
to be held in Barcelona, Spain from July 18-23, 2010 (
http://www.wcci2010.org/).

*Related conference(s):* IEEE CEC 2010 ( within WCCI 2010)



*Special session title*: Bio-Inspired Self-Organizing Multi-Agent Systems



*Objectives*:



Self-organizing multi-agent systems are supposed to be able to act without
external control to accomplish complex tasks, while adapting to changing
environmental conditions.  In other words, we expect them to exhibit some
life-like features, such as self-reconfiguration, self-repair,
self-organization, and context awareness. However, developing such
distributed self-organizing systems, where desired global behaviors can
emerge through contextual local interactions among individual agents as well
as between the agents and the environment, is a very challenging task.



Biological systems, from macroscopic swarm systems of social insects to
microscopic cellular systems, can generate robust and complex emerging
global behaviors through relatively simple local interactions in the
presence of various kinds of uncertainty. Borrowing ideas from biological
systems for developing self-organizing multi-agent systems has become
increasingly popular. For example, swarm intelligence, a novel paradigm for
solving complex problems with massively parallel systems, has been inspired
by behaviors observed in social insect colonies, flocks of birds, etc.
Another example is that of artificial embryogeny, which simulates the
process of embryonic development of biological organisms. Artificial
embryogeny techniques have been applied in the construction of
self-organizing and self-assembling robotic systems.



This special session aims to bring together new theories and methodologies
inspired by biological principles for self-organizing multi-agent systems.
The emphasis of the session is on bridging multi-disciplinary research areas
such as multi-agent systems, robotics, artificial life, and evolutionary
computation.



*Topics of interest:*

* *

The topics explored in this special session include, but are not limited to:



·    Genetic and cellular approaches to self-organization and self-assembly

·    Morphogenesis in multi-agent systems

·    Self-reconfiguration and self-assembly in modular robots

·    Self-organized and self-repairing multi-agent pattern formation

·    Multi-agent flocking and consensus

·    Self-organized collective construction and stigmergy

·    Swarm intelligence based approaches to multi-agent systems

·    Distributed task allocation in multi-agent systems

·    Robustness, sensitivity, and evolvability of self-organizing
multi-agent systems

·    Real world applications, e.g., cognitive network management, coverage,
self-assembly of nanostructures, smart materials, swarm robotics,
reconfigurable modular robots, and traffic control





*Special session organizers*:



Prof. Yan Meng

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Stevens Institute of Technology

Hoboken, NJ 07030, USA

Email: yan.meng at stevens.edu



Dr. Yaochu Jin

Honda Research Institute Europe

Carl-Legien-Str. 30

63073 Offenbach, Germany

Email: yaochu.jin at honda-ri.de



Dr. Roderich Gross

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

EPFL – LSRO, Station 9

1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

Email: roderich.gross at epfl.ch





*Important dates:*



Paper submission:                           January 31, 2010

Notification of paper acceptance:   March 15, 2010

Final paper submission:                  May 2, 2010


We would like to invite you to submit a paper to the special session. Please
let us know if you are able to make a contribution. If yes, could you please
provide us the authors and a tentative title of the paper you plan to
submit.
Thank you very much.

 Best regards,
Yan

-- 
Yan Meng, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Stevens Institute of Technology
Hoboken, NJ 07030, USA
Phone: (201) 216-5496
Email: yan.meng at stevens.edu
Fax: (201) 216-8246
URL: http://www.ece.stevens-tech.edu/~ymeng/


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