[alife] Call for papers - Special Session on Bio-Inspired Self-Organizing Multi-Agent Systems at the 2010 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence

Yan Meng yan.meng at stevens.edu
Thu Jan 14 08:41:59 PST 2010


2010 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, July 18-23, Centre
De Convercions Internacional De

Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.

Special session in 2010 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC
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-reproduction,
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
Department of Automatic Control & Systems Engineering
The University of Sheffield
Sheffield S1 3JD, UK
Email: roderich.gross at ieee.org

Important dates:

Paper submission:                       January 31, 2010
Notification of paper acceptance:   March 15, 2010
Final paper submission:                May 2, 2010

Paper submission:

Submissions should follow the guidance given on the IEEE WCCI 2010
conference website: http://www.wcci2010.org.
When submitting, please select as the main research topic the Special
Session on "Bio-Inspired Self-Organizing
Multi-Agent Systems". All submissions will be peer-reviewed with the same
criteria used for other contributed
papers. All accepted papers will be included and published in the conference
proceedings.


Post Conference Publication:

Depending on the quality of the submissions, authors will be asked to
contribute to a book chapter on the approved
book "Bio-Inspired Self-Organizing Multi-Agent Systems" in the Springer
series "Studies in Computational
Intelligence".


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