[alife] CfPs: WCCI Special Session on "Bio-Inspired Self-Organizing Multi-Agent Systems"

Yaochu.Jin at honda-ri.de Yaochu.Jin at honda-ri.de
Mon Jan 18 08:42:44 PST 2010


Call for Papers

2010 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence
Barcelona, Spain, July 18-23, 2010  

Special session on 
“Bio-Inspired Self-Organizing Multi-Agent Systems”

http://www.ece.stevens-tech.edu/~ymeng/WCCI10_SpecialSession.htm

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

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 the Special Session on "Bio-Inspired Self-Organizing Multi-Agent 
Systems" (S018) as the main research topic. 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.

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



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