[alife] 1st CFP: EvoROBOT - Evolutionary Computation in Robotics

[Evert Haasdijk]

[apologies for cross-posting]

EvoROBOT 2013, 
Vienna, Austria, 3-5 April 2013

Evolutionary Computation in Robotics

The well-known EvoStar conference (http://www.evostar.org/) has been extended to host the EvoROBOT track as part of EvoApplications, the European Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation, to be held in April 2013 at the Vienna University of Technology. 
The EvoROBOT track focusses, as the name implies, on evolutionary robotics: the application of evolutionary computation techniques to automatically design the controllers and/or hardware of autonomous robots, real or simulated. This is by nature a multi-faceted field that combines approaches from other fields such as neuro-evolution, evolutionary design, artificial life, robotics, et cetera.

We seek high quality contributions dealing with state-of-the-art research in the area of evolutionary robotics. 

Topics include but are not limited to:

Evolution of (neural) robot controllers;
Evolution of modular robot morphology;
Hardware/morphology and controller co-evolution;
Open-ended evolution in robotics;
Robotic evolutionary Artificial Life;
Evolutionary self-assembly and self-replication;
Evolution, development and learning;
Evolutionary and co-evolutionary approaches.

Important Dates
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Submission deadline:    	1 November 2012
Notification to authors:	21 December 2012
Camera-ready deadline:  	15 January 2013
EvoStar event           	3-5 April 2013  

Publication Details
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Accepted papers will appear in the proceedings of EvoStar, published as Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

Submission Details
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Submissions must be novel and original. Submissions will be peer reviewed by at least three members of the program committee and authors of accepted papers are required to address the reviewer's comments to produce a camera-ready version of their manuscripts. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and attend the conference to present their work.

The reviewing process will be double-blind and any information that may identify the authors should be removed from the initial submission. Please submit your contribution to EvoROBOT in Springer LNCS format at http://myreview.csregistry.org/evoapps13. The page limit is 10 pages.

Track Chairs
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Gusz Eiben
Evert Haasdijk

Programme Committee (provisional)
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Nicolas Bredeche
Stéphane Doncieux
Heiko Hamann
Serge Kernbach
Jean-Marc Montanier
Jean-Baptiste Mouret
Stefano Nolfi
Claudio Rossi
Sanem Sariel
Florian Schlachter
Thomas Schmickl
Juergen Stradner
Jon Timmis
Andy Tyrrell
Alan Winfield

Further Information
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Visit http://www.evostar.org/cfpEvoApplications.html or join the EVOstar group on LinkedIn for more details and updates.