[alife] CFP: International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics (AROB 20th)

[Takaya Arita]

Call for Papers

International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics (AROB 20th '15,
Beppu, JAPAN, Jan. 21-23, 2015) invites you all to present original 
research and to discuss development of new technologies concerning
artificial life and robotics based on computer simulations and hardware
designs of state-of-the-art technologies.

This symposium was founded in 1996 under the support of Science and
International Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports,
Science and Technology, Japanese Government. Since then, this symposium
has been held every year at B-Con Plaza, Beppu, Japan except AROB 5th
(Oita), 6th (Tokyo) and 18th (Daejeon, Korea). The 20th symposium
will be held on January 21 - 23, 2015, at B-Con Plaza, Beppu, Japan.

The objective of this symposium is to develop new technologies for
artificial life and robotics and their applications in various fields.
Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original research and to
discuss development of new technologies concerning artificial life and
robotics based on computer simulations and hardware designs of
state-of-the-art technologies (see the topic list on the web).

Especially we would like to draw your attention to an invited speaker 
session organized by Charles Taylor as follows.

Session title: Bird song as self-organized systems
Speakers:
   Charles Taylor (University of California, Los Angeles)
   Reiji Suzuki (Nagoya University)
   Kazutoshi Sasahara (Nagoya University)
   Kazuo Okanoya (The University of Tokyo, Riken)
   Takashi Ikegami (The University of Tokyo)

Please see the detailed information on the web: 
   http://isarob.org/symposium/

Important dates:
Deadline for Abstract Submission
   Sep 16
Notification of Acceptance
   Oct 1
Deadline for Early Registration
   Nov 4
Deadline for Final Camera-Ready Papers
   Nov 14

Honorary General Chair
Masanori Sugisaka 
(ALife Robotics Co., Ltd., Prof. Universiti Malaysia Perlis, Japan)

General Chair
Hiroshi Tanaka 
(Tokyo Medical & Dental University, Japan)

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Takaya ARITA
Graduate School of Information Science
Nagoya University
arita at nagoya-u.jp