[alife] EvoROBOT Call for Papers

[Evert Haasdijk]

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                        EvoROBOT 2016
            Porto, Portugal, 30 March - 1 April 2016
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                         Call for Papers


              Evolutionary Computation in Robotics
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The EvoROBOT track is part of EvoApplications, the European Conference
on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation
(http://www.evostar.org/), to be held in Porto, Portugal.

The EvoROBOT track focusses 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 invite 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 or otherwise) 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 2015

Notification: 			4 January 2016

Camera-ready: 			18 January 2016

EvoStar dates: 			30 March - 1 April 2016




Publication Details
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Accepted papers will appear in the proceedings of EvoStar, published in
a volume of the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, which will
be available at the Conference.

Best Paper Award


Best Paper Award
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Frontiers in Robotics and AI is offering the best paper award at the 
upcoming EvoROBOT track. The Evolutionary Robotics specialty grants 
the winner a full waiver of the publication fee for the submission of 
an extended version of the work presented at EvoROBOT in Porto. 

Naturally, the final decision to publish the extended version will be 
made adhering to the Frontiers policies of originality and review.
See http://www.frontiersin.org/evolutionary_robotics for details of 
this open-access journal.


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 if accepted. 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. The
page limit is 12 pages.


Track Chairs
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Gusz Eiben
Evert Haasdijk


Programme Committee
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Nicolas Bredeche

Anders Christensen

Stephane Doncieux

Marco Dorigo

Heiko Hamann

Jacqueline Heinerman

Joost Huizinga

Jean-Marc Montanier

Jean-Baptiste Mouret 

Stefano Nolfi

Abraham Prieto

Claudio Rossi

Sanem Sariel

Thomas Schmickl 

Kasper Stoy

Jon Timmis

Alan Winfield


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