[alife] CfP: Evolving Collective Behaviors in Robotics at GECCO

[Evert Haasdijk]

(Apologies for multiple postings)

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## Evolving Collective Behaviors in Robotics
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## Workshop at GECCO 2015 - July 12-15, 2015 - Madrid, Spain
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Organizers: Abraham Prieto, Evert Haasdijk, Nicolas Bredeche

Contact: evocobots at isir.upmc.fr
Web: http://evocobots.isir.upmc.fr

## Description ##

This workshop brings together researchers interested in the automatic design of coordinated behaviors in decentralized collective systems, putting the emphasis on evolutionary robotics techniques. The goal of this workshop is to provide an updated perspective of this field, both from a theoretical and practical perspective, and to consider different areas of applicability for such techniques including design for engineering and modelling for biology. Moreover, this workshop will encourage collaboration between researchers already present at GECCO, or in other similar venues such as the Artificial Life conferences, which are not always present at the same conference.

## When/where? ##

July 11-15, 2015, at GECCO 2015, the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Madrid, Spain.

## Important dates ##

Submission deadline: April 17th, 2015 (see Paper Submission Section) 
Authors notification: April 25th, 2015 
Camera-ready submission: May 4th, 2015

## Paper Submission ##

We accept papers of two types:
- Presentation of on-going work
- Summary of already published research (e.g. journal or conference papers -- please include citation to the original work)

Each accepted paper will be presented orally at the workshop. Authors should follow the same format as is used for the GECCO conference papers, and submissions should be maximum 2 pages. Please refer to http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2015/papers.html for details. Paper should be submitted exclusively in PDF format to evocobots at isir.upmc.fr.

## Workshop agenda ##

Three keynote talks (40 min each, invitation-based) -- to be announced
Presentations of on-going or published work (20 min each, submission-based - see above)