[alife] Call for paper - 2nd workshop on Evolving Collective Behaviors for Robotics (GECCO 2017)

[Nicolas Bredeche]

(Apologies for multiple postings) 

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## Second workshop on Evolving Collective Behaviors in Robotics
## Workshop at ACM GECCO 2017 - July 15th-19th 2017 - Berlin, Germany
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Organizers: Nicolas Bredeche (UPMC), Evert Haasdijk (VUA), Heiko Hamann
(U. Paderborn), Abraham Prieto (U. Coruña) 

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 modeling for biology. 

This workshop encourages collaboration between researchers already
present at GECCO, or in other similar venues such as the Artificial Life
or Distributed Robotics conferences, which are not always present at the
same conference. 

As long as the evolutionary aspect is emphasize, keywords describing the
topic are:
- collective and swarm robotics
- social behaviors (cooperation, division of labor)
- embodied evolution
- social learning
- real-world applications 

## When/where? ## 

July 15th or 16th 2017, at GECCO 2017, the Genetic and Evolutionary
Computation Conference, Berlin, Germany. 

## Important dates ## 

Submission deadline: March 31st, 2017
Authors notification: April 7th, 2015
Camera-ready submission: May 4th, 2015 

## Paper Submission ## 

We accept papers of two types:
- Presentation of on-going (or finished) 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 (10 minutes
for talk, 5 minutes for Q/A). 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://gecco-2017.sigevo.org/index.html/Papers+Submission+Instructions
for details. Paper should be submitted exclusively in PDF format to
evocobots(at)isir.upmc.fr. 

## Workshop agenda ## 

One keynote talk (40 min, invitation-based) -- to be announced
Presentations of on-going or published work (15 min each, including 5
min. for Q/A, submission-based - see above) 

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