AROB 15th '10 2010 - International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics

This symposium was founded in 1996 by 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, Oita, Japan except in Oita, Japan (AROB 5th ’00) and in Tokyo, Japan (AROB 6th ’01). The Fifteenth symposium will be held on February 4 ?6, 2010, at B-Con Plaza, Beppu, Oita, Japan. This symposium invites you all to discuss development of new technologies concerning Artificial Life and Robotics based on simulation and hardware in the twenty first century.

OBJECTIVE
The objective of this symposium is the development of new technologies for artificial life and robotics which have been recently born in Japan and are expected to be applied in various fields. This symposium will discuss new results in the field of artificial life and robotics.

TOPICS:
Artificial brain research Artificial intelligence
Artificial life Artificial living
Artificial mind research Bioinformatics
Bipedal robot Brain science
Chaos Cognitive science
Complexity Computer graphics
Control techniques DNA computing
Evolutionary computations Fuzzy control
Genetic algorithms Human-welfare robotics
Human-machine cooperative systems Image Processing
Innovative computations　 Intelligent control
Micromachines ＆modeling
Micro-robot world cup Mobile vehicles
soccer tournament Molecular biology
Multi-agent systems Nano-biology
Nano-robotics Neural networks
Neurocomputing technologies Neurocomputers
and its application for hardware Pattern recognition
Robotics Robust virtual engineering
Virtual reality Visualization
Others
DEADLINES:
November 20, 2009 Electronic submission of a 400-600 word long
abstracts at our website
Nobember 25, 2009 Notification of acceptance of papers**
December 10, 2009 Submission of final camera-ready papers.
** Accepted papers are divided into two types. Oral presentation (4 pages)
and poster presentation (2 pages)