FROM ANIMALS TO ANIMATS 10
The 10th International Conference
on the SIMULATION OF ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR (SAB'08)
7-12 July 2008, Osaka, Japan
http://sab08.org

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

General Chair: Minoru Asada

PC Chair: Jun Tani

General Co-Chairs: John Hallam, Jean-Arcady Meyer

IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract submission deadline: Wednesday 28th May 2008
Notification of acceptance: Wednesday 11th June 2008
SAB’08 conference: 7th-10th July 2008

     As for the previous edition, SAB2008 allows you to submit your Last-Minute-Results in the Conference within a special poster session.

     This session will offer researchers in Adaptive Behavior the opportunity to present their most recent results at SAB2008. The goal of this session is to provide an informal setting in which participants can reveal and discuss their latest results and developments at the time of the conference (7-10 July 2008).

     Researchers are invited to submit a two-page abstract describing recent results/developments. Abstracts should be sent electronically as a PDF file to the conference general email address, sab2008@sab08.org, with “Last Minute Results” in the email Subject line.

     The call for abstracts is open to all (i.e. to people both with and without an accepted paper at the conference). There is a limit of one abstract/poster per participant as a first author. After review by the conference chairs, authors of accepted abstracts will be allowed to present their results as a poster in a special Last-Minute Results session. Please note that the abstracts will not be considered as publications and will not be included in the conference proceedings.

      Contributions treating any of the following topics from the perspective of adaptive behavior will receive special emphasis:

·The Animat approach

·Motor control

·Body and brain co-evolution

·Self-assembling and self-replication

·Sensory-motor coordination

·Action selection & behavioral sequencing

·Navigation and mapping Internal models and representation

·Evolution, development and learning

·Motivation and emotion

·Collective and social behavior

·Communication and language

·Emergent structures and behaviors

·Neural correlates of behavior

·Evolutionary and co-evolutionary approaches

·Autonomous, bio-inspired, and hybrid robotics

·Autonomous robotics

·Humanoid robotics

·Cgonitive developmental robotics

·Software agents and virtual creatures

·Applied adaptive behavior

·Animats in education

·Philosophical and psychological issues

      Authors should make every effort to suggest implications of their work for both natural and artificial animals, and to distinguish the portions of their work which use simulation from those using a physical agent.

      Papers that do not deal explicitly with adaptive behavior will be rejected.

CONTACT US:

Please contact us at sab2008@sab08.org for the abstract submission and sab08@intergroup.co.jp for general questions.