FROM ANIMALS TO ANIMATS 9The Ninth International Conference on the SIMULATION OF ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR (SAB'06)25 - 29 September 2006, CNR, Roma, Italy
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Behaviour itself is a pattern of actions that unfolds over time and environmental events. Adaptive behaviour in animal and in artificial systems implies the ability to respond in appropriate ways to the challenges and opportunities experienced in a dynamic and sometimes hostile environment. An important aspect of intelligent behaviour involves the interaction between individuals, either of the same or different agents. Such cooperation usually emerges from the interactions of simple reflexive behaviours and with or without direct communications between agents. Cooperation between robots and human and among robots allows them to achieve tasks that can not be performed by a single robot or human. The features of such natural adaptive process have so far been little studied. There has been some success in constructing models in a very crude and simplified manner by ignoring the interactions between agents or systems. Therefore, the aim of the workshop is twofold: (i) to consider the modelling and emulation of those aspects of biological cognitive processes that support adaptation, particularly in support of cooperative behaviour and (ii) to explore the application of such adaptive behaviours in mobile robots executing in dynamic cooperative environments. Research papers are sought addressing the topics of: Modelling and emulation of sensory processing in biological systems; Modelling and emulation of multimodal integration; Learning and training in artificial emulations of multi-sensory systems for adaptation; Neurophysiology, action selection and behavioural sequences; Learning and evolution for collective behaviours Signalling and communication; Innovative structural solutions; Reactive, deliberative, hybrid and behaviour-based control
solutions; Collective and social behaviour; Navigation, foraging, mate choice; Conflict resolution between autonomous robots; Applications to nonholonomic wheeled mobile robots; Applications to multiple robots in team sport situations; Applications of cooperative
robots for domestic use. International Program Committee: Paolo Arena, Università di Catania, Italy Bala Amavasai, Sheffield
Hallam University, UK Sven Behnke, University of
Freiburg, Germany Guido Bugmann, William Durfee, Roman Galar, John Hallam, University of
Southern Denmark, Denmark Saleem Hashmi, Dublin City
University, Ireland Roger D Quinn, Case Western
Reserve University, USA Marnix Nuttin, K.U.Leuven,
Belgium Giovanni Muscato,
Università di Catania, Italy Ole Ravn, Technical
University of Denmark, Denmark Joerg Seyfried, University
of Karlsruhe, Germany Osman Tokhi, University of
Sheffield, UK Lipo Wang, Nanyang
Technological University, Singapore Important dates: Submission – Full draft paper
(max 12 A4 pages) by no later than Notification of acceptance – Submission of camera ready paper and registration – 30 August 2006 Workshop – 1 October 2006 Submissions: Full draft paper (max 12 A4 pages) should be submitted electronically (pdf preferred) to nh.siddique@ulster.ac.uk by due date.
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