The animat approach
The objective of this interdisciplinary conference is to bring together researchers in computer science, artificial intelligence, alife, control, robotics, neurosciences, ethology, evolutionary biology, and related fields so as to further our understanding of the behaviors and underlying mechanisms that allow natural and artificial animals to adapt and survive in uncertain environments. The conference will focus on experiments with well-defined models---robot models, computer simulation models, mathematical models---designed to help characterize and compare various organizational principles or architectures underlying adaptive behavior in real animals and in synthetic agents, the animats.
Invited Speakers
Michael A. ARBIB : From mirror writing to mirror neurons
Rodney BROOKS : Beyond academia: animats as real entities in our world
Aaron SLOMAN : Using virtual machinery to bridge the "explanatory gap"
Important dates
- Call for workshop deadline: April 1, 2010
Paper submission deadline: March 2, 2010 (23:59 GMT)
Notification of acceptance: April 4, 2010
Camera-ready deadline: April 18, 2010
- Workshops date: August 24, 2010
- Conference dates: August 25-28, 2010
Special 20th Anniversary
Workshops and Main Conference will be held in Paris. The last day (round trip on August 28), the 20th Anniversary of the Conference will be celebrated at Leonardo da Vinci's last home, Le Clos Lucé.
Conference format (see updated Program)
Following the tradition of SAB conferences, the conference will be single track, with additional poster sessions. Each poster session will start with poster spotlights giving presenters the opportunity to orally present their main results.
Publisher
The proceedings will be published in Springer Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence. Both oral and poster presentations will be published in conference proceedings (see Call for Paper for submissions instruction).
Contact
Please contact us at sab2010@isab.org
(Poster's © Jean Solé)
