= 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"

== Awards ==

'''Best Paper Award:'''

Taming the Beast: Guided Self-organization of Behavior in Autonomous Robots. G. Martius & J.M. Herrmann.

'''Best Philosophical Paper:'''

Information Dynamics of Evolved Agents. P.L. Williams & R.D. Beer.

== 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