Call for papers

Main topic

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.

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

Topic list

• The Animat approach
• Motor control

• Body & brain co-evolution

• Self-assembling & self-replication

• Sensory-motor coordination

• Action selection & behavioral sequencing

• Navigation & mapping

• Internal models & representation

• Evolution, development & learning

• Motivation & emotion

• Collective & social behavior

• Communication & language

• Emergent structures & behaviors

• Neural correlates of behavior

• Evolutionary & co-evolutionary approaches

• Autonomous, bio-inspired, & hybrid robotics

• Autonomous robotics
• Humanoid robotics
• Cognitive developmental robotics

• Software agents & virtual creatures

• Applied adaptive behavior
• Animats in education

• Philosophical & 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.

Conference format

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.

Submission instruction

Submitted papers must not exceed 10 pages (LNCS, single column) formatting instructions.

Use the START SAB-dedicated webpage for submission.