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Montag, 27. Februar 2012

Cooperative Robots and Sensor Networks (RoboSense 2012)

The International Workshop on Cooperative Robots and Sensor Networks (RoboSense 2012) 

http://www.coins-lab.org/events/RoboSense12/   
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Springer Special Edition

Best selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers to the special edition of Springer Book “Cooperative Robots and Sensor Networks” under the book series “Studies in Computational Intelligence”.

Overview

Wireless connected robots and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have enabled great potentials and a large space for ubiquitous and pervasive applications. Robotics and WSNs have mostly been considered as separate research fields and little work has investigated the marriage between these two technologies. However, these two technologies share several features, enable common cyber-physical applications and provide complementary support to each other.

The objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers from academia, and industry working in to both robotics and sensor networks areas to present and discuss recent advances and innovative ideas pertaining to these fields. Papers dealing with the coupling between robots and sensor networks are particularly sought. The workshop also looks for contributions about cyber-physical applications based on robotics and sensor networks, such as intelligent transportation systems, healthcare monitoring, industrial automation, etc.

The workshop will provide a relaxed forum to present and discuss new ideas, new research directions and to review current trends in these areas. The workshop will be based on short presentations that should encourage discussions among the attendees. Statements which are innovative, controversial or that present new approaches are specially sought.


Workshop Chairs

Anis Koubaa, Al-Imam Mohamed bin Saud University (Saudi Arabia)/CISTER Research Unit, Portugal.
Abdelmajid Khelil, TU Darmstadt, Germany


Important Dates

Abstract Submission: February 28, 2012 (extended)
Paper Submission: March 06, 2012 (extended)
Notification of Acceptance: April 06, 2012 
Final Manuscript Due: May 01, 2012
Authors Registration Due: May 10, 2012 



Call for Papers

The workshop is seeking original research and position papers dealing with hot topics in mobile robots and sensor networks. Innovative and/or controversial ideas are specially sought. Papers presenting integration between sensor networks and robotics fields will be particularly appreciated. The workshop welcomes papers in three main tracks:

    Wireless Sensor Networks Track
        Communication and Network Protocols (MAC and Network Layers issues)
        Wireless Technologies (IEEE 802.11, IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee, 6LoWPAN, RPL, WiMax, UWB)
        Localization and Tracking
        Link Quality Estimation
        Fundamental Theoretical Limits and Algorithms
        Performance Evaluation, Simulation and Modelling Tools
        Measurement and Experimental Tools
        Security and Privacy
        Programming Models and Languages
        Operating Systems
        Service-Oriented Architecture
        Hardware Design and Implementation
    Mobile Robots Track
        Path Planning
        Multi-Robot Task Allocation
        Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM)
        Coordination and Cooperation
        Autonomous Navigation
        Robot Localization
        Swarm Intelligence
        Multi-robot systems
        Unmanned vehicle systems
        Learning for control
        Bio-inspired robotic
        Probabilistic Exploration and Coverage
        Object Detection & Collision Avoidance
        Motion estimation
    Cyber-Physical Applications
        Intelligent Transportation Systems
        Vehicular Networks
        Health-Care Monitoring
        Surveillance
        Smart Home
        Industrial Automation
        Internet-of-Things
        Case Studies


TPC Members (in progress)

    Adel Alimi, National School of Engineering of Sfax, Tunisia
    Luis Almeida, University of Aveiro, Portugal
    Mário Alves, CISTER Research Unit, Portugal
    Raul Aquino, University of Colima, Mexico
    Adel Ben Mnaouer, Dar Al-Uloom University, Saudi Arabia
    Xianghui Cao, Zhejiang University, China
    Michel Devy, LAAS/CNRS Group, France
    José Ramiro Martínez de Dios, University of Seville, Spain
    Fakir Dawood, Yanbu University College, Saudi Arabia
    Bernardine Dias, Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar
    Rüdiger Dillmann, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
    Mohamed Elarbi, Al-Imam University, Saudi Arabia
    Joerg Haehner, University of Hannover, Germany
    Tian Huang, University of Warwick, UK
    Geoffrey A. Hollinger, University of Southern California, USA
    Jiong Jin, University of Melbourne, Australia
    Omar Lengerke, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro - Brazil
    Xu Li, University of Waterloo, Canada, Canada
    Rongxing Lu, University of Waterloo, Canada
    Daniel Mosse, University of Pittsburgh, USA
    Gian Pietro Picco, University of Trento, Italy
    Carlos Sagues, University of Zaragoza, Spain
    Silvia Santini, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
    Ye-Qiong Song, IINPL / INRIA Lorraine, France
    Yuuichi Teranishi, University of Osaka, Japan
    Takashi Tsubouchi, University of Tsukuba, Japan
    Naoki Wakamiya, University of Osaka, Japan
    Andreas Willig, Canterbury University, New Zealand
    Habib Youssef, University of Sousse, Tunisia
    Andrea Zanella, University of Padova, Italy
    Fumin Zhang, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
    Marco Zuniga, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Mittwoch, 2. März 2011

Eighth International Conference on Complex Systems (ICCS 2011)


Eighth International Conference
on Complex Systems (ICCS 2011)

ICCS Abstract Submission Deadline Extended to March 7

June 26 - July 1, 2011
Boston Marriott
Quincy, MA, USA
Host: New England Complex Systems Institute (http://necsi.edu/)

NEW UPDATES


Due to many requests from interested prospective authors, the formal deadline for the submission of abstracts to ICCS 2011 is being extended until March 7, 2011. Authors who have already submitted abstracts may continue to revise them until that date.

CONFIRMED PLENARY SPEAKERS


Eshel Ben-Jacob (Tel Aviv University)
Johan Bollen (Indiana University)
Steven Bressler (Florida Atlantic University)
Eric Davidson (California Institute of Technology)
Leah Edelstein-Keshet (University of British Columbia)
John Hopfield (Princeton University)
Kunihiko Kaneko (University of Tokyo)
Hod Lipson (Cornell University)
Mark Newman (University of Michigan)
Stuart Pimm (Duke University)
Thomas Schelling (University of Maryland)
Sorin Solomon (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Didier Sornette (ETH Zurich)
Gene Stanley (Boston University)
Nassim N. Taleb (New York University)
Elizabeth Tran (National Science Foundation)
Stephen Wolfram (Wolfram Research)

(More plenary speakers TBA)

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS PUBLICATION


For presentation at the conference, authors should submit an abstract through EasyChair, the online submission/reviewing system. Submitted abstracts will be peer-reviewed by the Program Committee and sorted into four categories: Oral presentation in a plenary session, oral presentation in a parallel session, poster presentation, or rejection. All the accepted abstracts will be published in the online proceedings (with an ISBN) on the conference website. Authors of accepted abstracts may submit full papers for inclusion in the online proceedings. Full paper submission is optional.

IMPORTANT DATES AND DEADLINES


Abstract submission: March 7, 2011
Notification to authors: April 1, 2011
Early registration: April 15, 2011
Camera-ready abstract
& full paper submission:
(full paper submission is optional)
April 30, 2011
Conference: June 26 - July 1, 2011
Online registration is available on the conference website (http://necsi.edu/events/iccs2011/). Space is limited, so please register early.
Contact us at iccs@necsi.edu
New England Complex Systems Institute
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future programs please let us know by sending an email to:
cx-web-off@necsi.org.
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Montag, 24. Januar 2011

Adaptive and Learning Agents Workshop 2011

Adaptive and Learning Agents Workshop 2011

We apologize if you receive more than one copy.
Please share with colleagues and students.
Paper deadline: FEBRUARY 2, 2011

* AAMAS workshop with a long and successful history,
 now in its 11th edition.
* ACM proceedings format with up to 8 pages.
* Accepted papers are eligible for Springer LNAI post-proceedings.

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2nd Call for Papers
ALA 2011: Adaptive and Learning Agents Workshop held at AAMAS
2011 (Taipei). The ALA workshop has a long and successful history
and is now in its 11th edition. The workshop is a merger of European
ALAMAS and the American ALAg series which is usually held at
AAMAS. Details may be found on the workshop web site:
http://como.vub.ac.be/ALA2011/
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* Submission Deadline:            February 2, 2011
* Notification of acceptance:     February 27, 2011
* Camera-ready copies:            March 10, 2011
* Workshop:                              May 2, 2011
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Adaptive and Learning Agents, particularly those in a multi-agent setting
are becoming more and more prominent as the sheer size and complexity of
many real world systems grows. How to adaptively control, coordinate and
optimize such systems is an emerging multi-disciplinary research area at
the intersection of Computer Science, Control theory, Economics, and
Biology. The ALA workshop will focus on agent and multi-agent systems
which employ learning or adaptation.
The goal of this workshop is to increase awareness and interest in
adaptive agent research, encourage collaboration and give a
representative overview of current research in the area of adaptive and
learning agents and multi-agent systems. It aims at bringing together not
only scientists from different areas of computer science but also from
different fields studying similar concepts (e.g., game theory,
bio-inspired control, mechanism design).
This workshop will focus on all aspects of adaptive and learning agents
and multi-agent systems with a particular emphasis on how to modify
established learning techniques and/or create new learning paradigms to
address the many challenges presented by complex real-world problems.
The topics of interest include but are not limited to:
    * Novel combinations of reinforcement and supervised learning
      approaches
    * Integrated learning approaches that work with other agent
      reasoning modules like negotiation, trust models, coordination,
      etc.
    * Supervised multi-agent learning
    * Reinforcement learning (single and multi-agent)
    * Planning (single and multi-agent)
    * Reasoning (single and multi-agent)
    * Distributed learning
    * Adaptation and learning in dynamic environments
    * Evolution of agents in complex environments
    * Co-evolution of agents in a multi-agent setting
    * Cooperative exploration and learning to cooperate and collaborate
    * Learning trust and reputation
    * Communication restrictions and their impact on multi-agent
      coordination
    * Design of reward structure and fitness measures for coordination
    * Scaling learning techniques to large systems of learning and
      adaptive agents
    * Emergent behaviour in adaptive multi-agent systems
    * Game theoretical analysis of adaptive multi-agent systems
    * Neuro-control in multi-agent systems
    * Bio-inspired multi-agent systems
    * Applications of adaptive and learning agents and multi-agent
      systems to real world complex systems
    * Learning of Co-ordination

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Submission Details
Paper submissions may be emailed in the pdf format to
pvrancx@vub.ac.be  with the subject 'Submission ALA-11'. Submissions may
be up to 8 pages in the ACM proceedings format (i.e., the same as AAMAS
papers in the main conference track). Accepted work will be allocated
time for oral presentation during the one day workshop. Papers accepted at
the workshop will also be eligible for inclusion in a Springer LNAI
post-proceedings
volume published after the workshop.

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Organization

Workshop chairs:
Peter Vrancx (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
Matt Knudson (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Marek Grzes (University of Waterloo, Canada)

If you have any questions about the ALA workshop, please contact the
chairs by e-mail:pvrancx@vub.ac.be

Senior Steering Committee Members:
Franziska Klugl (University of Orebro, Sweden)
Daniel Kudenko (University of York, UK)
Ann Nowe (Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium)
Lynne E. Parker (University of Tennessee, USA)
Sandip Sen (University of Tulsa, USA)
Peter Stone (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Kagan Tumer (Oregon State University, USA)
Karl Tuyls (Maastricht University, The Netherlands)
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Sonntag, 21. März 2010

SIEC 2010 - 1st International Conference on Swarm Intelligence and Emergent Computing

SIEC 2010
The 1st International Conference on Swarm Intelligence and Emergent Computing

In conjunction with the “The 2010 Systemics and Informatics World Network” (SIWN 2010) Chongqing, China, 12-14 July 2010

Complex Adaptive Systems are widespread both in the nature and in socio-economic phenomena. A Multi-Agent Based Complex System has its dynamic behaviour that is inherently emerging as a result of intensive interactions among its massive agents. Examples of Multi-Agent Based Complex Systems include social insects, population aggregations in urbane regions, market based economy, city taxi cabs, etc. Swarm Intelligence represents a methodology for analyzing and modeling Multi-Agent Based Complex Systems, and Emergent Computing is concerned with the methodology for engineering robust, dependable, self-adaptable Multi-Agent Based Complex Systems out of massive, simple, unreliable objects, devices or units. Essentially Emergent Computing represents a new approach which takes a Collective Intelligence point of view upon all types of artificial systems, e.g., web/Internet based systems, social networking, online virtual communities, pervasive/ubiquitous computing, ambient intelligence, socio-technical systems, and so forth.

SIEC2010 aims to provide a timely international, multi-disciplinary forum on the latest theories, methods, techniques and applications in Swarm Intelligence and Emergence Computing.

Details can be found at: http://siwn.org.uk/2010/SIEC10.htm

Topics of particular interest include (but not limited to) the followings.

(1) Biological and Scio-economic Inspirations for Swarms
- artificial life
- biologically inspired computing
- biologically inspired interaction mechanisms
- biologically inspired process algebra and formal specifications
- collective intelligence
- computational pheromones, potential field, economy
- market economy
- models of social insects
- self-organization in biological systems
- social insets
- social intelligence
- stigmergy

(2) Emergence and Interactions
- autonomy based interactions
- cybernetic principles and self-organization
- formal approaches to handling local/global agent behaviors
- game theoretic approaches to emergence in multi-agent systems
- interaction mechanisms for self-organization and adaptation
- models, methods and tools for achieving global coherent behaviors
- multi-agent based complex systems
- principles of emergence, understanding, controlling, or exploiting emergent behaviors
- relation between high-level goals and local interactions
- specification based interaction mechanisms
- trust-based interaction mechanisms

(3) Swarm Optimization
- ant colony optimization (ACO)
- ants algorithms
- computational swarm models
- cultural evolution
- evolutionary computing
- particle swarm optimization (PSO)
- social evolution

(4) Emergent Computing
- amorphous computing
- analytic models of emergent behaviors
- cellular automata approaches to emergence in multi-agent systems
- cognitive computing
- collective intelligence/emergence in cloud/Grid computing, service-oriented computing (SOC)
- collective intelligence/emergence in pervasive/ubiquitous computing, ambient intelligence
- collective intelligence/emergence in service discovery and delivery, service-oriented architectures (SOA)
- collective intelligence/emergence in social networking, online virtual communities
- collective intelligence/emergence in web/Internet systems
- controllability of emergence
- granular computing
- molecular/cellular computer, DNA computing
- multi-agent based complex systems
- nanocomputing
- natural computing, evolutionary computation
- performance engineering of emergent behaviors in multi-agent systems
- quantum computing

(5) Applications
- industrial automation
- network routing
- socio-technical systems
- traffic scheduling

Submission

SIWN 2010 only accepts manuscripts of original contributions. A manuscript for submission to the Conference should neither have been published nor have been under consideration for publication elsewhere. A manuscript for submission to the Conference should be prepared according to the Instructions for Authors of the Journal that can be found at http://fatech.org.uk/press/ita.htm along with Sample Word Doc and Latex file of Camera-Ready Versions. There is a page limit of 8 formatted pages for the CRV of an accepted paper. Additional pages are subject to over-length charges.

All accepted papers of the Conferences will be included in the electronic Proceedings of SIWN 2010 and at the same time, will be published in the International Journal <> (ISSN 1757-4439).

After the Conferences, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit thoroughly expanded papers for publication at special issues of following International Journals:
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics
International Transactions on Systems Science and Applications
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Advanced Engineering Informatics

Important Dates
9 April 2010 Submission of manuscripts
30 April 2010 Notification of acceptance
28 May 2010 Camera-Ready Version (CRV) due
12-14 July 2010 Conference

Program Chairs

Jan Sudeikat
Multimedia Systems Laboratory, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
Berliner Tor 7, 20099 Hamburg, Germany
Distributed Systems and Information Systems, Computer Science Department
University of Hamburg, Vogt–Kolln–Str. 30, 22527 Hamburg, Germany
Jan.Sudeikat@haw-hamburg.de

Professor Yu Wu
Network and Computation Research Center
Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Chongqing 400065, China
wuyu@cqupt.edu.cn

Freitag, 26. Februar 2010

BIONETICS 2010 - Call for Workshop Proposals

http://www.bionetics.org
Boston, Massachusetts, December 1-3, 2010

Sponsored by ICST
Technical cooperation with Create-Net 

BIONETICS 2010, the 5th International Conference on Bio-Inspired Models of Network, Information, and Computing Systems, is soliciting proposals for one-day and half-day workshops. These workshops should address emerging research directions, specific topics and interdisciplinary themes in the field of bio-inspired network, information and computing systems.

Workshop proposals should be submitted via email to the Workshop Chair Marc Pomplun (marc at cs.umb.edu), and should include:

- Name of the proposed workshop
- Tentative theme, scope and topic areas of interest
- Tentative list of workshop organizers and program committee members
- Preliminary plan for workshop organization, such as paper solicitation, paper selection and time frame.

BIONETICS workshops will be co-located at the BIONETICS conference. Workshop papers will be published in the BIONETICS proceedings published by Springer. 

Important Dates:

Workshop proposal due:               May 7
Notification of proposal acceptance: May 14
Workshop paper due:                  September 10 (approx.)
Paper notification:                  September 24 (approx.)
Camera ready paper due:              October 10
Workshop Date:                       December 1-3