SAB2018: The 15th International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior Frankfurt, Germany, August 14-17, 2018 |
Conference website | https://www.sab2018.org/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sab2018 |
Submission deadline | March 31, 2018 |
Tutorial proposal deadline | May 21, 2018 |
Tutorials | August 14, 2018 |
FROM ANIMALS TO ANIMATS 15, The 15th International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB2018)
The objective of this interdisciplinary conference is to bring together researchers in computer science, artificial intelligence, artificial life, control, robotics, neurosciences, ethology, evolutionary biology and related fields in order to further our understanding of the behaviours 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 including robot models, computer simulation models and mathematical models designed to help characterise and compare various organisational principles or architectures underlying adaptive behaviour in real animals and in synthetic agents, the animats.
Important Dates
Paper Submission Deadline: 11st March, 2018
Notification of Acceptance: 15th May, 2018
Camera Ready Submission: 1st June, 2018
Tutorial Proposal Deadline: 21st May, 2018
Tutorial Notification of Acceptance: 31st May, 2018
Tutorials: 14th August, 2018
Conference: 15-17th August, 2018
Keynote speakers
Auke Jan Ijspeert, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Switzerland
Jan Peters, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany
Koh Hosoda, Osaka University, Japan
Tom Froese, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico
Conference Format
Following the tradition of SAB conferences, the conference will be single track with additional poster sessions. There will also be a day of tutorials (14th of August).
Tutorials
The SAB2018 organising committee invites proposals for tutorials, which will be held on the 14th of August, 2018.
Exhibition Section
During SAB2018 there will be an exhibition section, where latest developments in hardware and software technologies will be displayed to the conference attendees and the Press.
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. Submitted papers must not exceed 12 pages. Detailed submission instructions will be made available on the conference website (https://www.sab2018.org/). All accepted papers with oral or poster presentation will be published in Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series conference proceedings. Selected authors may additionally be invited to submit extended versions for a conference Special Issue of the Journal of Adaptive Behavior.
List of Topics
SAB2018 solicits contributions dealing with any aspect of adaptive behaviour in natural and artificial systems. Typical, but not exclusive, topics of interest are:
Bio-inspired and hybrid robotics
Autonomous robotics
Humanoid robotics
Soft robotics
Cognitive and developmental robotics
The animat approach
Motor control
Body and brain co-evolution
Self-assembling and self-replication
Sensory-motor coordination
Action selection and behavioural sequencing
Navigation and mapping
Internal models and representation
Evolution, development and learning
Collective and social behaviour
Applied adaptive behaviour
Motivation and emotion
Communication and language
Emergent structures and behaviours
Neural correlates of behaviour
Evolutionary and co-evolutionary approaches
Software agents and virtual creatures
Philosophical and psychological issues
Animats in education
Organising Committee
Conference Chairs: Jochen Triesch, John Hallam
Program Chair: Poramate Manoonpong
Tutorial Chair: Jørgen Christian Larsen