Call for Papers: Paper Submission: January 31, 2010

Organisers

Patricia A. Vargas (Heriot-Watt University - Edinburgh)
Steffen Wischmann (EPFL - Lausanne)
Dario Floreano (EPFL - Lausanne)
Phil Husbands (University of Sussex - Brighton)

Website: http://lis.epfl.ch/specialsessions/CEC10/

Evolutionary Robotics (ER) aims to apply evolutionary computation techniques, inspired by darwinian selection, to automatically design the control and/or hardware of both real and simulated autonomous robots.

Having an intrinsic interdisciplinary character, ER is being employed towards the development of many fields of research, among which we can highlight neuroscience, cognitive science, evolutionary biology and robotics. Hence the objective of this special session is to assemble a set of high-quality original contributions that reflect and advance the state-of-the-art in the area of Evolutionary Robotics, with an emphasis on the cross-fertilization between ER and the aforementioned research areas, ranging from theoretical analysis to real-life applications.

Call for Papers: Paper submission: 24th March 2010

PerAda Workshop on Novel Applications of Bio-Inspired Computing to Pervasive Adaptation
at the 9th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems (ICARIS 2010) - 26-29 July 2010, Edinburgh , UK

ICARIS 2010 Website: http://www.artificial-immune-systems.org/icaris/2010/

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Pervasive Adaptation (PerAda) refers to massivescale pervasive information and communication systems which are capable of autonomously adaption. PerAda systems are thus a special case of collective adaptive systems which have particular constraints e.g. they are networked and highly distributed; they involve interaction with humans; they are large scale; the boundaries of systems are fluid; their context is dynamic; and they operate using uncertain information. In spite of these constraints, PerAda systems must be capable of adapting seamlessly to their users and to their environment and to their own fluctuating composition. In order to address such problems, engineers are looking more and more towards biological systems, where nature has found many solutions to creating robust and adaptable systems. The workshop seeks two page position statements on the following topics:

Call for Papers: Paper submission: March 22, 2010

Special Issue on "Ambient Ecologies"

In order for a new technology to become widespread, novel tools and objects that realize and support it must be developed. On the road to the realization of the Ambient Intelligence (AmI) vision, new technological artifacts have started to appear and change the nature of almost every human activity. As the computer disappears, new Smart Objects appear, augmented with Information and Communication Technology (ICT) components (i.e. sensors, actuators, processor, memory, wireless communication modules) and able to receive, store, process and transmit information. Recently, Smart Objects have become mobile by combining research results from Robotics. In addition to objects, spaces also undergo a change towards becoming Smart Environments, which offer a set of digital services by embedding sensing, actuating, processing and networking infrastructure in a physical space.