============================================================================== Conference Announcement and Call For Papers FROM ANIMALS TO ANIMATS Third International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB94) Brighton, UK, August 8-12, 1994 The object of the conference is to bring together researchers in ethology, psychology, ecology, cybernetics, artificial intelligence, robotics, and related fields so as to further our understanding of the behaviors and underlying mechanisms that allow animals and, potentially, robots to adapt and survive in uncertain environments. The conference will focus particularly on well-defined models, computer simulations, and built robots in order to help characterize and compare various organizational principles or architectures capable of inducing adaptive behavior in real or artificial animals. Contributions treating any of the following topics from the perspective of adaptive behavior will receive special emphasis. Individual and collective behavior Autonomous robots Neural correlates of behavior Hierarchical and parallel organizations Perception and motor control Emergent structures and behaviors Motivation and emotion Problem solving and planning Action selection and behavioral Goal directed behavior sequences Neural networks and evolutionary Ontogeny, learning and evolution computation Internal world models Characterization of environments and cognitive processes Applied adaptive behavior Authors should make every effort to suggest implications of their work for both natural and artificial animals. Papers which do not deal explicitly with adaptive behavior will be rejected. Submission Instructions Authors are requested to send five copies (hard copy only) of a full paper to the Program Chair (Dave Cliff). Papers should not exceed 10 pages (excluding the title page), with 1 inch margins all around, and no smaller than 10 pt (12 pitch) type (Times Roman preferred). Each paper must include a title page containing the following: (1) Full names, postal addresses, phone numbers, email addresses (if available), and fax numbers for each author, (2) A 100-200 word abstract, (3) The topic area(s) in which the paper could be reviewed (see list above). Camera ready versions of the papers, in two-column format, will be required after acceptance. Computer, video, and robotic demonstrations are also invited. Please contact Phil Husbands to make arrangements for demonstrations. Other program proposals will also be considered. Conference committee Conference Chair Philip HUSBANDS School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences University of Sussex Brighton BN1 9QN UK e-mail: philh@cogs.susx.ac.uk Jean-Arcady MEYER Groupe de Bioinformatique URA686.Ecole Normale Superieure 46 rue d'Ulm 75230 Paris Cedex 05 France e-mail: meyer@wotan.ens.fr Stewart WILSON The Rowland Institute for Science 100 Edwin H. Land Boulevard Cambridge, MA 02142 USA e-mail: wilson@smith.rowland.org Program Chair David CLIFF School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences University of Sussex Brighton BN1 9QN UK e-mail: davec@cogs.susx.ac.uk Financial Chair: P. Husbands, H. Roitblat Local Arrangements: I. Harvey, P. Husbands Program Committee M. Arbib, USA; R. Arkin, USA; R. Beer, USA; A. Berthoz, France; L. Booker, USA; R. Brooks, USA; P. Colgan, Canada; T. Collett, UK; H. Cruse, Germany; J. Daugman, UK; J. Delius, Germany; J. Ferber, France; N. Franceschini, France; S. Goss, Belgium; J. Halperin, Canada; I. Harvey, UK; I. Horswill, USA; A. Houston, UK; L. Kaelbling, USA; H. Klopf, USA; L-J. Lin, USA; P. Maes, USA; M. Mataric, USA; D. McFarland, UK; G. Miller, UK; R. Pfeifer, Switzerland; H. Roitblat, USA; J. Slotine, USA; O. Sporns, USA; J. Staddon, USA; F. Toates, UK; P. Todd, USA; S. Tsuji, Japan; W. Uttal, USA; D. Waltz, USA. Official Language: English Publisher: MIT Press/Bradford Books Important Dates =============== JAN 5, 1994: Submission deadline MAR 10: Notification of acceptance or rejection APR 10: Camera ready revised versions due MAY 1: Early registration deadline JUL 8: Regular registration deadline AUG 8-12: Conference dates General queries to: sab94@cogs.susx.ac.uk ==============================================================================