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Announcements
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Program Committee Members
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Authors
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Workshop program is now available!
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List of accepted papers
- Don't forget to register yourself through the SAB'06 web site.. See below!
- Information for manuscript preparation is
available below. A new update on manuscript preparation will be sent shortly!
- Information about registration and post-proceedings
is also available below.
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Scope
Swarm robotics is the
study of how large numbers of relatively simple
physically embodied agents can be designed such that a desired
collective behavior emerges from the local interactions among agents
and between the agents and the environment. It emerged as a novel
approach to the coordination of large numbers of robots. It is inspired
from the observation of social insects -ants, termites, wasps and bees-
which stand as fascinating examples of how a large number of simple
individuals can interact to create collectively intelligent systems.
Social insects are known to coordinate their actions to accomplish
tasks that are beyond the capabilities of a single individual: termites
build large and complex mounds, army ants organize impressive foraging
raids, ants can collectively carry large preys. Such coordination
capabilities are still beyond the reach of current multi-robot systems.
Research on swarm robotics has been on the rise during the last decade.
A number of successful swarm robotic systems have already been
developed and the study of coordination in swarm robotic systems has
become a hot topic of research. The workshop will be a sequel to the first swarm robotics
workshop organized within SAB 2004 with great
success and will aim to review the recent advances on the topic.
Papers on any aspect of Swarm Robotics would be welcome, but especially
- Experimental swarm robotics systems, in the lab or
simulation;
- Swarm Intelligence algorithms for robotics applications;
- Actual or proposed real-world applications of swarm
robotics;
- Modeling and mathematical analysis of swarm robotics;
- Simulation or design tools for swarm robotics;
- Architectural/hardware advances that aid the development
of swarm robotics systems;
- Principled design approaches to engineering emergence;
- Approaches for assuring dependability or stability of
swarms.
Although the initial motivation for much of the work in swarm robotics
stems from ethological metaphors, this workshop is not limited to this.
Swarm robotics systems based on immune systems, chemical/physical
systems, etc. are welcome, as long as the robotics aspect is clear.
The workshop will accept review and research papers based on blind
review. During first
workshop, the emphasis was to provide a review of
the field, and reviews of major projects and major research tracks were
invited, with a relatively fewer number of research papers. This
workshop will focus on the recent results from swarm robotics research.
Program Committee
- Gerardo
Beni,
University of California at Riverside, CA, USA.
- Marco Dorigo,
IRIDIA, Universite
Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
- John Feddema, Sandia National
Lab., NM, USA
- Paolo Gaudiano, Icosystem
Corp., MA, USA
- Veysel Gazi, TOBB University of
Economics and Technology, Turkey
- Kristina
Lerman, Information Sciences Institute, U. of Southern California,
CA, USA
- Alcherio
Martinoli, EPFL, Switzerland, and Caltech, CA, USA
- Francesco Mondada,
EPFL, Switzerland
- Lynne E. Parker,
University of Tennessee, TN, USA.
- David Payton, HRL Labs,
CA, USA
- Joerg
Seyfried, IPR, Universitaet Karlsruhe(TH),
Germany.
- Kasper Støy,
University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
- Guy Theraulaz,
Universite Paul Sabatier Toulouse, France
- Cem Unsal, Yahoo! Inc., CA, USA
- Richard Vaughan,
Simon Frasier University, Canada
Important dates (tentative)
Full paper submission
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July 1, 2006
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Notification of Acceptance
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August 1, 2006
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Revised paper (to be
distributed at the workshop)
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September 1, 2006
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Workshop
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September 30 and October 1, 2006
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Proceedings and manuscript preparation
- The post-proceedings of the workshop will be
published by
Springer in the Lecture
Notes in
Computer Science as a sequel to the post-proceedings
of the first workshop.
- Prepare your manuscripts in the LNCS format, using
the
detailed instructions for manuscript preparation available here.
Your manuscripts are expected to be upto 15 pages long.
- Use the ConfTool
to register yourself and submit your manuscript.
Registration and post-proceedings
- Registration to the workshop will be handled by SAB'06.
- For each accepted paper, at least one registration is
required.
- For each accepted paper, one copy of the post-proceedings,
as published by Springer, will be mailed to the authors.
Venue
- The workshop will be held in Rome, Italy after the
SAB'06
conference. More information is available at the SAB'06
web site.
Links
- The web page of the first workshop, which also includes the
presentations made during the workshop, is available at:
http://www.swarm-robotics.org/SAB04/index.html
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www.Swarm-robotics.org
main page
News
- Up-to-date information about the workshop will be made
available at this page:
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