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There is a new international Springer journal on social robotics, covering quite a range of topics in this field. Authors are invited to submit scientific, technological and philosophical advances in social robots, and their interactions and communications with humans, especially innovative ideas and concepts, new discoveries and improvements, as well as novel applications on the latest fundamental advances in the core technologies that form the backbone of Social Robotics, distinguished developmental projects, as well as seminal works in aesthetic design, ethics and philosophy, studies on social impact and influence pertaining to, and its interaction and communication with human beings and its social impact on our society.

The submission deadline is the 1st July, 2008. For details, check http://www.editorialmanager.com/soro/.

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UC 2008, the Seventh International Conference on Unconventional Computation will take place in Vienna, August 25-28, 2008.

Original papers are solicited in all areas of unconventional computation; typical, but not exclusive, topics are: natural computing including quantum, cellular, molecular, neural, and membrane computing as well as evolutionary paradigms; chaos and dynamical systems based computing; proposals for computations going beyond the Turing model.

Submissions are due on April 14th, 2008. The call for papers and the conference poster are available from the conference homepage.

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The Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems deals with new methodologies, algorithms, hardwares, system architectures to realize advanced distributed robotic systems. Topics include but are not limited to:

Architectures for teams of robots, Ambient Intelligence, Biologically inspired systems, Control issues in multi-robot systems, Distributed decision making/problem solving, Distributed/cooperative perception, Distributed planning, Distributed task execution, Human and robot interaction, Learning and adaptation in teams of robots, Multi-robot applications in exploration, search and rescue, Mobiligence (Emergence of Intelligence through Mobility), Modular robotics, Network robotics, Performance metrics for robot teams, Reconfigurable robots, Robot societies, Self-organizing robotic systems, Sensor networks, Swarm robotics, Task allocation.

The conference takes place in Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, Nov. 17-19, 2008. Full paper submission is June 30, 2008. For details, check out the web page.

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There’s a special session at AHS-2008: the NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems (June 22-25, 2008, Noordwijk, The Netherlands) on “Evolutionary and Self-Organizing Sensors, Actuators and Processing Hardware” (ESOSAPH). Recent technology has witnessed the advent of cheap ubiquitous sensing, processing and actuating capabilities for isolated, distributed or collective robotic systems. These appear in the form of intelligent materials, nano-motors and -sensors, Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS), grid processors, Avogadro-scale digital circuits and similar structures. Established conventional AI computation paradigms do not harness the full potential of this new type of technological ability that includes dynamic reconfiguration, addition or removal of sensors, actuators or processing hardware. Classical AI paradigms are inadequate to deal with the requirements of (more…)

The ProMAS workshop series aims to address the theoretical and practical programming issues related to developing and deploying multi-agent systems. In particular, ProMAS aims to address how multi-agent systems designs or specifications can be effectively implemented. The main areas of interest of the ProMAS workshop concern the development and programming of Multi-Agent Systems, ranging from tools, (new) agent and organizational programming concepts to semantics and formal verification. Paper submission deadline: February 1st, Workshop date 12th/13th May on AAMAS 2008. For details, see the ProMAS 2008 webpage.

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The scope of development and learning covered by this conference includes perceptual, cognitive, behavioral, emotional and all other mental capabilities that are exhibited by humans, higher animals, artificial systems and robots. Investigations of the biological and computational mechanisms of mental development are expected to improve our understanding of the working of the whole range of mental capabilities in humans and to enable autonomous development of these highly complex capabilities by robots and other artificial systems. The International Conference on Development and Learning strives to bring together researchers in neuroscience, psychology, artificial intelligence and robotics and other related areas to encourage understanding and cross-fertilization of the latest ideas and results from the different disciplines. Full papers are due March 14. ICDL 2008 takes place Aug 9th-12 in Monterey, California. For details see http://www.icdl08.org/.

Artificial life investigates the fundamental properties of living systems through simulating and synthesizing biological entities and processes in artificial media. Papers are welcome in all areas of the field, including Synthesis and origin of life, self-organization, self-replication, artificial chemistries, Evolution and adaptation, evolutionary dynamics, evolutionary games, coevolution, major evolutionary transitions, levels of selection, ecosystems, Unconventional and biologically inspired computing, Bio-inspired robots and embodied cognition, autonomous agents, evolutionary robotics, information in Complex Systems and Artificial Life, … .
All authors are encouraged to explain how their work sheds light on the
fundamental properties of living systems and makes progress on the important
open questions identified at previous meetings.

Several artificial life themes have been proposed as live research topics around which conference sessions may organise. See here for details.

The conference will be held in Winchester, paper submission is 29 February, conference date is 5-8 August, 2008.

The 2008 Robotics: Science and Systems Conference will bring together researchers working on algorithmic or mathematical foundations of robotics, robotics applications, and analysis of robotic systems. High quality, original papers are solicited in all areas of robotics. The final program will be the result of a highly selective review process designed to include the best work of its kind in every category. The conference will be single track to allow attendees an opportunity to experience the best research in all areas of robotics. The program will include invited talks as well as oral and poster presentations of refereed papers. The main conference (June 25-27, 2008) will be followed by one day of workshops. RSS2008 is held in Zurich, Switzerland. Paper submission deadline is an January 15. See www.roboticsconference.org.

To solve complex, real-world problems, AI systems often must integrate component technologies, such as planning, reasoning, language, dialogue, perception, goal-driven action, and learning. Prototypical examples of such integrated systems include software agents, autonomous robots, robots that interact with humans, intelligent tutoring systems, and virtual characters. The Integrated Intelligence track welcomes submissions on issues that arise in the design and construction of such systems, and with clear evidence for the efficacy of the integrated system. The dates for this AAAI-08 special track are: Abstract Submission Deadline: January 25, Paper Submission Deadline: January 30, Author Notification Deadline: April 1. AAAI-8 takes place in Chicago, Illinois, July 13–17, 2008. For details, see the AAAI-08 web page.

The objective of this interdisciplinary conference is to bring together researchers in computer science, artificial intelligence, alife, control, robotics, neurosciences, ethology, evolutionary biology, and related fields so as to further our understanding of the behaviors 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 — robot models, computer simulation models, mathematical models — designed to help characterize and compare various organizational principles or architectures underlying adaptive behavior in real animals and in synthetic agents, the animats. SAB’08 is in Osaka, July 7-12, 2008. Paper submission deadline is January 14th, workshop proposals are due to February 1st. For details, see the SAB’08 webpage.