The 2019 International Conference on Artificial Life and Robotics

(ICAROB2019)

24th AROB Anniversary Call for Papers

Advisory Committee Chair Moshe Kam (Former IEEE President)

General Chair Masanori Sugisaka

Co-General Chairs Yingmin Jia Takao Ito Usa Shrine (Before BC era three goddesses “Shikitusima-himemikoto, Hasizu-himemikoto, Tag Ju-Jang Lee iri-himemikoto descended on the earth of Usa from heaven.) The shrine is called Total Motomiya Vice General Chairs Hachiman Shrine Usa located in Oita Prefecture. John L. Casti Jangmyung Lee Henrik Hautop Lund The 2019 International Conference on Artificial Life and Robotics Luigi Pagliarini Mohd Rizon

((ICAROB) January 10 to 13, 2019, B-Con Plaza, Beppu, Oita, JAPAN

Program Chair The 2019 International Conference on Artificial Life and Robotics (ICAROB2019) will be held at B-Con Makoto Sakamoto Plaza, Beppu, Oita, JAPAN, from January 10 to 13, 2019. A series of Proceedings of ICAROB are included in both Sub Program Chair CPCI-Web of Science and Scopus. This Conference will provide new development of modern technologies Marion Oswald concerning Robotics, Networking and Artificial Life (this journal is included in ESCI) associated with computer

simulations, hardware designs, and networking of state-of-the-art technologies to researchers, and to share findings

on how advancements in robotics, networking, complexity and artificial life technologies that relate to inter- Conference Site disciplinary approach to the field such as artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and computer science are creating the

basis for exciting new research and applications in various fields listed in the following topics. Please submit papers to ICAROB2019 Web Site from http://alife-robotics.co.jp/.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to

 Artificial sciences  Intelligence in biological systems  Analysis of randomized algorithms  Artificial mind research  Agent-based software http://www.b-conplaza.jp/  Artificial nervous systems for robots  Brain science and computing  Chaos  Artificial living  Artificial intelligence & complexity  Computer graphics  Bipedal robot  adaptive behavior and metabolism  DNA computing  Bio-inspired immune system  Data mining  Genetic algorithms ICAROB Office  Cognitive science  Fuzzy control  Image processing  Evolutionary computations Mobile: +81-80-8565-8256  Human-welfare robotics  Management of technology  Intelligent control  Micro-machines  Insect-like aero vehicles  Medical surgical robot email:  Multi-agent systems  Nano-biology  Computational Molecular biology  Networking  Neural circuits [email protected]  Nano-robotics  Pattern recognition  Unmanned underwater vehicles  Neuroscience  Virtual reality  Quantum computing web:  Neuro-computer  Environment navigation and localization  Robotics  Neuromorphic systems http://alife-robotics.co.jp/  Facial expression analysis, music recommendation  Visualization

 Reinforcement learning system & genetic programing and augmented reality  Disasters robotics  Software development support method  Applications in Kansei engineering  Empirical research on network and MOT  System cybernetics  Unmanned aero vehicles  (Others etc.)  Foundation of computation and its application  Unmanned aerial systems designing, controls and  Unmanned aerial systems technologies navigation

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Fukuoka Section Important Dates

 September 25, 2018 OS,GS,PS,IS,TS proposal submission due date

 October 15, 2018 Final early bird registration due date Pending  October 25, 2018 Letter of acceptance due date

 November 15, 2018 (We don’t accept the papers) Final paper submission due date OS: Organized Session, GS: General Session, PS: Poster Session, IS: Invited Session, TS: Tutorial Session

Publication

Accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings of the ICAROB Series that was included in Scopus and CPCI-Web of Science. Extended versions of the selected papers will be published in the

http://www.japan- international journal：Robotics, Networking and Artificial Life (JRNAL became ESCI journal) published guide.com/e/e4700.html by Atlantis Press. Banquet fee is FREE because ALife Robotics Co. Ltd., will defray the expenses. Welcome to Banquet!

Registration Fee

Registration fee ¥55,000 (¥50,000 for early birds) and ¥30,000 for Students (¥25,000 for early birds) :

Organized by International Steering Committee of International Conference on Artificial Life and Robotics (ICAROB) Technical co-sponsored by IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (USA) (Pending) IEEE Fukuoka Section (Japan) Co-Organized by Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI, P. R. China) Sponsored by ICAROB society (ALife Robotics Corporation Ltd.) Advisory Committee Chair Moshe Kam (New Jersey Institute of Technology, Former IEEE President, USA) General Chair Masanori Sugisaka (ALife Robotics Co., Ltd., Japan, Open University, UK) Co- General Chairs Yingmin Jia (Beihang University, P.R.China) Takao Ito (Hiroshima University, Japan) Ju-Jang Lee (KAIST, Korea) Vice General Chairs John L. Casti (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria) Henrik Hautop Lund (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark) (The company X-Event Dynamics - (Co-founder), Austria) Luigi Pagliarini (Academy of Fine Arts of Macerata, Italy) Jangmyung Lee (Pusan National University, Korea)

Advisory Committee Adam Grzech (Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland) Masato Nakagawa (Executive Fellow, DENSO CORPORATION, Visiting Professor of Hiroshima Bruce Eisenstein (Drexel University, Former IEEE President, USA) University, Japan) Guang-Ren Duan (Harbin Institute of Technology, P. R. China) Masayoshi Tomizuka (University of California Berkeley, USA) Hidenori Kimura (RIKEN, Japan) Moshe Kam (New Jersey Institute of Technology, Former IEEE President, USA) Jeffrey Johnson (The Open University, UK) Paul Kalata (Drexel University, USA) Jerzy Świątek (Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland) Paul Oh (Drexel University, USA)

Joshua M. Epstein (The Johns Hopkins University, USA) Peter Herczfeld (Drexel University, USA) Kai-Tai Song (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan) Steen Rasmussen (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark) Ken-ichi Tanaka (Executive Fellow, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan) Zengqi Sun (Tsighua Univesity, P. R. China) Program Chair Makoto Sakamoto (The University of Miyazaki, Japan) Co-Program Chair Marion Oswald (The Vienna University of Technology, Austria)

International Organizing Committee Akira Fukuda (Kyushu University, Japan) Masao Kubo (National Defense Academy of Japan, Japan) Akira Nakamura (AIST, Japan) Masanao Obayashi (Yamaguchi University, Japan) Akinori Abe (Chiba University, Japan) Maxim Sokolov (Innopolis University, Russia) Andrew Gadsden (University of Guelph, Canada) Mehta Rajiv (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA) Caoli Wang (University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, P. R. China) Minoru Kumano (University of Miyazaki, Japan) Chan Gook Park (Seoul National University, Korea) Peter Sapaty (Ukrainian Academy of Science, Ukraine)

Eiji Hayashi (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan) Pierre Parrend (University of Strasbourg, France) Evgeni Magid (Kazan Federal University, Russia) Qiang Cai (Beijing Technology and Business University, P. R. China) Fuzhong Wang (Henan Polytechnic University, P. R. China) Qu Yanbin (Harbin Institute of Technology, P. R. China) Hazry Desa (University of Malaysia, Perlis, Malaysia) Shin Jisun (Pusan National University, Korea) Hidehiko Yamamoto (Gifu University, Japan) Singo Mabu (Yamaguchi University, Japan) Hideyuki Suzuki (The University of Tokyo, Japan) Takashi Kohno (The University of Tokyo, Japan) Hiroki Tamura (The University of Miyazaki, Japan) Takashi Ogata (Iwate Prefectural University) Hiroshi Kage (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan) Teruhisa Hochin (Kyoto Prefectural University, Japan) Hiroshi Matsuno (Yamaguchi University, Japan) Tetsuro Hattori (Kagawa University, Japan) Jiwu Wang (Beijing Jiaotong University, P. R. China) Thi Thi Zin (University of Miyazaki, Japan) Jovana Jovic (CNRS-AIST JRL, Japan, France) Thomas S. Ray (University of Oklahoma, USA) Junping Du (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P. R. China) Toru Yamamoto (Hiroshima University, Japan) Katsunori Shimohara (Doshisha University, Japan) Toshihro Inukai (DENSO WAVE INCORPORATED, Japan) Kazuo Ishii (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan) Victor Berdonosov (Komsomolsk-on-Amur State University of Kenichi Tanaka (Meii University, Japan) Technology, Russia) Kenji Hashimoto (Waseda University, Japan) Yasunari Yoshitomi (Kyoto Prefectural University, Japan) Kevin Voges (Canterbury University, New Zealand) Yi Chai (Chongqing University, P. R. China) Kunikazu Kobayashi (Aichi Prefectural University, Japan) Yoshifumi Morita (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan) Kuo-Hsien Hsia (Far East University, Taiwan) Yoshiro Imai (Kagawa University, Japan) Kuo-Lan Su (National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan) Yuji Shinano (Zuse Institute Berlin, Germany) Kyungho Park (U.S. ARMY, Japan and USA) Zengqiang Chen (Nankai University, P. R. China)

International Program Committee Akinori Abe (Chiba University, Japan) Masayoshi Tabuse (Kyoto Prefectural University, Japan) Akira Utsumi (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan) Masaomi Hatakeyama (university of Zurich, Switzerland) Akihito Kanai (Hosei University, Japan) Mohammad Al-Shabi (University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates) Ali Selamat (University of Technology of Malaysia (UTM), Malaysia) Mohammad Biglarbegian (University of Guelph, Canada) Amornphun Phunopas (King Mongkut’s University of Technology, Thailand) Nicolas Monmarche (university of Tours, France) Andre Rosendo (ShanghaiTech University, P. R. China) Norrima Mokhtar (University of Malaya, Malaysia) Anne Jeanninin (University of Strasbourg, France) Noritaka Sato (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan) Anton Shiriaev (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway) Palakorn Tantrakool (King Mongkut’s Institute of Technologyi, Thailand) Bin Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P. R. China) Ping Wang (North China Electric Power University, P. R. China) Cecilia Zanni-Merk (Insa-Rouen, France) Pierre David (University of Strasbourg, France) Chung-Wen Hung, (National Yunlin University of Science & Technology, Taiwan) glin Sun (Nankai University, P. R. China) Cynthia Matuszek (University of Maryland, USA) Satoshi Ikeda (The University of Miyazaki, Japan) Donglian Qi (Zhejiang University, P. R. China) Sanjay S. Joshi (College of Engineering, University of California, USA) Dongmei Ai (Universty of Science and Technology Beijing, P. R. China) Seong-Ik Han (Pusan National University, Korea) Endra Joelianto (Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia) Shin-ichi Asakawa (Tokyo Woman's Christian University, Japan) Haibo Li (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) Shumin Fei (Southeast University, P. R. China) Haisheng Li (Beijing Technology and Business University, P. R. China) Shyi-Ming Chen (National Taichung University of Education, Taiwan) Haruna Matsushita (Kagawa University, Japan) Stephen Wilkerson (York College of Pennsylvania, USA) Hidetsugu Suto (Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan) Takashi Kuremoto (Yamaguchi University, Japan) Hiroyuki Iizuka (Osaka University, Japan) Takayoshi Yamada (Gifu University, Japan) Hussein Abbass (University of New South Wales, and ADFA, Australia) Taishiro Kishimoto (Keio University, Japan) Istvan Harmati (Budapest Institute of Technology and Economics, Hungary) Taisuke Akimoto (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan) Ivan Tanev (Doshisha University, Japan) Takashi Iwamoto (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Advanced Technology Jiandong Zhao (Beijing Jiaotong University, P. R. China) R&D Center, Japan) Joono Cheong (Korea University, Korea) Tetsuro Katayama (The University of Miyazaki, Japan) Julio Navarro Lara (University of Strasbourg, France) Thomas Noel (University of Strasbourg, France) Jun Kobayashi (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan) Thunyaseth Sethaput (Thammasat University, Thailand) Ken-ichi Tanaka (Meiji University, Japan) Toshinori Nawata (Kumamoto National College of Technology, Japan) Kouichi Takeuchi (Okayama University, Japan) Tsunehiro Yoshinaga (Tokuyama National College of Technology, Japan) Kui Xiang (Wuhan University of Technology, P. R. China) Weicun Zhang (University of Science and Technology Beijing, P. R. China) Leonid Freidovich (Umea University, Sweden) Xiaocan Wang (Technical University Munich, Germany) Lin Li (University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, P. R. China) Xiaoyan Fu (Capital Normal University, P. R. China) Lin Zhao (Qingdao University, P. R. China) Xuemei Ren (Beijing Institute of Technology, P. R. China) Manabu Yamada (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan) Youji Kawamura (Kindai University, Japan) Masahide Ito (Aichi Prefectural University, Japan) Yunzhong Song (Henan Polytechnic University, P. R. China) Masahiro Yokomichi (The University of Miyazaki, Japan) Zengqiang Chen (Nankai University, P. R. China) Masayoshi Kano (Chukyou University, Japan)

Local Arrangement Committee Makoto Sakamoto (The University of Miyazaki, Japan) Masanori Sugisaka (Open University, UK, ALife Robotics Corporation Ltd., Japan) Takao Ito (Hiroshima University, Japan)