CALL FOR PAPERS
The Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB) interdisciplinary conference brings together researchers in artificial intelligence, artificial life, computer science, cybernetics, ethology, evolutionary biology, neuroscience, robotics, and many other fields, to further our understanding of the behaviors and underlying mechanisms that allow natural animals and artificial agents to adapt and survive in complex, dynamic and uncertain environments. Animats denote the connection between animals and synthetic agents. The conference focuses on models and experiments designed to help characterize and compare various organizational principles and architectures underlying adaptive behavior in real animals and in animats.
SAB 2024 solicits contributions dealing with any aspect of adaptive behavior. We especially invite submissions from researchers who connect biology and natural behavior to synthetic agents. Conference papers are peer-reviewed and accepted papers will be published in “From Animals to Animats 17. SAB 2024.” Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer Nature.
Typical, but not exclusive, topics of interest are:
– Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Life, and Computational neuroscience
o Action selection, behavioral sequencing
o Communication and language
o Emotion and motivation
o Internal models and representations
o Reinforcement learning
o Sensory-motor coordination, motor control
o Software agents and virtual creatures
– Philosophical Issues
o Consciousness
o Ethics
o Mind/Body problem
– Robotics
o Autonomous robotics
o Bio-inspired and hybrid robotics
o Cognitive robotics
o Developmental robotics
o Humanoid robotics
o Navigation and mapping
o Neurorobotics
– Self-Organizing Systems
o Body and brain co-evolution
o Collective and social behavior
o Dynamical systems approaches
o Evolutionary and co-evolutionary approaches
o Self-assembling and self-replication
Conference Paper Submissions
Please submit papers via Microsoft CMT: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/SAB2024
Paper Format Guidelines
Submitted papers must not exceed 12 pages, including references; they must be written in English and formatted in the Springer LNCS style. Please refer to the LNCS Springer style guide for style templates and formatting instructions. We strongly encourage authors to prepare papers using LaTeX. The LNCS package for LaTeX and the instructions file can be downloaded directly from Springer’s web site.
Paper Review & Acceptance
All submitted full papers will be peer-reviewed based on relevance, originality, quality of presentation, and technical quality. The authors of all accepted papers are kindly requested to revise their papers following the reviewers’ comments. Authors of accepted papers will be invited to present their research work either as an oral presentation or as a poster.
Workshop and Tutorial Proposals
We will consider proposals for workshops and tutorials. Workshops and tutorials will be held on the first day of the conference (9 September 2024). Proposals will be reviewed by the Organizing Committee. Send the following information to Jeff Krichmar <jkrichma@uci.edu>.
- Workshop organizers names and affiliations
- Title and Abstract
- Scope
- Relevance to SAB: From animals to animats
- Duration: 1, 2, or 4 hours.
- Invited speakers (if planned)
- Other details (optional)
- Workshops and tutorials must be held in-person
Venue
CalIT2 Auditorium
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697 USA
Important Dates
May 15, 2024, 11:59PM Pacific Time: Deadline for paper submission
May 15, 2024, 11:59PM Pacific Time: Deadline for Workshop and tutorial proposals
June 30, 2024: Notice of acceptance
July 15, 2024: Camera-ready papers
September 9-12: Conference dates
Publication
All accepted papers (oral and poster presentations) will be published by Springer Nature in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series.
