AROB 1st 1996 (Feb. 18 - 20, 1996, B-Con Plaza, Beppu, Oita, Japan)

Organized By

• Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Oita University
• Under The Sponsorship of Ministry of Education, Science, Sports, and Culture, Japanese Government

Co-Sponsored By

• Santa Fe Institute (USA)
• SICE (Japan)

Co-Operated By

• ISICE
• RSJ
• IEEJ
• EICE
• IEEE CSS Tokyo Chapter
• JRA

Supported By

• Oita Prefectural Government
• Oita Municipal Government
• Oita Chamber of Commerce and Industry
• Beppu Municipal Government
• Oita System Control Society
• NHK-Oita
• OBS Broadcast Company
• TOS Broadcast Company
• OAB Broadcast Company
• Asahi Sinbunsya
• Nikkankougyou Sinbunsha
• Oitagoudou Sinbunsha
• MITI (under negotiation)
• Science and Technology Agency

International Organizing Committee

• J.L. Casti (Santa Fe Institute, USA)
• C.G. Langton (Santa Fe Institute, USA)
• W.B. Arthur (Santa Fe Institute, USA)
• J.M. Epstein (Brookings Institution, USA)
• S. Rasmussen (Santa Fe Institute, USA)
• T.S. Ray (ATR, Japan)
• T. Gomi (AAI, Canada)
• M. Raibert (MIT, USA)
• C. Looney (University of Nevada-Reno, USA)
• A.P. Wang (Arizona State University, USA)
• H.H. Natsuyama (California State University, USA)
• R.E. Kalaba (University of Southern California, USA)
• W.R. Wells (University of Nevada-Las Vegas, USA)
• D.J.G. James (Coventry University, UK)
• W.R. Wells (University of Nevada-Las Vegas, USA)
• Y.G. Zhang (Academia Sinica, China)
• J.J. Lee (KAIST, KOREA)
• G.I. Marchuk (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)
• S. Ueno (Kyoto School of Computer Science, Japan)
• S. Fujimura (Tokyo University, Japan)
• H. Miura (Tokyo University, Japan)
• S. Arimoto (Tokyo University, Japan)
• Y. Nishikawa (Kyoto University, Japan)
• S. Kitamura (Kobe University, Japan)
• K. Tsuchiya (Kyoto University, Japan)
• T. Jinzenji (Tohoku University, Japan)
• K. Abe (Tohoku University, Japan)
• H. Hagiwara (Kyoto School of Computer Science, Japan)
• H. Tanaka (Tokyo Medical & Dental University, Japan)
• T. Mushya (Tokyo Science University, Japan)
• T. Fukuda (Nagoya University, Japan)
• K. Mastsuno (MITI, AIST, Japan)
• K. Tamura (MITI, AIST, Japan)
• Y. Tokura (ATR, Japan)
• K. Shimohara (ATR, Japan)
• K. Kyuma (Mitsubishi Electric Co., Japan)
• T. Yamakawa (Kyushu Institute of Tecchnology, Japan)
• T. Nagata (Kyushu University, Japan)
• M. Nakamura (Saga University, Japan)
• H. Kashiwagi (Kumamoto University, Japan)

Steering Committee

• J.L. Casti
• S. Ueno
• S. Fujimura
• Shibata
• Nanjo
• Oita University Steering Committee

Program Committee

• S. Fujimura - Chairman
• J.L. Casti
• S. Ueno
• K. Aihara
• T. Ohmori
• K. Shimohara
• S. Arimoto
• H. Tanaka
• Y. Nishikawa
• T. Fukuda
• K. Tsuchiya
• S. Ando
• T. Nagata
• T. Yamakawa
• S. Kitamura
• I. Harvey
• P. Husband
• R. Pfeifer
• T. Nanya

Topics

• Hardware Oriented Topics are welcome in the fields given by
• Artificial Brains
• Artificial Intelligence
• Artificial Life
• Artificial Livings
• Artificial Mind
• Chaos
• Cognitive Science
• Complexities
• Fuzzy Control
• Genetic Algorithms
• Innovative Computations
• Neural Networks
• Neurocomputers
• Neuro Computing Technologies and Its Application for Hardware
• Robotics
• Virtual Reality
• Related Fields