AROB 2nd 1997 (Feb. 18 - 20, 1997, B-Con Plaza, Beppu, Oita, Japan)

Organized By

• International Organizing Committee of AROB

Co-Sponsored By

• Santa Fe Institute (SFI, USA)
• The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE, Japan)

Co-Operated By

• The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Tokyo Section (IEEE)
• The Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan (IEEJ)
• The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE)
• The Institute of Systems, Control and Information Engineers (ISCIE)
• Japan Robot Association (JARA)
• Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ)

Supported By

• Oita Prefectural Government
• Oita Municipal Government
• Oita Chamber of Commerce and Industry
• Beppu Municipal Government
• Oita Industrial Group Society
• Oita System Control Society
• NHK Oita Station
• OBS Broadcast Company
• TOS Broadcast Company
• OAB Broadcast Company
• Asahi Shimbun
• Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun
• Oitagodo Shimbun
• Science and Technology Agency

Following companies financially support AROB '97

• Chiyoda Corporation
• Fanuc Ltd.
• Kyushu Electric Power Company Incorporated Oita Branch Office
• Matsushita Research Institute Tokyo, Inc.
• Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
• NEC Corporation
• Nishikawa Keisoku
• Nishi Nippon Electric Wire Cable Co., Ltd.
• Nisshinbo Mec Inc.
• Ricoh Company, Ltd.
• Shintsurukai Kosan Co., Ltd.
• Sugahara Industry Co., Ltd.
• The Oita Chamber of Commerce and Industry
• Yanai Denki Kogyo Co., Ltd.
• Yasukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
• Yatsushika Sake-Brewing Co., Ltd.

Honorary President

• M. Hiramatsu (Governor, Oita Prefecture)

International Organizing Committee

• K. Abe (Tohoku University, Japan)
• S. Arimoto (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
• W.B. Arthur (Santa Fe Institute, USA)
• Z. Bubunicki (Wrocław University of Technology, Poland)
• J.L. Casti (Santa Fe Institute, USA)
• T. Christaller (University of Bielefeld, Germany)
• J. Epstein (Brookings Institution, USA)
• T. Fujii (RIKEN, Japan)
• S. Fujimura (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
• T. Fukuda (Nagoya University, Japan)
• T. Gomi (AAI, Canada)
• H. Hagiwara (Kyoto School of Computer Science, Japan)
• I. Harvey (University of Sussex, UK)
• P. Husbands (University of Sussex, UK)
• D.J.G. James (Coventry University, UK)
• T. Jinzenji (Sanyodenki Co. Ltd., Japan)
• R.E. Kalaba (University of Southern California, USA)
• H. Kashiwagi (Kumamoto University, Japan)
• S. Kitamura (Kobe University, Japan)
• K. Kyuma (Mitsubishi Electric Co., Japan)
• C.G. Langton (Santa Fe Institute, USA)
• J.J. Lee (KAIST, Korea)
• C. Looney (University of Nevada-Reno, USA)
• G.I. Marchuk (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)
• K. Matsuno (MITI, AIST, Japan)
• H. Miura (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
• T. Mushya (Brain Function Lab., Inc., Japan)
• T. Nagata (Institute of Systems & Information technologies of Kyushu, Japan)
• M. Nakamura (Saga University, Japan)
• H.H. Natsuyama (California State University, USA)
• Y. Nishikawa (Osaka Institute of Technology, Japan)
• R. Pfeifer (University of Zurich-Irchel, Switzerland)
• M. Raibert (MIT, USA)
• S. Rasmussen (Santa Fe Institute, USA)
• T.S. Ray (ATR, Japan)
• T. Shibata (MITI, AIST, Japan)
• K. Shimohara (ATR, Japan)
• L. Steels (VUB AI Lab., Belgium)
• K. Tamura (MITI, AIST, Japan)
• H. Tanaka (Tokyo Medical & Dental University, Japan)
• Y. Tokura (ATR, Japan)
• K. Tsuchiya (Kyoto University, Japan)
• S. Ueno (Kyoto school of Computer Science, Japan)
• A.P. Wang (Arizona State University, USA)
• W.R. Wells (University of Nevada-Las Vegas, USA)
• T. Yamakawa (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)
• Y.G. Zhang (Academia Sinica, China)

Steering Committee

• J.L. Casti (Santa Fe Institute, USA)
• S. Fujimura (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
• H. Kashiwagi (Kumamoto University, Japan)
• M. Nakamura (Saga University, Japan)
• S. Ueno (Kyoto School of Computer Science, Japan)

Program Committee

• S. Fujimura (The University of Tokyo, Japan) - Chairman
• K. Aihara (The University of Tokyo, Japan) - Vice Chairman
• S. Arimoto (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
• T. Fukuda (Nagoya University, Japan)
• Y. Hori (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
• S. Kitamura (Kobe University, Japan)
• H. Kobatake (Tokyo University of Agriculture & Technology, Japan)
• J.-J. Lee (Korea Advanced Institution of Science and Technology, Korea)
• T. Nagata (Institute of Systems & Information technologies of Kyushu, Japan)
• M. Nakamura (Saga University, Japan)
• Y. Nishikawa (Osaka Institute of Technology, Japan)
• T. Omori (Tokyo University of Agriculture & Technology, Japan)
• T.S. Ray (ATR Human Information Processing Research Labs., Japan)
• K. Shimohara (ATR Human Information Processing Research Labs., Japan)
• S. Shin (The University of Tokyo, Japan)

Local Arrangement Committee

• T. Nakano (Oita University, Japan) - Chairman
• T. Endo (Oita University, Japan)
• M. Nanjo (Oita Industrial Research Institute, Japan)
• A. Tominaga (Oita University, Japan)

Topics

• Behavior analysis
• Complex systems
• Evolution
• Genetic algorithm
• Information and intelligence
• Robot and its control
• Special session "Chaos"