AROB 5th 2000 (January 26 - 28, 2000, Compal Hall, Oita, Japan)

Organized By

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

Co-Sponsored By

• Santa Fe Institute (SFI, USA)
• The Institute of Control, Automation, and Systems Engineers (ICASE, Korea)
• The Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan (IEEJ, Japan)
• The Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ, Japan)
• The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE, Japan)

Co-Operated By

• Japan Robot Association (JARA, Japan)
• The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Tokyo Section (IEEE, USA)
• The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE, Japan)
• The Institute of System, Control and Information Engineers (ISCIE, Japan)

Supported By

• Asahi Shimbun
• Beppu Municipal Government
• Kyushu Bureau of International Trade and Industry, MITI
• NHK Oita Station
• Nihonkeizai Shimbun
• Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun
• Oita Asahi Broadcasting
• OBS Broadcast Company
• Oita Chamber of Commerce and Industry
• Oitagodo Shinbunsya
• Oita Industrial Group Society
• Oita Municipal Government
• Oita Prefectural Government
• Oita System Control Society
• Science and Technology Agency
• TOS Broadcast Company

Honorary President

• M. Hiramatsu (Governor, Oita Prefecture)

Advisory Committee Chairman

• M. Ito (Director, RIKEN, Japan)

General Chairman

Vice Chairman

• J.L. Casti (Santa Fe Institute, USA)

Program Chairman

• H. Tanaka (Tokyo Medical & Dental University, Japan)

Advisory Committee

• S. Fujimura (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
• M. Ito (Director, RIKEN, Japan) - Chairman
• H. Kimura (The Univresity of Tokyo, Japan)
• S. Ueno (Kyoto University, Japan)

Organizing Committee

• W.B. Arthur (Santa Fe Institute, USA)
• W. Banzhaf (University of Dortmund, Germany)
• C. Barrett (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)
• Z. Bubunicki (Wrocław University of Technology, Poland)
• J.L. Casti (Santa Fe Institute, USA)
• J.P. Crutchfield (Santa Fe Institute, USA)
• J.M. Epstein (Santa Fe Institute, USA)
• T. Fukuda (Nagoya University, Japan)
• D.J.G. James (Coventry University, UK)
• S. Kauffman (Santa Fe Institute, USA)
• C.G. Langton (Santa Fe Institute, USA)
• J.J. Lee (KAIST, Korea)
• Y. Li (Tsinghua University, China)
• R.G. Palmer (Santa Fe Institute, USA)
• S. Rasmussen (Santa Fe Institute, USA)
• T.S. Ray (University of Oklahoma, USA)
• P. Schuster (Santa Fe Institute, USA)
• H. Tanaka (Tokyo Medical & Dental University, Japan)
• C. Taylor (University of California-Los Angeles, USA)
• W.R. Wells (University of Nevada-Las Vegas, USA)
• Y.G. Zhang (Academia Sinica, China)

Steering Committee

• M. Bedau (Reed College, USA)
• Z. Bubunicki (Wrocław University of Technology, Poland)
• J.L. Casti (Santa Fe Institute, USA) - Co-Chairman
• S. Fujimura (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
• T. Fukuda (Nagoya University, Japan)
• D.J.G. James (Coventry University, Japan)
• J.J. Lee (KAIST, Korea)
• G. Matsumoto (RIKEN, Japan)
• M. Nakamura (Saga University, Japan)
• S. Rasmussen (Santa Fe Institute, USA)
• T.S. Ray (University of Oklahoma, USA)
• H. Tanaka (Tokyo Medical & Dental University, Japan)
• C. Taylor (University of California-Los Angeles, USA)
• K. Tsuchiya (Kyoto University, Japan)
• W.R. Wells (University of Nevada-Las Vegas, USA)
• Y.G. Zhang (Academia Sinica, China)

Program Committee

• K. Abe (Tohoku University, Japan)
• K. Aihara (The University of Tokyo, Japan) - Co-Chairman
• M. Bedau (Reed College, USA)
• R. Belew (University of california-San Diego, USA)
• Z. Bubunicki (Wrocław University of Technology, Poland)
• T. Christaller (CMD-German National Research Center for Information Technology, Germany)
• T. Fujii (RIKEN, Japan)
• M. Gen (Ashikaga Institute of Technology, Japan)
• T. Gomi (AAI, Canada)
• I. Harvey (University of Sussex, UK)
• H. Hashimoto (The University of Tokyo, Japan) - Co-Chairman
• H. Hirayama (Asahikawa Medical College, Japan)
• P. Husbands (University of Sussex, UK)
• K. Ito (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
• J. Johnson (The Open University, UK)
• Y. Kakazu (Hokkaido University, Japan)
• R.E. Kalaba (University of Southern California, USA)
• H. Kashiwagi (Kumamoto University, Japan)
• O. Katai (Kyoto University, Japan)
• S. Kawata (Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan)
• J.H. Kim (KAIST, Korea)
• S. Kitamura (Kobe University, Japan)
• H. Kitano (Sony Computer Science Laboratory Inc., Japan)
• T. Kitazoe (Miyazaki University, Japan)
• S. Kumasagi (Osaka University, Japan)
• C.G. Looney (University of Nevada-Reno, USA)
• H.H. Lund (University of Aarhus, Denmark)
• M. Nakamura (Saga University, Japan)
• R. Nakatsu (Santa Fe Institute, Japan)
• H.H. Natsuyama (Advanced Industrial Materials, USA)
• S. Omatsu (University of Osaka Prefecture, Japan)
• T. Omori (Tokyo University of Agriculture & Technology, Japan)
• R. Pfeifer (University of Zurich-Irchel, Switzerland)
• T.S. Ray (University of Oklahoma, USA) - Co-Chairman
• Y. Sankai (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
• T. Sawaragi (Kyoto University, Japan)
• T. Shibata (MITI, MEL, Japan)
• K. Shimohara (ATR, Japan)
• L. Steels (VUB AI Laboratory, Belgium)
• S. Tamura (Osaka University, Japan)
• H. Tanaka (Tokyo Medical & Dental University, Japan) - Chairman
• N. Tosa (ATR, Japan)
• K. Ueda (Kobe University, Japan)
• A.P. Wang (Arizona State University, USA)
• K. Watanabe (Saga University, Japan)
• X. Yao (The University of New South Wales, Australia)
• W.R. Zimmer (GMD-Japan Research Laboratory, Japan)

Local Arrangement Committee

• K. Nakano (University of Electro-Communications, Japan)
• K. Okazaki (Fukui University, Japan)
• S. Sato (Director, Research and Development Center, Oita University, Japan)
• K. Shibata (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
• K. Shigemitsu (Oita Industrial Research Institute, Japan)
• Y. Suzuki (Tokyo Medical & Dental University, Japan)
• H. Tsukune (Director, Oita Industrial Research Institute, Japan)
• X. Wang (Oita Institute of Technology, Japan)
• I. Yoshihara (Miyazaki University, Japan)

Topics

• Hardware Oriented Topics are welcome in the fields given by
• Artificial Brain Research
• Artificial Intelligence
• Artificial Life
• Artificial Liferobotics
• Artificial Living
• Artificial Mind Research
• Brain Science
• Chaos
• Cognitive Science
• Complexity
• Computer Graphics
• Evolutionary Computations
• Fuzzy Control
• Genetic Algorithms
• Innovative Computations
• Intelligent Control and Modeling
• Micromachines
• Micro-Robot World Cup Soccer Tournament
• Mobile Vehicles
• Molecular Biology
• Neural Networks
• Neurocomputers
• Neuro Computing Technologies and its Applications for Hardware
• Robotics
• Robust Virtual Engineering
• Virtual Reality
• Related Fields

AROB 5th '00 was supported financially by the following companies

• Oita Gas Co., Ltd.
• Sanwa Shurui Co., Ltd.
• Shintsurukai Kosan Co., Ltd.
• Yatsushika Sake-Brewing Co., Ltd.