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Artificial Life and Robotics is an international journal publishing original technical papers and authoritative state-of-the-art reviews on the development of new technologies concerning artificial life and robotics, especially computer-based simulation and hardware for the twenty-first century. This journal covers a broad multidisciplinary field, including areas such as artificial brain research, artificial intelligence, artificial life, artificial living, artificial mind research, chaos, cognitive science, complexity, evolutionary computations, fuzzy control, genetic algorithms, innovative computations, micro machines, mobile vehicles, neural networks, neurocomputers, neurocomputing technologies and applications, robotics, and virtual reality. Hardware-oriented submissions are particularly welcome.
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Publishing body
International Society of Artificial Life and Robotics
Production
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Editors
Editor-in-Chief
- Hiroshi Tanaka (Tokyo Medical & Dental University, Japan)
Deputy Editor-in-Chief
- Fumitoshi Matsuno (Kyoto University, Japan / Osaka Institute of Technology, Japan)
Advisory Board
- Hyo-Sung Ahn (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea)
- Ming Cao (University of Groningen, the Netherlands)
- John L. Casti (Co-founder and CEO, X-Event Dynamics, Inc., Vienna, Austria and San Jose, CA, USA)
- Gregory Scott Chirikjian (University of Delaware, United States)
- Rüdiger Dillmann (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
- Marco Dorigo (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
- Joshua M. Epstein (New York University, United States)
- Li-Chen Fu (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
- Toshio Fukuda (Nagoya University, Japan)
- Shuzhi Sam Ge (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
- Jan Tommy Gravdahl (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)
- Dong Seog Han (Kyungpook National University, Republic of Korea)
- Keum-Shik Hong (Pusan National University, Korea)
- Auke Jan Ijspeert (EPFL: the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland)
- Masahiko Inami (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
- Hidenori Kimura (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
- Ju-Jang Lee (KAIST, Republic of Korea)
- Thomas S. Ray (University of Oklahoma, United States)
- Jonathan Rossiter (University of Bristol, United Kingdom)
- Giulio Sandini (Italian Institute of Technology, Italy)
- Hyungbo Shim (Seoul National University, Republic of Korea)
- Florentin Wörgötter (University of Göttingen, Germany)
- Yong-Guang Zhang (Academia Sinica, China)
Editors
AI&Alife
Editors
- Kazushi Ikeda (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
- Kazuyuki Ito (Hosei University, Japan)
Associate Editors
- Amitava Chatterjee (Jadavpur University, India)
- Atsuko Mutoh (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan)
- Kazunori Ohno (Tohoku University, Japan)
- Noritaka Shigei (Kagoshima University, Japan)
- Reiji Suzuki (Nagoya University, Japan)
Robotics
Editors
- Shinichi Sagara (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)
- Keigo Watanabe (Okayama University, Japan)
Associate Editors
- Poramate Manoonpong (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)
- Shinjiro Umezu (Waseda University, Japan)
Complex System
Editors
- Ken Naitoh (Waseda University, Japan)
- Toru Ohira (Nagoya University, Japan)
Associate Editors
- Hiraku Nishimori (Meiji University, Japan)
Bioengineering & Medical Imaging
Editors
- Masahiro Nishibori (New Generation Bio Medical Research Center, Japan)
- Keiko Ogawa-Ochiai (Hiroshima University, Japan)
Associate Editors
- Osamu Oshiro (Osaka University, Japan)
Editorial Board
- Christopher L. Barret (University of Virginia, United States)
- Mark A. Bedau (Reed College, United States)
- Young-Im Cho (Gachon University, Republic of Korea)
- Hideki Hashimoto (Chuo University, Japan)
- Kenji Hashimoto (Waseda University, Japan)
- Noriyasu Homma (Tohoku University, Japan)
- Akio Ishiguro (Tohoku University, Japan)
- Jeffery H. Johnson (Milton Keynes, United Kingdom)
- Takeshi Kano (Future University Hakodate, Japan)
- Henrik Hautop Lund (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)
- Atsushi Mochizuki (Kyoto University, Japan)
- Sajid Nisar (Kyoto University of Advanced Science (KUAS), Japan)
- Marion Oswald (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
- Rolf Pfeifer (University of Zurich-Irchel, Switzerland)
- Steen Rasmussen (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)
- Kenji Sawada (The University of Electro-Communications)
- Takanori Shibata (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan)
- Katsunori Shimohara (Doshisha University, Japan)
- Charles E. Taylor (University of California-Los Angeles, Japan)
- Changshui Zhang (Tsinghua University, China)
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