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"
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