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"