AROB 6th 2001 (January 15 - 17, 2001, U-Port, Gotanda, Tokyo, Japan)
Organized By
- Organizing Committee of International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics (AROB)
Co-Sponsored By
- Santa Fe Institute (SFI, USA)
- 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
- 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 City Hall
- Kanto Bureau of Economy, Trade and Industry (to be expected)
- Kyushu Bureau of Economy, Trade and Industry
- NHK Oita Station
- Nihon Keizai Shimbun, INC.
- THE NIKKAN KOGYO SHINBUN, LTD
- OBS Broadcast Company
- Oita Asahi Broadcasting
- Oita Municipal Government
- Oita Prefectural Government
- Oitagodo Shinbunsya
- PRESS THE NISHINIPPON
- Science and Technology Agency
- TOS Broadcast Company
- The Mainichi Newspapers
- THE YOMIURI SHIMBUN
Honorary President
- M. Hiramatsu (Governor, Oita Prefecture)
Advisory Committee Chairman
- F. Harashima (President, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Technology, Japan)
General Chairman
Co-General Chairman (Program)
- Hiroshi Tanaka (Tokyo Medical & Dental University)
Co-Chairman
- John Casti (Santa Fe Institute)
Advisory Committee
- S. Fujimura (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
- F. Harashima (President, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Technology, Japan) - Chairman
- H. Kimura (The Univresity of Tokyo, Japan)
- S. Ueno (Kyoto University, Japan)
International Organizing Committee
- W.B. Arthur (Santa Fe Institute, USA)
- Z. Bubnicki (Wrocław University of Technology, Poland)
- W. Banzhaf (University of Dortmund, Germany)
- C. Barrett (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)
- 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 (Santa Fe Institute, 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)
International Steering Committee
- M. Bedau (Reed College, USA)
- Z. Bubnicki (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. Bubnicki (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. Kawaji (Kumamoto 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 (VUBAI 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
- Bioinformatics
- Brain Science
- Chaos
- Cognitive Science
- Complexity
- Computer Graphics
- Evolutionary Computations
- Fuzzy Control
- Genetic Algorithms
- Human-Machine Cooperative Systems
- Human-Welfare Robotics
- Innovative Computations
- Intelligent Control and Modeling
- Micromachines
- Micro-Robot World Cup Soccer Tournament
- Mobile Vehicles
- Molecular Biology
- Neural Networks
- Neurocomputers
- Neurocomputing Technologies and Their Applications for Hardware
- Robotics
- Robust Virtual Engineering
- Virtual Reality