This AROB 16th '11 (Jan.27(Thurs.)-Jan.29(Sat.), 2011. B-Con Plaza, Beppu, Oita, JAPAN) symposium invites you all to present original research and to discuss development of new technologies concerning artificial life and robotics based on computer simulations and hardware designs of state-of-the-art technologies.

We wish to thank the followings for their contributions to the success of a series of conferences:

• Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japanese government
• Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)

History of symposium

This symposium was founded in 1996 under the support of Science and International Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japanese Government. Since then, this symposium has been held every year at B-Con Plaza, Beppu, Japan except AROB 5th '00 (Oita) and AROB 6th '01 (Tokyo). The Eleventh to Fifteenth symposiums (2006-2010) were held at B-Con Plaza, Beppu, Japan.

Objective of symposium

The objective of this symposium is to develop new technologies for artificial life and robotics and their applications in various fields listed in the following Topics. Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original research and to discuss development of new technologies concerning artificial life and robotics based on computer simulations and hardware designs of state-of-the-art technologies.

General session topics

Artificial intelligence	Artificial life
Chaos & Complexity	Control techniques
Data mining	Evolutionary computations
Human-machine cooperative systems & Human-welfare robotics	Image processing
Learning	Mobile vehicles
Neural networks	Pattern recognition & Visualization
Poster session	Robotics

Organized session topics

Advanced technologies & Management skills	Advanced vehicle control
AI-based systems for human awareness promotion	Bio-inspired theory and application
Biomimetic machines and robots	Computer vision and sound analysis
Control and automata	Control and its application
Data mining	Dynamical information processing in the brain
Embracing complexity in natural intelligence	Embracing complexity in sensor system organization
Human agent interaction toward social modification	Intelligent control
Intelligent systems	Intuitive human-system interaction
Learning control and robotics	Medical science and complex system
Robotics and pattern recognition	Special environment navigation and localization
Structural change detection for ongoing time series	System sensing and control