Connectionists: Living Machines III: Second Call for Papers, Satellite Events and Sponsors

[Nathan F Lepora]

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*Second Call for Papers, Satellite Events and Sponsors*


*Living Machines III: The 3rd International Conference on Biomimetic and
Biohybrid Systems **30th July to 1st August 2014*

http://csnetwork.eu/livingmachines

To be hosted at the

Museo Nazionale Della Scienza E Della Tecnologia Leonardo Da Vinci

(National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo da Vinci)

Milan, Italy

In association with the Istituto Italiano di Technologia (IIT)

Accepted papers will be published in

*Springer* *Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence*

Submission deadline March 14th, 2014.

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*ABOUT LIVING MACHINES 2014*

The development of future real-world technologies will depend strongly on
our understanding and harnessing of the principles underlying living
systems and the flow of communication signals between living and artificial
systems.

*Biomimetics* is the development of novel technologies through the
distillation of principles from the study of biological systems. The
investigation of biomimetic systems can serve two complementary goals.
First, a suitably designed and configured biomimetic artefact can be used
to test theories about the natural system of interest. Second, biomimetic
technologies can provide useful, elegant and efficient solutions to
unsolved challenges in science and engineering. *Biohybrid* systems are
formed by combining at least one biological component--an existing living
system--and at least one artificial, newly-engineered component. By passing
information in one or both directions, such a system forms a new hybrid
bio-artificial entity. The following are some examples:



*      Biomimetic robots and their component technologies (sensors,
actuators, processors) that can intelligently interact with their
environments.

*      Active biomimetic materials and structures that self-organize and
self-repair.

*      Biomimetic computers--neuromimetic emulations of the physiological
basis for intelligent behaviour.

*      Biohybrid brain-machine interfaces and neural implants.

*      Artificial organs and body-parts including sensory organ-chip
hybrids and intelligent prostheses.

*      Organism-level biohybrids such as robot-animal or robot-human
systems.



*ACTIVITIES*

The main conference will take the form of a *three-day single-track oral *
and* poster presentation programme*, 30th July to 1st August 2014, hosted
at the Museo Nazionale Della Scienza E Della Tecnologia Leonardo Da Vinci
in Milan (http://www.museoscienza.org).

The conference programme will include *five plenary lectures* from leading
international researchers in biomimetic and biohybrid systems, and the
demonstrations of state-of-the-art living machine technologies. Agreed
speakers are:
*Sarah Begreiter*, University of Maryland (Microfabrication and robotics)
*Darwin Caldwell*, Italian Institute of Technology (Legged locomotion)
*Andrew Schwartz*, University of Minnesota, Pittsburgh (Neural control of
prosthetics)
*Ricard Sole*, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Self-organization and
synthetic biology)
*Srini Srinivasan*, Queensland Brain Institute (Insect-inspired cognition
and vision)

 The full conference will be preceded by up to two days of *Sateliite
Events* hosted by the Istituto Italiano di Technologia in Milan.



*SUBMITTING TO LIVING MACHINES 2014*

We invite both *full papers* and *extended abstracts *in areas related to
the conference themes.  All contributions will be refereed and accepted
papers will appear in the Living Machines 2014 *proceedings published in
the Springer-Verlag LNAI Series.   *Submissions should be made before the
advertised deadline via the Springer submission site:
http://senldogo0039.springer-sbm.com/ocs/en/home/LM2014

Full papers (up to 12 pages) are invited from researchers at any stage in
their career but should present significant findings and advances in
biomimetic or biohybid research; more preliminary work would be better
suited to extended abstract submission (3 pages). Further details of
submission formats will be circulated in an updated CfP and will be posted
on the conference web-site.

Full papers will be accepted for either oral presentation (single track) or
poster presentation. Extended abstracts will be accepted for poster
presentation only.

Authors of the best full papers will be invited to submitted extended
versions of their paper for publication in a special issue of *Bioinspiration
and Biomimetics*.



*Satellite events*

Active researchers in biomimetic and biohybrid systems are invited to
propose topics for *1-day or 2-day tutorials, symposia *or *workshops *on
related themes to be held 28-29th July at Italian Institute of Technology
in Milan. Events can be scheduled on either the 28th or 29th or across both
days. Attendance at satellite events will attract a small fee intended to
cover the costs of the meeting.  There is a lot of flexibility about the
content, organisation, and budgeting for these events.  Please contact us
if you are interested in organising a satellite event!



*EXPECTED DEADLINES*

March 14th, 2014 Paper submission deadline

April 29th, 2014 Notification of acceptance

May 20th, 2014 Camera ready copy

July 29-August 2nd 2014 Conference



*SPONSORSHIP*

Living Machines 2014 is sponsored by the *Convergent Science Network (CSN)
for Biomimetics and Neurotechnology*. CSN is an EU FP7 Future Emerging
Technologies Co-ordination Activity that also organises many highly
successful workshop series: the *Barcelona Summer School on Brain,
Technology and Cognition*, the *Capo Caccia Neuromorphic Cognitive
Engineering Workshop*, the *School on Neuro-techniques*, the *Okinawa
School of Computational Neuroscience* and the *Telluride workshop of
Cognitive Neuromorphic Engineering *(see http://csnetwork.eu/activities for
details)

The 2014 Living Machines conference will also be hosted and sponsored by *the
Istituto Italiano di Technologia (http://www.iit.it <http://www.iit.it>).*

*Call for Sponsors.*  Other organisations wishing to sponsor the conference
in any way and gain the corresponding benefits by promoting themselves and
their products to through conference publications, the conference web-site,
and conference publicity are encouraged to contact the conference
organisers to discuss the terms of sponsorship and necessary arrangements.
We offer a number of attractive and good-value packages to potential
sponsors.



*ABOUT THE VENUE*

Living Machines 2014 continues our practice of hosting our annual meeting
in an inspirational venue related to the conference themes.  The scientific
and technological genius Leonardo da Vinci drew much of his inspiration
from biology and invented many biomimetic artefacts. We are therefore
delighted that this year's conference will be hosted at the Da Vinci museum
of Science and Technology in Milan, one of the largest technology museums
in Europe and host to a collection of working machines that realise many of
Da Vinci's ideas. We look forward to seeing you in Milan.

*Organising Committee:*

Tony Prescott, University of Sheffield (Co-chair)

Paul Verschure, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Co-chair)

Armin Duff, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Program Chair)

Giorgio Metta, Instituto Italiano di Technologia (Local Organizer)

Barbara Mazzolai, Instituto Italiano di Technologia (Local Organiser)

Anna Mura, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Communications)

Nathan Lepora, University of Bristol (Communications)



*Program Committee:*

Anders Lyhne Christensen

Andy Adamatzky
Andy Phillipides
Arianna Menciassi
Auke Ijspeert
Barry Trimmer
Ben Mitchinson
Benoit Girard
Cecilia Laschi
Charles Fox
Chrisantha Fernando
Christophe Grand
Danilo de Rossi
Darwin Caldwell
Dieter Braun
Emre Neftci
Enrico Pagello
Eris Chinaletto
Ferdinando Rodrigues y Baena

Frank Grasso
Fred Claeyssens
Frederic Boyer
Frederico Carpi
Giacomo Indiveri
Gregory Chirikjian
Hillel Chiel
Holger Krapp
Holk Cruse
Husosheng Hu
Jess Krichmar
Jira Okada
John Hallam
Jon Timmis
Jonathan Rossiter
Jose Halloy
Joseph Ayers

Julian Vincent
Keisuke Morisima

Lucia Beccai
Marco Dorigo
Mark Cutkosky
Martin Pearson
Mat Evans
Mehdi Khamassi
Michele Giogliano
Nathan Lepora
Noah Cowan
Pablo Varona

Paul Graham
Paul Verschure

Reiko Tanaka
Robert Allen
Roberto Cingolani
Roderich Gross
Roger Quinn

Sean Anderson
Serge Kernbach

Simon Garnier

Stephane Doncieux
Stuart Wilson
Thomas Schmickl

Tim Pearce

Tony Pipe

Tony Prescott

Volker Durr

Wolfgang Eberle

Yiannis Demiris
Yoseph Bar-Cohen
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