Connectionists: *** SAVE THE DATES *** From Animals to Animats 17: The 17th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB 2024) at UC Irvine

[Jeffrey L Krichmar]

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>From Animals to Animats 17: The 17th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB 2024)

When: September 9-12, 2024  

Where: The University of California, Irvine, Irvine CA, USA 

Website: https://sites.uci.edu/sab2024/

The Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB) interdisciplinary conference brings together researchers in artificial intelligence, artificial life, computer science, cybernetics, ethology, evolutionary biology, neuroscience, robotics, and many other fields, to further our understanding of the behaviors and underlying mechanisms that allow natural animals and artificial agents to adapt and survive in complex, dynamic and uncertain environments. Animats denote the connection between animals and synthetic agents. The conference focuses on models and experiments designed to help characterize and compare various organizational principles and architectures underlying adaptive behavior in real animals and in animats.

SAB 2024 solicits contributions dealing with any aspect of adaptive behavior. We especially invite submissions from researchers who connect biology and natural behavior to synthetic agents. Conference papers are peer-reviewed and accepted papers will be published in “From Animals to Animats 17. SAB 2024.” Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer.

Typical, but not exclusive, topics of interest are:

- Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Life, and Computational neuroscience 
	o	Action selection, behavioral sequencing
	o	Communication and language
	o	Emotion and motivation
	o	Internal models and representations
	o	Reinforcement learning
	o	Sensory-motor coordination, motor control
	o	Software agents and virtual creatures
- Philosophical Issues
	o	Consciousness
	o	Ethics
	o	Mind/Body problem
- Robotics
	o	Autonomous robotics
	o	Bio-inspired and hybrid robotics
	o	Cognitive robotics
	o	Developmental robotics
	o	Humanoid robotics
	o	Navigation and mapping
	o	Neurorobotics
- Self-Organizing Systems
	o	Body and brain co-evolution
	o	Collective and social behavior
	o	Dynamical systems approaches
	o	Evolutionary and co-evolutionary approaches 
	o	Self-assembling and self-replication

IMPORTANT DATES (tentative):

Paper submission deadline: April 1, 2024
Workshop and Tutorial proposals submission deadline: April 15, 2024
Notice of acceptance: June 30, 2024
Camera-ready papers: July 15, 2024
Conference dates:
•	Workshops and Tutorials: September 9, 2024
•	Main Conference: September 10-12, 2024

ABOUT THE SAB CONFERENCE:

SAB started in 1990 (Paris, 24-28 September 1990).  After years of great success, SAB has given birth to numerous other conferences (on genetics algorithms, reinforcement learning, swarm intelligence, bio-inspired systems, developmental robotics, etc.). In the forthcoming 17th edition, we want to both celebrate this prior success and expand into trending research areas. 

Since SAB is held every two years, we want to strengthen the conference as a place to discuss the new trends in all relevant areas from the people bringing breakthrough ideas and results. SAB will continue to have a single-track format, to propose self-critical, thought-provoking, and nurturing discussions among specialists in each area as well as with specialists in other areas, so that the conference will both present the state of the art and inspire new ideas at the cutting edge of science. As steps in this direction, this year we will have a broad range of invited speakers to discuss both, longstanding topics in SAB, and the new trends in (and the future of) the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior. 

The conference will be held at the CalIT2 Auditorium on the UC Irvine Campus (https://www.calit2.uci.edu). 

We look forward to welcoming you at SAB 2024!

SAB Organizing Committee

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Jeff Krichmar
Department of Cognitive Sciences
2328 Social & Behavioral Sciences Gateway
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697-5100
jkrichma at uci.edu
http://www.socsci.uci.edu/~jkrichma