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CALL FOR PAPERS
Social Insects Behaviour: Theory and Applications
April 3-4, 2006
http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/home/planque/AISB/
A 2-day symposium to be held as part of: AISB'06: Adaptation in Artificial
and Biological Systems
April 3rd-6th 2006
University of Bristol, Bristol, England
Colonies of social insects are prime examples of natural systems employing
decentralized decision making. Their abilities to solve complex problems
using only local information and behavioural rules have attracted the
attention from biologists and theoreticians alike. There has been great
interest recently in applying mechanisms from social insect ecology to
problems in computer science, such as ant swarming algorithms and grid
computing. The algorithmic approach used by social insects lends itself
particularly well to computing. This symposium will bring together
scientists from different areas and will stimulate a cross-flow of ideas
between different communities.
One theme of major interest within both communities of biologists and
computer scientists is that of robustness of decision making systems. On
the one hand, social insect colonies live in dynamic environments and
natural selection may well have shaped their decision making mechanisms to
be adaptable and rugged. On the other hand, in engineering applications
there is a growing need for robust decision making algorithms that can
work on dynamic networks or in other changing environments. We therefore
encourage the submission of contributions that are on, but not limited to,
adaptivity and robustness of distributed decision making mechanisms.
SUBMISSIONS
Submissions should be in the form of abstracts, and should be no longer
than 500 words.
Accepted abstracts will be presented orally on the day and appear in the
published workshop proceedings.
Formatting instructions will be available from the symposium website
shortly.
Abstracts should be submitted to [log in to unmask] by 13th January 2006.
ORGANISERS:
Dr. Robert Planque, Dr. Tim Kovacs, Dr. James A. R. Marshall
Department of Computer Science /
School of Biological Sciences
University of Bristol
Woodland Road
Bristol BS8 1UB, U.K.
Prof. Nigel R. Franks, Dr. Francois-Xavier Dechaume-Moncharmont
School of Biological Sciences
University of Bristol
Woodland Road
Bristol BS8 1UG, U.K.
Dr. Ana B. Sendova-Franks
School of Mathematical Sciences
Faculty of Computing, Engineering and
Mathematical Sciences
University of the West of England
Frenchay Campus, Coldharbour Lane
Bristol BS16 1QY, U.K.
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:
* Nick Britton, University of Bath
* Franc§ois-Xavier Dechaume-Moncharmont, University of Bristol
* Nigel Franks, University of Bristol
* Tim Kovacs, University of Bristol
* James Marshall, University of Bristol
* Kevin Passino, Ohio State University
* Robert Planque©, University of Bristol
* Francis Ratnieks, University of Sheffield
* Ana Sendova-Franks, University of the West of England
* David Sumpter, University of Oxford
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission of abstracts by: 13th January 2006
Notification of decision: 6th February 2006
Camera ready copies by: 20th February 2006
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Bob Planque
Dep. of Computer Science/
School of Biological Sciences
University of Bristol
Woodland Road
Bristol BS8 1UB, UK
email: [log in to unmask]
tel: +44-117-954-5251
web: http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/home/planque
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