The Twelfth International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics 2007(AROB 12th ’07),
B-Con Plaza, Beppu, Oita, Japan, January 25-27, 2007

THE TWELFTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM

ONARTIFICIAL LIFE AND ROBOTICS(AROB 12th '07)

ORGANIZED BY
Organizing Committee of International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics(Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Oita University, Japan)

OPERATED BY
Santa Fe Institute (SFI, USA)The Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ, Japan)
The Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan (IEEJ, Japan)
Institute of Control, Automation and Systems Engineers (ICASE, Korea)
Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI, P. R. China)

CO-OPERATED BY
The Institute of Systems, Control and Information Engineers (ISCIE)The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE)The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.(IEEE Japan Council)
Japan Robot Association (JARA)The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE, Japan)

SPONSORED BY
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation Advanced Technology R&D Center
Oita Gas Co., Ltd.
ME System Co., Ltd.
Sanwa Shurui Co., Ltd.

SUPPORTED BY
Kyushu Bureau of Economy, Trade and Industry, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
Oita Prefecture
Oita City
Beppu City
The Federation of Oita Prefecture Chambers of Commerce and Industry
The Oita Prefectural Organization of the Industrial Groups
Kyodo News
JIJI PRESS
Oita Godo Shimbunsya
The Asahi shimbun Co.
The Mainichi Newspapers Co.
The Yomiuri Shimbun Seibuhonsya
The Nishinippon Newspaper Co.
The NIKKAN KOGYO SHIMBUM. LTD.
NHK Oita Station
Oita Broadcasting System©ISAROB 2007

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Television Oita System corporation
Oita Asahi Broadcasting Co., Ltd.

ADVISORY COMMITTE CHAIRMAN
F. Harashima (Tokyo Denki University, Japan)

GENERAL CHAIRMAN
M. Sugisaka (Oita University, Japan)

PROGRAM CHAIRMAN
H. Tanaka (Tokyo Medical & Dental University, Japan)

VICE-CHAIRMAN
J. J. Lee (KAIST, Korea)
J. L. Casti (Technical University of Vienna, Austria)
Y. G. Zhang (Academia Sinica, P. R. China)

ADVISORY COMMITTEE
T. Fukuda (Nagoya University, Japan)
F. Harashima (Tokyo Denki University, Japan)
H. Kimura (RIKEN, Japan)
M. Tomizuka (University of California Berkeley, USA)

INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
K. Aihara (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
C. Barrett (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)M. Bedau (Reed College, USA)
J. L. Casti (Technical University of Vienna,Austria)
M. Eaton (University of Limerick, Ireland)
J. M. Epstein (The Brookings Institution, USA)T. Fukuda (Nagoya University, Japan)
H. Hashimoto (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
D. J. G. James (Coventry University, UK)
K. Kyuma (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Advanced Technology
R&D Center, Japan)
C. G. Langton (Santa Fe Institute, USA)M. H. Lee (Pusan National University, Korea)
J. J. Lee (KAIST, Korea)
S. Rasmussen (Santa Fe Institute, USA)T. S. Ray (University of Oklahoma, USA)
M. Sugisaka (Oita University, Japan) (Chairman)
C. Taylor (University of California-Los Angeles, USA)W. R. Wells (University of Nevada-Las Vegas, USA)Y. G. Zhang (Academia Sinica, P. R. China)©ISAROB 2007

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INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
K. Abe (Nihon University, Japan)
K. Aihara (The University of Tokyo, Japan) (Co-chairman)
T. Arita (Nagoya University, Japan)
M. Bedau (Reed College, USA)R. Belew (University of California-San Diego, USA)
S- M. Chen (National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan)
Y. Y. Fan (University of California-Davis, USA)S. H. Han (Kyungnam University, Korea)
H. Hashimoto (The University of Tokyo, Japan)(Co-chairman)
N. Homma (Tohoku University, Japan)
H. Inooka (Tohoku University, Japan)
S. Ishikawa (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)
T. Ishimatsu (Nagasaki University, Japan)
T. Iwamoto (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Advanced
Technology R&D Center, Japan)
J. Johnson (The Open University, UK)
O. Katai (Kyoto University, Japan)
M. Kono (University of Miyazaki, Japan)
H. Kawamura (Hokkaido University, Japan)
S. Kumagai (Osaka University, Japan)
J. M. Lee (Pusan National University, Korea)
H. H. Lund (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)M. Minami (Fukui University, Japan)
T. Nagashima (Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan)
M. Nakamura (Saga University, Japan)
K. Nakano (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan)
K. Naitoh (Wasada University, Japan)
J. Nishii (Yamaguchi University, Japan)
W. Nistico (University of Dortmund, Germany)
S. Omatu (Osaka Prefecture University, Japan)
K. Onishi (Niigata University, Japan)
M. Okamoto (Kyushu University, Japan)
M. Osano (Aizu University, Japan)
M. Oswald (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
R. Pfeifer (University of Zurich-Irchel, Switzerland)
T. S. Ray (University of Oklahoma, USA) (Co-chairman)
S. Sagara (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)
P. Sapaty (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine)
T. Sawaragi (Kyoto University, Japan)
T. Shibata (AIST, Japan)
K. Shimohara (Doshisha University, Japan)
K- B. Sim (Chung-Ang University, Korea)
K. Sugawara (Tohoku Gakuin University, Japan)
M. Sugisaka (Oita University, Japan)
H. Suzuki (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
H. Tanaka (Tokyo Medical & Dental University, Japan) (Chairman)
M. Tanaka-Yamawaki (Tottori University, Japan)
K. Tsuchiya (Kyoto University, Japan)
K. Uosaki (Osaka University, Japan)
H. Umeo (Osaka Electro-Communication University, Japan)
K. Watanabe (Saga University, Japan)
T. Yamamoto (University of Ryukyus, Japan)©ISAROB 2007

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H. Yanagimoto (Osaka Prefecture University, Japan)
M. Yano (Tohoku University, Japan)
Y. Yin (The Beijing University of Science and Technology, P. R. China)
M. Yokota (Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan)

LOCAL ARRANGEMENT COMMITTEE
S. Sagara (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)
M. Rizon (Northern Malaysia University College of Engineering, Malaysia)
M. Sugisaka (Oita University, Japan) (Chairman)
J. Wang (Oita University, Japan)
X. Wang (Niihama National College of Technology Japan)
F. Dai (Matsue National College of Technology, Japan)
M. Ito (Konan University, Japan)
R. Mamat (Terengganu Advanced Technical Institute, Malaysia)

HISTORY
This symposium was founded in 1996 by 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,Oita, Japan except in Oita, Japan (AROB 5th ’00) and in Tokyo, Japan (AROB 6th ’01). The
twelfths symposium will be held on 25-27 January, 2007, at B-Con Plaza, Beppu, Oita, Japan.
This symposium invites you all to discuss development of new technologies concerning
Artificial Life and Robotics based on simulation and hardware in the twenty first century.

OBJECTIVE
The objective of this symposium is the development of new technologies for artificial life androbotics which have been recently born in Japan and are expected to be applied in various
fields. This symposium will discuss new results in the field of artificial life and robotics.

TOPICS
Artificial brain researchArtificial intelligence
Artificial life
Artificial living
Artificial mind research
Bioinformatics
Brain science
Chaos
Cognitive science
Complexity
Computer graphics
Evolutionary computations
DNA computing
Fuzzy control
Genetic algorithms
Human-machine cooperative systems
Human-welfare robotics
Innovative computations
Intelligent control and modeling©ISAROB 2007

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The Twelfth International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics 2007(AROB 12th ’07),
B-Con Plaza, Beppu, Oita, Japan, January 25-27, 2007

Micromachines
Micro-robot world cup soccer tournament
Mobile vehicles
Molecular biology
Multi-agent systems
Nano-biology
Nano-roboticsNeural networks
Neurocomputers
Neurocomputing technologies and its application for hardware
Pattern recognition
Robotics
Robust virtual engineering
Virtual reality
OthersCOPYRIGHTS
Accepted papers will be published in the proceeding of AROB and some of high quality
papers in the proceeding will be requested to re-submit their papers for the consideration ofpublication in an international journal ARTIFICIAL LIFE AND ROBOTICS and APPLIED
MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTATION. All correspondence related to the symposium
should be addressed to AROB Secretariat.

Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering,
Oita University700 Dannoharu, Oita 870-1192, JAPAN
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