THE ELEVENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM

ONARTIFICIAL LIFE AND ROBOTICS(AROB 11th '06)

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 Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE, Japan)
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, 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)SPONSORED BY
The Commemorative Organization for the Japan World Exposition(70’)
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation Advanced Technology R&D Center
Oita Gas Co., Ltd.
Sanwa Shurui Co., Ltd.
Yatsushika Brewery Co., Ltd.

SUPPORTED BY
Kyushu Bureau of Economy, Trade and Industry, Ministry of Economy, Trade andIndustry
Oita Prefecture
Oita City
Beppu City
The Federation of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Oita Prefecture
The Oita Prefectural Organization of the Industrial Groups
Kyodo News
JIJI PressOita Godo Shimbunsya
The Asahi shimbun Co.
The Mainichi Newspapers Co.
THE YOMIURI SHIMBUNThe Nishinippon Newspaper Co.
The NIKKAN KOGYO SHIMBUM. LTD.
Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc.

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NHK Oita Station
Oita Broadcasting System
Television Oita System
Oita Asahi Broadcasting Co., Ltd.
Oita System Control Research Society

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.L. Casti (Technical University of Vienna, Austria)

ADVISORY COMMITTEET. Fukuda (Nagoya University, Japan)
F. Harashima (Tokyo Denki University, Japan)
H. Kimura (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
M. Tomizuka(University of California Berkeley, USA)
S.Ueno (Kyoto University, Japan)

INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
K. Aihara (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
C. Barrett (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)M. Bedau (Reed College, USA)
Z. Bubnicki (Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland)
J.L. Casti (Technical University of Vienna,Austria)
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, China)2

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)
Z. Bubnicki (Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland)
A. Buller (ATR Network-Informatics Laboratories, Japan)
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)
I. Harvey (University of Sussex, UK)
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)
M. Kaneko (Hiroshima University, Japan)
O. Katai (Kyoto University, Japan)
M. Kono (University of Miyazaki, Japan)
H. Kawamura (Hokkaido University, Japan)
S. Kawata (Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan)
S. Kitamura (Kobe 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)
H. Miyagi (The University of Ryukyus, Japan)
T. Nagashima (Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan)
M. Nakamura (Saga University, Japan)
K. Nakano (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan)
R. Nakatsu (Kwansei Gakuin 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 (ATR, 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)

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

LOCAL ARRANGEMENT COMMITTEE
X. Feng (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
S. Sagara (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)
A. Loukianov (Baical State University of Economy & Law, Russia)
M. Rizon (Northern Malaysia University College of Engineering, Malaysia)
X. Fan (Oita University, Japan)
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 inTokyo, Japan (AROB 6th ’01). The eleventh symposium will be held on 23-25
January, 2006, at B-Con Plaza, Beppu, Oita, Japan. This symposium invites you allto discuss development of new technologies concerning Artificial Life andRobotics 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 and robotics which have been recently born in Japan and are expected
to be applied in various fields. This symposium will discuss new results in the fieldof artificial life and robotics.

TOPICS
Artificial brain research
Artificial intelligence
Artificial life
Artificial living
Artificial mind research
Bioinformatics chaos
Brain science4

Cognitive science evolutionary computations
Complexity
Computer graphics
DNA computing
Fuzzy control
Genetic algorithms
Human-machine cooperative systems
Human-welfare robotics
Innovative computations
Intelligent control and modelingMicromachines
Micro-robot world cup soccer tournament
Mobile vehicles
Molecular biology
Multi-agent systems
Nano-biology
Nano-robotics
Neural 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 highquality papers in the proceeding will be requested to re-submit their papers for theconsideration of publication in an international journal ARTIFICIAL LIFE ANDROBOTICS (Springer) and APPLIED MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTATION(North-Holland). All correspondence related to the symposium should be addressedto AROB Secretariat.

Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering,
Oita University
700 Dannoharu, Oita 870-1192, JAPAN
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E-MAIL arobsecr@cc.oita-u.ac.jp
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