MESSAGES
Yingmin Jia
General Chair of ICAROB

Yingmin Jia
General Chair(Professor,Beihang University,R .P. China)

It is my great pleasure to invite you to the International Conference on Artificial
Life and Robotics (ICAROB), in Oita City, Oita, Japan from Jan. 11th to 13th,2014.
ICAROB 2014 develops from the AROB that was created in 1996 by Prof.
Masanori Sugisaka and celebrated her birthday of eighteen years old in 2013.
Doubtless, new mission and big challenges in the field of artificial life androbotics will promote ICAROB to start a new stage and attract wide interests
among scientist, researchers, and engineers around the world.
For a successful meeting, many people have contributed their great efforts toICAROB. Here, I would like to express my special thanks to all authors andspeakers, and the meeting organizing team for their excellent works.
Looking forward to meeting you at ICAROB in Oita City and wishing you enjoy
your stay in Japan.

Takao Ito
General Chair of ICAROB

Takao Ito
General Chair(Professor ofUbe National

College of Technology, Japan)

It is my great honor to invite you all to The International Conference onArtificial Life and Robotics (ICAROB 2014).This Conference is changed as
the old symposium from the first (1996) to the Eighteenth I am pleased towelcome you to the 2013 International Conference on Artificial Life andRobotics (ICAROB) in the wonderful city of Oita, JapanThe ICAROB has long history. The former organization of the ICAROB
was developed under the strong leadership of the President, Professor.
Masanori Sugisaka, the father of AROB. We gathered many researchers,
faculty members, graduate students from all over the world, and publishednumerous high-quality proceedings and journals every year.
Over the years, dramatic improvements have been made in the field ofartificial life and its applications. The ICAROB has becoming the unifying
the exchange of scientific information on the study of man-made systems
that exhibit the behavioral characteristic of natural living systems including
software, hardware and/or wetware. Our conference shapes the developmentof artificial life, extending our empirical research beyond the territory
circumscribed by life-as-we-know-it and into the domain of life-as-it-could–
be. It will provide us a good place to present our new research results, goodideas, and valuable information about artificial intelligence, complex
systems theories, robotics, management of technology, etc.
In order to provide an outstanding technical level for the presentations atthe conference, we have invited more than 60 distinguished experts in thefield of artificial life in the organizing committee and program committee.
We will have 23 sessions during 3 days of conference, including 3 invitedsessions.
The conference site is the Compal Hall, one of the finest congress centersin Oita. It is situated near the center of the city. You can find many fantastic
scenic spots and splendid hot-springs. Enjoy your stay and take your time tovisit the city of Oita.
I am looking forward to meeting you in Oita during 2013 ICAROB and tosharing a most pleasant, interesting and fruitful conferenceJu-Jang LeeGeneral Chair of ICAROB

Ju-Jang Lee
General Chair(Professor, KAIST)The First International Conference on Artificial Life and Robotics(ICAROB) will be held in Oita City, Oita, Japan from Jan. 11th to 13th, 2014.
This year’s Conference will be held amidst the high expectation of theincreasingly important role of the new interdisciplinary paradigm of scienceand engineering represented by the field of artificial life and robotics that
continuously attracts wide interests among scientist, researchers, andengineers around the globe.
Distinguished researchers and technologists from around the world arelooking forward to attending and meeting at ICAROB. ICAROB is becoming
the annual excellent forum that represents a unique opportunity for theacademic and industrial communities to meet and assess the latest
developments in this fast growing artificial life and robotics field. ICAROB
enables them to address new challenges, share solutions, discuss research
directions for the future, exchange views and ideas, view the results of appliedresearch, present and discuss the latest development of new technologies andrelevant applications.
In addition, ICAROB offers the opportunity of hearing the opinions ofwell-known leading experts in the field through the keynote sessions, provides
the bases for regional and international collaborative research, and enables toforesee the future evolution of new scientific paradigms and theories
contributed by the field of artificial life and robotics and associated researcharea. The twenty-first century will become the century of artificial life andintelligent machines in support of humankind and ICAROB is contributing
through wide technical topics of interest that support this direction.
It is a great for me as a General Chair of the 1st ICAROB 2014 to welcome
everyone to this important event. Also, I would like to extend my special
thanks to all authors and speakers for contributing their research works, theparticipants, and the organizing team of the 1st ICAROB.
I’m looking forward to meeting you at the 1st ICAROB in Oita City andwishing you all the best.

Masanori Sugisaka

Honorary General Chair of ICAROB

Masanori Sugisaka
Honorary General Char(Professors,University of Sultan Zainal
Abidin(UniSZA), Malaysia,
University of Malaysia-Perlis and President,
ALife Robotics Co., Ltd. ,Japan)

It is my great honor to invite you all to The International Conference on
Artificial Life and Robotics (ICAROB 2014).
This Conference is changed as the old symposium from the first (1996) tothe Eigteenth(2013) anually which were organized by Oita University,
Nippon Bunri University(NBU), and ALife Robotics Corporation Ltd. under
the sponsorship of the Science and Technology Policy Bureau, the Ministryof Education, Science, Sports, and Culture (Monbusho), presently, theMinistry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology(monkasho), Japanese Government, Japan Society for the Promotion ofScience (JSPS), The Commemorative Organization for the Japan WorldExposition (’70), Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Asian Office ofAerospace Research and Development (AFOSR/AOARD), USA. I would
like to express my sincere thanks to not only Monkasho (annually fundsupport from 1996 to 2013) but also JSPS, the CommemorativeOrganization for the Japan World Exposition (’70) , Japanese companies fortheir repeated support.
The old symposium was organized by International Organizing Committeeof AROB and was co-operated by the Santa Fe Institute (USA), RSJ, IEEJ,ICASE (Now ICROS) (Korea), CAAI (P. R. China), ISCIE, IEICE, IEEE(Japan Council), JARA, and SICE.The old AROB symposium was growing
up by absorbing many new knowledge and technologies into it.
This history and character are inherited also from now. From now on,ALife Robotics Corporation Ltd. is in charge of management. The future of
The ICAROB 2014 is brilliant from a point of view of yielding newtechnologies to human society in 21st century.
I hope that fruitful discussions and exchange of ideas between researchers
during Coferenence (ICAROB 2014) will yield new merged technologies forhappiness of human beings and, hence, will facilitate the establishment of aninternational joint research institute on Artificial Life and Robotics in future.