The	  First	  InternaWonal	  Symposium	  on	  Swarm	  Behavior	  	  and	  Bio-­‐Inspired	  RoboWcs	  2015	  	SWARM	
2015
Kyoto,	  JAPAN	  	  	  October	  28-­‐30,	  2015	  hJp://www.ohk.hiroshima-­‐u.ac.jp/SWARM2015/	  Scope:	   Living	   things	   that	   survive	   natural	   selec6on	   have	   beau6ful	   skills	   and	   intelligent	  behavior.	   A	   swarm	   can	   perform	   many	   func6ons	   that	   its	   component	   individuals	   cannot	  possibly	  accomplish	  alone.	  In	  addi6on	  to	  the	  ability	  to	  adapt	  to	  the	  environment,	  but	  also	  to	   construct	   a	   suitable	   environment	   for	   its	   own	   advantage.	   The	   construc6ve	  understanding	   of	   intelligence	   of	   living	   things	   is	   a	   very	   interes6ng	   approach	   from	   the	  point	  of	  view	  of	  biology	  and	  engineering.	  The	  aim	  of	  this	  ﬁrst	  symposium	  SWARM2015	  is	  the	  construc6on	  of	  a	  bridge	  between	  biologists	  and	  engineers	  who	  are	  interested	  in	  the	  intelligence	   of	   living	   things	   and	   the	   crea6on	   of	   a	   new	   academic	   ﬁeld	   by	   integra6ng	  biology	   and	   engineering.	   This	   symposium	   will	   focus	   on	   the	   biological	   and	   engineering	  approaches	   to	   understanding	   swarm	   behavior	   and	   biologically-­‐inspired	   robo6cs.	   All	  aspects	   of	   swarm	   behavior	   and	   bio-­‐inspired	   robo6cs	   are	   welcome,	   including,	   but	   not	  limited	  to,	  the	  following	  topics:	  Related	  Topics	  Important	  Dates	  May	  1,	  2015	  May	  25,	  2015	  (extended)	  	  No6ﬁca6on	  of	  Acceptance July	  	   1,	  2015	  	   Biology	  	  Submission	  of	  Papers	  	  Social	  Insects,	  Evolu1onary	  Coopera1on,	  	  	  Ethology,	  Social	  Physiology,	  	  	  	  Adapta1on,	  Self-­‐Organiza1on,	  	  	  	  Sociometry,	  Phase	  Polyphenism,	  	  	  	  Quorum	  Sensing	  	  	  Engineering	  	  Swarm	  Intelligence,	  Swarm	  Robo1cs,	  	  Biomime1cs,	  Bio-­‐Inspired	  Robo1cs,	  	  	  Mul1-­‐Agent	  Systems,	  Walking	  Robots,	  	  Modular	  Robo1cs,	  Decentralized	  Control,	  	  	  Distributed	  Systems	  Site:	  	  Kyoto,	  JAPAN	  Kyoto	  University	  Clock	  Tower	  Centennial	  Hall	  	  	  Camera	  Ready	  Submission	  September	  1,	  2015		  	  	  &	  Early	  Registra6on	  General	  Chair	  Fumitoshi	  Matsuno	  (Kyoto	  University)	  	  Vice-­‐General	  Chairs	  Marco	  Dorigo	  (Université	  Libre	  de	  Bruxelles)	  	  	  	  Yukio	  Gunji	  (Waseda	  University)	  Kazuki	  Tsuji	  (University	  of	  the	  Ryukyus)	  Program	  Chair	  Kazuhiro	  Ohkura	  (Hiroshima	  University)	  	  Vice-­‐Program	  Chairs	  Kenji	  Matsuura	  (Kyoto	  University)	  	  Toru	  Namerikawa	  (Keio	  University)	  	For	  further	  informaWon,	  lease	  s.s.	  	
For	  further	  informaWon,	  pplease	  contact	  contact	  uuswarm2015@	  mechatronics.me.kyoto-­‐u.ac.jp	  The	  First	  InternaWonal	  Symposium	  on	  Swarm	  Behavior	  	  and	  Bio-­‐Inspired	  RoboWcs	  2015	  	There	  are	  three	  op6ons	  for	  submission:	  full	  paper,	  short	  paper	  or	  abstract.	  Full	  papers	  and	  short	  papers	  have	  an	  8-­‐page	  or	  a	  4-­‐page	  maximum	  length.	  Surveys	  are	  also	  welcome	  as	  full	  papers.	  Abstracts	  are	  limited	  to	  2	  pages.	  
Selected	  papers	  will	  be	  invited	  for	  further	  revision	  and	  extension	  for	  possible	  publica6on	  in	  a	  special	  issue	  of	  Ar1ﬁcial	  Life	  and	  Robo1cs,	  Springer.	
Advisory Committee	  Program	  CommiJee	  	  	  	  	  	  Andrew Adamatzky (University of the West England, UK)
Andrew	  Adamatzky	  (University	  of	  the	  West	  England,	  UK)	  Hitoshi	  Aonuma	  (Hokkaido	  University,	  Japan)	  Hajime Asama (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Tamim Asfour (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
Fumihiko	  Asano	  (JAIST,	  Japan)	  Shunichi	  Azuma	  (Kyoto	  University,	  Japan)	  Dora Biro (University of Oxford, UK)
Mauro	  Bira`ari	  (Université	  Libre	  de	  Bruxelles,	  Belgium)	  Howie Choset (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Jean-Louis Deneubourg (Université	  Libre	  de	  Bruxelles, Belgium)
Nikhil	  Chopra	  (University	  of	  Maryland,	  USA)	  Shigeto	  Dobata	  (Kyoto	  University,	  Japan)	  Li-Chen Fu (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Simon Garnier (Rutgers University, USA)
Tomassino	  Ferrauto	  (ICST,	  Italy)	  Ryusuke	  Fujisawa	  (Hachinohe	  Ins6tute	  of	  Technology,	  Japan)	  Jan Tommy Gravdahl (NUST, Norway)
Daniel	  I.	  Goldman	  (Georgia	  Ins6tute	  of	  Technology,	  USA)	  Yoshinori Hayakawa (Tohoku University, Japan)
Takashi Ikegami (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Roderich	  Gross	  (The	  University	  of	  Sheﬃeld,	  UK)	  Takeshi	  Hatanaka	  (Tokyo	  Ins6tute	  of	  Technology,	  Japan)	  Yingmin Jia (Beihang University, China)
Jeff Jones (University of the West England, UK)
Kiyohiko	  Ha`ori	  (NICT,	  Japan)	  Sabine	  Hauert	  (Bristol	  University,	  UK)	  Francesco Mondada (EPFL, Switzerland)
Tomohisa	  Hayakawa	  (Tokyo	  Ins6tute	  of	  Technology,	  Japan)	  James Marshall (University of Sheffield, UK)
Hiroyuki	  Iizuka	  (Hokkaido	  University,	  Japan)	  Toshiya Matsushima (Hokkaido University, Japan)
Takashi	  Ikegami	  (The	  University	  of	  Tokyo,	  Japan)	  Hiraku Nishimori (Hiroshima University, Japan)
Rolf Pfeifer (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Yusuke	  Ikemoto	  (Toyama	  University,	  Japan)	  Hideaki	  Ishii	  (Tokyo	  Ins6tute	  of	  Technology,	  Japan)	  Ioannis Poulakakis (University of Delaware, USA)
Masato	  Ishikawa	  (Osaka	  University,	  Japan)	  Stephen Pratt (Arizona State University, USA)
Kenji	  Iwadate	  (Kitami	  Ins6tute	  of	  Technology,	  Japan)	  Jonathan Rossiter (Bristol University, UK)
Jeﬀ	  Jones	  (University	  of	  the	  West	  England,	  UK)	  Takao Sasaki (University of Oxford, UK)
Keitaro	  Naruse	  (University	  of	  Aizu,	  Japan)	  Hiroshi Sato (NDAJ, Japan)
Yoshiaki	  Katada	  (Setsunan	  University,	  Japan)	  Masashi Shiraishi (Waseda University, Japan)
Takashi	  Kawakami	  (Hokkaido	  University	  of	  Science,	  Japan)	  Tomohiro Shirakawa (NDAJ, Japan)
Tae-­‐Hyoung	  Kim	  (Chung-­‐Ang	  University,	  Korea)	  David Sumpte (Uppsala Universitet, Sweden)
Masao	  Kubo	  (NDAJ,	  Japan)	  Dimitris P. Tsakiris (University of Crete, Greece)
Poramate	  Manoonpong	  (The	  University	  of	  Southern	  Denmark,	  Denmark)	  Kazuo Tuchiya (Kyoto University, Japan)
Yoshiyuki	  Matsumura	  (Shinshu	  University,	  Japan)	  Florentin Wörgötter (Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen, Germany) 	  Kamilo	  Melo	  (EPFL,	  Switzerland)	  General	  Chair	  Masao	  Migita	  (Shiga	  University,	  Japan)	  	   Fumitoshi	  Matsuno	  (Kyoto	  University)	  Shuhei	  Miyashita	  (MIT,	  USA)	  Toru	  Moriyama	  (Shinshu	  University,	  Japan)	  Vice-­‐General	  Chairs	  Masaaki	  Nagahara	  (Kyoto	  University,	  Japan)	  	  	  	  	  Marco	  Dorigo	  (Université	  Libre	  de	  Bruxelles)	  Hiraku	  Nishimori	  (Hiroshima	  University,	  Japan)	  	  	  	  	  Yukio	  Gunji	  (Waseda	  University)	  Stephen	  Pra`	  (Arizona	  State	  University,	  USA)	  Kazuki	  Tsuji	  (University	  of	  the	  Ryukyus)	  Jonathan	  Rossiter	  (Bristol	  University,	  UK)	  Program	  Chair	  Kazunori	  Sakurama	  (To`ori	  University,	  Japan)	  Kazuhiro	  Ohkura	  (Hiroshima	  University)	   	  Hiroshi	  Sato	  (NDAJ,	  Japan)	  Hyungbo	  Shim	  (Seoul	  Na6onal	  University,	  Korea)	  Vice-­‐Program	  Chairs	  Hiroyuki	  Shimoji	  (Hokkaido	  University,	  Japan)	  Kenji	  Matsuura	  (Kyoto	  University)	  	  Tomohiro	  Shirakawa	  (NDAJ,	  Japan)	  Toru	  Namerikawa	  (Keio	  University)	  Masashi	  Shiraishi	  (Waseda	  University,	  Japan)	  Organized	  Session	  Chair	  Me6n	  Sic	  (Carnegie	  Mellon	  University,	  USA)	  	  	  	  	  Akio	  Ishiguro	  (Tohoku	  University,	  Japan)	  Serge	  S6nckwich	  (University	  of	  Caen-­‐Lower	  Normandy,	  France)	  Ken	  Sugawara	  (Tohoku	  Gakuin	  University,	  Japan)	  PublicaWon	  Chair	  Keiji	  Suzuki	  (Hokkaido	  University,	  Japan)	  	  	  	  	  Keitaro	  Naruse	  (The	  University	  of	  Aizu,	  Japan)	  Ikuo	  Suzuki	  (Kitami	  Ins6tute	  of	  Technology,	  Japan)	  Publicity	  Chair	  Keiki	  Takadama	  (The	  University	  of	  Electro-­‐Communica6ons,	  Japan)	  	  	  	  	  Ryusuke	  Fujisawa	  (Hachinohe	  Ins6tute	  of	  Technology,	  Japan)	  Vito	  Trianni	  (Ins6tute	  of	  Cogni6ve	  Sciences	  and	  Technologies,	  Italy)	  Elio	  Tuci	  (Aberystwyth	  University,	  UK)	  RegistraWon	  Chair	  Ali	  Emre	  Turgut	  (University	  of	  Leuven,	  Belgium)	  	  	  	  	  Tetsushi	  Kamegawa	  (Okayama	  University,	  Japan)	  Masaki	  Yamakita	  (Tokyo	  Ins6tute	  of	  Technology,	  Japan)	  Masahito	  Yamamoto	  (Hokkaido	  University,	  Japan)	  Finance	  Chair	  Kazuaki	  Yamada	  (Toyo	  University,	  Japan)	  	  	  	  	  Kazuyuki	  Ito	  (Hosei	  University,	  Japan)	  Michiko	  Watanabe	  (Kitami	  Ins6tute	  of	  Technology,	  Japan)	  Local	  Arrangement	  Chair	  Stefan	  John	  Witwicki	  (EPFL,	  Switzerland	  )	  	  	  	  	  Shinya	  Aoi	  (Kyoto	  University,	  Japan)	  Daniel	  Zelazo	  (Israel	  Ins6tute	  of	  Technology,	  Israel)	  	  Secretary	  	  	  	  	  Takahiro	  Endo	  (Kyoto	  University,	  Japan)	  Photo:	  Two	  Ants,	  sculptured	  by	  Mel6ng	  Pot	  (Masahiro	  Hasegawa	  and	  Kana	  Yokoi)		  	  	  	  Toshiyuki	  Yasuda	  (Hiroshima	  University,	  Japan)