<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><p><span style="font-family:'Courier New'">Call for
Papers - The First Workshop on Self-organization <br></span><span style="font-family:'Courier New'">in
Swarm of Robots: from Molecular Robots to Mobile Agents</span></p><p><span style="font-family:'Courier New'">To
be held in conjunction with the 33rd IEEE Symposium on <br>Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2014),
October 6-9, 2014<br> Workshop date: October 6, 2014<br><br>
The goal of the workshop on Self-organization in Swarm of Robots: from
Molecular Robots to Mobile Agents is to gather researchers and students in the
field of distributed computing, control theory, molecular robotics, and system
biology, and enhance the connection between these fields.<br>
<br>
As technologies for electrical, biological, and chemical devices progress, new
notions of computation and computing devices are emerging, for example,
computation by swarms of robots, autonomy in mobile agents, dynamics in
populations, self-assembly like DNA tiling, and chemical reaction circuits.
These fields share the concept of self-organization of swarm of robots in
common.<br>
<br>
The workshop aims at sharing new advances and work in progress, and discussing
future directions to foster novel collaborations.<br>
<br>
<br>
SCOPE:<br>
Topics covered by the workshop include, but are not limited to:<br>
- Mobile robots/agents<br>
- Population protocols<br>
- Control theory for swarm of robots<br>
- Self-assembling systems<br>
- Chemical reaction systems<br>
- System biology<br>
<br>
<br>
IMPORTANT DATES:<br>
- Paper submission deadline: July 1, 2014<br>
- Author notification: July 10, 2014<br>
- Camera-ready submission: July 20, 2014<br>
- Conference: October 6, 2014<br>
<br>
<br>
SUBMISSION: <br>
Submissions must be written in English and must follow the IEEE two-column
format. They must be submitted through EasyChair. Two types of submissions will
be considered: regular and work-in-progress. Regular submissions must contain
original unpublished results, and should not exceed 10 pages. We also consider
original surveys as regular submissions. Work-in-progress papers and position
papers should be no longer than 4 pages. <br>
<br>
<br>
PROCEEDINGS:<br>
All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by the PC members, and accepted
papers will appear in the symposium proceedings, which will be published by the
IEEE Computer Society.<br>
<br>
<br>
WORKSHOP CHAIR:<br>
Yukiko Yamauchi (Kyushu University,
Japan)<br>
<br>
<br>
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:<br>
Shun-ichi Azuma (Kyoto University,
Japan)<br>
Doina Bein (Pennsylvania State
University, U.S.A.)<br>
Masaki Inoue (Keio University,
Japan)<br>
Taisuke Izumi (Nagoya Institute of
Technology, Japan)<br>
Sayaka Kamei (Hiroshima University,
Japan)<br>
Takashi Nakakuki (Kyushu Institute of
Technology, Japan)<br>
Fukuhito Ooshita (Osaka University,
Japan)<br>
Kazuya Sato (Saga University,
Japan)<br>
Giovanni Viglietta (University of
Ottawa, Canada)<br>
Yukiko Yamauchi (Kyushu University,
Japan) <br>
<br>
<br>
INVITED SPEAKERS:<br>
Satoshi Kobayashi (The University of
Electro-Communications, Japan) <br>
Yasuhiro Suzuki (Nagoya University, Japan)<br>
<br>
<br>
MORE INFORMATION:<br>
Web:
<a href="http://tcslab.csce.kyushu-u.ac.jp/wssr2014/" target="_blank">http://tcslab.csce.kyushu-u.ac.jp/wssr2014/</a><br>
Contact:
<a href="mailto:wssr2014@tcslab.csce.kysuhu-u.ac.jp" target="_blank">wssr2014@tcslab.csce.kysuhu-u.ac.jp</a><br>
</span></p></div>
</div><br></div>