[Neuro-IT] SAB2006 Last-Minute-Results Call for Abstracts & Workshops info

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Dear All, 

SAB2006, From Animals to Animats 9, The Ninth International Conference on 
the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior.
Roma, Italy, 25 - 29 September 2006.
http://www.sab06.org/ 

LAST-MINUTE-RESULTS CALL FOR ABSTRACT 

As for the previous edition, SAB2006 allow you to submit your 
Last-Minute-Results in the Conference within a special poster session. 

This session will offer researchers in Adaptive Behavior the opportunity to 
present their most recent results at SAB2006 (http://www.sab06.org/). The 
goal of this session is to provide an informal setting in which participants 
can reveal and discuss their latest results and developments at the time of 
the conference (25-29 September 2006). 

Researchers are invited to submit a two-page abstract describing recent
results/developments. Abstracts should be sent electronically as a PDF file 
to the conference general email address, sab2006 at sab06.org, with "Last 
Minute Results" in the email Subject line. 

The call for abstracts is open to all (i.e. to people both with and without 
an accepted paper at the conference). There is a limit of one 
abstract/poster per participant as a first author. After review by the 
conference chairs, authors of accepted abstracts will be allowed to present 
their results as a poster in a special Last-Minute-Results session. Note 
that the abstracts will not be considered as publications and will not be 
included in the conference proceedings. 

Deadlines: 

August 23 2006:  Abstract submission deadline
September 1 2006:  Notification of acceptance
September 25-29 2006:  SAB'06 conference 

Contributions treating any of the following topics from the perspective of
adaptive behavior will receive special emphasis: 

The Animat approach
Motor control
Body and brain co-evolution
Self-assembling and self-replication
Sensory-motor coordination
Action selection & behavioral sequencing
Navigation and mapping
Internal models and representation
Evolution, development and learning
Motivation and emotion
Collective and social behavior
Communication and language
Emergent structures and behaviors
Neural correlates of behavior
Evolutionary and co-evolutionary approaches
Autonomous, bio-inspired, and hybrid robotics
Autonomous robotics
Humanoid robotics
Software agents and virtual creatures
Applied adaptive behavior
Animats in education
Philosophical and psychological issues 

CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP NEWS 

A preliminary program of the conference is now available from the conference 
web-site (http://www.sab06.org/). 

There are several interesting workshops associated to the conference. For 
more information please check:  http://www.sab06.org/workshops.html 

Sincerely, 

Stefano Nolfi 

Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR-ISTC)
Via S. Martino della Battaglia, 44, 00185, Roma, Italy
voice: ++39-06-44595233
fax: ++39-06-44595243
e-mail:stefano.nolfi at istc.cnr.it
www:  http://laral.istc.cnr.it/nolfi