CALL FOR PAPERS EVOROBOT 2000 THIRD EUROPEAN WORKSHOP ON EVOLUTIONARY ROBOTICS Edinburgh, 17th April, 2000 IN CONJUNCTION WITH THIRD EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON GENETIC PROGRAMMING (EuroGP 2000) AND THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EVOLVABLE SYSTEMS (ICES 2000) Evolutionary Robotics (ER) studies the use of evolutionary computing techniques for the automatic design of adaptive robots. The aims of this workshop, which will bring together active ER researchers and people from industry, are to assess the current state-of-the-art and to provide opportunities for fostering future developments and applications. The workshop is sponsored by the EvoNet, the European Network of Excellence in Evolutionary Computation, and is one of the activities of EvoRob, EvoNet's working group on Evolutionary Robotics. The Evolutionary Robotic workshop will be held in conjunction with the Third European Conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP 2000), with Third International Conference on Evolvable Systems (ICES2000), and with the others Evonet workshops (EvoIASP, EvoScondi, EvoDOP, EvoTel, EvoStim, EvoFlight). Topics of interest for include, but are not limited to: Genotype to Phenotype mappings Analysis of evolutionary processes and of evolved robots Adaptation to changing environments Co-evolution of control architectures and body plans Interactions of evolution, development and learning Evolvable Hardware in Robotics Fundamental methodological issues Simulation-reality transferrence Comparison of Evolutionary Robotics methodologies Scaling to complex behaviors Fitness formula analysis Role of Evolutionary Robotics in Cognitive Science Neuroethological uses of Evolutionary Robotics Papers are expected to deal with research involving real robots or with simulation experiments that explicitly deal with issues of relevance to real robots. Workshop Web page: http://airlab.elet.polimi.it/evorob2000/ Email: evorob2000@elet.polimi.it Submission Instructions Electronic submissions are strongly encouraged. Postscript/PDF papers should be mailed to evorob2000@elet.polimi.it For submissions in traditional paper format, send two hard-copies to: Pier Luca Lanzi Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione Politecnico di Milano Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32 I-20133 Milano Italy All submissions must arrive no later than 15 November 1999. Notifications of acceptance or rejection will be sent by email on 15 January 2000 at the latest. Camera ready versions of the papers will be required by 31 January 2000. Paper format: LNCS format, 12 pages recommended, 15 pages maximum. Accepted papers will be published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series and made available at the conference's site. Timetable: Submission deadline 15 November 1999 Notification of acceptance 15 January 1999 Notification of acceptance 31 January 1999 Workshop 17 April 2000 Demonstrations Computer, video, and robotic demonstrations are also invited for submission. Contact the Conference Chair and indicate equipment requirements. Programme Committee: Wolfgang Banzhaf Randall D. Beer Marco Colombetti Luis Correia Marco Dorigo Dario Floreano Inman Harvey Phil Husbands Pier Luca Lanzi Orazio Miglino Stefano Nolfi Peter Nordin Chair: Pier Luca Lanzi, Artificial Intelligence and Robotic Project Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione Politecnico di Milano Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 32 Milano - Italy e-mail: lanzi@elet.polimi.it