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Alife Digest Number 030
ALIFE LIST: Artificial Life Research List Number 30 Tuesday, July 24th 1990
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SAB90 Announcement
[massar@Think.COM: *LISP SIMULATOR NOW IN PUBLIC DOMAIN]
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Subject: SAB90 Announcement
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 90 16:07:48 EDT
From: Stewart Wilson <wilson@Think.COM>
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ANNOUNCEMENT
Simulation of Adaptive Behavior: From Animals to Animats
An International Conference
To be held in Paris, September 24-28, 1990
Sponsored by
Ecole Normale Superieure
US Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Electricite de France
IBM France
Computers, Communications and Visions (C2V)
Offilib
and a Corporate Donor
1. Conference dates and site
The conference will take place Monday through Friday, September 24-28, 1990
at the Ministere de la Recherche et de la Technologie, 1 rue Descartes, Paris,
France.
2. Conference Committee
Conference chair
Dr. Jean-Arcady Meyer Dr. Stewart W. Wilson
Ecole Normale Superieure The Rowland Institute for Science
France USA
Organizing Committee
Groupe de BioInformatique
Ecole Normale Superieure
France
Program Committee
Lashon Booker, U.S. Naval Research Lab, USA
Rodney Brooks, MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab, USA
Patrick Colgan, Queen's University at Kingston, Canada
Patrick Greussay, Universite Paris VIII, France
David McFarland, Oxford Balliol College, UK
Luc Steels, VUB AI Lab, Belgium
Richard Sutton, GTE Laboratories, USA
Frederick Toates, The Open University, UK
David Waltz, Thinking Machines Corp. and Brandeis University, USA
3. Official language: English
4. Conference Objective
The conference objective is to bring together researchers in ethology,
ecology, cybernetics, artificial intelligence, robotics, and related fields
so as to further our understanding of the behaviors and underlying mechanisms
that allow animals and, potentially, robots to adapt and survive in uncertain
environments. Said somewhat differently, the objective is to investigate
how the robot can aid in comprehending the animal and, inversely, to seek
inspiration from the animal in the construction of autonomous robots.
The conference will provide opportunities for dialogue between specialists
with different scientific perspectives--ethology and artificial intelligence
notably--a dialogue that will be enhanced by the common technical language
imposed by simulation models. As the first of its kind in the world, the
conference will make it possible to establish not only the state of the art
of "adaptive autonomous systems, natural and artificial", but a list of the
most promising future research topics.
The conference is expected to promote:
1. Identification of the organizational principles, functional laws, and
minimal properties that make it possible for a real or artificial system
to persist in an uncertain environment.
2. Better understanding of how and under what conditions such systems
can themselves discover these principles through conditioning, learning,
induction, or processes of self-organization.
3. Specification of the applicability of the theoretical knowledge thus
acquired to the building of autonomous robots.
4. Improved theoretical and practical knowledge concerning adaptive systems
in general, both natural and artificial.
Finally, special emphasis will be given to the following topics, as viewed
from the perspective of adaptive behavior:
Individual and collective behaviors Autonomous robots
Action selection and behavioral Hierarchical and parallel organizations
sequences Self organization of behavioral
Conditioning, learning and induction modules
Neural correlates of behavior Problem solving and planning
Perception and motor control Goal directed behavior
Motivation and emotion Neural networks and classifier
Behavioral ontogeny and evolution systems
Cognitive maps and internal Emergent structures and behaviors
world models
5. Conference Proceedings
The proceedings will be published about two months after the end of the
conference by The MIT Press/Bradford Books.
6. Conference Organization
Among the papers received by the organizers and reviewed by the Program
Committee members, approximately 50 have been accepted for publication in
the proceedings. They will be presented as talks or posters.
(To receive by e-mail a preliminary program please contact one of the
conference chairmen).
Since the conference intersects animal and "animat" research,
lively interaction can be expected, including controversy. At least
one panel discussion will be organized around the theme of what each
viewpoint can contribute to the other.
Because the conference is emphasizing simulation models, it is anticipated
that many participants will have computer programs demonstrating their
work. To make such demonstrations possible, the Organizers will provide
workstations and video equipment. An evening session during the week
will be devoted to demonstrations.
Morning and afternoon coffee breaks will be provided. To further promote
interaction among a diverse group of participants, the conference will
provide lunch each day.
7. Additional Information
Additional information can be obtained from the chairmen:
Dr. Jean-Arcady Meyer
Groupe de Bioinformatique
URA686.Ecole Normale Superieure
46 rue d'Ulm
75230 Paris Cedex 05
France
e-mail: meyer@frulm63.bitnet
meyer@hermes.ens.fr
Tel: (1) 43.29.12.25
FAX: (1) 43.29.81.72
Dr. Stewart W. Wilson
The Rowland Institute for Science
100 Cambridge Parkway
Cambridge, MA 02142
USA
e-mail: wilson@think.com
Tel: (617) 497-4650
FAX: (617) 497-4627
8. Travel and Lodging
Participants will be responsible for their own travel and lodging arrangements.
However, you may contact any of three hotel reservations services which have
agreed to offer advantageous locations and rates to participants in SAB90.
We advise making early reservations and mentioning "SAB90" in your request.
These services are:
- Hotel Pullman Saint-Jacques(****): rooms at 800-900 FF,
fax (33 1 45 88 43 93)
- Tradotel(*** and **): rooms at 440-520 FF, fax (33 1 47 27 05 87)
- AJF: student rooms at 80-90 FF, fax (33 1 40 27 08 71)
9. Registration fees
Attendance at SAB90 will be open to any person paying the registration fee
which is set at $ 220 (or 1200 FF) for non-students and $ 110 (or 600 FF)
for students. The registration fee covers five lunches, coffee-breaks,
and a copy of the Proceedings.
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*WARNING: The audience size is strictly limited to 150 persons. Registrations*
*will be closed beyond this number. *
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REGISTRATION FORM
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Last name: First name:
Profession/Title:
Organization:
Address:
State/Zip Code/Country:
Telephone:
Fax:
E-mail:
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This form should be sent to:
Dr. Jean-Arcady MEYER
Groupe de BioInformatique
URA686. Ecole Normale Superieure
46 rue d'Ulm
75230 PARIS Cedex 05
FRANCE
with a check for the registration fee to the order of:
J.A. MEYER 'SAB90'
The check can be in US Dollars or French Francs. To receive the student rate,
please attach evidence of student status from your University or Scientific
Advisor.
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Date: Tue, 24 Jul 90 09:56:02 EDT
From: rcr@Think.COM
Subject: [massar@Think.COM: *LISP SIMULATOR NOW IN PUBLIC DOMAIN]
PLEASE ANNOUNCE THIS TO YOUR CUSTOMERS
Thinking Machines is pleased to announce that the *Lisp Simulator
is now in the public domain. You are free to distribute, modify
and use the *Lisp Simulator without restriction.
The *Lisp Simulator is available via anonymous ftp in the /public
directory of think.com. The file that can be ftp'ed is a Unix
'shar' file called
starsim-f17-sharfile
(where f17 may be replaced in the future by a higher release number)
This sharfile provides the necessary sources and systems for the *Lisp
Simulator to run under Symbolics, Lucid, Allegro and Franz Common Lisps.
Porting the *Lisp Simulator to other Common Lisp's is generally a
simple matter.
People wishing to distribute the *Lisp Simulator should distribute it
using this sharfile and not from the sources provides on-site at
Connection Machine customer installations, since these sources do
not provide all the documentation, instructions and auxiliary files
useful in installing the *Lisp Simulator at a non Connection Machine
site.
Thinking Machines will continue to provide support for the *Lisp
Simulator for Thinking Machine's Connection Machine customers.
Thinking Machines is under no obligation to provide support for
other users of the *Lisp Simulator, either in porting or using it.
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