Committees

        ADVISORY COMMITTEE CHAIR

                            Moshe Kam (New Jersy Institute of Technology, Former IEEE President, USA)

        ADVISORY COMMITTEE

                            Fumio Harashima (Tokyo Metropolitan University, President, Japan)

                            Bruce Eisenstein (Drexel University, Former IEEE President, USA)

                            Hideki Kimura (RIKEN, Japan)

                            Masayoshi Tomizuka (University of California Berkeley, USA)

                            Moshe Kam (New Jersy Institute of Technology, Former IEEE President, USA)

                            Adam Grzech (Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland)

                            Kazuyuki Aihara (The University of Tokyo, Japan)

                            D. J.Gyln. James (Coventry University, United Kingdom)

                            Jeffery Johnson (The Open University, UK)

                            Kazuo Kyuma (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan)

                            Steen Rasmussen (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)

                            Joshua. M. Epstein (The Johns Hopkins University, USA)

                            Jezry Świątek (Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland)

                            Paul Kalata (Drexel University, USA)

                            Paul Oh (Drexel University, USA)

                            Robert Fischl (Drexel University, USA)

                            Toshio Fukuda (Meijo University, Japan)

                            Kai-Tai Song(National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)

        GENERAL CHAIRS

                            Masanori Sugisaka (Alife Robotics Corporation Ltd., Japan)

        CO GENERAL CHAIRS

                            Yingmin Jia (Beihang Univesty, P. R. China)

                            Takao Ito (Hiroshima University, Japan)

                            Ju-Jang Lee (KAIST, Korea)

        VICE GENERAL CHAIRS

                            Changshui. Zhang (Tinghua University, P. R. China)

                            Henrik. H. Lund (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)

                            John. L. Casti (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria)

                            Jangmyung Lee (Pusan National University, Korea)

                            Luigi Pagliarini(Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)

                            (Academy of Fine Arts of Macerata, Italy)

                            Mohd Rizon bin Mohamed Juhari(University of Sultan Zainal Abidin, Malaysia)

                            Yongguang Zhang (Academia Sinica, P. R. China)

 

        PROGRAM CHAIRMAN

                            Makoto Sakamoto (University of Miyazaki, Japan)

        SUB PROGRAM CHAIR

                            M. Oswald (The Vienna University of Technology, Austria)

        INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

                            Akira Fukuda (Kyushu University, Japan)

                            Eiji Hayashi (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)

                            Hazry Desa (University of Malaysia, Perlis, Malaysia)ang

                            Hidehiko Yamamoto (Gifu University, Japan)

                            Hideyuki Suzuki (The University of Tokyo, Japan)

                            Hiroshi Kage ((Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan)

                            Hiroshi Matsuno (Yamaguchi University, Japan)

                            Jiwu Wang (Beijing Jiaotong University, P. R. China)

                            Jovana Jovic (CNRS-AIST JRL, Japan, France)

                            Katsunori Shimohara (Doshisha University, Japan)

                            Kenichi Tanaka (Meji University, Japan)

                            Kenji Hashimoto (Waseda University, Japan)

                            Kevin Voges (Canterbury University, New Zealand)

                            Kohei Ohtsu (Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Japan)

                            Kuo-Hsien Hsia (Far East University, Taiwan)

                            Kuo-Lan Su (National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan)

                            Masahito Yamamoto (Hokkaido University, Japan)

                            Masao Kubo (National Defense Academy of Japan, Japan)

                            Masanao Obayashi (Yamaguchi University, Japan)

                            Masafumi Yamashita (Kyushu University, Japan)

                            Mehta Rajiv (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)

                            Peter Sapaty (Ukrainian Academy of Science, Ukraine)

                            Qu Yanbin (Harbin Institute of Technology, P. R. China)

                            Seiji Ishikawa (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)

                            Takashi Kohno (LIMMS/CNRS-IIS, Institute of Industrial Science,

                            The University of Tokyo, Japan)

                            Takashi Ogata (Iwate Prefectural Univerity)

                            Teruhisa Hochin (Kyoto Prefectural University, Japan)

                            Tetsuro Hattori (Kagawa University, Japan)

                            Thomas S. Ray (University of Oklahoma, USA)

                            Toru Yamamoto (Hiroshima University, Japan)

                            Victor Berdonosov (Komsomolsk-on-Amur State University of Technology, Russia)

                            Yasunari Yoshitomi (Kyoto Prefectural University, Japan)

                            Yo Horikawa (Kagawa University, Japan)

                            Yoshifumi Morita (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan)

                            Yoshiro Imai (Kagawa University, Japan)

                            Yuichi Tanji (Kagawa University, Japan)

 

        INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

                            Akira Nakamura (AIST, Japan)

                            Ali Selamat (University of Technology of Malaysia (UTM), Malaysia)

                            Arsit Boonyaprapasorn (Chulachomkloa Royal Military Academy, Thailand)

                            Bin Fu (Shanghai Jiaotong University, P. R. China)

                            Dongmei Ai(University of Science and Technology Beijing, P. R. China)

                            Endra Joelianto (Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia)

                            Fengzhi Dai (Tianjin University of Science & Technology, P. R. China)

                            Haruna Matsushita (Kagawa University)

                            Hidetsugu Suto (Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan)

                            Hiroyuki Iizuka (Osaka University, Japan)

                            Huailin Zhao (Shanghai Institute of Technology, P. R. China)

                            Hussein Abbass (University of New South Wales and ADFA, Australia)

                            Istvan Harmati (Budapest Institute of Technology and Economics, Hungary)

                            Ivan Tanev (Doshisha University, Japan)

                            Jiandong Zhao (Beijing Jiaotong University, P. R. China)

                            Jinglu Hu (Waseda University, Japan)

                            Joono Cheong (Korea University, Korea)

                            Kathryn Elizabeth Merrick (University of New South Wales and ADFA, Australia)

                            Kunikazu Kobayashi (Aichi Prefectural University, Japan)

                            Manabu Yamada (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan)

                            Masahide Ito (Aichi Prefectural University, Japan)

                            Malachy Eaton (University of Limerick, Ireland)

                            Masayoshi Kano (Chukyou University, Japan)

                            Masayoshi Tabuse (Kyoto Prefectural University, Japan

                            Masaomi Hatakeyama (University of Zurich, Switzerland)

                            Norrima Mokhtar (University of Malaya, Malaysia)

                            Noritaka Sato(Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan)

                            Palakorn Tantrakool (King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Thonburi, Thailand)

                            Satoshi Ikeda (The University of Miyazaki, Japan)

                            Sanjay S. Joshi (College of Engineering, University of California, USA)

                            Seong-Ik Han (Pusan National University, Korea)

                            Shingo Mabu (Yamaguchi University, Japan)

                            Shyi-Ming Chen (National Taichung University of Education, Taiwan)

                            Takashi Kuremoto (Yamaguchi University, Japan)

                            Takayoshi Yamada (Gifu University, Japan)

                            Taishiro Kishimoto (Keio University, Japan)

                            Tao Zhang (Tsinghua University, P. R. China)

                            Takashi Iwamoto (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Advanced Technology R&D Center, Japan)

                            Tetsuro Katayama (The University of Miyazaki, Japan)

                            Thunyaseth Sethaput (Thammasat University, Thailand)

                            Toshinori Nawata (Kumamoto National College of Technology, Japan)

                            Tsunehiro Yoshinaga (Tokuyama National College of Technology, Japan)

                            Weicun Zhang (University of Science and Technology Beijing, P. R. China)

                            Yuanyuan Shang (Capital Normal University, P. R. China)

                            Yueyue Fan (University of California-Davis, USA)

                            Young Im Cho (The University of Suwon, Korea)

 

        LOCAL ARRANGEMENT COMMITTEE

                            M. Sakamoto (University of Miyazaki, Japan)

                            M. Sugisaka (ALife Robotics Co., Ltd., Japan)

                            Takao Ito (Hiroshima University, Japan)

 

        HISTORY

  The International Conference on Artificial Life and Robotics (ICAROB) resulted from the AROB-symposium whose first edition was held in 1996 and the eighteenth and last edition in 2013. The AROB symposium was annually organized by Oita University, Nippon Bunri University (NBU), and ALife Robotics Corporation Ltd., under the sponsorship of the Science and Technology Policy Bureau, the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports, and Culture (Monbusho), presently, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (Monkasho), Japanese Government, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), the Commemorative Organization for the Japan World Exposition ('70), Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Asian Office of Aerospace Research and Development (AFOSR/AOARD), USA. I would like to express my sincere thanks to not only Monkasho (annually fund support from 1996 to 2013) but also JSPS, the Commemorative Organization for the Japan World Exposition ('70), and various other Japanese companies for their repeated support. The old symposium (this symposium has been held every year at B-Con Plaza, Beppu, Oita, Japan except in Oita, Japan (AROB 5th ’00) and in Tokyo, Japan (AROB 6th ’01).) was organized by the International Organizing Committee of AROB and was co-operated by the Santa Fe Institute (USA), RSJ, IEEJ, ICASE (Now ICROS) (Korea), CAAI (P. R. China), ISCIE, IEICE, IEEE (Japan Council), JARA, and SICE. The old AROB-symposium expanded much by absorbing much new knowledge and technologies into it. This history and character of the former AROB symposiums are passed on the current ICAROB conference and to this journal, International Journal of Robotics, Networking and Artificial Life (JRNAL). From now on, ALife Robotics Corporation Ltd. is in charge of management of both the conference and the journal. The future of the ICAROB is brilliant from a point of view of yielding new technologies to human society in the 21st century. This conference invites you all.

        AIMS AND SCOPE

  The objective of this conference is the development of new technologies for artificial life and robotics which have been recently born in Japan and are expected to be applied in various fields. This conference presents original technical papers and authoritative state-of-the-art reviews on the development of new technologies concerning robotics, networking and artificial life and, especially computer-based simulation and hardware for the twenty-first century. This conference covers a broad multidisciplinary field, including areas such as:
   Hardware-oriented submissions are particularly welcome. This conference will discuss new results in the field of artificial life and robotics.