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Young researcher position available at La Réunion island

Icon Written by Simon Garnier on March 1, 2010 – 9:36 am

Interested in studying gregarious fish behaviors in a tropical island in the Indian Ocean? If yes, this short term position (17 months) is probably for you:
Position: Computer Scientist in Spatial Analysis and Data Integration
Location: IRD Reunion Island, France
Duration: 17 months from June 2010 to December 2011
Deadline: 31st of May 2010
Salary Range: ~ 3000€ by month
IRD [...]



Workshop on Bio-Inspired Self-Organizing Robotic Systems – ICRA 2010

Icon Written by Simon Garnier on February 10, 2010 – 9:45 pm

Prof. Yan Meng (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology) and Prof. Yaochu Jin (Honda Research Institute Europe) are organizing a special workshop on "Bio-Inspired Self-Organizing Robotic Systems" during the next ICRA 2010 conference. The conference will hold from May 3 to May 8, 2010, in Anchorage, Alaska. The workshop will be [...]



ASAB Easter Meeting 2010 – Animal societies from genes to populations

Icon Written by Simon Garnier on February 9, 2010 – 2:06 pm

This year, the ASAB Easter meeting will be hosted by the School of Psychology at University of Exeter and will focus on “Animal societies from genes to populations”. It will consist of talks about up-to-date techniques, methods and approaches used in the study of social behaviour. This meeting is aimed at PhD students and early postdocs. 
The first day [...]



Swarm Intelligence Journal – Special issue on Collective Decisions in Biological Swarms

Icon Written by Simon Garnier on January 29, 2010 – 3:49 pm

Dr. Andrea Perna (Ecole Polytechnique de l'Université de Nantes), Prof. David Sumpter (Mathematics Department, Uppsala Universty) and Dr. Guy Theraulaz (CRCA, CNRS) will be the editors of a special issue on Collective Decision in Biological Swarms for the Swarm Intelligence Journal. This special issue calls for papers focusing on different aspects and issues of collective decision in [...]



Swarm Intelligence Journal – Special Issue on Swarm Cognition

Icon Written by Simon Garnier on January 24, 2010 – 11:06 pm

Dr. Vito Trianni (LARAL-ISTC-CNR, Italy), Dr. Elio Tuci (LARAL-ISTC-CNR, Italy) and Prof. Kevin M. Passino (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ohio State University, OH, USA) will be the editors of a special issue on Swarm Cognition for the Swarm Intelligence Journal. The call for papers can be found at the following address: http://laral.istc.cnr.it/swarm-cognition/Main_Page. Hereafter is the accompanying [...]



www.weswarm.com: a new website about swarm intelligence???

Icon Written by Simon Garnier on January 23, 2010 – 4:09 pm

Found while searching the web: http://www.weswarm.com. "All about swarms" says the (hopefully) temporary front page. Any information about this new website are welcome. 
Launching expected for next February, I can't wait to see what and who hides behind this. 



ANTS 2010: 7th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence

Icon Written by Simon Garnier on October 21, 2009 – 11:27 am

The next ANTS conference on Swarm Intelligence has been scheduled on September 8-10, 2010. As usual, it will be held in Brussels (Belgium) and will be chaired by Professor Marco Dorigo (IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles). All information can be found on the website of the conference: http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/ants2010/. 

Important dates to remember: 

Submission deadline: February 28, 2010

Notification of [...]



From insect nest to human architecture

Icon Written by Simon Garnier on June 22, 2009 – 5:35 am

Update: here is the link to the website of the workshop http://cognition.ups-tlse.fr/fintha/index.html.
From September 23 to September 25, 2009, will hold in the European Centre for Living Technologies in Venice (Italy) a workshop dedicated to the "Engineering principles of innovation in swarm-made architectures". 
The aim of the workshop is to address some of the fundamental issues related to the construction and [...]



Neural Computing & Applications: Special issue on Swarm Intelligence and Swarm Robotics

Icon Written by Simon Garnier on April 20, 2009 – 8:48 pm

Update: Extension of the submission deadline to May 15, 2009.
Dr. Nikolaus Correll from the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the MIT informed me today about the forthcoming deadline of a special issue on swarm intelligence and swarm robotics. This special issue will be published early 2010 in the journal Neural Computing & Applications. 
This special [...]



Swarm Cognition Workshop – July 29th, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Icon Written by Simon Garnier on April 10, 2009 – 9:17 pm

 
Important Dates

Paper submission deadline 1 June 2009
Notice of acceptance 12 June 2009
Camera ready deadline 3 July 2009
Workshop date 29 July 2009

Overview
"Swarm Cognition" is the juxtaposition of two relatively unrelated concepts that evoke, on the one hand, the power of collective behaviours displayed by natural swarms, and on the other hand the complexity of [...]