Written by Simon Garnier on June 6, 2010 – 4:12 pm
Next Wednesday (June 9th 2010), Professor Yan Meng invited me to give a talk at the Stevens Institute of Technology, near New-York. The lecture will hold at 2pm in room 204 of Babbio Center. The title of the seminar is "From biology to robotics, and back". Hereafter is the abstract:
During swarm robotics meetings, one can [...]
Written by Simon Garnier on May 20, 2010 – 11:11 am
The 2011 IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium (SIS2011) will be held in Paris, France, April 11 – 15, 2011. It will be part of the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence 2011. The aim of the SIS2011 is to provide a platform for researchers, academicians, students, engineers, and government officers from all over the world to [...]
Written by Simon Garnier on April 8, 2010 – 10:25 am
Yesterday (April 7th 2010), Science Now (the news section of Science Magazine) published an article by Dave Mosher on our work on pedestrian crowds. The article summarizes the paper we published the same day in PLoS ONE. Hereafter are an excerpt of the Science Article and the abstract of our PLoS ONE paper:
Secret of Annoying [...]
Written by Simon Garnier on March 15, 2010 – 7:41 pm
During the next SIMAI biannual congress (SIMAI 2010), Dr. Andrea Tosin (Department of Mathematics, Politecnico di Torino) and Dr. Paolo Frasca (Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo) are organizing a symposium on crowds and swarm dynamics. The participation (as speaker) of this symposium is reserved to young, not tenured researchers. This symposium aims at bringing [...]
Written by Simon Garnier on March 9, 2010 – 2:29 pm
Originally scheduled for March 15th (see my previous post on the subject), the submission deadline for the special issue on Swarm Cognition (Swarm Intelligence Journal) has been extended until April 15th.
Written by Simon Garnier on March 3, 2010 – 3:03 pm
In their March issue, Nature and Scientific American Mind review a recently published book, "The Perfect Swarm: The Science of Complexity in Everyday Life", written by Len Fisher and edited by Basic Books. Both reviews are globally good and I already ordered a copy of the book to check their reliability.
Hereafter is the summary of [...]
Written by Simon Garnier on February 20, 2010 – 5:06 pm
To be published in New Scientist on February 22, this article by Philip Ball (well known for his books about science and culture) speaks about the principles underlying nest construction in insects and how they can be a source of inspiration in modern architecture. This article follows a recent workshop on this subject ("From Insect [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]