Important Dates

Full paper submission .............July 7, 2008
Acceptance notification..........August 31, 2008
Camera-ready submission.........September 30, 2008

Paper submission for the post-conference publication

Sponsored by
- Organizing Committee of 9th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Systems

Co-Sponsored by
- Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Japanese
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology,
Scientific Research on Priority Areas, "Emergence of Adaptive
Motor Function through Interaction among the Body, Brain and
Environment (Mobiligence)", Steering Committee

Technically Co-Sponsored by
- (IEEE R&A) IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
- (SICE) The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers
- (RSJ) The Robotics Society of Japan
- (JSME) The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers

In Cooperation With
- (JSPE) The Japan Society for Precision Engineering
- (IEICE) The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers
- (SOFT) Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Intelligent Informatics
- (IEEJ） The Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan
- (JSAI) The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence
- (ISCIE) The Institute of Systems, Control and Information Engineers
- IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Japan Chapter

Topics
Topics include but are not limited to:

Ambient Intelligence
Architectures for teams of robots
Biologically inspired systems
Control issues in multi-robot systems
Distributed decision making/problem solving
Distributed/cooperative perception
Distributed planning
Distributed task execution
Human and robot interaction
Learning and adaptation in teams of robots
Multi-robot applications in exploration, search and rescue, service, etc
Mobiligence (Emergence of Intelligence through Mobility)
Modular robotics
Network robotics
Performance metrics for robot teams
Reconfigurable robots
Robot societies
Self-organizing robotic systems
Sensor networks
Swarm robotics
Task allocation