Dear Colleague,

Attached you will find the call for papers for a special issue on Swarm
Robotics. Please feel free to distribute the call to your group and
colleagues who you think might be interested. 

Apologies if you receive this message multiple times.

Best regards
Veysel Gazi

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ELEKTRIK
The Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Announces a Special Issue on "Swarm Robotics"

Sponsored by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey
(TUBITAK) and the Chamber of Electrical Engineers (EMO), ELEKTRIK is an
international journal on all aspects of electrical engineering and computer
sciences. This special issue, scheduled to be published in July 2007, will
contain both invited and contributed papers. 

Submission of papers
Prospective authors may submit their manuscripts to the guest editor and/or
the Editor-in-Chief given below with a statement that the submission is
intended for this special issue. Only word/latex documents or PDF files via
email submission will be accepted (please follow the regular guidelines of
ELEKTRIK).   

Topics
Possible topics for the issue include but are not limited to
* Modeling and analysis (Lyapunov, graph theoretic, game theoretic methods,
etc.)
* Coordination and control (decentralized, cooperative, noncooperative,
etc.)
* Formation control (stabilization, reconfiguration, coverage algorithms,
etc)
* Self-organization, self-assembling
* Synchronization, consensus seeking, rendezvous
* Evolutionary algorithms
* Emergent behavior (gathering, aggregation, flocking, schooling, etc.)
* Swarm communication, service discovery, ad-hoc networks
* Swarm intelligence
* Applications 

Guest Editor
Dr. Veysel Gazi
TOBB University of Economics and Technology Department of Electrical and
Electronics Engineering Sogutozu Caddesi, No: 43, Sogutozu 06560 Ankara,
TURKEY
Tel: +90 (312) 292-4079, Fax: +90 (312) 292-4091
Email: vgazi@etu.edu.tr
 
Important Dates
Final date for submission of manuscripts:  31 August 2006 Notification of
acceptance/rejection:  31 December 2006 For further information, in addition
to the guest editor, please contact Prof. Dr. Kemal Leblebiciošlu,
(kleb@metu.edu.tr) Editor-in-Chief Middle East Technical University
Electrical - Electronic Engineering Dept. 
06531, Ankara - Turkey,
Fax: +90 (312) 210-1261,
http://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/elektrik



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