Journal News

2022 International Conference on Artificial Life and Robotics (ICAROB 2022) to Be Held from January 20-23 Online or at B-Con Plaza, Beppu, Oita, Japan

March 26th, 2021

As announced in January 2021, the 2022 International Conference on Artificial Life and Robotics (ICAROB 2022) will take place from January 20-23, 2022. Due to possible travel restrictions, the organizers have decided that ICAROB 2022 will be held as a virtual conference or at B-Con Plaza, Beppu, Oita, Japan. The submission and review process will not be impacted by this change and accepted papers will be included in the proceedings of the ICAROB series. Authors of selected, outstanding papers will be invited to publish an extended version in the Journal of Robotics, Networking and Artificial Life & the Journal of Advances in Artificial Life Robotics. The final due date for the abstract submission is 25 November, 2021. Please find the full, updated call for papers here.

2021 International Conference on Artificial Life and Robotics (ICAROB 2021) to Be Held Online

October 30th, 2020

As announced in March 2020, the 2021 International Conference on Artificial Life and Robotics (ICAROB 2021) will take place from January 21 to 24, 2021. Due to possible travel restrictions, the organizers have decided that ICAROB 2021 will be held as a virtual conference. The submission and review process will not be impacted by this change and accepted papers will be included in the proceedings of the ICAROB series. Authors of selected, outstanding papers will be invited to publish an extended version in the Journal of Robotics, Networking and Artificial Life. The final due date for the paper submission is 25 November, 2020. Please find the full, updated call for papers here.

JRNAL Accepted for Inclusion in Scopus

April 10th, 2020

After a successful evaluation by the Scopus Content Selection & Advisory Board (CSAB), the Journal of Robotics, Networking and Artificial Life (JRNAL) has been accepted for inclusion in Scopus. Scopus is the world's largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed scientific journals, books and conference proceedings which covers research topics across all scientific, technical and medical disciplines. The database currently contains more than 75 million records and over 1.4 billion cited references, while it also offers various smart tools and metrics to track, analyze and visualize research. The inclusion of JRNAL in Scopus is expected to significantly enhance the journal's visibility and means that JRNAL will receive its first metrics from the Scopus "basket of metrics", most notably a CiteScore, in June 2021.

Call for Papers: 2021 International Conference on Artificial Life and Robotics (ICAROB 2021)

March 27th, 2020

The 2021 International Conference on Artificial Life and Robotics (ICAROB 2021) will be held from January 21–24, 2021, Higashi Hiroshima Arts & Culture Hall Kurara, Hiroshima, Japan. This conference will cover new developments of modern technologies concerning robotics, networking and artificial life, associated with computer simulations, hardware designs and state-of-the-art networking technologies. It will provide a forum to share findings on how advancements in robotics, networking and artificial life technologies that relate to interdisciplinary approaches in fields such as artificial intelligence, virtual reality and computer science, are creating the basis for exciting new research and applications in various fields. Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the ICAROB series and extended versions of selected papers will be published in the Journal of Robotics, Networking and Artificial Life. The final due date for the paper submission is November 25, 2020. Please find the full call for papers here.

Call for Papers: 2020 International Conference on Artificial Life and Robotics (ICAROB2020)

February 26th, 2019

The 2020 International Conference on Artificial Life and Robotics (ICAROB2020) will be held from 9-12 January 2020 at B-Con Plaza, Beppu, Oita, Japan. This conference will cover new developments of modern technologies concerning robotics, networking and artificial life, associated with computer simulations, hardware designs and state-of-the-art networking technologies. It will provide a forum to share findings on how advancements in robotics, networking and artificial life technologies that relate to interdisciplinary approaches in fields such as artificial intelligence, virtual reality and computer science, are creating the basis for exciting new research and applications in various fields. Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the ICAROB series and extended versions of selected papers will be published in the Journal of Robotics, Networking and Artificial Life. The final due date for submission of papers is 15 November 2019. Please find the full call for papers here.

Call for Papers: 2019 International Conference on Artificial Life and Robotics (ICAROB2019)

August 2nd, 2018

The 2019 International Conference on Artificial Life and Robotics (ICAROB2019) will be held from 10-13 January 2019 at B-Con Plaza, Beppu, Oita, Japan. This conference will cover new developments of modern technologies concerning robotics, networking and artificial life, associated with computer simulations, hardware designs and state-of-the-art networking technologies. It will provide a forum to share findings on how advancements in robotics, networking and artificial life technologies that relate to interdisciplinary approaches in fields such as artificial intelligence, virtual reality and computer science, are creating the basis for exciting new research and applications in various fields. Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the ICAROB series and extended versions of selected papers will be published in the Journal of Robotics, Networking and Artificial Life. The final due date for submission of papers is 20 November 2018. Please find the full call for papers here.

JRNAL Accepted for Inclusion in Emerging Sources Citation Index

September 21st, 2016

Atlantis Press is pleased to announce that the Journal of Robotics, Networking and Artificial Life (JRNAL) has been accepted for inclusion in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI). The ESCI is one of the indexing databases which makes up the Web of Science Core Collection and is stated to include "peer-reviewed publications of regional importance and in emerging scientific fields". As a result of this inclusion, JRNAL will also be automatically evaluated on an ongoing basis for inclusion in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), a step which would eventually lead to the journal getting an impact factor.

Preface from the Editor-in-Chief Introducing the New Journal

June 30th, 2014

It is my great honor to announce the publication of the new Journal of Robotics, Networking and Artificial Life (JRNAL) together with Atlantis Press. The contents of this journal are often derived from articles submitted to the International Conference on Artificial Life and Robotics (ICAROB).

The ICAROB conference resulted from the AROB-symposium whose first edition was held in 1996 and the eigteenth 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 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 to the current ICAROB conference and to this journal. From now on, ALife Robotics Corporation Ltd will be in charge of management of both the conference and the journal. The future of the ICAROB is brilliant from the point of view of yielding new technologies to human society in the 21st century.

I hope that fruitful discussions and exchanges of ideas between researchers will take place both during the ICAROB conference and in this journal and that new merged technologies will be created contributing to the happiness of human beings. We also expect to establish an international research institute on Artificial Life and Robotics in the future with the help of ICAROB and JRNAL.

Sincerely,
Prof. Masanori Sugisaka
Editor-in-Chief of JRNAL