The School of Engineering and Advanced Technology (SEAT), Massey University, is pleased to announce that the 4th International Conference on Autonomous Robots and Agents (ICARA 2009) will be held in Wellington, New Zealand, from 10th to 12th February, 2009.

ICARA 2009 is intended to provide a common forum for researchers, scientists, engineers and practitioners throughout the world to present their latest research findings, ideas, developments and applications in the area of autonomous robotics and agents. ICARA 2009 will include keynote addresses by eminent scientists as well as special, regular and poster sessions. All papers will be peer reviewed on the basis of a full length manuscript and acceptance will be based on quality, originality and relevance. The review process will be double blind and author details will not be divulged to the reviewers. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Topics will include, but are not limited to, the following:

Intelligent Control

DNA Computing for autonomous agents

Biorobotics, Biomechatronics

Implantable sensors for Robotic Applications

Artificial Intelligence in Biosystems

Autonomous Systems

Multi-Agent Collaborative Systems (MACS)

Robotics, Humanoids

Smart Sensors and Sensor Fusion

Cooperative Robotics

Robot Soccer Systems

Entertainment Robotics

Human Robot Interface

Distributed Intelligent Control Systems

Real Time Supervisory Control

Embedded Systems

Educational Technology

Fuzzy Systems, Neuro-Fuzzy Systems

Biped and Humanoid Robots

Rough Sets, Data Mining

Navigation and Path Planning

Genetic Algorithm (GA)

Evolutionary Computation (EC)

Distributed Evolutionary Algorithms

Real Time Evolutionary Computation

Evolutionary Systems and Algorithms

Vision Systems for Robotics

Artificial Neural Networks in Biorobotics

For further details may please kindly visit www.hec.gov.pk