[Fwd: RE: Alife Paper]

[Jeffrey Gough]

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Subject: RE: Alife Paper
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:20:20 +0000 (GMT)
From: Klaus-Peter Zauner <k...@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
To: Richard Crowder <r...@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
CC: 'Jeffrey Gough' <jdg...@ecs.soton.ac.uk>,
formic...@googlegroups.com
References: <47D56AFA...@soton.ac.uk>
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Dear Richard,

Page limit is 8 pages, but we don't need to write that much.
I see this mainly as a placeholder so the team can present
their real swarm (quite possible one of the largest in the world,
see http://www.swarmrobot.org/) at the time of the conference.

The format is differnt from the version Jeff sent, see attached.

Kind regards,
Klaus-Peter

Jeff: I thnk all the style files are on the ugforge (in alife/incl).

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Klaus-Peter Zauner Tel. +44(0)23-8059-3089 Bld. 16, Rm. 1057
Electronics & Computer Science, University of Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK

On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, Richard Crowder wrote:

> All:
>
> This looks a great idea. If one (or more) of the group is available tomorrow
> - we can have at the draft and get some of the gaps filled in. BTW do you
> know the length of the paper submission?
>
> Richard
>
>
> --------------------------------------------
>
> Dr Richard Crowder
> Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
> School of Electronics and Computer Science
> Building 32
> University of Southampton
> Southampton
> SO17 1BJ
>
> Phone: +44(0)23 8059 3441
> Fax: +44(0)23 8059 3313
>
> e-mail r...@ecs.soton.ac.uk
>
> --------------------------------------------
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jeffrey Gough [mailto:jdg...@soton.ac.uk]
> > Sent: 10 March 2008 17:08
> > To: Richard Crowder
> > Cc: formic...@googlegroups.com; Klaus-Peter Zauner
> > Subject: Alife Paper
> >
> > Dear Richard,
> >
> > Klaus-Peter Zauner is quite excited about the Formica project. He has
> > helped us find some extra funding and also encouraged us to write a
> > short paper for the Alife conference on artificial life being hosted by
> > SENSe in August.
> >
> > The main drive of our paper is the discussion of strategies,
> > biologically inspired where possible, for maintaining the hardware and
> > software in a large robot swarm. Since it's fairly early days for the
> > project and no real results have yet been gathered, the Formica platform
> > itself takes a back seat. The hope is that by the conference we'll have
> > demonstrated a large, working swarm. We do introduce the platform, its
> > preliminary design work and compare it to other work in the field. We
> > aim to differentiate ourselves from the competition with an extreme
> > low-cost approach. Our robots will be approximately a 10th the price of
> > those in the largest swarm that currently exists, but they will have
> > more than a 10th of the functionality. Please find an early draft
> > attached.
> >
> >
> > We would like to offer you an authorship on the paper, since you're our
> > supervisor and have already given us some advice and guidance. We would
> > appreciate an answer by the end of the day, if possible, since the
> > deadline for paper submission has already passed and we're trying to
> > work as fast as possible.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Jeff Gough
> > Group D
>
>
>